15 May 2008

hey jude



When you see a large group of professional Korean musicians in traditional dress you don't expect their playlist to include the Beatles but tonight after wandering around downtown Seoul eating street food and perusing dried octopus arms in the market we were treated to a traditional Korean arrangement of "Hey Jude." We'd joined a large crowd sitting on the steps of the Performing Arts Center and before we knew it we were listening to a three-song Beatles medley that also included Let it Be and Oblah Di Oblah Da. We didn't recognize the instruments or the sounds they were making - and the playbill explaining the concert was in Korean so we couldn't read it - but it's hard to miss three Beatles songs in a row. Especially when they're punctuated with something that sounds a whole lot like a kazoo.

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