[Tradjazz] OKOM BARN PARTY 2007

[Don Robertson]

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
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> Howdy Folks, 
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> 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. 
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> 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). 
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> We conduct these events as an open-house for trad jazz musicians, families and friends. Everyone brings their own food and drink. 
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> We got a very big response to the exploratory message I sent quite a while ago. 
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> THE DATE IS SET FOR
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> OCTOBER 17, 2007, WEDNESDAY 
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> 12 NOON until whenever
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> We need the support of many musicians, bands and fans. 
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> 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. 
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>   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. 
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>   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 ! 
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> ** Please reply, right now, and let me know if you have any interest. 
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> ** 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).
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> 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.
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> Did you hear about the support group for boring people. It's called Al-anon, and on and on and on.
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> Please respond now, to the questions above ( ** ). Here's hoping that we can produce the BEST TRAD JAZZ PICNIC, EVER! 
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