Dear Dancing Pigs fans and supporters,

We hope that you don't fall down in shock and surprise from your receipt of the very first Cincinnati Dancing Pigs Newsletter, to which you so kindly subscribed, probably months ago.  Perhaps this might even mean that some of the Pigs will have newsworthy things to contribute to a regular newsletter in the future.  We'll see.  You know how Pigs are.

But, it seems appropriate to start off Newsletter #1 with the fact that the Pigs just appeared last Monday on "Michael Jonathon's Old Time Radio Hour", a live Internet broadcast, at http://www.woodsongs.com.   Now you might ask, "Wouldn't it have been nice to notify the newsletter group ahead of time, so that they could have watched the show?"  Yes, we can't believe we didn't do this either, but, the full broadcast is available at the Woodsongs Archives, at http://www.woodsongs.com/showlist.asp

We are Show Number 426, in case our listing gets scrunched down the screen before you get to it. 

To say that we were pleased and privileged to be on this very high quality live Internet broadcast is an understatement.  Michael Jonathon and his volunteers put on a weekly Internet show of very talented people, just some of whom have been: Michael Murphey, J.D. Crowe, Chris Thile, Maria Muldaur, Charlie Musselwhite, Janis Ian, The John Cowan Band, Roger McGuinn, Bela Fleck, and lots, lots more.  We were even asking ourselves how they picked US to be on it!  It turns out someone knew about us because of the Louisville Jug Band Jubilee where we performed this summer (yes, another missed opportunity for a newsletter mailing).    We understand that this broadcast will be on various PBS stations around the country, FM radio stations and XM satellite radio sometime soon.  Three upcoming broadcasts that we would recommend are "The Carolina Chocolate Drops", who are an Old Time band we played with at Louisville,  "The Kruger Brothers", a fantastic bluegrass group originally from Switzerland, and "Riders In The Sky".  Check out the Woodsongs schedule at http://www.woodsongs.com/wotrh.html.


Thanks,

The Pigs