Klarinet Archive - Posting 000394.txt from 2003/03

From: "Mark Charette" <charette@-----.org>
Subj: RE: [kl] Jazz
Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2003 12:21:55 -0500

Here in Detroit we have 2 jazz festivals, one of which normally attracts
well over 1 million visitors and the other maybe 20 or 30 thousand. Both
attract big-name groups - both are free.

I'd say (from being there) that the audience in both those festivals is
pretty well mixed - men, women, and ages from 0 to 100 (at least). The
number of high-caliber high school and college groups performing is amazing
(there are multiple stages, with something going on all the time) and many
of the younger performers get to work with some of the established names
during classes and meet with them personally.

Perhaps it's a "Detroit thing" ...

Mark C.

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