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LONG TIME AGO/JANUARY 2025 NEWSDUMPSTER

Seriously, Where Have You Been?

We've been trying to reach you for, like, hours--years, actually! We must have lost your email address or Teletype number or something. It's probably us. We've probably just been languishing on Facebook, rather than writing proper Newsdumpsters, like everyone else. It started with a twofold bother of our newsletter server becoming less convenient and more expensive and COVID lock-down. So we just kind of let it slide. And speaking of slides, you can catch up with all of our various tours and antics, as usual, at our Facebook photo albums. Funnily enough, after switching newsletter servers four or five times over the decades, we're back to good old ReverbNation, the same one we started out with in, like, 2002.

Our New Album is Better than Everyone Else's, and We're Not Biased!

Thanks to the time provided by the aforementioned COVID lock-down plus generous crowdfunding support, our fourth and best album, Circus for Sale, was released in June by California's most awesome, Big Stir Records. With musical support from long-time third Townie, cellist Suzanne Mueller, the brilliant Aliento Chamber Players as well as violist Rachael Birkin, Rebecca's musical partner from the days of Rebecca Hall Sings! As the first recording made at our county-of-the-art barn studio in West Townshend, Vermont, we put to full use our arsenal of vintage instruments, amplifiers and us. In fact, we went out of our way to make this recording sound like it could have been recorded between 1966 and 1972.

Reception for Circus for Sale has been predictably excellent to exospheric, and we're trying to be humble. Most reviews were so super that reviewers ran out of superlatives; some even ran out of soup. The great and venerable Goldmine Magazine featured no fewer than three articles on Circus for Sale.

Circus for Sale is available as a physical or digital entity on Big Stir's Bandcamp page or on your preferred streaming platform.

Did Someone Say "Tell Me About Your 2025 Further West Tour"? Hang On, Let Me Dig the Wax Out of my Ear.

As we've done for the past 700 years, our annual Further West Tour begins next week. Over the next two months, we'll indulge in the delights of Florida, Louisiana, Texas, New Mexico and various points Midwest. Scroll down our tour calendar to see how far you'll need to travel in order to avoid us.

We have a lot to catch up on, but any more rubbish would exceed the confines of this Dumpster. For the time being:

Rebecca and Ken wish you and yours

a wonderful Christmas and holiday season

and a delightful new year.

We're all in this soup together!

Please Follow us on Spotify and Facebook,

even if you don't "follow" us.

Human 1: Are you kidding me? The Newsdumpster takes a years-long hiatus and expects us all to be dutifully waiting for its return?

Human 2: Well, at least they're older and closer to death. We're fictitious and are not limited by cruelty of time.

Human 3: Ga-ga goo-goo.

SPRING 2023

Hello, Goodbye etc.

We spent the first two months of 2023 enjoying our much-missed Further West Tour which took a two-year sabbatical due to COVID etc. This revived tour covered much of the American southwest, south and beyond. You can find evidence of our exploits here and here.

We spent the next two months at home enjoying a delightfully horrible snowstorm followed by the gradual introduction of spring to southern Vermont. Plus a lot of terrific regional shows.

Now we're getting ready to spend the next two-ish months on our 2023 Mid by Midwest Tour, which will take us through Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa unto South Dakota, with a side order of Maryland, West Virginia and Kentucky.

Daysies are About to Bloom.

Deadline: 7 May 2023. Seven Days is Vermont’s largest arts magazine, and have shown our albums much love over the years. And it’s time for their annual Seven Daysies award nominations, and you can do something about it. This, for example:

Click here, register, then scroll to “Culture/Best folk artist or group” and enter “Hungrytown.”
Go to Culture/Best vocalist and enter “Rebecca Hall.”

Isn’t that fun! And we’re not biased! To make matters worse, all of our voters will be entered in a raffle, with three winners winning a copy of our upcoming amazing new album or an amazing new T-shirt.

Big Top Til You Drop.

Circus for Sale, our fourth album, three years in the making, is finally back from the mastering house and is now waiting for its final graphic design elements. We think it will knock you off your trapeze. A zillion thanks to our Let's Put Hungrytown on the Map 2.0 and Patreon supporters for making this whole thing possible. Stay tuned to your Newsdumpster or our Facebook page as developments develop.

Billy: Did you see what they did?

Dilly: Excuse me?

Billy: They mentioned the name of their new album: Circus for Sale.

Dilly: Could I get a burger and large fries?

Billy: This is huge. I don't think they ever mentioned that before.

Dilly: Why are you looking at your phone? And why are you naked?

Manager: Some parts of the ocean are more than thirty feet deep!

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Spring 2023 Newsdumpster

SPRING 2023

Hello, Goodbye etc.

We spent the first two months of 2023 enjoying our much-missed Further West Tour which took a two-year sabbatical due to COVID etc. This revived tour covered much of the American southwest, south and beyond. You can find evidence of our exploits here and here.

We spent the next two months at home enjoying a delightfully horrible snowstorm followed by the gradual introduction of spring to southern Vermont. Plus a lot of terrific regional shows.

Now we're getting ready to spend the…

Spring 2023 Newsdumpster

SPRING 2023

Hello, Goodbye etc.

We spent the next two months at home enjoying a delightfully horrible snowstorm followed by the gradual introduction of spring to southern Vermont. Plus a lot of terrific regional shows.

Now we're getting ready to spend the…

Late Summer 2022 Newsdumpster

LATE SUMMER 2022

Chips Fried in Goose Grease? Yes, Please.

Since welcoming ourselves back from the Midwest last spring--our first major tour since 2019--we've found ourselves surprisingly preoccupied doing shows from Maryland to Vermont and points in between. To make matters worse, we continue applying varnish to our newest album, which will definitely, positively be out not long after our return from the UK.

Right, the UK. As you may know, until all of us were so rudely interrupted by the pandemic, we…

May 2022 Newsdumpster

MAY 2022

"Testing, One, Two."

"Rebecca, You're Sound Checking Your Coffee."

Give us a break--we haven't done this in a while. When the Newsdumpster last left off in early 2020, the year was still full of promise and baby giraffes. We were finishing up our Further West winter tour of California and were looking forward to our imminent Midwest and UK tours. Obviously, we changed our plans.

For her safety, we picked up Ken's mom, Reiko, from her seniors-only apartment in Boston and brought her back with…

Hungrytown is honored to contribute a song to the 80 Plays project, in honor of legendary guitarist, singer and songwriter Bert Jansch.

We're so thrilled to have been invited to participate in The Bert Jansch Foundation's Around the World in 80 Plays program! It was a wonderful way to stay connected with music that we love, and musician friends near and far. It seemed especially important during the pandemic--the only time in our careers that we have been home from the road for such an extended period.

The guitar came to us in the dead of winter after being with the wonderfully talented Liz McBride in Pittsburgh. After we completed our…

Folk Talk #103--80 Plays Around the World radio interview hosted by Rik Palieri

In this interview we joined host Rik Palieri, Geraldine Auerbach (from the Bert Jansch Foundation), and fellow musical contributors Gareth Hedges and David Nigel Lloyd to talk about Around the World in 80 Plays, for Bert Jansch. In this project, musicians around the globe are saluting the legendary guitarist and singer song-writer by contributing a Song for Bert. Special guitars are traveling across continents from artist to artist, enabling them to connect with the man and his music.

Rik plays some of…

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NOVEMBER 2019

Now That We're Home, We Can Start Packing For Next Month's Tour.

Lost in the Roundabout, our longest-ever tour of Great Britain, is finally over. Highlights included four different rental cars, lots of village halls, a visit from Rebecca's parents, a month in Scotland, hanging out with Jeni and the Englishman, a trip to Paris, a visit from Ken's mother, bronchitis and cask ale. More…

OCTOBER 2019

Our Guest Writer is So Great, We're Thinking About Replacing Ourselves With Her.

After nearly 250 years of publication, the Newsdumpster is pleased to present its first guest columnist in the person of Jeni Hankins. Jeni has been a loyal and tireless friend and supporter of Hungrytown for years and years, and if that's not bad enough, is herself an accomplished singer, songwriter, musician…