[Dixielandjazz] Sweet & Hot bites the dust

[Stephen G Barbone]

> "Janie McCue Lynch" <janie39 at socal.rr.com>
>
> No, Norman, you weren't the only one...I just saw this depressing  
> news this AM.   Michael's "Awful Sad" says so much....losing both  
> the Orange County Festival and now the Sweet'n'Hot is leaving a  
> huge, huge void in So Cal.  Financially understandable, but  
> musically just so "awful sad."
>
> Janie
> janie39 at socal.rr.com

Pity that the festival scene is slowly dying in the USA. But then, so  
is the market price for jazz and jazz bands. Next to go will be the  
OKOM jazz cruises.

Demographics rule.

Cheers,
Steve Barbone
www.myspace.com/barbonestreetjazzband