[Dixielandjazz] Kids & Dixieland

[iVOR jONES]

I'm with Jim on this.

I live in a different part of Iberia.

Last night we played at the Sheraton Hotel, good audience, 2/300, all 
nationalities, they come for the food, they get us as well. It's a weekly 
'New Orleans'
dinner night. We have a residency for the summer, or as long as summer 
lasts.We play in the open air. Loads of kids of all ages and they cluster 
around the bandstand, and come and ask us for autographs and those of us in 
the band that can write sign their name. In a few hours time we all meet and 
get a mini coach three hours up the road to Lisbon, a Cãmara (Municipal 
Council) gig. Sound check at 7, if the crew is ready, a great meal with some 
first class local wine, and get to see another historic and interesting 
town. (Twice last year we played in castles) Almost certainly tonight it 
will be on a bandstand in the town park. We never know, sometimes we get to 
play in a theatre or concert hall, but they are usually winter jobs, if 
winter ever comes this year. We start at 10 at night, there will be loads of 
people of all ages. We get about 12/15 of these a year, last month we got 
four. At one, in a seaside (tourist town ), after we had finished, a group 
of about ten guys came up and said they loved the music, HADN'T heard this 
kind before, can I advise on what CDs they should buy when they get back to 
their Scottish university. Like Kash we don't look for gigs with kids, we do 
a lot of public performances and the kids of all ages are there. Nothing 
noble about it, it just happens. It will be a special day today, we collect 
our new Cds in Lisbon on the way to the gig. Maybe we will sell a couple 
tonight, one never knows, does one.


 ----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve barbone" <barbonestreet at earthlink.net>
To: <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
Sent: Friday, August 26, 2005 4:51 AM
Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Kids & Dixieland


> "Jim Kashishian" <jim at kashprod.com>
>
>> Steve wrote:
>> If we truly want to get kids to enjoy OKOM, in any form, then more OKOM
>> bands than mine or Kash's must do what we are doing.
>
>> Jim answered:
>
>> There IS a difference, though, Steve.  While you actively seek this
>> particular audience, our audience is just there, as I mentioned in my 
>> post.
>> It's the kids that are on the streets at night, and they are the ones 
>> that
>> storm into wherever we are playing.  The good part is that they don't 
>> leave!
>
> Jim, if there is a difference, it is miniscule. The kids are already there
> where you play and the kids are already there where I play. It is exactly
> the same. If the difference is that I seek the audience, and you seek the
> venue.


Listen, we seek any bloody venue !

Ivor in drought stricken Portugal