The only group in American that attempts to be funnier than the politicians, the Capitol Steps is a troupe of current and former Congressional staffers who satirize the very people and places that once employed them.

"'The pair click together like an old belt buckle'--Independent on Sunday" Sarah Lee Guthrie (daughter of Arlo, granddaughter of Woody) and guitarist Johnny Irion (EYE-ree-on) met in Los Angeles (they were introduced by Chris Robinson of the Black Crowes), married two years later, and moved to Irion's hometown of Columbia, South Carolina.

In 1498, more than half a millennium ago, Emperoro Maximilian I moved his court and his court musicians to Vienna. He gave instructions that there were to be six singing boys among his musicians.