{"id":28370,"date":"2024-11-26T12:35:03","date_gmt":"2024-11-26T17:35:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/?p=28370"},"modified":"2025-01-09T09:28:12","modified_gmt":"2025-01-09T14:28:12","slug":"thanksgiving-gig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/26\/thanksgiving-gig\/","title":{"rendered":"THANKSGIVING GIG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>The mother<\/strong> <span style=\"color: #000000;\">of the bride<\/span><\/span> thought Thanksgiving Day would be a great time for a wedding because nobody would come. The groom&#8217;s side was from New York. Flights to Cleveland would be expensive. And many Cleveland guests would skip the wedding to eat Thanksgiving dinner at home with their kids. The cost-conscious mom was cutting serious corners.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-32582\" src=\"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/t-day-wedding2212-216x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"216\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/t-day-wedding2212-216x300.jpg 216w, https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/t-day-wedding2212.jpg 431w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 216px) 100vw, 216px\" \/>Yiddishe Cup musicians rescheduled their personal Thanksgiving dinners to play the gig. Not an easy task, but doable. Then the mom called me again and said the bride wanted a different band. What? Who? I usually ask who the other band is, but I was so mad &#8212; mostly at myself because I had forgotten rule #1 in the wedding-band biz: it&#8217;s all about the bride. The bride, not the mom, picks the band.<\/p>\n<p>I got a call from a bat mitzvah mom. She was a talker, just like the very frugal wedding mom. The bat mitzvah gig was going to be for TG weekend but not on TG itself. I didn&#8217;t pitch the mom too hard. I wasn&#8217;t crazy about playing on TG weekend. I said, &#8220;Yiddishe Cup has been around for decades. You&#8217;ve seen us. Everybody has seen us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She hired us. Then she canned us. She said her husband was sick. So what? Yiddishe Cup has played for sick people &#8212; even dead people; we once played a luncheon where the mom of the bat mitzvah had died the day before. We played in the family room instead of at the party center.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>The bat<\/strong><\/span> mitzvah mom &#8212; the one who wanted us for TG weekend &#8212; said her husband had become depressed. The husband, a doctor, had lost a patient that week. Doctors lose patients all the time, right? The mom wanted to change the bat mitzvah date and the number of musicians. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Forget it.<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>What else can I say?<\/p>\n<p>Happy Thanksgiving.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The mother of the bride thought Thanksgiving Day would be a great time for a wedding because nobody would come. The groom&#8217;s side was from New York. Flights to Cleveland would be expensive. 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