[Dixielandjazz] Music For the Birds

[Stephen G Barbone]

>  "Jim Kashishian" <jim at kashprod.com> wrote
>
> Steve gave us a story of a music loving parrot.  We've experienced a  
> similar
> thing at a concert once in a park.  The audience was actually across  
> a small
> lake from the stage making it a bit difficult to get much audience  
> reaction
> (let alone getting anyone from the audience to sing along into a  
> mike!).
> However, a family of swans, upon hearing our heavenly strains (?)
> immediately swam into formation facing the bandstand and didn't move  
> until
> the concert was over!!!

Yeah Jim:

Do Birds Like Music?

Check out  this dancing/singing Cockatoo grooving to the Back Street  
Boys:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7IZmRnAo6s&NR=1

In two weeks we'll be playing in Sanatoga Park, next to a lake  
inhabited by a flock of Canada Geese who no longer migrate and stay  
there all year long.

Every year so far, they have left the lake and come up onto the nearby  
grass to snack and get a closer look at the band.

Steve Barbone
www.myspace.com/barbonestreetjazzband