At 3 p.m. Thursday, our movie critic got a text message saying that Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young were going to fill one of the "TBA" slots at the ASCAP Music Cafe at the Star Bar. They were due to play at 5:30 p.m.

The TV critic and I drove furiously to Park City, despite previous assertions that nothing could persuade us to go to the festival this year. The thinking was, David Crosby is sure to die any day now. Perhaps playing at Sundance was on his bucket list.

When we finally got to the line in front of the Star Bar on Main Street, there were about 50 people in front of us. Not so bad, you might say? Well, if you've ever been in the Star Bar, you know that only about 25 people can fit in that small place.

We waited in line, though, for more than an hour in 10-degree weather and pounding snow, until one of the bar's managers came out and told us we had a zero-percent chance of getting in. He also said that CSN&Y hadn't showed up yet and that he doubted they would show up.

We took off, had roast beef sandwiches at the Eating Establishment and went to the New Frontier exhibit in the Main Street Mall to look at scupltures made out of plastic bottles. Then we walked back to see what was going on at the Star Bar.

A few people were in the foyer of the bar and said that they were closing up. They then told us that Neil Young and Graham Nash did show up, and came up on stage when another Star Bar performer, John Hisle, was singing. The duo came up and sang one or two choruses of "Rockin' in the Free World" and then left, apparently.

Whatever. I'm definitely not going up to Park City until June.