Meeting with a folk singer

In the 1980's I went to a gig performed by a well known English folk singer. After the gig I chatted to him, and asked where he had played last on a recent world tour. He said he had just come back from Auckland, New Zealand. I told him I had a mate there called Bev, who would have enjoyed his performance. He said "well you must be Dave". He was right. Bev had attended his gig in Auckland, and Bev had asked him where he was playing next. The musician told him his next gig was in the Isle of Man, where I lived at the time, and my friend said that I was bound to go and see him. Bev and I hadn't communicated with each other in any way in the interim. There have been many more instances of coincidences in my life. These have mainly come about because I like to chat to interesting looking people, ask what they do, what interests they have, where they come from etc. If you have lived in as many places as I have, and are basically a nosey sod, the odds are not so long that you will know someone that a random stranger in the street also has connections with has also met, and remembered.