And when we say ‘house’, we mean ‘podcast studio’. Welcome Mr. Conover and his dulcet tones for the first time this year, to discuss those staging issues onboard the Amistad, as well as highlighting some of the local visual art that Piccolo has to offer.

Hear today’s podcast direct by following this link, or why not subscribe permanently here throughout the duration of the festival and get it fed to your MP3 player automatically. There’s also our guide to podcasting here.

Jack’s here! Our resident Jazz expert Jack McCray pops up for the first time on today’s podcast, to give us his insight into the music scene this year. With Geoff and Janet.

Hear today’s podcast direct by following this link, or why not subscribe permanently here throughout the duration of the festival and get it fed to your MP3 player automatically. There’s also our guide to podcasting here.

Spoleto Day 1, Podcast Number 2. I’m sure we’ll get the numbers tallied up correctly (or even more skewed) before the next seventeen days are out.

Harriet pops up for the first time, as we discuss what’s on the menu today and the forthcoming weekend …

Hear today’s podcast direct by following this link, or why not subscribe permanently here throughout the duration of the festival and get it fed to your MP3 player automatically.

For more information on podcasts and how they work, visit our dedicated podcast page here.

It’s back! Just when we were worried that we were not going to get our act together in time (we’ve been really busy preparing load of other stuff, ok?) we DID manage to get our act together and the podcasts have now come to fruition.

So here’s me and Janet, with a big “Welcome y’all”, to the 2008 SpoletoToday podcast in which Geoff incorrectly gets the date wrong, by saying it’s June 22nd and not May 22nd. I’m sorry - I won’t do it again, honest.

So hear today’s podcast direct by following this link, or why not subscribe permanently here throughout the duration of the festival and get it fed to your MP3 player automatically.

For more information on podcasts and how they work, and for the 2007 archives (in case you really can’t get enough of us!) visit our dedicated podcast page.

More tomorrow!

Why do I feel like I may have inadvertently become the poster critic for this year?

It seems that my video last week on the orientation of this years poster struck a chord with the Spoleto PR people, and off the back of that they kindly invited me along to be a judge on the bus that went downtown Friday afternoon looking at how local shops and businesses have decorated their window displays using the poster.

Here’s how my afternoon went …

Did you know that the Spoleto poster launch was a little, er … delayed this year?

Those chaps over at Piccolo had their design out a few weeks ago, and the big boys at Spoleto USA normal do theirs at the same time.

Seems there was an orientation issue going on this year.

No - they hadn’t lost their way, it’s just that it appears we’re not having a portrait shaped poster this year. So I hit the Taste of Spoleto launch party Friday evening to figure out what was going on. Oh, and looked back at some of the previous years posters via the ‘magic’ of our green screen studio.

Anyone still there? You are! Good.

When myself, Dan and Harriet appeared on Marcus Overton’s show (Also called “SpoletoToday”) a couple of week ago - it was broadcast on NPR and available as a podcast from the ETV website.

But I’ve now taken a version and edited it down to just the bits with ‘us’ in so that you don’t have to hear the whole 30 minutes, but a truncated 22 minute version instead.

Hear Marcus talk to us about out blog - how the reporting of Spoleto is changing, and a little ribbing to over the name of this blog being the same as his radio programme.

You can play the podcast direct here, or subscribe and listen to previous ‘casts at our dedicated podcast page here.

Podcast number 21 … and we are at the end. Yes we are - try not to cry, because we do hope to be back next year now that we’ve established ourselves on this medium doing the same again plus maybe a little more.

So whilst everyone else has gone off on vacation, Geoff and Dan found themself in ‘the green room’ studio at the Post & Courier, to wrap up, sum up, deliberate on and fire off a few final words of wonderous wisdom on that-festival-that-be Spoleto 2007.

And if you play it all the way through to end, you get to hear the delightful piece of ‘bling bling’ music that we’ve been using in full - it’s actually some Russian folk music by Ensemble Barynya. So now you know.

Thanks for downloading/listening - we had a blast. See y’all again next year.

Play this latest podcast direct here, or subscribe to the feed and/or listen to all previous podcasts from the last three weeks here.

The astute amongst you (!) may have noticed that we finally slipped up and did not have our daily podcast for yesterday - Saturday. In fact, here it is on Sunday meaning that really you’ve got Saturday’s one now and we’ve really missed Sunday’s one.

Confused?

You’ll be even moreso then when you hear that after getting the City Paper’s Patrick Sharbaugh in to talk to us on Friday, he stuck around and he and Dan had a conversation based on the intruiging ‘Meta’ post from a few days ago which provoked a lot of comments here on this blog - so we thought we’d do an audio version of it - and we let Patrick ‘host’, instead of Geoff and hence he introduces it as a Buzzcast.

Dan & I are off to the finale tonight at Middleton place tonight, for one final video scoop. There’ll also be one final podcast tomorrow (Monday) before we all finally take a few days deserved vacation. Just in time for the scorching weather too, I got into a car yesterday and the thermometer said it was 110F - ouch!

So play here podcast #20 and don’t forget to check out our podcast page here for all previous podcasts.

The Book of Longing party went down at the Wickcliffe House on Ashley Avenue last night which this blogger managed to sneak into. It was the usual Spoleto party affair - hob nobbing people with wine and h’or deurves-a-plenty, a band playing gentile music and people trying to work out who’s who.

One man that stood out from the crowd because his face has been plastered all over town for the last three weeks was the Glassmeister himself, whom I was dying to ask what he actually thought of seeing a (slightly younger) version of himself everywhere.

But when it came to the crunch all I could muster was a polite “I know you must be sick of having your photo taken by now, but may I?” and thus snapped festival director Nigel Redden and Philip in the middle of them having a deep discussion on … well … something.

My second dream-come-true moment of the night also happened when I got a snap of this pair of shoes. These apparel-a-pied belongs to none other than Ida Becker (The Grande Dame of the Charleston Mag spoleto blog) who has been jovial tainted with being a regular shoe snapper herself at such events. Touche!