[Dixielandjazz] Sad News

[Paul Edgerton]

Bart, I appoint you my new champion! (And next time, tell us what you
*really* think.)

-- Paul Edgerton, who has gratefully appeared at JITO several times


On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 10:12 PM, Dixiejazzdata <dixiejazzdata at aol.com> wrote:
> And of course the  mouldy figs would not even consider turning it over
>  to a younger promoter like the Swing dancers who would go find a new suitable venue,
> and gee only 7 bands instead of ten for the same money certainly can't have that kind of
> thing we gotta support them musicians and preserve Traditional Jazz.
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> Better to just cancel it forever and let 'em starve to death.  That's really preserving Traditional Jazz folks,
>  get a clue if you are too old to fight the fight with respect for the years you have put in,  pass the torch to someone who will.
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> The damned Masonic Temple would certainly have better acoustics than a cracker box red Lion hotel
> multi purpose room.   Masonic Temples were actually built with acoustics in mind, not one Red Lion Hotel ever has been or ever will be.
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>  The so called lovers of Traditional Jazz Music, but Amateur promoters have been in charge for far too many years which is what has been killing
> Traditional Jazz.  Ya gotta change with the times folks it ain't 1935 anymore and you ain't in Kansas,  adjust to the times and economy and keep going.
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> You can't run festivals with 1935 mentality anymore, and survive.
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> just my .02 cents worth  But where the hell are the Musicians who play it in this process,
>  were they offered a chance to continue it Hell no, but if they had been they might have taken it over and turned it into
> a much better paid gig for the musicians that are trying to be preserved.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephen G Barbone <barbonestreet at earthlink.net>
> To: B.B. Buffington <dixiejazzdata at aol.com>
> Cc: Dixieland Jazz Mailing List <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
> Sent: Sun, Dec 19, 2010 5:15 pm
> Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Sad News
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> Dixieland silenced: Jazz in the Olympics festival canceled -- for good
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> PORT ANGELES -- The Jazz in the Olympics festival is no more.
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> Festival Director Gary Sorenson announced Friday that the Jazz in the
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> Olympics Society will not hold the event featuring Dixieland and swing
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> jazz this spring, or ever again.
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> Sorenson said that the organization canceled its scheduled April 1-3
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> dates because it will not be able to use the Red Lion Hotel as one of
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> its venues as it had planned.
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> And since the event will not be held in 2011, the organization won't
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> try it again in 2012, he said.
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> "You can't jump-start a festival," said Sorenson, 75, of Sequim.
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> "It's tough to get people back."
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> The festival -- which drew an estimated attendance of between 2,200
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> and 2,500 earlier this year -- started as an annual event in 1999.
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> The loss of the Red Lion conference rooms, which Sorenson attributed
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> to upcoming renovations, was a deal breaker because the festival could
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> offer only seven bands, instead of the 10 it has been advertising
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> "across the nation," the director said.
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> Reimbursements will be made.
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> The festival had planned to also use the Vern Burton Community Center,
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> Port Angeles council chambers and the Elks Lodge.
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> Sorenson said Masonic Temple is the only other building that is big
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> enough with a stage and dance floor.
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> It won't be used because of poor acoustics, he said.
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> Sorenson also said that venues in Sequim -- where the event was
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> initially held until 2000 -- will not be used because it would create
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> too large of a distance between locations.
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> "You can't make people drive between Port Angeles and Sequim," he
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> said. "That will not work."
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> The festival ran into trouble last year when the Port Angeles Regional
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> Chamber of Commerce decided to no longer run it on the Jazz in the
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> Olympics Society's behalf.
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> The chamber had run it for the preceding three years.
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> Reporter Tom Callis can be reached at 360-417-3532 or at tom.callis at peninsuladailynews.com
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