[Dixielandjazz] Flirting With The Audience, now "museum music"

[Gary Lawrence Murphy]

"Get people dance on the street, and they will come for more" -- this could
be our motto! :) Fair is fair, street-level playing wouldn't work for every
band, and frankly we wouldn't know what to do with a fancy ballroom, but
takin' it to the streets is what we like to do, and so we can do that
outreach to ignite the youth and a new audience.  We maybe weren't the most
famous performers (even thought we have a street named after us ;), we've
never even been photographed by the paper or mentioned more than in passing
on event PSAs on the radio, we've won no awards and we sure weren't even
the loudest stage sound today, and we didn't get put on the big stage with
the soundman and PA gear, just us on the bare pavement steps of the town
hall, but I'll tell you this: walking up and down the fair afterward, I
shook a lot of grateful hands!

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On Sat, Jul 6, 2013 at 5:28 PM, Marek Boym <marekboym at gmail.com> wrote:

> Actually, Jim Cullum's exposure is only to already trad audience.  After
> all, the band is not on the radio everybody listens to on the way from
> work!  I guess that even our Jazz 88 has less exposure now that it is at
> 8PM than when it was broadcast an hour earlier, at a rush hour.
> I know Europe is not the US, but people are people.  Here, some joints do
> not pay the musicians so that they must depend on the good will of the
> audience, but at least they get exposure.  I wonder how many US bands try
> to play where young people are.  I know Steve BArbone does, as do Tom
> Wiggins and Ed Polcer (the latter, I understand, does not mind busking).
> Get people dance on the street, and they will come for more, even if they
> have to pay entrance fees.  But you cannot depend on the media - they don't
> know better!  If you want young audience, you have to reach out.  The young
> people may not become staunch traddies like some of us (yours truly
> included, but excluding many listmates who enthuse about Coltrane and his
> ilk), but they will include Dixieland in their frame of reference.
> Some may become trad fans.  I have mentioned listening to The Hot REvival
> Band on its home ground, an Enkhuizen (the Netherlans) bar.  The young
> audience knew all the tunes!  And it was not so long ago - in 2004 OKOM
> musicians in the States were already bemoaning  dwindling audiences.
> Cheers
>
>
>
> On 6 July 2013 23:01, Robert Ringwald <rsr at ringwald.com> wrote:
>
> > Jim Kash wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > Bob wrote:
> >
> > >Yup, that is the way it is. We are now playing museum music.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Jim answered:
> >
> > Gee, I hate to always be painting this brighter picture, but we have 16
> >
> > nights this month in a downtown Madrid club.  Kids from all over the
> world
> >
> > walk in off of the pedestrian only street & enjoy all our music.  Ended
> up
> >
> > last nite with What a Wonderful World with everyone joining in on at
> least
> >
> > the end of each phrase.
> >
> > Make it happy & vibrant and everyone will enjoy!  It's the way in how you
> >
> > play it....
> >
> > Jim, in Madrid
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Oops there Jim, now you are starting to sound like a former member of
> DJML.
> >
> >
> >
> > Must I remind you that you are not in the United States? There is no way
> > in any town in the U.S. where a Dixieland type band can work 16 nights in
> > one month. Maybe NY or New Orleans, but that is it.
> >
> >
> >
> > Jim, come over here and try it in SF, LA, Chicago, St Louis,
> Philadelphia,
> > Seattle, Miami, or where ever.
> >
> >
> >
> > I don’t know of any club in NY where one band is playing 16 nights in one
> > month.
> >
> >
> >
> > Not even Jim Cullum now with his world wide radio exposure.
> >
> >
> >
> > As I said, that’s progress…
> >
> >
> >
> > -Bob Ringwald
> >
> >
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