[Dixielandjazz] Attracting The Young Kids

[Ric Giorgi]

I have to agree with Jim Kashishian on this one. People like to
discover new (to them) things, music being no exception. I stray
into doing turn-of-the-century (19th), Gordon Lightfoot, Thelonius
Monk, Celtic, original and others' music.

The audience reaction is always favourable and we sometimes get
comments like 'what a great song, why haven't I heard it before?'
from both younger and older audience members.

Ric Giorgi

Ricardo Giorgi
Rainbow Gardens Music
Toronto ON
rgmusic at sympatico.ca

-----Original Message-----
From: dixielandjazz-bounces at ml.islandnet.com
[mailto:dixielandjazz-bounces at ml.islandnet.com] On Behalf Of Jim
Kashishian
Sent: May 13, 2008 4:47 AM
To: Ric Giorgi
Cc: Dixieland Jazz Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Attracting The Young Kids

 

>The discussion here on DJML often is "Attracting the young crowd to
OKOM.
>Sure, we can play the beatles.  remember the Beattles music is 43
years
old.

Someone earlier said "It's The Way In How You Do It".  We attract a
young 18
to 90 yr old crowd (heavy mix on the 18 to 30 yrs!)and don't
particularly
look for "new" songs, although we have a number of them.  However,
we play
with great fervor (as they say).  If the complete club is on their
feet at
the end of a song, you know they liked it!!  They don't have to know
the
song, just enjoy what they heard.

Jim



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