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Where in New York City culture mavens may see a performance of the registration of Montana and ballet?

Nowhere, of course. And that is why Archbishop Desmond M. Tutu of South Africa Do not spend the weekend in New York. It was here in Helena.

“Of all places,” asked a journalist Nobel, “why did you in Helena, Montana?”

“Of all places, Mr. Tutu said,” there is a recording and Montana Ballet Company. ”

The recording and Ballet Company is a quartet whose songs satirical skits and help local social and political messages. The singers met Mr. Tutu, four years ago to a provision in Kentucky, where she sang his anti-apartheid anthem “Take Down the Barriers.”

For a chance to see the famous Anglican priest Saturday night thousands of excited Montanans form a line stretched for block, wait for inside the Civic Center, where Archbishop Tutu was seated in the front row for the show .

“I think it is very Fella, and I can not wait to see him,” said Mel Fauchald, a retired Insurance Agent, erschauerte in the near freezing night air. “First, I thought “Why should it come to Helena, Montana? “But then I got to thinking, ‘Well, why should not it?” Helena is a real nice place. ”

The recording and ballet company “Take Down the Barriers,” says Tutu’s, and the archbishop wrote notes in the album, in which it was presented.

“Four white men Montana may not sound like black South Africans,” he said. “But they can sing on justice, God’s will is for us all.”

In the belief that this is not to harm the group ask a question to Mr. Tutu, the staff last year. They said they would conduct for money for school for black South Africans and Indian refugees in Montana. Would he be willing to come?

“Sure, we thought it was a chance he would come,” said Rusty Harper, a guitarist and singer in the group. “A 2, 3, 4 percent chance.”

Four months before, a message from Mr. Tutu was a matter of fax: “I would be delighted to come Montana.

While Helena is indeed a real nice place, it is not uncommon for figures of the world come to visit. It is the sense of citizens has increased over the peaks.

Journalists in the city have received practical Montana capital, that companies listed on the height of 4157 metres, as well as offering “some Helenans known, past and present.” The list Myrna Loy, Gary Cooper, L. Ron Hubbard and Charlie Pride.

“Now, Charlie Pride is not just here,” said Tom Daubert, organizes the promotion of the event. “But he worked in the cabin aluminium East Helena, for a few years.

Mr. Daubert bidding on the media and noted that the Rendez-journalists could also write reports on the benefits of the winter meeting of eagles soon more than 10 miles outside the city. “Montana 2-for-1 Media Event”, explains the remark. “Soon Eagles and Bishop Desmond Tutu’s Only USA arrest.”

Archbishop Tutu, spent 47 hours on a plane from Cape Town in Helena, in a $ 500-a-plate lunch in Montana Club. Tickets for the concert cost $ 50. For an additional $ 20, people could attend a reception where she received a chance to shake hands with Mr. Tutu. His visit to nearly $ 100000 in money from the stock market.

The archbishop, Honduras, it is a summons, received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984 for his work at the end of apartheid.

In 10 years marks Orser and his sister, Marisa, 7, took his meeting with the archbishop of laps, his father with a video camera.

“I told him I was very happy to meet him,” said Marks. “He said he had to be done with joy me too.”

“It will never be forgotten,” said his father, Scott Orser, is repairing a windshield business Helena. “I’ve been with children, we came before them and told them about this great man, they have to be taken.”

Archbishop Tutu was the concert Windy Boy Dr. Janine Pease, president of Little Big Horn College, Crow Agency. “Let’s give a fine Montana welcome Archbishop Desmond Tutu,” she says, that the public was warm and joy.