[Dixielandjazz] report

[Marek Boym]

Well done, Pat.
Did you get a group discount?
Yes, Chris Barber has the knack for it.  As to his announcements being
inaudible - I don't know.  I could hear him very well back in 1991 in
Breda, and again about a decade later in Caesarea, but it might have been
the amplification.
Cheers

On 22 June 2015 at 17:30, Patrick Ladd <patrickjladd at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
> just general interest. I organised a group of 23 to attend  a Chris Barber
> concert on Saturday. How many more can there be? He is the same age as me.
> Chris is amazing. Mingled with the audience in  the foyer during the
> interval, stood throughout almost the entire concert. I could not even
> stand for that long let alone blow as well.
> What a band! This is now of course the BIG CHRIS BARBER BAND with 10
> players which allows some lovely arrangements. 3 woodwinds using all 3 as
> clarinets or mixing all the saxes. Including of course our own Bert
> Brandsma blowing up a storm. 3 Horns with some nice arrangements. Chris
> appreciates that some of the stuff is now beyond him and has one of the
> trumpeters doubling trombone  sometimes. Chris is still moving and singing
> with a solid beat and his voice is still pretty accurate. His announcements
> are as inaudible as ever. I don`t think I have understood a word he says
> since 1970.
> Exchanged a few words with Bert but he was busy selling CD`s.
> The event was not improved by the organisers, the Wiltshire Music Centre,
> laying on a school rock band at full throttle while the audience was
> assembling and trying to get a drink. As it was almost impossible to make
> oneself heard across the bar above the rock band, this was an uphill
> struggle. Still, it was a warm summers evening and most of the crowd
> escaped to the comparative quiet of the grounds. A lot of old stagers in
> the audience who . like me, still think of Barber from the days of Otillie
> Patterson, and Lonnie Donegan. Of  all the bands which Chris has put
> together over the years he says that the present one is the one he is
> enjoying most. The crowd certainly thought so.
>
> Cheers
>
> Pat
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