Originally Posted by
Chicago Al
The wife has been out of town for a week but she's at a gathering of fiddle players, banjo players, dulcimer players, shape-note singers, and other amateur musicians, and as she puts it, most of the guys 'look like Santa Claus.' Not that there's anything wrong with that.
Reminds me of the New England contradance scene. A fiddler friend of mine described it like this, "the odds are good but the goods are odd."