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Thread #25261   Message #295369
Posted By: gillymor
11-Sep-00 - 09:46 PM
Thread Name: Arlo Guthrie And The Boston Pops
Subject: RE: BS: Arlo Guthrie And The Boston Pops
I wonder how many of us, supposing we were all musician/ entertainers of Arlo's stature, would turn down a chance to be accompanied by a world class symphony orchestra ( the Pops is the Boston Symphony with a pop/swing rhythm section added) on the grounds that it wouldn't be the folkie thing to do. And I was also at a Wolftrap concert where Arlo and his band Shennandoah picked up brass and woodwinds and blew traditional jazz while wearing hard hats with blinking red lights on top (the last may have been an hallucination).

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