Combined Age = 703

Subject: Combined Age
From: GUEST,Strad
Date: 15 Sep 07 - 10:56 AM

Playing at a dance last night I realised that the combined age of the ten people playing was seven hundred and three (703). And we were making a good sound too especially in the reels. The dancers didn't want us to stop!

Beat that!

Subject: RE: Combined Age = 703
From: Fred McCormick
Date: 16 Sep 07 - 06:55 AM

Here in Britain we have a very lively traditional jazz scene and a large proportion of the musicians are well into their late sixties and seventies. And many of those guys play like the clappers.

Come to that, the Newfoundland fiddler, Rufus Guinchard, played the Liverpool Maritime Festival once when he was aged 88. He fair blew the roof off the place.

Then again, the Mississippi blues singer, David "Honeyboy" Edwards has just been touring over here, and he'll never see 90 again. The last time I saw him though he was still a mere stripling in his early-80s. Age wise, he was pipped to the post by Homesick James, who was also on the show, and turned in some blazing bottleck guitar at 85.

Come to think of it, the classical pianist Artur Rubenstein was still tickling the ivories when he was in his mid-eighties.

Come on lads, turn your bus passes in.

Subject: RE: Combined Age = 703
From: Banjiman
Date: 16 Sep 07 - 07:14 AM

At Burneston Folk Club we have one member who still turns in a regular performance on accordian & singing at 95!

Check link below for pictures of Walter doing his thing!

Burneston Folk Club

Subject: RE: Combined Age = 703
From: GUEST,strad
Date: 16 Sep 07 - 10:55 AM

So is it the music that's keeping us young or what?

Subject: RE: Combined Age = 703
From: Fred McCormick
Date: 16 Sep 07 - 02:31 PM

Dunno, but I've just come back from listening to a 14 piece New Orleans style jazz marching band. No I didn't go all the way to New Orleans. They're local lads, based on Merseyside, England. But I reckon the combined ages of this lot would have put them back to about forty years before the Norman conquest.

Subject: RE: Combined Age = 703
From: Peace
Date: 16 Sep 07 - 06:03 PM

Amos almost has a combined age like that.