{"id":26111,"date":"2018-12-26T08:00:19","date_gmt":"2018-12-26T13:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/?p=26111"},"modified":"2018-12-19T09:59:38","modified_gmt":"2018-12-19T14:59:38","slug":"what-are-you-eating-for-new-years-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/26\/what-are-you-eating-for-new-years-2\/","title":{"rendered":"WHAT ARE YOU EATING FOR NEW YEAR’S?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Not all <\/strong>musicians<\/span> <\/span>have gigs on New Year’s Eve. A lot of would-be partygoers stay home for a quiet evening, or\u00a0go to the movies. There aren’t that many gigs. The era of the New Year’s Eve fraternal organization\u00a0dinner dance is long gone.<\/p>\n

Sometimes people eat special foods on New Year’s Eve.\u00a0I know a family that eats lobster. My family often ate oatmeal on New Year’s Eve. We picked up that habit in Akron, Ohio. Yiddishe Cup had a gig at First Night Akron for 22 years, and in the early years my family stayed overnight at the Quaker Square hotel, which was in a remodeled\u00a0Quaker Oats grain silo.\u00a0 The hotel served oatmeal at midnight.<\/p>\n

Yiddishe Cup missed 2009 in Akron. The event coordinator called and said, “We’re reducing our footprint.”<\/p>\n

We aren’t playing this year either. The event reduced its footprint again — to zero. First Night Akron is history. I might go to Peru for New Year’s.<\/p>\n

Klezmer musicians<\/strong><\/span> lamented the downsizing of First Nights and various other venues. This kvetching started about 2008. First Nights had been the rage in the 1990s but were no big deal in the 2000s. In the 1990s, the director of First Night Akron told me she had just been to a national First Night conference in Boston and the word was out: “Get a klezmer band.”<\/p>\n

Yiddishe Cup worked the boonies before playing First Night Akron. First, we played Warren, Ohio, First Night a couple times.<\/p>\n

First Night Akron usually consisted of a Beatles tribute band, a blues band, fireworks, a couple generic American acts, and us. It was a good time and good run.\u00a0Thanks, Akron.<\/p>\n

\"YCKB

YCKB 1998<\/p><\/div>\n

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