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A lot of bands wear all black.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Yiddishe Cup doesn’t do that.\u00a0 Too East Coast.<\/p>\n In Toronto I saw the Flying Bulgars<\/a> in what looked like clown suits.<\/p>\n Yiddishe Cup is somewhere between the Flying Bulgars and black.<\/p>\n We have five looks:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n 1. The tux with colorful hand-sewn lapels.\u00a0 The downside to this is everybody knows we’re shnorring<\/em> at the hors d’oeuvres table at weddings.\u00a0 All-black tuxes would make us invisible.<\/p>\n 2. Blue undertaker suit.\u00a0 Keeps the focus off us and on the bridal couple or bat mitzvah girl.<\/p>\n 3. Solid-colored shirt with colorful tie.\u00a0 This is our middle-school art teacher look. Works well at laidback bar mitzvahs.<\/p>\n 4. Hawaiian-style shirt.\u00a0 A professional costume designer made these shirts.\u00a0 They wash well and dry quickly. \u00a0A real show-biz shirt.\u00a0 When we played 13 gigs in six days in Florida, the quick-dry feature came in handy.<\/p>\n Yes, Florida in January . . . <\/strong><\/span> I wish Yiddishe Cup would land another run like that. But the mega-condo booker in Florida won’t re-book us.<\/p>\n Was it our lyrics?<\/p>\n You judge. Yiddishe Cup’s “Tumbalalaika”:<\/p>\n What can grow, grow without rain?<\/em> What can burn, burn for many years? <\/em> A comedian, Stu, was our last booker<\/strong><\/span> in Florida.\u00a0 I should have known he was bad news because his email address was Suntanstu@ and his Web site had photos of him with Engelbert Humperdinck.<\/p>\n Stu’s idea of a joke was not paying for our sound (speakers, mics) and backline (instrumental rental) after I bought airplane tickets to his showcase in Florida.<\/p>\n One final Yiddishe Cup look:<\/p>\n 5. T-shirt with the Yiddishe Cup logo. We wear these when we play summer park gigs.<\/p>\n Our singer, Irwin Weinberger, wears <\/strong><\/span>the Yiddishe Cup T-shirt around town too. The rest of us don’t wear our shirts much off stage.\u00a0 Do you see LeBron in the grocery store in a Cavs jersey?<\/p>\n At KlezKamp<\/a> I saw a Klezmer Conservatory Band<\/a> musician in a Montreal Jazz Festival T-shirt. \u00a0That was cool, synergistically speaking; KCB had played Montreal.<\/p>\n I wear T-shirts from the Concert of Colors (Detroit) and CityFolk (Dayton, Ohio).\u00a0 Yiddishe Cup played those festivals.<\/p>\n
\n“This,” says our singer, grabbing his crotch.<\/p>\n
\n“Not love,” our singer says. “Hardly. Try hemorrhoids.”<\/p>\n