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Triskaidekaphobia and stage fright be damned – it’s Fray Cafe 13, and there are personal stories to be told!

Continuing in the spirit of Derek Powazek’s fray.com, Fray Cafe is an evening of true personal storytelling with three simple rules:

  1. Your story must be true.
  2. Your story must be personal and feature yourself as a central character.
  3. Your story cannot be a plug for anything.

Recorded live at Austin’s Red Eyed Fly on March 10, 2013 and once again hosted by Kevin Smokler, Fray Cafe remains a very personal and intimate oasis in the sea of branding and merchandising that is SXSW in the modern era.

Special thanks to everyone who came out and made the evening a success, and as always to the management and staff of the Red Eyed Fly for continuing to find a place for us on their schedule every year. And we’d be remiss if we didn’t thank everyone who donated to ensure the continuation of Fray Cafe @ SXSW!

The audio from this year’s event is presented here in its entirety. You can listen to individual storytellers using the embedded players, or download a .zip file of the full show (AAC format, 156MB). (If your browser won’t display the embedded players, you can access the individual tracks here.)

Storyteller Audio
Kevin Smokler
13:47
Welcome
4:09
David Dylan Thomas
9:34
Ewan Spence
16:37
Audra Martin
10:51
Josh Gross
8:22
The Newcomers Never Fail to Impress -> Vanilla Ice Dramatic Reading
4:49
Jeff Rider
14:26
Nikolai Nolan
5:59
Isaac Mayo
12:34
Kristy Duncan
10:06
Business & Intermission
2:19
INTERMISSION
Brian Janosch
10:42
Whitney Scherar
6:31
Brenda Huettner
7:08
Eve Brightberg
8:17
Literal Mic Drop -> Thank You and Goodnight
5:24

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