I went to check out the new Robin Hood movie with Russell Crowe last night and one of the characters kept jumping out at me as someone I had seen before. Robin had three travelers with him and one guy had a black beard and always seemed to be playing a lute. About halfway through the movie it dawned on me that I had made photos of this guy (his name is Alan Doyle) playing with his band Great Big Sea at the folk music festival MerleFest in Wilkesboro a few weeks ago. After a little research (if that’s what you can call Google and Wikipedia) it turns out this guy is friends with Russell Crowe, help write and produce Crowe’s music, and had one other gig in a movie … as an extra in a film shot in his hometown back in the 1980s.