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I’ve sent out two versions of Yiddishe Cup<\/strong><\/span> on a single night.\u00a0 Not often.\u00a0 It’s hardly worth the logistical contortions: Yiddishe Cup does mitosis.\u00a0 I name the groups the A Band and the B Band.<\/p>\n Probably should go with the red unit and blue unit, like Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey does, so there are no bruised egos.\u00a0 I’m fortunate, I \u00a0always wind up in the A band.<\/p>\n I tell my customers up front what the story is.\u00a0 I say, “We’re \u00a0booked but if you really want us I might be able to pull it off.”\u00a0 \u00a0Then I try to steer them to another band, but if they keep insisting, I’ll do the B Band routine.<\/p>\n I didn’t try the A and \u00a0B band maneuver<\/strong><\/span> until I was 15 years into the biz and had a full stable of subs who knew the Yiddishe Cup Method.<\/p>\n Repeat:\u00a0 Don’t play the A\/B game without being very experienced and upfront.\u00a0 If you’re a liar, you’ll encounter what the New York boys call a “screamer” gig.\u00a0 That’s when the mom is screaming, “Where’s your bandleader?\u00a0 I didn’t hire this band!”<\/p>\n When we do A\/B gigs, “Stratton” is at both gigs.\u00a0 The B Band is led by Alice Stratton, my wife, an expert dance leader.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’ve sent out two versions of Yiddishe Cup on a single night.\u00a0 Not often.\u00a0 It’s hardly worth the logistical contortions: Yiddishe Cup does mitosis.\u00a0 I name the groups the A Band and the B Band. Probably should go with the red unit and blue unit, like Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey does, so there […]<\/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-343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-klezmer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18349,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions\/18349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}