Penguin Cafe - Rain Before Seven...A sense of optimism infuses Penguin Cafe's fifth studio album Rain Before Seven not the braggadocious, overconfident kind, but more a blithe, self effacing optimism in keeping with the national character. Even when all signs point to the contrary, it operates within the certainty that things are going to be alright. Probably. The title comes from an old weather proverb with the rhyming prognostication fine before eleven hinting at a happy ending,

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he is particularly interested in spreading the joy of music to as many people as possible

An opportunity to discover or rediscover three very different styles

famed bluesman Johnny Clyde Copeland

you'll laugh (or at least giggle) before you reach your limit

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who was the resident director at the Vienna Imperial Theater

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