New Yorkers come to Botswana band's rescue

NEW YORK: Members of a high school band from Botswana put on quite a performance thanks to the generosity of New Yorkers, who loaned them 10 special marimbas after luggage regulations prevented them from brining their own.

The group is on a two-week concert tour of New York and New England to raise money for their school's AIDS/orphan scholarship.

Their first performance in Union Square on Monday night almost did not happen after airline security blocked them from bringing some of their instruments.

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