[Dixielandjazz] DJMLers on Cape Cod, MA?

[tcashwigg at aol.com]

Hey Larry:

Opportunity Knocks ????

Look around and find a building and open a joint, get it Ballyhooed in 
the local media and bring in the bands, they are the easiest part of 
the project.

Cheers, & Good luck ,  it's a tough job but somebody's got to do it or 
it just won't ever happen.   Probably a few thousand retired folks 
sitting around the Cape thinking the same thing but nobody wants to get 
up out of the rocking chair and answer the door.

If you had California Sunshine there I might think about it, :))   Naw 
just kidding but do send me a Post card with pictures of the pretty 
Trees.  :))   And Pretty girls too if yo find any.  :))

Tom Wiggins

Still havin' Fun in the Warm California Sun.



-----Original Message-----
From: Laurence Swain <l.swain at comcast.net>
To: dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com
Sent: Sat, 05 Nov 2005 14:23:21 -0500
Subject: [Dixielandjazz] DJMLers on Cape Cod, MA?

    We'll be moving year-'round to Cape Cod in the next year or so, 
after having had
a summer
cottage there for the past 45 years.

I have noticed that there is practically no OKOM being performed on 
Cape Cod
with any
regularity.

There are no venues like the Sherborn Inn in Sherborn, MA, or the 
Bridgwaye Inn
in
Marshfield, that engage any of the really good area bands like the 
Ancient
Mariners, New
Black Eagles, Blue Horizon, Pete Collins, Jeff Hughes 'Hot Toddies, 
Monte Carlo
Jazz
Ensemble, New Liberty, Paramount, Squirrel Hill Ole Tyme Band, 
Wolverines,
Riverboat
Stompers, and others, on a regular basis.

The good bands are available.  A regular Cape Cod venue for bands like 
these is
not.

The Bridgwaye is an example of the kind of venue I'd like to see on the 
Cape: a
restaurant,
with alcoholic beverages available, a separate room for OKOM seating 
and
performance, a
good menu and good food at reasonable prices. OKOM bands are booked the 
first 3
Sundays of the month, from 4-7 PM, except 6-9 PM in July and August.  
Cover:
$10/person.

Go to any OKOM performance and look around at the audience.  Mostly 
older people
like
me. Seems to me the Cape, with its significant year-'round population 
of
retirees, has the
ideal demographic for OKOM performances.

So I'd like to get an idea of how many Cape residents are subscribers 
to this
fine maillist,
DJML, as I begin to talk to Cape folks about providing the venue that 
is so
sorely needed.

Please let me know -- off-line is fine.

Larry Swain




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