Bermuda audiences on their last appearance here, will give two concerts at different locations when they fly in for return engagements next weekend.

The Bermuda High School and the Bermuda Folk Club have shared the cost of bringing in the couple who gained a national following in the US through their appearances from coast to coast at major concerts and festivals, and on Garrison Keillor's famous radio show, A Prairie Home Companion.

Although both are well-known as solo performers, press reviews have described the husband and wife double appearances as "dynamic'' and "electrifying.'' Both write original material as well as interpreting traditional and contemporary folk songs. Old ballads of English or Gaelic origin are mixed with more topical concerns such as the environment or social injustice.

Throughout her concerts, Sally Rogers accompanies herself on guitar and also on the rarer Appalachian dulcimer. Or, she will sing without accompaniment in a voice that found one US reviewer inconveniently at a loss for words. "It's really next to impossible to do justice to a voice of this quality,'' he wrote.

Howie Bursen also plays guitar and is well known for his intricate, mountain-style playing of the banjo, a technique known as "clawhammer.'' They have recorded various solo albums and their latest combined effort is entitled "When Howie Met Sally.'' The duo will appear at the Bermuda High School on Saturday, April 25 at 8 p.m.

as part of the school's PTA fund-raising programme.

Their second concert, for the Bermuda Folk Club, will take place on Sunday, April 26, at The Old Colony Club at 8.15 p.m. Tickets at $10 ($5 for Folk Club members) are available for both concerts at Riihiluoma's, or at the door.

SHOWTIME -- The husband and wife team of Sally Rogers and Howie Bursen return to Bermuda for two concerts next weekend.