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Thread #126492 Message #2812336
Posted By: GUEST
14-Jan-10 - 11:48 PM
Thread Name: Jean Redpath on A Prairie Home Companion
Subject: RE: Jean Redpath on A Prairie Home Companion
When we were in Scotland this September we visited one of the old churches - a place where Robert the Bruce is buried. I was wandering around the building quietly, looking at this and that. Jean had taken a pew in the cathedral ... and in a few moments I heard her just begin to sing a verse and chorus of a hymn she apparently thought appropriate for the moment. Within moments all of the tourists and church visitors stopped in their tracks to just listen. A few whispered among themselves, when someone recognized and her and passed the word on ... and when she was done, she stood up and we walked on. Everyone went back about their business - but they all marked the moment.
It was magic.