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Dave Heumann @daveheumann.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Also the people whose spot it is (a long time Baltimore pie maker/musician and his son) have chickens. I took a quick video of them so I could show the kids when I got home. They were asleep, so I had to wait until today to show them

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Dave Heumann @daveheumann.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This woman gave me a joint. She gave everyone joints. Great weed, no idea what strain

A petite "jazz cigarette", with a rolled tip and a filter insert

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Dave Heumann @daveheumann.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I was at a wedding all day and am just getting around to telling ppl here that I was in a band that opened for Laid Back Country Picker last night. Here they are at soundcheck. I didn't know anything about them. Wild stuff, like country fried AC/DC...I only caught the first song. Was cool though

Laid Back Country Picker: the dude and his wife, on a porch stage in mid September

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Dave Heumann @daveheumann.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I got a phone with a decent camera a few days ago. Here's some Japanese Beautyberry that grows near our house

A couple branches of Japanese Beautyberry

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Dave Heumann @daveheumann.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Handy folks here, what is this washer thing called with the ridges?

A picture of an input jack, with some kind of ridged washer holding it in place. There's also a fingertip

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Dave Heumann @daveheumann.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Saw a bit of resistance stenciling on a sidewalk in Baltimore

A painted stencil on a sidewalk of the now infamous Jeffrey Epstein 50th birthday card signing by D Tr*mp, with "HAPPY BIRTHDAY JEFFREY" stenciled over the image, which was done twice: once in black paint and once in red paint

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Dave Heumann @daveheumann.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Today's Meet Up At The Movies was a real good time!

Bobby Weir's head blown up to fill most of the screen in a movie theater. The concert that was filmed and shown was in 1991

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Dave Heumann @daveheumann.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Last-minute covers gig with Miles at a dock bar scene report

Musical instruments on a patio on a dock bar

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Dave Heumann @daveheumann.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

My favorite part "Depends on my mood" 🤣

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Dave Heumann @daveheumann.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

The way I see it, wildfire haze is good for one thing only, which is making the moon look redder as it rises

A full-looking moon with a decidedly red color rises over foliage and diagonally placed fios lines

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Dave Heumann @daveheumann.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Had some nice family times eating out back tonight, watching hummingbirds buzz and dart around the lonicera. At points there were as many as four at a time

A "major wheeler" honeysuckle, with red trumpet shaped flowers. They are considered a native species in the eastern USA

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Dave Heumann @daveheumann.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

A Hey Baltimore quick reminder and heads up that this is about to happen Hail yes, see you

DAVE HEUMANN & MARIE HERRINGTON TACOMA PARK KUTAY SEZGINEL

WEDNESDAY, JULY 15

ZISSIMOS BAR

1023 W 36th ST, BALTIMORE

7:30 DOORS / 8:00 SHOW

21+

$10

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Dave Heumann @daveheumann.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

We're having Pizza Time tonight and the purple basil out back is great this year

Some purple streaked basil with serrated leaf edges, being held in a human hand and photographed in a kitchen in front of a refrigerator

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Dave Heumann @daveheumann.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Baltimore area people, or people who might be in town next week: Come on out and see/hear Marie and me do our thing at Zissimos on Wednesday night alongside these excellent musicians. Would be great to see you there

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Dave Heumann @daveheumann.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Early morning look at how the bee balm's leaves get a dusting of pollen on them after being visited by many bees over the course of a couple weeks Incidentally, I've really only seen bumblebees on them. The honeybees seem to favor the spiderwort and the lavender

Flowers of bee balm, aka wild bergamot, in the early morning light. The leaves below have a dusting of pollen on them that looks a little like powdered sugar

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Dave Heumann @daveheumann.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Got to play what was probably the final set at the final show at the Hampden location of Dangerously Delicious Pies last night with Adam Fisher, a songwriter friend of mine whom I've been recording. Good show!

Several people gathered outdoors in an alleyway at night, mostly seated, with Edison bulbs strung up overhead

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Dave Heumann @daveheumann.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Had a real good time playing a show called Nx10 at 2640 space tonight. Here are some texts to a friend where I was telling him about it

I played a show tonight where everyone did 10 minute sets. I used two amps. Played Little Birdie and looped the main thing, a 4 bar loop of just the rhythm and a B chord, then sang over it and added on to the loop after the singing and improvised over it. It felt like about 10 minutes

I did the main part of the loop mono, then the parts I added had stereo ping pong delay

The way I sing Little Birdie is closest to the Roscoe Holcomb version but the lyrics are a composite of different versions

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Dave Heumann @daveheumann.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Native plant folks- I'm tryna plant something in edge spaces like these that will keep our soil in place and not have it all get washed into the neighbor's slightly lower plot, after pulling out a bunch of mugwort and other unwanteds. Any suggestions are most welcome thx in advance fam

A patch of soil underneath a fence and next to a downspout extension, in an urban backyard

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Dave Heumann @daveheumann.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Good morning, Wild-Grown Da Xue Shan Black Tea #sparrowtailteas

A close up of black and reddish tea leaves

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Dave Heumann @daveheumann.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Buzzin yesterday at Cromwell Valley Park, Hampton MD

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Dave Heumann @daveheumann.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Good morning! I've released some music today, for your consideration. Liner notes, with alt text, in the screenshots below arbouretum.bandcamp.com/album/chimes...

What started out as me hearing the Byrds version of Dylan's Chimes of Freedom a year or so ago and thinking that I'd like to learn it, quickly became an obsession. I invited David Bergander to come over to play on a session in my home studio in July of 2025, and one of the songs we did was this one. This was was then worked on more meticulously than I'd like to admit over the course of many months, at times left to sit for a while but always returned to. In the winter of 2026, I invited Walker Teret and Marie Herrington to contribute backing vocals, which they did, separately and remotely, and might I add, awesomely.

I worked on The Further Inventions of Big Ten as a parallel process though I started later. It's a reframing of the 10/4 riff from the Dead's Playin' in the Band, as you'll likely recognize. I recorded the initial guitar tracks in the week following the passing of Bob Weir, and I was thinking about it at the time as being a tribute to David Crosby too, whom Bob credited with coming up with the riff at a jam in Mickey Hart's barn in 1970.

I had David Bergander over again in a separate session in the early spring of 2026 to play some percussion, and he played the tambourine and shakers on Chimes and dumbek on Big Ten. He also played the gong you can lightly hear in Chimes, though that was recorded in the first session back in July.

Thank you for listening. Feel the chimes of freedom sounding in your hearts and we will get there.

credits

released May 1, 2026

David Bergander- drums and percussion on side a, dumbek on side b Marie Herrington- backing vocals on side a Walker Teret- backing vocals on side a

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Dave Heumann @daveheumann.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

In my feed right now there's a picture of Coretta Scott King directly above a post about King Charles visiting the US and I have to say that I'd pick the person named King over the person who is presently an actual king, for just about anything

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Dave Heumann @daveheumann.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Poison dart frogs at the National Aquarium, 4/27/2026

Two poison dart frogs, dark with electric blue streaks and yellow swatches on their heads, in a simulated rainforest environment consisting of tropical plants, stones, and moss

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Dave Heumann @daveheumann.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Very much looking forward to this show next week in Baltimore at the back bar of Le Comptoir Du Vin I'll be playing and singing acoustic guitar music with an esteemed long time collaborator of mine, Walker Teret. Do come through if you're around!

PEACE IN

THE

VALLEY

* * * April 27

Toshi Makihara/

Peter Redgrave

華

0.1 Grand

Dave Heumann/

Walker Teret

10$

bar open at 7pm - music at 8pm

→

Le Comptoir du Vin

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Dave Heumann @daveheumann.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

A not-atypical lunch for me at home: yellow dal w fresh spinach and carrot pickle, with a couple slices of multigrain toast on the side

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Dave Heumann @daveheumann.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Went to Irvine Nature Center. Brilliant place. Glad I picked today to wear this shirt.

Dave Heumann, wearing a Nirvana-influenced Arbouretum shirt, holding a stuffed tree cross-section

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Dave Heumann @daveheumann.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Very much looking forward to opening for the Joan Shelley band, alongside songwriter Grace Rogers. The space, the Design Distillery, is especially cool Ticket link in comment

ESSENTIAL TREMORS

PRESENTS

JOAN SHELLEY

GRACE ROGERS DAVE HEUMANN

MAY 8, 2026

7:00 PM

DESIGN DISTILLERY 1414 KEY HIGHWAY BALTIMORE, MD 21230

$20

TICKETS AT DICE.FM

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Dave Heumann @daveheumann.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

My Martin Em-18, almost certainly inspired by Doug Irwin's Wolf guitar he built for Jerry Garcia It came to me with two Mighty Mite humbuckers. I replaced the neck one with a GF dual lipstick, the bridge one with a DM super D, and years later had a strat p/u put in a newly routed middle slot

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Dave Heumann @daveheumann.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Went out back for a quick puff to see the moon, silver and full, sailing through clouds that looked like these

A full moon through pillow stuffing-like clouds. There is a power line in the bottom of the shot, and the top of an outdoor umbrella

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Dave Heumann @daveheumann.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Tonight's snow reminded me of another time it snowed while I lived here, 5 years ago, when a young Cooper's hawk appeared outside the window holding a freshly killed mouse

As seen through a window, a young Cooper's hawk is perched on a snowy fence with one talon holding a dead mouse. There is a compressor for mini-split HVAC system visible just behind the hawk.

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Dave Heumann @daveheumann.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Forgot to tell y'all I was on the news the other night talking about potholes youtu.be/C7LzUqT_suo?...

A still photo from a news broadcast in which a middle aged man with sunglasses, a hat, and a white beard is being interviewed. He is standing in front of a dark grey Tesla car which he fortunately does not own

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Dave Heumann @daveheumann.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Baltimore's Inner Harbor, 1.29.26 and 2.3.26

A view of Baltimore's Inner Harbor taken on 1.29.26. The water is mostly iced over and the areas surrounding it are covered in snow

Baltimore's Inner Harbor, taken on 2.3.26. Much of the ice and snow have melted

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Dave Heumann @daveheumann.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

This guy, Tyler (aka Ler, Tylo, and Slim Charles), got out during the snowstorm at about 5pm Sunday, got spooked when I tried to get him in at around 10pm Sunday, and didn't come back until about 3:30am this morning Half-feral rapscallion had us all worried. I have no idea where he goes

A small brown and white tabby cat on a checkered blanket

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Dave Heumann @daveheumann.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Baltimore and Baltimore-adjacent peoples, Arbouretum is playing this Friday at the Ottobar, and our set time is likely going to be at about 9:30 Hope to see you!

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Dave Heumann @daveheumann.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Zooming out a little- it's not necessarily well played, technically. There are little fuckups all over the place. But, I feel that it's expressive, and anyway I've said it before that I think it's good to release imperfect music in this era of humanity-extractive tech. So here's me doing that (6)

In And Out Of Doors

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Redeem at https://arbouretum.bandcamp.com/yum

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Dave Heumann @daveheumann.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

The other one from that set I titled Here is the Prize That You Have Won. It's the last line in The Lady of Carlisle, which I'd been playing and singing. I took the outro in a direction I never had before so I felt it was worth spotlighting and sharing in this way

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In And Out Of Doors

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Dave Heumann @daveheumann.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

The other two live tracks were from when I played the Mushroom City Arts Festival. The first I titled Having Just Gotten Back From Nowhere, as it literally did come from nowhere. I had just gotten done playing a tune that I felt didn't fully connect, so it was time to consult the void (4)

Dove Heumann

In And Out Of Doors

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Dave Heumann @daveheumann.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

I felt like the jams on this reached out towards those assembled listening in a way that most of my solo loop-based improvisations hadn't They're not all fully solo. Eric Leikus plays pedal steel on a track. It's the end part of Candy Says and we played it at Susan Alcorn's memorial concert (3)

Dave Heumann

In And Out Of Doors

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