[Dixielandjazz] Street Gigs

[Scott Anthony]

At least 2 venues in Old Town Sacramento at the Jubiliee are right next to 
the station where tour trains headed by steam and diesel locomotives arrive 
and depart. Between those venues is a pedestrian crossing and the 
locomotives are required to sound their horns and whistles, both coming and 
going. There is no way to avoid having a steam locomotive interrupt a tune 
with whistles and hissing steam, possiblly a number of times during a set. 
There is also the paddle-wheeler, and don't forget the Freeway Gardens venue 
which is directly beneath the 12 lanes of Interstate 5.

We just shrug our shoulders and grin and bear it. I personally can't imagine 
complaining about it or about traffic noise playing on a street for that 
matter. I mean, please, a street is a street, and it usually has traffic. We 
just play around whatever noise there might be.

Scott Anthony

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Marek Boym" <marekboym at gmail.com>
To: <santh at comcast.net>
Cc: "Dixieland Jazz Mailing List" <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2008 3:17 PM
Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Street Gigs


> 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.
>>
>> Usually when we play street gigs, the street is closed to traffic for as
>> long as we play. One exception.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Steve Barbone
>>
>> www.barbonestreet.com
>> www.myspace.com/barbonestreetjazzband
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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