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Line 16: The Folksmen were incorporated into Christopher Guest's mockumentary ''A Mighty Wind'' (2003), which depicted a reunion concert of three fictitious folk music acts, following the death of their mutual manager, Irving Steinbloom. The film included interviews with the band members (which established much of their fictional [[backstory]]), reconstructed vintage footage and album covers, and various original songs performed in rehearsal as well as the purported concert, ''An Ode to Irving''. To publicise the film, Guest, McKean and Shearer appeared as the Folksmen on a number of television programs, in which they performed songs and were interviewed in character. Between September and November 2003, the three fictitious folk groups from the film "reformed" to undertake a real-life concert tour of cities on the West Coast (Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Seattle) and the East Coast (Boston; Philadelphia; New York; and Washington, D.C.). ~~More recently, in~~In April 2009, Guest, McKean and Shearer embarked upon the ''Unwigged & Unplugged'' tour to mark the 25th anniversary of the release of the film ''[[This is Spinal Tap]]''.<ref>Andrew Gans, "Guest, McKean and Shearer Launch 30-City Tour of Unwigged & Unplugged April 17", ''Playbill'', April 17, 2009.</ref> This time, they appeared as themselves, performing songs associated with Spinal Tap, the Folksmen and various other film and comedy projects from their long careers. After touring thirty cities in the United States, the trio performed a special "One Night Only World Tour" concert at London's Wembley Arena on June 30, 2009, in which they performed (this time in full costume) as both Spinal Tap and the Folksmen. ==Personnel==

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