An obscure Welsh folk band thought they were being pranked when they landed the gig of a lifetime, after being booked by the Pentagon to go on a tour of U.S. Air Force bases around the world.
The five friends who play in the Wee Bag Band, a group more well known as an unsigned pub band, will be flown more than 15,000 miles by the Air Force to bases in Cuba, Greenland, Bahamas and Honduras.
Their next stop of the ten day tour will be Cuba, where are flying via military plane from Baltimore to perform for the troops celebrating St. Patrick's day for an undisclosed amount.
Before they agreed, they had to call up the Pentagon to check that they weren't part of an elaborate prank or a con.
All five members of the band, which includes Paul Bassom, Rory McGough, Steve Own, Julian Anderson and Alan Colinson, have regular day jobs, ranging from motor engineering to computer work.
For years they have been playing Irish music at weddings, pubs and festivals, but now they're taking a tour from Central America to the Antarctic Circle.
Wee Bag band Go Big
Wee Bag band Go Big
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Re: Wee Bag band Go Big
Well they play Irish music in an attempt to appear more sophisticated
For Christianity, by identifying truth with faith, must teach-and, properly understood, does teach-that any interference with the truth is immoral. A Christian with faith has nothing to fear from the facts
Re: Wee Bag band Go Big
If they fly in a actual military aircraft as opposed to one of the contract flyers they are going to feel as though they got the short end of the stick
Sometimes it seems as though one has to cross the line just to figger out where it is