When my wife and I go away for the weekend we usually go to Pittsburg, Pa about two hours away. There is a band we try to catch when we go. They are called Corn Beef and Curry because they play Irish music but their fiddle/ mandolin player, Bob Banajee, is of Indian ethnicity. He's actually quite good and was a past member of Gaelic Storm. He told me a story about playing at the Pittsburg Irish Festival. They play 99% Irish music but would sometimes throw out a non-Irish song. In this instance it was "I'm a Believer" by the Monkees. The festival organizers banned them for life for that indiscretion, presumably because one of the four Monkees was an Englishman.
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