[Dixielandjazz] A Great Dixieland Band -

[Stephen G Barbone]

This is a DIXIELAND band that not only draws large audiences but gets  
them to pay top dollar. $40 per person admission for the below  
concert. Gee, where did the rest of us go wrong? <grin>

Cheers,
Steve Barbone
www.myspace.com/barbonestreetjazzband

Hall of Fame band to play at Backus
Border Concert Association presents the Barbary Coast Dixieland Band  
“Not just anther band, but a complete stage show” describes each  
performance by the Barbary Coast Dixieland Band, according to Allied  
Concert Services.

The band will appear at Backus Auditorium on Thursday, April 24 at  
7:30 p.m. under the auspices of the Border Concert Series.“Not only is  
the music performed by this sextet sensational, but as the area’s  
finest entertainers, they punctuate each performance with whim, wit  
and zany comedy, good vocals, and a variety of special novelty numbers  
which add seasoning to each well-blended concert,” says Allied.

Since 1967, the Barbary Coast Dixieland Band has set thousands of toes  
tapping at major right clubs, the Minnesota State Fair, The Ordway  
Theater as well as over the airways of WCCO Radio, not to mention over  
50 performances at concert associations throughout the middle of the  
United States.

Scores of group meetings, conventions and trade show have enjoyed the  
exciting performances of the Barbary Coast Dixieland Band. National  
and international tours have taken their jazz message far and wide  
from a Mississippi paddle wheel river boat, to tours in Florida and  
Arizona, to performances in Nagasaki, Japan.

Members of the band include leader Dick Peterson on banjo and guitar;  
Dick Ramberg on clarinet and piano; Jim ten Bensel on trombone; Tom  
Andrews on drums; Steve Pikal on bass and trombone; and Russ Peterson  
on all the other instruments. Recently elected to the Minnesota Hall  
of Fame, the Barbary Coast Dixieland Band’s performances are “truly  
and enjoyable experience,” said Paul Folin of Allied.

Only a few bands survive the many and various threats and obstacles to  
become an established regional institution, but the Barbary Coast  
Dixieland Band has survived not only as a first-rate band but has  
matured into a production company representing several of the most  
talented traditional jazz musicians in the upper Midwest, reports Folin.

A word about their name. In spite of all its adventurous implications,  
the band has no geographical connection to San Francisco’s Barbary  
Coast, the former haven of pirates and other colorful characters who  
frequented that notorious entertainment area. Instead, the band traces  
it origin to an island near the south shore of the Mississippi River,  
where it flows from west to east past downtown St. Paul.
For those who have not already purchased a season membership, the cost  
of a ticket at the door of this final concert of the season is $40 for  
adults, $20 for students and $85 for a family.

Supper will be offered once again, preceding the concert in the Backus  
Community Center Reception Room. The cost is $5 per meal and it will  
be available from 4:30 to 7 p.m.