[Dixielandjazz] Where are the young people?

[Larry Walton Entertainment]

During a tour of South America we stayed at a resort in Ecuador.  The hired 
help. waiters etc., put on a show that night that just blew me away.  They 
played all the traditional instruments such as pan pipes, ocarinas and 
various string instruments.  Their performance was highly professional.

I wonder how many of us would agree to bus tables for the opportunity to 
play?

You could look at that two ways. A clever resort owner exploiting musicians 
to do double duty or that they are providing employment for talented people. 
Who knows?

This was also at almost 10,000 ft. and one thing I noticed were huge 
diaphragm movements of the flute players.  I probably couldn't have even 
blown a flute at that altitude.

I thought the Indians that were touring here were very good too.  I bought a 
couple of their CD's, so Thanks Tom.

There was an interesting thing that happened at a couple of our concerts. 
Little girls mobbed the women in the band for autographs and just to see 
them.  I guess they had never seen a woman in uniform.  The little girls 
came from girl's schools.

The sad thing was the street girls who sell candy, cigarettes and gum or 
some kind of fruit at the concerts.  There is an incredible gap between rich 
and poor there.
Larry
St.L
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dixiejazzdata" <dixiejazzdata at aol.com>
To: "Larry Walton" <larrys.bands at charter.net>
Cc: "Dixieland Jazz Mailing List" <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2011 11:06 PM
Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Where are the young people?


> Being a good personal friend of Tom Wiggins, I can  say that yes he was 
> influential in launching a very successful Peruvian band on a career 
> building
> campaign across the USA  and the band leader of that Peruvian Band 
> "Inkari" launched a franchise operation based upon the success of their 
> marketing plan from Tom Wiggins.    which netted them in excess of 
> $200,000.00 a year in income playing only in the daytime,  Just think what 
> might have happened to OKOM if more of us had even inquired about that 
> plan, paid attention to that plan and done the same with OKOM.    God 
> Forbid OKOM might be popular all over the world as well.  :))   No young 
> people do not want to hear this old timey music.  The Peruvians didn't 
> think the Americans wanted to hear them either at that time.   But they 
> were soon embraced by young and old alike.   How many OKOM bands on this 
> list are making $200,000.00 a year or more just playing music with a five 
> piece band ?    "There will always be a good market for Good Music" 
> ...Tom Wiggins  but somebody has to get off their butt and take it to 
> them.
>
> Indeed send the boys around to see if Tom Wiggins might take on OKOM too 
> :))
>
> Cheers,
>
> Bart,
>
>
>
> Pat Ladd wrote on 24/10/2011 11:04:38:
>
>> inundated by Indian flute groups from Peru and
>> Ecuador.  >.
>>
>> I dont think there can be anyone left in Peru. Those groups are all over
>
>> Europe and England. (I know that most Americans think that is the same
>> thing. It is not!)
>>
>
> I seem to remember Tom Wiggins saying he was responsible for the "Pan
> Pipe" franchise. Maybe someone should send the boys round :^)
>
> Andy Ling
>
>
>
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