We bring in a stunt interviewer for today’s podcast, with SpoJo Nick Smith (below, left), whom you can read about on our About page, talks with College of Charleston grad and New York comedian David Lee Nelson (below, right) who has two productions as part of the Stella di Domani series in Piccolo Spoleto.

“Lobby Hero” starts tonight and “Silence of Lucky” begins May 29. We want to see both and you will, too, after hearing Nelson talk about these two funny shows.

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Enjoy!

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 …

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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!

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.

Q. How many people can you fit in the SpoletoToday studio?

A. At least seven.

That’s how many we managed today when previous Spoleto blogger Mindy Spar, and the City Paper’s Patrick Sharbaugh and Jonathan Sanchez joined the regular SpoTo crew of Geoff, Dan, Janet & Harriet for a ‘Spoleto Bloggers Summit’ - or so it seemed.

Everyone had an opinion to offer, or a joke to make on the festival, how we’ve covered it and what the highlights were.

So play here an extended Spoleto Today Podcast #19 that’s eighteen minutes long, or check out our podcast page here for all previous podcasts.

The intrepid trio (G, J and D) return to the podwaves again for ‘cast numero dix-huit.

It’s a case of ‘wot we saw’ last night between us including the young artists series of concerts (video below), Marcus’s poetry, and the thumb-picture man of the moment rolled into town for the American Premiere of Book of Longing - but was it any good? (Jeffrey Day at The State blog certainly didn’t).

And did Geoff stand up to ovate at the end?

And is ‘ovate’ even a real word anyway?

All these questions and more are just thirteen and a half audible minutes of your life away …

Click here to play Podcast #18 now, or subscribe permanently here on our podcast page.

The SpoTo crew, in our 17th working day in a row, is beginning to have a little trouble keeping up. As Dan says, it’s not the doing so much as it is remembering where and when we’re supposed to be doing. Yesterday, at the end of the Charleston Academy of Music faculty concert, I thought I’d locked my keys in the car. I spent several unhappy minutes digging in my bag before I found them.

Definitely beginning to lose the laser-beam focus.

I’m betting we’re not the only ones running on auxiliary power at this point. The Spoleto Festival team still looked fresh at the Verdi party Monday, but they are professionals. Anecdotal evidence (meaning I ask the waitstaff whenever I go) points to busy restaurants. As in “slammed” for lunch through dinner. Haven’t heard about hotels, but the streets seem filled with people from off.

And yet, we are not done. Dan, Geoff and I talk in today’s podcast about what’s still to come: Book of Longing and Swan Lake. Both festival finales, which we tell you how to get the most out of. Also still going strong are chamber music, theater, poetry. Naps.

Oh, wait. Naps are not an official festival event. Maybe next year …

Click here to play Podcast #17 now, or subscribe permanently here on our podcast page.

Podcast number 16. With Janet. And Dan. And - you guessed it, Geoff too in the Charleston.net studio with todays installment.

Now I could tell y’all here what we talked about for twelve minutes, but then - well … you might not listen!

Far better if you just click here to play it now, or subscribe permanently here on our podcast page.

Short, sweet and as simple as that.