[Dixielandjazz] Spitting in the wind? The OKOM jazzer's quandary

[Gluetje1 at aol.com]

Dave, I think your being "Thrilled" by your senior audiences is  great.  I 
actually see "entertaining", rather than just playing in front  of, that 
encapsulated audience as my mission.  They deserve the  best!  A couple of months ago 
I watched the leader of a gospel quartet  close a show in an assisted living 
facility by telling the audience how  honored he was to have a chance to 
perform for his "heroes"; i.e., folks who had  been through so much and were still 
toughing it out to have quality  living.  I learned something fine that day.
Ginny    
 
In a message dated 12/22/2006 9:26:33 P.M. Central Standard Time,  
postmaster at fountainsquareramblers.org writes:

I have  none of those things and so I ³tend my own garden² and
just do what I can  do...play trad as much as I can and be happy when I see
60 people in  lawnchairs around a community bandstand, or navigating walkers
into a  community room at a local nursing home and be THRILLED to death when
I  actually see some folks doing the Charleston to my music.  (It happens  now
and then. I  remind myself not to let it go to my head.)   Thanks for letting
me ramble.  Proust had nothing on me, except  perhaps a method and a message.