[Dixielandjazz] Central Delaware Jazz /Blues & BBQ Festival

[Stephen G Barbone]

Dear Marek:

Must be a huge cultural gap between us if that's what you read into  
it. Killen's Pond is a beautiful state park in Delaware. The event is  
family oriented. There are all kinds of kids activities in addition to  
music. It is typical of numerous municipal cultural and entertainment  
events here in the Eastern USA. It will be a friendly, fun filled  
gathering of people and musicians

As I said , it also includes different (from OKOM) jazz genres and  
mentioned Cyrus Chestnut. If you do not know who he is, look him up  
on  google. Also, check the website for complete musical descriptions  
of other performers. (BLUES & JAZZ) Yes, Barbone Street is the only  
OKOM band at this festival. and we are quite pleased to share the  
spotlight with Cyrus Chestnut and the others.

Regarding your own personal dislike of most popular music, I can  
understand it. But I also would put forth that jazz and/or music is  
constantly changing and that denying the value of the current forms is  
a pointless exercise in "I don't  I like it therefore it sucks.".   
Made worse by the apparent fact that in this case, you have never  
heard the work of the other musicians involved.

I'm hoping the audience consists of folks just like you. Then they  
will be happy to discover OKOM and we will have succeeded once again  
in positively increasing the audience for OKOM instead of crying "woe  
is me" about a misperceived poor state of the music and its lack of  
audience.

Read the website for details: http://www.dejazzbluesfest.com

Cheers,
Steve Barbone
www.myspace.com/barbonestreetjazzband


On May 1, 2008, at 4:51 AM, Marek Boym wrote:

> The festival blurb is just the kind to scare me away - to me, it
> reads: don't get within hearing distance - you might get hurt!
> Are there any other jazz events besides Barbone Street?
>