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Not to be outdone by the Ditty Bops and their recent cross-country bicycle tour, neo-folky notables Castanets and Jana Hunter have joined up with Austin's Peter and the Wolf to tour the great American Northeast-- via sailboat. This whale of a tour gimmick embarked this past weekend from New York City on a three-week, five-gig voyage with trusty skipper OCDJ (former disc jockey for NYC's WFMU) manning the rig. There's a joke in there someplace about a Hunter, a Wolf, a DJ, and some Castanets in a boat, but we're not going to embarrass ourselves trying to invent it.

Ports of call:

08-25 Philadelphia, PA - Nexus Gallery
08-26 Philadelphia, PA - Green Line Cafe
08-29 Baltimore, MD - Talking Head
09-02 Washington, DC - Georgetown University
09-04 Norfolk, VA - Relative Theory

Jana-- who's already writing the follow up to this year's debut, Blank Unstaring Heirs of Doom (Gnomonsong)-- has a string of post-seatrip shows lined up with Providence folkie Deer Tick:

10-13 Providence, RI - AS220 *
10-15 Boston, MA - P.A.'s Lounge *
10-16 Portsmouth, NH - The Red Door *
10-23 Rochester, NY - TBA *
10-25 Alfred, NY - TBA *

* with Deer Tick