I can't tell you how much I appreciated the US Embassy arranging for an afternoon of country western music on a plaza in Montevideo for the day we arrived in Uruguay. Attached are a photo of the program prepared by the Embassy and a video clip of a Uruguayan band playing "Down on the Bayou." Don't know if you can get it to play on your computer, but it is hysterical. The whole afternoon was bluegrass, country, and blues. Very, very funny, but couldn't get Sylvan to dance. We had lunch with this fantastic music playing in the background at a nice park. The Embassy, we think, also arranged for a few employees to do a line dance in front of the stage -- it was the Electric Slide, for those "in the know." Actually, there was no evidence of Embassy involvement at all, other than the little notice on the bottom of the program, which you might not be able to read on the little picture attached. Those Uruguayans were very good, but funny to see them in North American cowboy hats. I don't think we posted this other picture, the one with the Peruvian panpipe players on the plaza in Mendoza wearing headdresses of eagle features popularized by the Plains indians of the U.S. To be sure, the Peruvians were "Indians," but the North American indian attire was just tooooo much.
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