[Dixielandjazz] How to succeed in killing a trad festival without really trying

[Alicia Fullbright]

Dear Judy,
 Thank you for your response. I love how Jazz is embraced in other parts of the world. I am proud that American music has a place in global culture.
 I am puzzled to one point that you made about my attire, I don't believe that we have ever met. I never referred to older men bothering me in disrespectful manner. So what does how I dress have to do with anything? Thank you for the implied compliment to my personal allure.
 
Alicia Fullbright
Pollock Pines, Ca

" The thing about performance, even if it's only illusion, is that it is a celebration of the fact that we do contain within ourselves infinite possibilities."
Sydney Smith

--- On Tue, 11/15/11, Judy Eames <jude at judyeames.co.uk> wrote:


From: Judy Eames <jude at judyeames.co.uk>
Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] How to succeed in killing a trad festival without really trying
To: "Alicia Fullbright" <alicia_f2002 at yahoo.com>
Cc: "Dixieland Jazz Mailing List" <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
Date: Tuesday, November 15, 2011, 10:07 AM



> Alicia Fulbright wrote
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>  Most people in my age demographic were never extended a welcome to OKOM even in Sacramento I have heard that we need more young people. The problem is that when we have "young people" at events the more mature people make them feel unwelcome. I rarely see the average" figger" engage these younguns in a hello there. . . .
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I may be fooling myself but I think we do extend a welcome to young people in the UK and we have a number of very good people from late teens upwards forming their own bands or joining existing ones:  Ben Cummings, Graham Hughes, Amy Roberts (now playing regularly with Chris Barber)James Evans and several others had a good traditional grounding as young members of established "OKOM" bands and even when they break new ground they have a good following from older fans at festivals etc.

Obviously, my annual visits to the US don't qualify me to judge but I haven't been aware of younger people being frozen out there .... rather the reverse; maybe clubs are a bit more died in the wool.

As for a young woman in only her fifties she'd do well to dress inconspicuously if she didn't want to attract attention from older men with (mainly) unrealistic ambitions :-)

Jude



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