11.   The characters they play are not some modern-day Amos and Andy but backwoods musicians come to the big city.

12.   The musicians came from Ireland, England, Canada, the United States and Australia.

13.   The Rhymers had a lot of downtime in the evenings, so the invites went out for interested Celtic musicians to come by and play some tunes.

14.   These days, musicians have come to feel like very expensive bottles of wine, tasted less and less often.

15.   Those, by the way, are the last words that are uttered in the play before the musicians come onstage to perform the quartet.

16.   Until the hospital closed half a century ago, Fatima said, musicians regularly came to play to calm the patients.

17.   With little celebrity gloss, the musicians come across as humble, searching for the song that will say the right thing.

18.   Musicians come from the dhow countries and across Africa.