[Tradjazz] OKOM BARN PARTY 2007

[Bruce McNichols]

Hi Don,

Sorry to hear that you can't make the picnic.  As for the "stale"
announcements, thanks for your understanding.

The Smith Street library concert is from a few years ago.

McN

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Don Robertson" <jdrobertson at att.net>
To: <tradjazz at list.okom.com>
Sent: Friday, September 07, 2007 12:08 PM
Subject: Re: [Tradjazz] OKOM BARN PARTY 2007


> Sounds great, wish I could be there.
>
> I'm one of the guys commenting (not necessarily complaining) about the
"untimelyness" of the OKOM broadcasts.  Thanks Bruce for the
> explanation.  It seems that if I DON'T hear a year mentioned it IS
probably newer than 2005.  In any case, the content is great no matter when
the session was generated.
>
> Lately I've heard a couple of live sessions by Smith Street at a public
library.  Are these fairly new?
>
> Don Robertson
> Napa, CA
>
> Bruce McNichols wrote:
> > OKOM BARN PARTY 2007
> >
> > Howdy Folks,
> >
> > As some of you know, Bill Taggart (OKOM's founder, and funder) has
hosted many Trad Jazz Picnics over the past 8 or 10 years. These events are
an outgrowth of the old Smith Street Society Picnics which were held in the
1960's.
> >
> > The OKOM Picnics are held at Bill's 110 acre Fred's Farm in rural Sussex
County, New Jersey. Bill has retro-fitted a huge barn into a performing and
recording space (complete with bandstand).
> >
> > We conduct these events as an open-house for trad jazz musicians,
families and friends. Everyone brings their own food and drink.
> >
> > We got a very big response to the exploratory message I sent quite a
while ago.
> >
> >
> > THE DATE IS SET FOR
> >
> > OCTOBER 17, 2007, WEDNESDAY
> >
> > 12 NOON until whenever
> >
> >
> > We need the support of many musicians, bands and fans.
> >
> > We prefer set bands to participate but ALL ARE WELCOME. We will schedule
bands for specific times. We'll also schedule times for open jam sessions.
> >
> >   In the past, there have been some picnics were many fine players never
got to perform. That was always because we didn't know in advance, exactly
who would be there.
> >   A problem with us working musicians is that most of us are not willing
to commit to a social event, knowing that we might get a gig.  Again, that's
what's behind the perplexing task of trying to work out an equitable
schedule, so that everyone gets to perform.
> > As the de facto coordinator of these events, I seek your help.  I need
to get a general idea of who is interested and of how many guests you may
have with you. We understand that we cannot expect you to make a solid
commitment, but if we get a good number of players who will at least say
they want to attend and will endeavor to do so, then we'll have something to
go on.
> >
> >   Newspaper Item:
> >   The local police reported that burglars broke into the station house
and stole all the fixtures from the rest rooms. The police have nothing to
go on.
> > H E L P !
> >
> > ** Please reply, right now, and let me know if you have any interest.
> >
> > ** Please let me know if you'd like to bring your own band (even though
you don't know yet if you'll be able to).
> >
> > OUR EVENTS TYPICALLY START AT NOON, and go until at least 6 or 7PM. If
there are still people and players there, we keep going and keep going.
> >
> > Did you hear about the support group for boring people. It's called
Al-anon, and on and on and on.
> >
> > Please respond now, to the questions above ( ** ). Here's hoping that we
can produce the BEST TRAD JAZZ PICNIC, EVER!
> >
> > McN
> >
> >
> >
> >
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