[Dixielandjazz] Street Gigs

[Marek Boym]

Many years ago, in Breda, the piano stage was on a street which indeed
was closed to trafic, but the street crossing it was not.  That's when
I found that motorcycles did not swing (there were no cars on that
street, either).
Cheers

On 19/06/2008, Stephen G Barbone <barbonestreet at earthlink.net> wrote:
> Hal asked about traffic passing on street gigs and posted a neat video.
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> Usually when we play street gigs, the street is closed to traffic for as
> long as we play. One exception.
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> Last year at the Old King Jazz Festival in Swedesboro NJ, I had booked our
> trio into the wine tent in a parking lot bordering Main Street which had
> been closed for the event. Other bands were playing inside restaurant
> venues. We were playing American Songbook Jazz, piano, double bass and
> clarinet. During the last hour of our gig time, we heard this roaring noise
> coming down the street and stopped playing.
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> A large street sweeper, rotating broom etc, was vacuuming up the debris in
> the street. People getting out of the way etc. He turned around and left and
> we continued. Then he came down the street again on the other side. We
> stopped playing, the piano player and I went out to confront the driver as
> did most of our audience. They chased him out of there and we finished up.
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> Just got re-booked for it this year and you can be sure I asked about street
> cleaning before the end of the festival. They town promised to keep that
> vehicle off the street until the end of the jazz programs.
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> Cheers,
> Steve Barbone
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