Fry In America: I have just been thoroughly entertained by Stephen Fry - Dave programme on Sky. He is travelling across America in a black London Cab, not sure why, however he certainly knows how to make me chuckle. Tonight he was travelling through parts of the deep south and what I gleaned from the programme, he may well have been travelling through Ulster. Many of the towns / places / buildings / countryside and the people he talked to were so Ulsterish it was surreal.
In one of his snippets in Kentucky he visited a school where the locals gathered on a Friday evening to play music, bluegrass, fiddles banjo, double bass, guitar, mandolin and other instruments. He interviewed a young man who was a complete wizard on the banjo - he attributed all his musical talents to his Scotch - Irish ancestors. Note - Not Irish American!
Brilliant, totally Brilliant programme. I will have to buy the DVD now it has me enthralled.
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