"Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything.” - Plato

“I’m like, ‘There’s no way in the world you can play these notes.’  He was hitting Eric Clapton, he was hitting me, Stevie, Jimi Hendrix. I couldn’t even play a radio when I was seven or eight years old!  Players like him come along once in a lifetime.” – Buddy Guy, legendary bluesman, on guitar prodigy Quinn Sullivan

I gotta say that as I write this, I have the appropriate amount of anger. I mean, if I’m being honest, I’m a little miffed I’m not devoting this whole article to the Masters and/or Arnold Palmer. I’ve only been wanting to write an article on my Super Bowl for over a year and even arranged with my friend and column partner Katherine Brown to have this writing slot to have an article come out during the first full week of April. 

"Calling John McCutcheon a 'folksinger' is like saying Deion Sanders is just a football player.” To really appreciate this compliment by the Dallas Morning News, you should ask a football fan about Deion’s many varied accomplishments, and you should come to Fripp Island on March 24 to let John McCutcheon, folk music’s “Rustic Renaissance Man,” dazzle you with his many talents, from writing songs, singing, playing a dozen instruments to telling stories.

Bettman and Halpin will perform at Music on Malphrus at the UU Congregation of the Lowcountry, 110 Malphrus Road, in Bluffton, SC, Saturday, April 13, at 7 pm.