[Dixielandjazz] Hot Jazz Jubilee and Sacramento Music Festival

[Marek Boym]

The new Hot Jazz Jubilee conceived and put on by Ken McMurry over the Labor
> Day Weekend in Sacramento was a huge success. While there were a few
> glitches, very few, for the first year it was run very well. Frankly, no
> one knew that it would be so well attended...
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> At one point, at 3:00 PM on Saturday, there were so many people that we
> couldn’t even get down the hallway. We had to go outside and around to get
> to the other end. It was impossible to find a room with 4-empty chairs. We
> finally went into the bar and had a snack.
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So there still is room for a traditional festival, after all, albeit on a
smaller scale than the Jubilees of old.

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> Now, to slightly change the subject, Charlie Hull wrote in part about the
> Sacramento Music Festival, formerly the Sacramento Jazz Jubilee and
> Sacramento Dixieland Jubilee:
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> Keep in mind that even the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival has
> mostly big name Rock and Blues bands.
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I attended the  New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival in 1980, and it was
already like that.  Only one stage devoted to traditional jazz, and even
that one did not feature "strictly jazz."  Moreover, the performances I
heard there sounded like "tourist Dixieland."  I heard the same people
playing their (the list does not allow using the term) off at Preservation
Hall on the same nights.

Cheers

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