Dear Subscribers

Introducing Dada Drummer Platinum™

Dear Subscribers,

I am grateful to be able to write and publish directly for so many of you through this newsletter. It’s been a boon through these years of corporate retreat from support of the arts, when so many of the venues I used to write for either folded or were folded into media conglomerates. And the number of subscribers to this newsletter has grown steadily.

But a year ago this newsletter had exactly the same number of paid subscribers as today. In fact, the number of paid subscriptions has held steady since 2022, while the readership of Dada Drummer Almanach has doubled.

As you may have noticed, I have not been putting any of this newsletter behind a paywall – which, some have pointed out, could have something to do with the situation? So for 2025 I am launching a new incentive program for paid subscribers: Dada Drummer Platinum™.

Like other platinum programs, the benefits are best defined by bullet points in solicitation letters that you recycle without opening. However, the …