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Message: [QUOTE="Ozimoto, post: 3563266, member: 6677"] A little bit of a story behind this choice. I was looking for something to do for fun with my wife as she was bored and getting on me for never planning anything fun to do. I have always enjoyed listening to music and she was singing in a semi professional chorus (The Handel Choir of Baltimore) at the time, so I started poking around looking for a small venue with talented but maybe not so familiar artists. I started poking around on the "Dirty Linen" website that covered the folk and roots music scene in the Baltimore/Washington area and came across a show by "John and Mary" at a place called the Iota Cafe in Arlington Virginia. The description of the duo, John Lombardo from 10,000 Maniacs (who left the band right before they made it big) and Mary Ramsey as two musicians who brought modern takes to traditional English folk songs in addition to original material sounded interesting. Their live show was excellent. Of course, CD's were on sale at the show. The first track of their first CD just reinforced what we got out of their first show and we have been fans ever since through four albums as the duo of "John and Mary" and another four through their joining "10,000 Maniacs" (or rejoining them in John Lombardo's case). for nearly 30 years now. From Victory Gardens, track one "Red Wooden Beads." [MEDIA=youtube]v_FjYosxjK0[/MEDIA] [/QUOTE]