Happy August, everyone! We here in The Rough & Tumble have now entered our busiest week of the entire year, where we play 10 shows in 11 days in 5 different states. That’s right, 10 shows, 11 days, 5 big ol’ states-Minnesota, South Dakota, Wyoming, Kansas and Nebraska then back to South Dakota. We’re not crazy and neither are we! Actually we’re looking forward to it because we’re playing such great shows as The Warming House in Minneapolis, the Sioux River Folk Festival, Aunt

We're a little late (or early depending on how you look at it) for this month's Rumbly Tummy. You see, we've been busy as a beaver, a term which typically refers to the dam building habits of large, semi-aquatic rodents with flat, capable tails, but which here refers to hanging out with Mallory's parents, going to Kennywood (Pittsburg's oldest amusement park), jumping on trampoline's and screaming while sliding down water slides in an indoor water park with a certain niece an