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Click the hyperlinked timestamps below to skip around the conversation. One of LA Weekly's 40 most interesting people in Los Angeles, Andrew McGregor, speaks with me about how he built and ran his non profit organization for Citizen Journalism examples with the Tiziano Project, a non profit organization that taught journalism to African communities. He also discusses how he brought Chess Boxing to Los Angeles, as well as the APOPO rats that detect land mines. That's right, minesweeping rats!

Game of Love--Albatross (with ChessBoxer)

We're very excited to announce that, from June 21st - July 5th, ChessBoxer will be on tour with the legendary Bruce Hornsby as main support for the 2014 Noisemakers Summer Tour! In addition to opening, you'll be able to catch Ross playing fiddle and mandolin with the Noisemakers. This is going to be a fantastic tour with one of our favorite artists - we're incredibly honored to be joining in the festivities!

Chessboxer - Technicolour

The US duo of Ross Holmes and Matt Menefee proved as inventive, eclectic and eccentric as their hybrid sport’s name suggests, delivering an exuberant, galloping tribute to a computer game horse, an unusually graceful rendition of Welsh rugby hymn Calon Lân and a delightful bluegrass interpretation of Britney Spears’s Toxic, with Holmes chopping away on the fiddle with gleeful mischief in his eyes.

New Orleans, September 2013