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WYEP Holiday Hootenannny this Thursday!

December 14, 2009 Maya 12 Comments

I started out with a lot of clever openings to this post … and then I decided to look up the exact definition of ‘hootenanny.’  The first definition is exactly what you envision, (n.) “a social gathering or informal concert featuring folk singing and, sometimes, dancing.”  However, an older use of the word hootenanny is in fact a ‘thingumbob.’  If I was going to a thingumbob on Thursday night I figured I should find out what it was.  And there it was… the definition of thingamabob, according to Dictionary.com was thingamajig!  All confusion cleared up, I emailed a couple of… Read the rest

Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Dance, Events, Food & Drink, Fundraisers, Music Tagged With: folk music, food bank, Pittsburgh Opera, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer

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