1.    Sitting in the front row of a university auditorium with three high-school and university buddies when the Clancys and Tommy Makem bounded on to the stage for the first time in Atlantic Canada.....gathering around two mikes,Liam lifting up a Goya nylon string guitar almost vertically in the air starting a ferocious strum that lead into "Brennan on the moor";the strenth and power and sheer theatricality of the four voices taking the roof off that old hall...no harmonies,no drum kit or electric bass....just four men with talent,balls and a consummate knowledge and pride in what they were doing......

2. Pete Seeger[at Owen Sound Summerfolk or Toronto's Mariposa back in the seventies--cant recall which]starting his set.....under threatening skies.....two songs into the set,skies broke loose and torrential rain started.....ninety percent of the five or six hundred people on the grass gathered up their blankets,coolers and whatnot and ran madly for the trees......pete stopped his song,switched to "Takes a worried man"..when he came to the line"I'm worried now,but I won't beworried long",changed it to"it's raining now,but it won't be raining long"......entire crowd stopped dead in mid-gallop,turned around with a huge ovation and ran back to the stage area,sitting down in the wet grass...two minutes later,the sun came out      .......