I attended an Irish session in Manhattan, Kansas, United Skates of America. The bar next door was blasting something with a load o' bass, lots of college students weavig to and fro on the streets outside. We were a fairly sedate lot, but the session was in a coffee bar, and we could barely be heard most of the time above the coffeebean grinder and the milk steamer.

Still, it's the thought that counts, I spose ...

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