[Dixielandjazz] Sac à Pulses at Café de France

[Gluetje1 at aol.com]

>From Gary Kiser:
 
In a message dated 3/13/2012 4:30:35 A.M. Central Daylight Time,  
gary at kiser.org writes:

Now,  ready for this? The average age of the clientele was younger than me. 
There  were some old-timers, but there were a lot of 30- and 40-something 
couples  with their kids. Most of our CDs were sold to 'kids' between 25 and 
35. I'm  sure a lot of these people listen to Lady Gaga and the sort at home 
or in  their cars. But, these open minds can turn off the television and go 
have  dinner with a live trad band.
On page 8 - 9 of March 2012 The American Rag, I thought Bill Allred  
offered up a theory that may explain a lot in terms of non-young audiences in  the 
U.S.  Allred was talking about the remarkable response from the young  he 
observed on one of his European tours.  Allred says this: "But young  
audiences in Europe exercise more options.  They have their rock & roll  stations, 
but if they want to enjoy a jazz band or symphony, there is not so  much 
negative peer pressure."
 
If we in the U.S. reframed our task from persuading the young to come  to 
hear trad jazz to a task of "over-riding negative peer pressure", how might  
we do this?
 
Ginny