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

[Marek Boym]

That's the spirit!
Cheers


On 7 July 2013 01:02, Gary Lawrence Murphy <garym at teledyn.com> wrote:

> "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!
>
> https://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=10151559029843722
>
> 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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