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Welcome to StringDancer, the homepage of Jeff Foster… musician, composer, music instructor, audio/video producer, YouTuber, writer, blogger, webmaster, stringed instrument repairman — not to mention husband, grandpa, homesteader, raconteur, lifelong autodidact and disastrously amateur drone pilot — based in Brown County, Indiana.

A lot has changed in Jeff’s life in recent years. Updates to StringDancer have been few and far between. But that’s no longer the case, so if you enjoy what you find here, kindly bookmark the site and visit again.

And now… a little blast from the past:

Manha de Carnival (Luis Bonfa) by Jeff Foster

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YT • The Dark Truth About Universal’s Takeover – Miss Krystle
In Jamming In General
April 27, 2025
In this episode of the Top Music Attorney Podcast, Entertainment Attorney, Miss Krystle discusses the dark truth behind Universal’s aggressive expansion—and why it’s starting to look less like business as usual and more like the rise of a ➤➤➤
“Thanatopsis” – AI Music by Jeff Foster & Suno
In AI Music
April 24, 2025
Wanting to see how Suno would handle an historic, well-known, free-form poem, I prompted the AI-bot with a slightly modified version of the final stanza of Thanatopsis by one of the great American poets of the early 19th century, William Cullen Bryant. ➤➤➤
Rick Wakeman in concert – Brown County Music Center, Nashville IN
In Jamming In General
April 22, 2025
Whenever I’m asked “what’s your favorite band”, I usually return with, “What kinda music do ya like?”. After a long life as a guitar player dabbling in virtually every musical style, the topic of favorite bands ➤➤➤
What I’ve been up to on my 5-year retreat from the world – Part 2
In Journal
April 21, 2025
Just in time for the Holidays, December 15, 2021 — My heart issues initially began way back in 2003, when I first experienced severe angina after a long night of dancing with my lovely nieces at our local Shrine Club in Muncie, IN. Doctors at Ball ➤➤➤
What I’ve been up to on my 5-year retreat from the world – Part 1
In Journal
April 19, 2025
It all began, as most dystopian personal stories do these days, with the great Covid Con of early 2020. Having for many years anticipated that such a experiment in population-reduction would eventually be imposed upon the world by the inherently evil and ➤➤➤
What I’ve been up to on my 5-year retreat from the world – Intro
In Journal
April 19, 2025
Not that anyone might (or should) have noticed, but I’ve recently begun a cautious reemergence from a self-imposed 5-year hiatus from public life, which included a complete withdrawal from social media, particularly Facebook, within which I had ➤➤➤
Worthy In His Eyes
In AI Music
April 17, 2025
A fresh song for Easter I made on Suno. [Verse] Under the shadow of that rugged tree, His arms stretched wide, He bled for me. The weight of sin that wasn’t His own, He bore it all to make me His home.[Verse] Tears fall as I stand here in ➤➤➤
“Woke Up To A Battle I Never Chose” by Jeff Foster
In AI Music
April 15, 2025
One of my first experiments with AI music. I set the lyrical prompts and stylistic parameters, hit the button and got two tunes built on the same lyric. I chose this one to use and develop, tweaking the lyrics a tad. I’m a premium Suno member, so I ➤➤➤
Introducing Q Street Bungalow
In Journal
December 9, 2024
Via a phenomenally circuitous chain of events, wifey and I now find ourselves venturing into the Airbnb business. A few months ago we bought a lovely old bungalow in “Limestone Country” — Bedford, Indiana — originally with the ➤➤➤
Τhe devil asked three monks what they would change from the past
In Spirit
April 24, 2024
The devil appeared to three monks and said to them: “If I gave you the power to change something in the past, what would you change?” The first of them, with great apostolic fervor, replied: “I would like to prevent you from ➤➤➤