Re: gigs gigs gigs

[Trudi Goodman <goobietheg...>]

  Ari:
  If there isn't a gig board for New England and Boston...maybe performers 
like myself in Boston should put one together.
   Trudi the G

>From: Ari Davidow <ari (at) ivritype(dot)com>
>Reply-To: jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org
>To: World music from a Jewish slant <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
>Subject: gigs gigs gigs
>Date: Tue, 04 Jul 2000 19:12:34 +0100
>
>About once a month I get an e-mail from someone trying to find contacts, 
>either in the Boston area where I live, or elsewhere, so as to get some 
>gigs to finance a tour. It is, indeed, a vital area of supporting the 
>people who make the music that I love so that they can afford to make the 
>much.
>
>I haven't a clue as to how to help them. Is there an online resource of 
>clubs that are hospitable to wandering performers of various types of 
>Jewish music, be it traditional or ranging to the avant garde? Is there a 
>better answer than to suggest that the artists contact everyone in the 
>cities they wish to visit, whose e-mail addresses they can glean from the 
>klezmershack directories?
>
>Ideas? Things of which I should have been aware prior to asking the 
>question?
>
>ari
>
>P.S. The immediate cause of this e-mail is the suggestion that the 
>brilliant Argentian Klezmer/Jazz duo, "Klezmer en Buenos Aires" who were 
>just at the Jewish Music Festival in London, thence at the Knitting Factory 
>in New York, should do some serious touring in this hemisphere.
>
>
>
>
>Ari Davidow
>ari (at) ivritype(dot)com
>list owner, jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org
>the klezmer shack: http://www.klezmershack.com/
>
>

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