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Rob and I decided on the spur of the moment to go down to Fredricksburg to watch Bela Fleck & The Flecktones at Mary Washington College. I tried to get my brother to join us, but he couldn't make it on such short notice. We drove down, got there and started talking with some of the students who were hanging out, waiting to get into the auditorium. Most of the people that we talked to had never heard of the Flecktones at all and just came by because there was a band playing. A few of the people were already fans, but most of them didn't seem to understand just what they were getting into.
We managed to finagle our way into front row seats for the first show of the tour. For $20 a pop. That didn't suck. This was their first show of their latest tour. There were still some bugs for them to work out, but they had a great energy. They are also starting to use lights as a part of their show more, and their lighting engineer was doing great work, very powerful.