How does a group of students from the USA properly celebrate the 4th of July in Buenos Aires? They go to a "country" bar and listen to the Argentine band "The South" play well known country and bluegrass songs, of course! I'm not sure Garth Brooks would have recognized his own work, but the Argentines at the bar (decked out in tight jeans, boots, huge belt buckles, and cowboy hats) sure knew the words. Talk about a surreal evening.....as the night wore on (and the night doesn't even begin til midnight here), the bar got crazier and crazier. After a while, the mainly middle aged (with one group of very young, alternative looking 20 somethings...I guess US cowboy in BA is similar to punk in the US....strange) crowd was one their feet in the tiny bar,
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