Moments ago, I got off the phone with my dear friend Tony Sgro, who with his brother Dominic, celebrated their 50th year in show business at BHF 2000. As a matter of fact, they were one of the headline acts on the Saturday night dinner show. Yet, there is no mention of their show in the article that Doug Tate had written and submitted to S.P.A.H., which was published in the recent edition of Harmonica Happenings. For that matter Tony further says, "there was no mention in the Harmonica Dispatch either."
Tony stated to me, "It makes me feel like we offended somebody." I told Tony that I didn't think that was the case. If you don't know the Sgro Brothers, then you don't know how humble two absolutely phenomenal harmonica players can be.
This conversation with Tony about this omission from the article of them having been feature entertainers on the Saturday night show at BHF 2000, brought to mind that there was yet another such omission-- Phil 'N The G.A.P. Phil 'N The G.A.P. was the Thursday evening featured harmonica trio and featured two former Harmonicats, Al Data Chord, and George Miklas Bass, with Phil Caltabellotta on Chromatic.
Tony and I agree that the verbage of this article implies (or allows the reader to conclude) that there were no other harmonica groups of note at the festival, when in fact there certainly were.
George Miklas
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