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COMMENTS: Marimba Emergency
CBS closed with a cute musical feature from Kelly Wallace. She followed the fate of a teenage African marimba band on an American concert tour to raise funds for orphanages back home in Botswana. The tour was sabotaged when customs officials refused to allow them to check their instruments as airline luggage so the band arrived in New York City sans marimbas. "African marimbas are virtually nonexistent on the east coast," Wallace warned. Virtually but not quite. In Syracuse NY schoolteacher Martha Jenks leads a homemade marimba band. She woke at the crack of dawn to deliver her substitutes and to stay for a beer and a listen.
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