[Dixielandjazz] Street Gigs

[Don Robertson]

Yes, I recall one year, Vince Saunders, then leader of South Frisco, 
pausing to announce the type and vintage of the steam locomotive 
chuffing by the Riverfront Refuge.

Don Robertson

Napa, CA


EDWIN COLTRIN wrote:
> Yes Scott, Turntable Junction and the other which I can't remember, do make for interesting listenning. As a Volunteer <Constructiom< for many years, I always thought that it added a little something special during a set. 
>   With the sound of the steam , whistle, bell ringing and the audience all looking at the cars going by..
>    
>   Where else but in California
>    
>   Slainte.
>    
>   .Ye Olde Mouldy Fygge
>    
>   Ed Coltrin 
>   
> Scott Anthony <santh at comcast.net> wrote:
>   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" 
> To: 
> Cc: "Dixieland Jazz Mailing List" 
> 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 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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