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By China at 3:19 PM

The last concert that I went to was a folk singer - actually the old lead singer of the Byrds, Roger McGuinn. My boyfriend's grandparents had won some kind of contest through one of the concert ticket brokers they use regularly and got the tickets for free. They actually would have liked to go, but they were out of town on the weekend of the concert, and so they gave us the tickets. At first my boyfriend said to me that it was "Roger McGuinn, who's some country singer, I think," and neither of us was very excited about going, but when we looked him up on YouTube and the first song that came up was "Turn, Turn, Turn," we did get a little bit pumped. We both really like folk singers and folk music, and he played not only a lot of Byrds songs, but some Bob Dylan covers and other folky tunes as well. So good job, ticket brokers and your random free tickets.

The only problem with the concert, in fact (other than a crazy aging hippie or two dancing and singing loudly in corners), was entering and, especially, exiting the concert venue itself. All the entrances and exits bottlenecked into one singe entrance/exit - the skinny hallways and stairways made us claustrophobic to the point of feeling unable to breathe. Lord knows what would have happened if there had been a fire of some kind there. The bottlenecking starts the minute you try to get down the stairways of the tall, steep seating arrangements, which all funnel into one narrow staircase. That staircase eventually splits into several hallways and exits that, once again, all funnel into that single entrance and exit that I was talking about. It took us nearly a half hour to get out of the place, which would make sense for a concert attended by five hundred people, but not for one attended by a hundred.

But we did get to hear "Turn, Turn, Turn." And the tickets were free. So - worth it