[Dixielandjazz] N.O. J & H

[TCASHWIGG at aol.com]

In a message dated 4/14/05 5:51:21 AM Pacific Daylight Time, 
barbonestreet at earthlink.net writes:

> 
> on 4/14/05 2:35 AM, Luis Daniel Flores at luda at arnet.com.ar wrote:
> 
> >I am sorry to say that this festival is 80 % or more NOT OKOM.
> >IN the French quarter festival is about 50 or 60 % OKOM
> >Luis
> 
> 
The number of 80% from our respected friend from Argentina, is also a bit 
deceiving since many of us on the list have a much broader opinion of what is 
OKOM so it all becomes relevant to those in attendance, to them it is TKOM.    

Again we tread on the exclusionary process when we define our own narrow 
personal tastes assuming that all on the list are in agreement with what is MKOM, 
yet labeled under the title of OKOM.  

Different strokes for different folks, think about it in terms of how many 
musicians and bands are EMPLOYED, and how many folks are not sitting at home 
watching TV and you get a bigger picture of what is happening down there.

Bring on the Happenings, that is where the future of OKOM is and if we don't 
all work our butts off to try and get on those festivals and play and 
introduce this music to younger generations there might indeed be no OKOM festivals as 
the audience as we know it continues to move to the big OKOM Festival in the 
Sky.

Perhaps if we thought about the growth of the NOJ&H Festival we could 
understand it better, since it I believe started as more or less an OKOM Festival, 
kept reaching out to younger audiences and expanding the music greatly, so much 
that the die hard OKOM folks now, no longer want to attend since it is so big 
and usually, successful that hardly nobody goes anymore.


Kind of like playing a killer show with three encores and selling a few 
hundred CDs, and then having a band member proclaim that 80% of that audience was 
not OKOA -udience)   :))


YOUR Kind of Audience is any Audience that will sit or stand and listen to 
you, and if they do you can quickly add them to folks who like OKOM.   Otherwise 
they would simply move on to find TKOM in another venue or stage.

Cheers,

Tom Wiggins
I like playing to the multitudes.