Posted on 08/06/2011 4:47:25 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen
Barring the sudden ability to fold the country in half, the famed Newport Jazz Festival in Connecticut has always been out of reach for most West Coast jazz fans. Now, in a move that cries out for a return of a "Carmageddon"-like case of cabin fever, NPR Music will offer free streaming audio of all the happenings through its website or smart phone app beginning at 11 a.m. PST Saturday. (To whet your appetite, the station has already uploaded audio from last year's festival, including Ken Vandermark, Gretchen Parlato and Julian Lage.)
(Excerpt) Read more at latimesblogs.latimes.com ...
Watch out for the flash mob from the Amish youth!!!
Did CT annex Newport, RI?
The idiots at the LA Times sure live up to high standards. Who knew Newport was in Connecticut?
Your tax dollars at work.
A polite request to jazz fans. Pay for your own streams.
Our tax dollars at work. Anybody care to wager weather there are enough jazz fans to do a pay-per-view on this. Yet no one will try this when NPR is willing to do this for FREE! Free preempts any commercialization just like government preempts anything else in the society.
This is the LA paper, they have a very vague idea of the East coast.
Thanks.
“Did CT annex Newport, RI?”
Ohhhhhhhhhh...you wanted to see the Newport RI Festival?
Sorry, this is NPR. This is the CT version.
We can’t afford RI.
We only took in eleventy trillion last year from Sesame Street.
Newport moved to Connecticut => now we’re up to fifty-eight states...
Can start cutting tomorrow by eliminating the NPR?
That's the real American classical music.
Don’t forget Anita O’Day’s “Tea for Two” and “Sweet Georgia Brown” in a later year.
Oh no! We don't want to do that!! We'd be deprived of cultural enrichment and revert to Republicans.
Well, maybe it's inevitable that we set them afloat, but before we do, let's get them to host a few telethons on behalf of the national debt.
Imagine what it would sound like:
"So we appeal to our listening community, please, think of all that the government brings you: clean air, health-care, retirement checks, food stamps, civil rights, a level playing field for all! Insured by our professional staff of administrators, judges and representatives-- finest money can buy. And no commercials! Well, not to many I mean, and each and every one is good taste...
Now we're about to end this segment of our appeal in order to, as promised, air "The Dream Marches On" a very moving documentary recalling President Obama's arduous road to the White House, which includes highlights from some of the 'Resonant One's' favorite speeches...
But before we leave the air, please, go to your phone now, and make that pledge! Show your commitment, show your discernment and high-mindedness on matters of culture and justice.! Make a difference! BE COUNTED and join us! Again, the number is ...."
Those were the good old days.
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