Musician Acronyms

{Using best Irish tenor voice} "Oh, Danny Boy, the pipes ... the pipes are cal -- ling ..."

Every year in Edinburgh, Scotland, a "Pipefest" is held to celebrate traditional Scottish music. Hundreds of bagpipe players and drummers attend the event.

At the end of July in 2010, however, event organizers plan on going global. They hope to attract at least 12,000 bagpipe players from around the world to march in parades slated to start at 20-minute intervals in 70 cities around the planet. It is hoped at least 100 million will watch on television and it's all to raise awareness of Scottish music and, hopefully, raise hundreds of thousands of dollars for cancer charities in each country participating.

So that gives you about two years to perfect your bagpipe playing, less the time the neighbors have you in court over disturbing the peace.

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IF MUSICIAN'S NAMES WERE ACRONYMS...

PRINCE - Purple Rain Is Now Copyrighted Eternally

TOM WAITS - Tipsy Old Man Wandering Around In The Street

ASIA - All Show Incredible Aging

RINGO - Really In Need Of Gig. Offers?

YANNI - Yawn And Nighty-Night Inducer

PEARL JAM - Please Excuse Angst-Ridden Lamentations, Just Appreciate Music

CHER - Cheekbones, Hips, Everything Reconstructed

[selected from Chris White's Little Fivers on Music]

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WISDOM for YOUR WEEK: "Let us come before him with thanksgiving and extol him with music and song." (Psalm 95:2)

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