The Sword & Spirit Band is a labor of Love for its members Tony DeLorenzo,Richard Ferreira,Peter Lindeblad and Eric Lea.

Tony, Eric and Richard - lifelong friends - started the band as a way to reach out to children in the foster care system. We offer a positive alternative to the angry, negative messages so prevalent in today's mainstream entertainment industry.

These are often the forgotten children in society. Some have been abused, neglected and/or abandoned by their biological families; and desperately need a safe, loving and permanent home. Others just need a place to call home until their situation is safe enough for them to return home.

Many of these children enter a system that makes them strangers in the places where they live, moving multiple times in short periods, never being able to create a permanent connection with their caregivers. Eventually they are "aged out" or emancipated from "the system"; destined to repeat the cycle over again. Our music and message relate to the children's pain & sense of abandonment; and give air to their feelings.

The band's goal is to be a voice for these children and to encourage society not to forget them. No child is a mistake - they are all gifts from God!