Ha!

Okay, so I got an iTunes gift certificate (from an certain WONDERFUL Buffista), so of course I spent the last two hours trying to decide on music. Along the way (while trying, I believe, to decide which performance of Flight of the Bumblebee I wanted to buy), I started looking for Welsh traditional music, and then specifically for performances of "Ar Hyd y Nos" (the lullaby "All Through the Night"), and iTunes popped up some group called Mor Gwyddelig (there should be a circumflex over the o, but I'm lazy). I thought, huh, looks interesting. Couldn't find them on Amazon (where I'd been going to listen to samples of tunes I was thinking of buying on iTunes), so I Googled. Came up with a page about them with a picture -- two women with harps. "Interesting," thought I. "They're based in Boston." But Boston is large, and contains many -- sorry, that should be a metric shitload of Celtic musicians. So I clicked on "listen to the album and learn more" and right before the page changed I realized that one of the women in the picture is someone who lives (or possibly lived, but still shows up to parties) with the people who hosted my birthday party.

It ranks up there with realizing that my undergraduate advisor went to graduate school at U of M with my mother and did his undergrad at the school my father works at in Virginia.

then specifically for performances of "Ar Hyd y Nos" (the lullaby "All Through the Night")

King's Singers, Folksongs from the British Isles.

Completely not the point of your post, I know.

That is a bit freaky, Emily, in a fun way.

So who's Edie McClurg?

I dunno, she's just kind of That Lady. And like when Betty White plays a potty mouth, it's still funny to see her in that kind of context.

Dana, are you recommending that one in particular? iTunes brings up five different ones. I went ahead and bought my friend's album, eschewing iTunes for CDBaby, which promises that the artists get a bigger cut.

CDBaby recommended a group called Mouth Music, which I didn't buy buy am finding really interesting. Anybody heard of them?

That's way cool, Emily. I love that shit.

Ok...you guys are gonna be so glad when this paper is written.

So, have we had other VIPs besides Tim and Joss? My memory, she's not so good.

Dana, are you recommending that one in particular?

Well, not because I'm an expert on recordings of Welsh folksongs, but because the King's Singers are always good. It's a great album.

So, have we had other VIPs besides Tim and Joss? My memory, she's not so good.

Fury came by once, and we scared him.

ita, Edie McClurg should be right up your alley. She is an improv person from way back. She was an early--maybe one of the founding-- members of The Groundlings.