For those unaware, Dwight + Nicole, based in Burlington, Vermont, traces its musical roots through the blues, soul, and R&B traditions by exploring the spaces between these genres, connecting them with themes found in dream pop and alternative rock.

Dwight Ritscher’s warm, soulful tenor would be the envy of many bands, but it is Nicole Nelson’s four-octave vocal range that wowed a national audience during season three of NBC’s “The Voice.”

Dwight, the band’s principal songwriter and guitarist, first started performing live as a child with his grandfather, and it wasn’t long before players were sneaking him into blues clubs around Monmouth Park, New Jersey to man the tubs. Nicole, also a major songwriter for the band, plays bass, her first love was the musical theater, but she also explored musical expression through flute and violin.

With numerous releases in prior years under their belts, Dwight + Nicole released “The Jaguar, The Raven, and The Snake” in 2024, featuring the single, “Saying Goodbye.” Produced by acclaimed producer Joel Hamilton and recorded at his Studio G in Brooklyn and Ocean Sound in Giske, Norway throughout 2022, the album features musical guests the Daptone Horns and Arkai Strings, among others.

The band rejoined Hamilton at Studio G in January 2025 to record some new material, which finally sees daylight here in 2026 on March 20th in the form of Day or night.

1. One Morning
2. Beautiful
3. Day or Night
4. Melt Your Heart
5. In the Middle
6. Only You
7. Wasting All My Time
8. Silver Rocket
9. Wait For Me Tomorrow
10. Straight Back to You
11. On Top of the World
12. Do the Best I Can

Tracing its musical roots through blues, soul, and R&B by exploring the spaces between these genres, Dwight & Nicole open their new recording on the effervescent One Morning, before we are greeted with the dulcetly crisp, 70’s soul-hued Beautiful, the flirtatiously smooth Day or Night and a dedicatedly sultry rendition of Jenny Lewis’ Melt Your Heart, with the gently free flowing In the Middle and an absolutely cracking version of Yazoo’s 80’s classic Only You up next.

Along next is the deeply-grooved Wasting All My Time, the funky finger-snapping, foot-tapping beauty Silver Rocket and the emotively studious Wait For Me Tomorrow, and they are in turn backed seamlessly by a sweepingly grandiose Straight Back to You, the set rounding out on the impassioned On Top of the World, coming to a close on the veritably shimmering sounds of Do the Best I Can.

The band’s live shows have become legendary, with fans expressing that they find comfort in the performances, and the band members’ chemistry has been described as intoxicating. Dwight + Nicole is the recipient of accolades and many awards over the past decade.

The band and its members have been named “Band of the Year,” “Vocalist of the Year,” “Best Blues/R&B Band,” “Female Vocalist of the Year,” “Blues Act of the Year,” and also won “Video of the Year” at the Boston Music Awards, as well as earning Daysies Awards from the Burlington, Vermont weekly paper, Seven Days.

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