Mad Ripple Hoot - May 28th, 2009

The Mad Ripple Hootenanny recorded May 14th, 2009 at The Beat Coffeehouse in Uptown Minneapolis.

Featuring The Mad Ripple, "Sneaky" Pete Bauer, Ashleigh Still, Ken Goldman, Nick Salisbury, Josh Stigen and more...

2 hours and 15 minutes.

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An interview with Josh Cragun and Liz Neerland of Nimbus Theatre

Nimbus Theatre's new production The Trial of Mother Teresa, a new play by Dani Givens, opens on Friday, May 29th at the Minneapolis Theater Garage.

On Monday, May 25th, HowWasTheShow founder David de Young sat down with Nimbus's co-artistic directors Josh Cragun and Liz Neerland to talk about Nimbus and their new production as well as some of the joys and challenges to running an independent theater company in today's financial climate.

26 minutes.


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The Mad Ripple Hootenanny recorded May 21st, 2009 at The Beat Coffeehouse in Uptown Minneapolis.

Hosted by David de Young. Featuring The Dollys (Andra Suchy, Kari Shawn Joanna Jahns, Andrew Pierzina and Shane Aikers), Emily White and John Magnuson. With appearances by Brianna Lane, Ryan Paul, Joshua Sheerz ("The Megabus Song" - written at the Hoot in 36 minutes) and Rick Robot.

2 hours and 30 minutes.

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Mad Ripple Hoot - May 14th, 2009

The Mad Ripple Hootenanny recorded May 14th, 2009 at The Beat Coffeehouse in Uptown Minneapolis.

Featuring The Mad Ripple, Sabyre Rae, Gabe Barnett, Jack Klatt, Liz Rognes, Art Vandalay and more.

2 hours and 15 minutes.

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Mad Ripple Hoot - May 7th, 2009

The Mad Ripple Hootenanny recorded May 7t, 2009 at The Beat Coffeehouse in Uptown Minneapolis.

Reprise of the Rift Magazine 36 Hour Songrwiting Contest.  Featuring David de Young, Eliza Blue, Matt Inkala, Adam Marshall, & Chris Hall.  With special appearance by Rick Robot of Tuesday's Robot.

2 hours and 00 minutes.

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HowWasTheShow/Minneapoliscast CD Reviews for May, 2009

HowWasTheShow's David de Young is joined this month by Chris Deline of Culturebully.com and Pat O'Brien of HowWasTheShow to discuss recent and upcoming Minnesota music CD releases.

1. Communist Daughter - "Not The kid" - http://myspace.com/communistdaughterband
2. The 757s - "Amateur" - http://the757s.com
3. Big Quarters - "Ladies Know" - http://myspace.com/bigquarters
4. Brad Senne - "Sing & Dance" - http://myspace.com/bradsenne
5. Me & My Arrow - "Revolver" - http://myspace.com/meandmyringostarr
6. The Sunny Era - "A Cold Calculation" - http://thesunnyera.com
7. Magic Castles - "Life if Gemini" - http://myspace.com/themagiccastles

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Mad Ripple Hoot - April 30th, 2009

The Mad Ripple Hootenanny recorded April 30th, 2009 at The Beat Coffeehouse in Uptown Minneapolis.

With The Mad Ripple, The Porchlights, The Bitter Roots many more guests whose names I will add in the morning and a guest appearance by Ashleigh Still.

3 hours and 00 minutes.

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