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...first leg of a four-month, State-Department-sponsored tour of the Far East and Africa, Folk Singers Steve Addiss, 29, and Bill Crofut, 30, have spent the last month hopscotching around the outlying villages in war-torn Viet Nam. Armed with a banjo, two guitars, a flute, a French horn and a 16-string Vietnamese zither called a dan tranh, they sang in schools and hospitals, in the streets and rice fields. They sang American, Vietnamese, Indonesian and Cambodian folk songs, often to a thumping chorus of artillery and mortar fire, slept on wooden planks, hitchhiked rides...
Sing Along with Gongs. In villages threatened by the advancing Viet Cong, Addiss and Crofut had to sing to a constantly shifting audience, a kind of music to flee by. The duo played in the imperial city of Hue and raised $1,400 for the nearly 1,000,000 homeless flood victims. In one remote mountain vil lage, their performance ended up in a woolly hootenanny with the loinclothed montagnard tribesmen chanting and playing along on gongs and flute. Faced by antagonistic students ready to argue politics, Addiss and Crofut always retreated to song. "As soon as they realized that...
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