[Dixielandjazz] chris Barber

[Gerard Bielderman]

Chris Barber was born on April 17, 1930, so he's 83 now.
Gerard Bielderman

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From: Pat Ladd
Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2013 12:09 PM
To: Gerard Bielderman
Cc: Dixieland Jazz Mailing List
Subject: [Dixielandjazz] chris Barber

Saw  the Chris Barber Band on Saturday night.

A ten piece is not the sort of set up with which we usually associate 
Chris
but it was a great sound. The musicianship was first class, including our
own Bert Braadsma  virtuoso performance of Wildcat Blues.

A great night to which unfortunately only a couple of hundred turned up. 
The
venue suffers from the advertising point of view as it is just in the next
county and the newspaper coverage stop at the border. Consequently  I was
able to tell a few friends about the concert and they all turned up but I 
am
sure others would have attended had they known about it.
Its a pity as this particular theatre, an ex cinema, puts on some good 
stuff
but they are a couple of miles inside  Somerset while I am about eight 
miles
inside Wiltshire. I hear about bookings because | am on the mailing list .

Chris Barber is 84, a couple of months older than me and the energy he 
puts
into every show is incredible. I am glad I don`t have to work that hard. 
Not
content with playing a full set Chris was in the foyer, selling CDs and
pressing the flesh in before the show, during the interval and afterwards.
Long may he continue. Barber and Acker Bilk are the only band leaders left
from the glory days of the Great Jazz Revival. Acker has been very ill and
blows very gently these days, and not too often. He is still a character 
on
stage though. Only Chris still working full time.

Pat
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