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Oct 17 22:41 UTC 1999

Hi! Well, hmmmm. What to say? They were even more glowing in person,
though I don't think there were seventeen whole people in the audience, and
at least two of us were journalists. The cow-calling song rang from the
rafters, the cow-horn playing (which sounded very much like a bombarde, but
also was played very like a saxophone) was cool, and the other traditional
instruments were played well. I think Bruce was dreading it, as Ken knows,
he dislikes my collection of Scandinavian music, but he loved it. He said that
they sounded like a mixture of Celtic and Russian music, which is reasonably
true.