[Dixielandjazz] Eighth Street Orchestra kicks off the 2013 Lupercalia Festival

[Gary Lawrence Murphy]

I use the free software Audacity to quickly divide our recordings into mp3s
so the kids can listen to what they sound like, keep copies on their
portable players or trade with friends -- all this material is beyond
copyright in Canada so it is easy to share, and chopping it up makes it
much more likely to be heard

if she does divide it up, we'd love to hear it!

it may be my imagination, but I think I am seeing a renaissance in interest
in big band and dixieland (and jug band) music among the teens today,
there's something about this music that speaks to them, or at least it does
once they get beyond thinking of it as 'old' music. it may even be just as
it was for the original players, that they were just sick and tired of
dreary sweeping music coming out of the pop circuits and looking for a bit
of pep and excitement.

we're still looking for someone who can show us how to dance the Shimmy ;)

On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 4:18 PM, Marek Boym <marekboym at gmail.com> wrote:

> It's lovely, Larry!
> A friend of mine participated in the December 2012 Jazz FEstival at Sea.
> She recorded all the shows, including the Capitol Focus Jazz Band.  An
> excellent US youth band.  Ages as in your Eighth Street Orchestra and
> younger.  I am in the process of listening to it all right now - not
> easy, as Donna did nto divide it into reasonable tracks.  Now I am
> still on track 1 of once CD she's burnt, 2:11 hours, and it's still
> not nearly finished.  In my car CD player, the couter goes to 59:59",
> and stops.  Music goes on as long as I am driving, but then starts
> again at the 59:59" mark.
> Cheers (after half a bottle of the Gamla Merlot - a Ramat Hagolan wine
> - I don't believe I'm going to drink more tonight).
>
> On 18 February 2013 22:24, Gary Lawrence Murphy <garym at teledyn.com> wrote:
> > Should anyone be curious what sort of jazz you can get from 13-14 year
> old
> > bandsmen, here's a clip hot off my youtubes of my Eighth Street Orchestra
> > getting the party started at the Night Market segment of Owen Sound's
> > annual Lupercalia Winter Multi-Arts Festival -- we maybe weren't
> main-stage
> > at the gala premier over at the Roxy Theatre, but for the home-grown
> > atmosphere of folks and kids and crafts and food out at the old Farmers
> > Market building on a Saturday early evening, we were spot on for getting
> > the whole event underway in a hot jazz style.
> >
> > We also hadn't played together since New Years Eve, so it was kind of
> like
> > trying to restrain the mounted horses in their stalls at a Derby and keep
> > them under control until the starting gates open on a cut-time count :)
> >
> > hope you enjoy it, and no, I don't guarantee any of my stage pratter to
> be
> > any more particularly historically accurate than our renditions, but we
> do
> > have a fun time doing it
> >
> > http://youtu.be/ecezVZmV8bo
> >
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