I think my father took me to an evening of the United States Marine Band playing mostly Sousa marches when I was about 6 1/2. After that, I did not go out to hear live music for a couple of years (thus skipping the entire period of time when I lived in Brazil) but variety shows are quite common in my next city, Rosario, Argentina, and I went out to hear just a *lot* of these, with all kinds of music (though my special music was Argentina's folk music, which is zambas, not tangos as you might have guessed). The first concert I went to with my own money was Peter, Paul and Mary, with Jesse Fuller (filling in for an absent Odetta) and Bud and Travis for warmup acts. This was on my 13th birthday, August 11, 1962.

I went out with a whole lot of allowance money and bought a whole lot of Spanish language 78s (mostly Los Chalchaleros, the thrushes) while living in Rosario. I still have most of these. I can't remember the first English language album I got, at all.

Nate Bucklin