[Dixielandjazz] Fresno Mardi Gras

[Gene & Betty Lynch]

We agree wholeheartedly with Don.  This was a great traditional festival, with a few nods to later developments.  Attendance was good, but there was room for more.  We stayed for the end. and the wind-down dinner with Bob Schulz's Frisco Band and the St. Louis Stompers, ending with a mega-mess, and it was a blast.

Next year's Mardi Gras festival is the last weekend in January(*$@# hotels), and the band list is spectacular.  All under oned roof, at a good hotel, with alternatives nearby.  Miss this oned at your own peril.

Gene & Betty Lynch
Redondo Beach, CA

>From: Don Robertson <jdrobertson at att.net>
>Date: Sun Feb 12 11:45:45 CST 2006
>To: DJML <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
>Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Fresno Mardi Gras

>Hi All,
>
>Reporting from the Fresno (CA) Mardi Gras.  Great time, good bands.  
>Mostly left coasters, but a new one for us is the St. Louis Classic 
>Stompers, led by Steve Lilley.  Good trad band with lots of energy.  
>Something a little different, we had a couple of swing sets, with 
>members of various bands sight reading big band stuff.
>
>No formal F 2 F, but several listmates here.  Gene and Betty Lynch, 
>Karen from Pacifica, Ben Fowlkes, Rae Ann, and Audrey VanDyke all the 
>way from Wash DC.  Some of the musso's also sometime posters, Kit 
>Johnson of Black Swan, and Bert Barr on Cornet with Black Swan for this 
>weekend.
>
>Good Time,
>
>Don Robertson
>usually Napa, CA -- today Fresno CA
>
>
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