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Sep 30 04:41 UTC 1998

  Saw Ken at tonight's Great Big Sea concert.

  I had a good time, though clearly there were people there whose
  enjoyment substantially exceeded my own.  The crowd was wildly
  enthusiastic and the band themselves were extremely energized.
  It's a fine thing, I think, to watch people who are so obviously
  enjoying what they do.

  Considering that I've never owned one of their records I was 
  amazed by the number of songs I recognized -- all the credit for
  that fact is owed to my travels in Newfoundland this summer.
  I'm not exaggerating when I say that their music gets an astonishing
  amount of airplay there, though rather than being annoying it's
  kind of cool -- the people in the Maritimes are obviously very
  into their local music scenes and I think that's good, whether
  it's the fiddle schools and performances that I saw signs of 
  all over Nova Scotia's Cape Breton Island or the enterprising
  musicians entertaining passengers in the lounge of the Marine
  Atlantic ferry on the trip to/from Newfoundland.