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Here are<\/span><\/strong> some gigs Yiddishe Cup, back in the day, almost played: The Shrine to American Music, Vermillion, North Dakota All of them were close calls. Maybe we came in second. Second is a bear. For example, 30 clarinetists audition for the Kansas City Symphony and 29 clarinetists add “finalist” to their resumes.<\/p>\n Yidd Cup<\/strong><\/span> played Texas three times, Florida four times, and Missouri nine times. We’ve played abroad twice: <\/span>New York City and Windsor, Ontario. The NYC gig was at the Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts, and the Canada gig was the Windsor JCC.<\/p>\n Chanukah in <\/em>Jackson Hole<\/em>, <\/em>WY<\/em>. <\/span>That was the subject line of an email I got. A Chabad rabbi in Wyoming asked Yiddishe Cup about doing a three-day Chanukah bash at three ski hotels. I immediately called the rabbi, gave him a price, and he seemed OK with it. I told the Yiddishe Cup musicians the Wyoming gig was 49 percent likely.<\/p>\n Yidd Cup’s singer said, “Forty-nine percent? That means you think it’s not going to happen.” (49% is where optimism meets realism.)<\/p>\n We didn’t<\/strong><\/span> get the gig. We didn’t get any of the gigs, but it was fun thinking about them. That Australia gig, in particular, was a cool gig. Here are some gigs Yiddishe Cup, back in the day, almost played: The Shrine to American Music, Vermillion, North Dakota New York Mills (Minn.) Regional Cultural Center Southern Cross International Music Festival, Brisbane, Australia Austin (Tex.) JCC Israel Independence Day celebration Klezmer Festival, Fuerth, Germany Jewish Music Festival, Jackson Hole, Wyoming All of them were […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-klezmer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27198"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27215,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27198\/revisions\/27215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nNew York Mills (Minn.) Regional Cultural Center
\nSouthern Cross International Music Festival, Brisbane, Australia
\nAustin (Tex.) JCC Israel Independence Day celebration
\nKlezmer Festival, Fuerth, Germany
\nJewish Music Festival, Jackson Hole, Wyoming<\/p>\n
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