The society that honours him is so fondly regarded that two nationally known bluesmen, Sam Myers and Anson Funderburgh, agreed to come to Helena recently to perform a Sunday night show featuring more than three hours of music before a far smaller crowd than they could draw in the big cities, and for a fraction of their standard fee.

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She also paid a visit to the BBC's Broadcasting House, where she met DJ Dave Lee Travis, whose BBC World Service music show made her confinement "much more bearable, " she said.

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The show has some 30 Rascals songs but also finds time to explore their influence on more than music.

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Maybe we need to be a bit more vocal about who we are and how old we are, just to show the music industry and artists that we are out here.

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"I'm not a pop fan - I'm more of a classical music person, so I think I probably didn't show the amount of enthusiasm that was expected of me, " she laughed.

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