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Some bands play every third Saturday <\/strong><\/span>at Joe’s for decades.<\/p>\n Yiddishe Cup has ongoing gigs like that too.\u00a0 But they’re annual, not monthly.<\/p>\n We play the City of University Heights (Ohio) summer concert series every year. We played in August 2003 when the entire East and Midwest had a blackout.\u00a0 I thought the city’s administrator was joking when he said the show must go on. \u00a0I said to him, “McDonald’s is closed, there are no street lights, and the radio says stay home.”\u00a0 He said play. \u00a0Our keyboard man switched to upright bass, and our sax player went to acoustic guitar.<\/p>\n We also play regularly for<\/strong><\/span> Orange Jews<\/strong><\/span> at their summer concert series in Orange Village, Ohio.\u00a0 (Ohio’s Orange Jews are different from New Jersey’s Orange Jews:\u00a0 Orang<\/em>e in Ohio is “Or-ange.”\u00a0 In New Jersey, it’s “Are-ange.”)<\/p>\n We always do a folk festival in Lake County, Ohio.\u00a0 That’s the Little Mountain Heritage Festival, where very few landslayt <\/em>(countrymen) show up.<\/p>\n We’ve never played a gig where there wasn’t<\/strong><\/span> at least one Jew. \u00a0When we played a gig in Lancaster, Ohio, a local Jew disparaged his town, calling it “Lackluster.”\u00a0 Clevelanders often do the same thing — the we-are-not-worthy routine — when they visit larger towns, like Chicago or New York.<\/p>\n We are not worthy of your Magnificent Mile, your Wrigley Field, your jogging paths along Lake Michigan, your hour-long traffic jams, your 16-inch softballs.<\/p>\n Chicago is a cool town.<\/p>\n So is Pittsburgh, by the way. Some bands play every third Saturday at Joe’s for decades. Yiddishe Cup has ongoing gigs like that too.\u00a0 But they’re annual, not monthly. We play the City of University Heights (Ohio) summer concert series every year. We played in August 2003 when the entire East and Midwest had a blackout.\u00a0 I thought the city’s administrator […]<\/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-707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-klezmer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707","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=707"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8800,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707\/revisions\/8800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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