<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Really sad to hear the Sacto Jubilee is no more - it has been a very large part of my band's history and success.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)"> The first one was 1974, four years after Natural Gas Jazz
Band was formed. This year, 2017, was the festival’s 44th year. NGJB has played in a total of 39 of them,
including a streak of 35 consecutive festivals, having missed a total of only
five. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)">
<p class="gmail-MsoNormal">Historically the event used to be a very large international
event. Thanks to the many contacts with numerous foreign bands at the festival,
the Gassers subsequently toured areas such as Kowloon, Tasmania, New Zealand,
Japan (3X), British Isles and many European and Scandinavian countries. In
1989, NGJB spent two weeks in the <span>Soviet Union</span> where
they became the first American jazz band to play in <span>Siberia</span>. This tour was initiated by the Leningrad
Dixieland Jazz Band at a previous Sacramento Jubilee.</p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormal"><span> </span>The band wishes to thank that wonderful army of Jubilee
volunteers that Bill Borcher put together for the first Jubilee – you folks
made it happen we appreciate it, and we won’t forget it.</p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormal"><span> </span>Phil Crumley,</p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormal">Leader, Natural Gas Jazz Band</p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormal"><span> </span>Is this a great list or what?</p>
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