[Dixielandjazz] Playing for free

[Marek Boym]

Hello Carol,
In New Orleans they pass the hat when playing on the street.  I was
there last in 1980, but my friend - and an excellent soprano and tenor
sax player Jacques Sany (who will  be featured at a Sidney Bechet
Sociey concert in November, for the second time) - was there, joined
the street players (and did not participated in the division of money,
though offered his share) has told me tah some of the street players
were excellent.  He was particularly impressed with a lady clarinet
player, whose name he could not remember.
Keep playing.
cheers,
Marek

On 10/08/07, JDut953944 at aol.com <JDut953944 at aol.com> wrote:
>
> I will always be playing somewhere as often as I can, and if it is free on a
> street corner, so what.  Since playing on the corner first Friday of every
> month for the last three months, and with two more to go, as part of an art
> series, we have had interest shown in our music.  We have flyers and cards
> to hand out.  Watching the people and their expressions is really
> interesting.  Maybe we will get some paying gigs, and maybe not.  What would
> New Orleans be like without street musicians?  I don't know what is
> happening there now, but Before Katrina I had been there four times, and
> that was the part that really delighted me.  It never even occurred to me
> that they weren't making much money at it.  It's just something that I don't
> think about since I don't have to support myself doing it.  I have a day
> job!
>
> Thanks for writing!
>
> Carol
>
>
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