May 2 2022
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…
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Apr 5 2022
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…
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Mar 30 2022
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…
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Jan 1 2020
Ken Put His Socks Into the Laundry Bag. Can. You. Believe. It?
2020 ushers in the second of our three-month Further West Tour as well as a new year for everyone else. After wintering in…
Dec 7 2019
The First Time They Told Us About Manatees, We Thought We Had to Be There by 2:00 PM.
It seems like pratically every Newsdumpster is about starting a new tour, finishing an old tour or something…
Oct 30 2019
Sep 30 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…
Aug 31 2019
We Didn't Want You to Think It's Only the Scottish Islands That Matter; Regular Scotland is Just as Good.
We are now two months into our four-month 2019 Lost In the Roundabout Tour of Great Britain. Although we…
Jul 31 2019
Jun 30 2019
And Just as You’re Adjusted to the New Time Zone, It’s Time to Come Home. Just Kidding.
Since returning home from our miniaturized 2019 Into the Cornfield Tour of the Midwest and environs a couple of weeks ago…
May 31 2019
Our Man-Bull Beast Goes to the Midwest--Be Careful! Oh Wait, I Meant Mini-Tour, Not Minotaur. Sorry.
We tour America's heartland, a.k.a. the Midwest, every year. Next week we begin an abbreviated version of our annual Into the Cornfield…
Apr 18 2019
On April 23rd, 1994, after nearly one year of courtship, Rebecca and I put it in writing at the Chapel of Riverside Church in New York, followed by a spectacular honeymoon in…
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