[Dixielandjazz] Naw Kids don't like Jazz

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He folks:

Here is a link to several youtube videos by this young 8 year old lad in Germany who has fallen head over heals in love with New Orleans and it's music.

Nancy Giffin turned me on to him last week and I have been chatting with him and his mum on facebook,

I think he has tremendous natural talent and he needs all the encouragement he can get,  I predict we will hear a lot about his boy just like we have about Trombone Shorty who started out about the same time frame.     There is another video of him playing with Trombone Shorty in New Orleans back in April.

Noteable that Trombone Shorty would invite him up to play with him and proving once again that Young impressionable musicians do not forget how they got a chance.  Great to see Shorty giving back with all the success he is enjoying.  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nM9iS7BAs8A

Hi names is Thomas Wiggins,  and he is already calling me Uncle Tom :))

I hope many of you will befriend him and encourage him on fb and invite him up to play with you when and if you can.

you can find him on facebook:  Baiba Wiggins

I have already introduced him to Tyree Glenn Jr. who lives in Germany who will connect with him.

He played Solo for an hour & 20 minutes on the corner in New Orleans back in April and got $170.00 in his trombone case.

He then sat in with a Street band on Jackson Square for 2.5 hours  and they only got enough to split with each player  getting $17.00    Little Thomas
did not take any of their money  and said he was just happy to play with them, and he understood they needed it for a living.    Kid has Class too.

I just heard form his mum that he got a call for his first gig in Germany tonight,  $80.00  for about 45 minutes.


This is What Jazz for Kids can and will do.    Take it to them they WILL embrace it.

My band played for  the Graduation Ceremony for a local Boys elementary school Wed. morning  and what a great response to the music and the band, they had never seen or heard anything about Second Line or New Orleans jazz before.   Have already been invited by three other schools to come perform at their schools.    Here we are building a future audience for OKOM  about 300 kids at a time,  Bigger audiences than some of the Trad Jazz Society events I have attended, and damned sure more embracing and enthusiastic.   

Enjoy

Old Uncle Tom Wiggins
& The Saint Gabriel's Gang