[Dixielandjazz] The Power of OKOM with the young.

[Steve barbone]

List mates

Here is another note to several hundred swing dancers from my young friend
Alex. Here again, note the lack of his knowledge about Hot Steamed, yet he
lives within 60 miles of it. He found out because a band leader, Dan
Levinson, posted it on his gig list. Underscores the fact that OKOM
Festivals will attract young swing dancers if the word gets out to them.

Cheers,
Steve
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From: "info rhythm and bugs" <info at rhythmandbugs.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 22:28:42 -0500
To: <Undisclosed-Recipient:;>
Subject: Hot Steamed Jazz Festival

Hey everyone, 

 I wanted to tell you all about a great event happening in June.  It's
actually been happening for the last 14 years and I didn't even know about
it until now.  I found out about through Dan Levinson's (of Vince Giordano's
Nighthawks and 80 million other bands) concert email list.  It's called the
Hot Steamed Jazz Festival and it will be held on June 23rd, 24th, & 25th,
2006 in Essex CT.  There will 10 to 12 Hot Jazz/Classic Swing bands booked
for this weekend.  Normally the cost of the entire weekend is $70 however I
worked out a deal with one of the organizers which is if I can bring in 20
or more people to the event the price will drop down to only $50 each
person!  This is an amazing deal for the amount of high quality live music
which will be representing at this event.  I will be going regardless
however I wanted to send this opportunity out to whomever might be
interested.  Feel free to forward this invitation for a discounted rate for
the Hot Steamed Jazz Festival to anyone you like.  Obviously this email list
is going out to mostly dancers and I wanted to also let you know that the
event will be outside under a grand tent with a hard wood dance floor.

Here's the tentative lineup for the weekend thus far:

Banu Gibson – New Orleans
Vince Giordano’s Night Hawks – New York
Galvanized Jazz Band, with Jane Campedelli– Connecticut
Canal Street Hot 6 – Pennsylvania
Bob Seeley - Jazz Pianist  – Michigan
Traditional Jazz Collective – New York
Neville Dickie - Stride Pianist – England
Riverboat Ramblers – Connecticut
Dan Levinson’s Canary Cottage Dance Orchestra– New York
Jeff Hughes & Festival All Stars – Mass, CT, NY, Etc.

 This is all going to be under my name so those who are interested are going
to have to pay me so I can then pay the organizers.  This will also all have
to be in advance since this discounted rate will not be available at the
door.  I am not even going to give out my address information for this yet
until the event gets closer.  However I will say that the cutoff date to
send me a check will be Tuesday May 23rd.  As time goes by I'll keep
everyone on this list updated on whether or not we've reached the 20 person
mark.  That being said anyone who is interested in going to this event
please shoot me an email and let me know.  I'll also start working on maybe
getting a hotel discount for the group because there are a ton of hotels in
the area.  In the meantime check out the website for the event yourself at:

http://hotsteamedjazz.com/

Once again this event is about musical quality, A majority of the musicians
in these groups are ranked in
the top 20 in the Jazz Polls for their instrumentation.  Needless to say, I
can't wait! 

 Best Regards, 
Alex E. Soudah