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Thanks for visiting!
 The
Potomac River Jazz Club is a nonprofit society whose purpose is to preserve, encourage and promote the playing and appreciation of traditional jazz.
On our Web site you’ll find information about trad jazz happenings
in the Washington-Baltimore area, about our organization, about our affiliated jazz bands, about
jazz history, and about many other items of interest to jazz fans. And be sure to check out what
PRJC is doing to encourage young musicians to play traditional jazz with
the Capital Focus Youth Jazz Band.
Please look around the site, and if you want to make a comment or a suggestion, ask a question
or just say “Hi,” please send us an e-mail.
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Upcoming Jazz Events
Mark Your Calendar:
On February 28, the PRJC will be celebrating Mardi Gras with the
Jefferson Street Strutters - don't forget your mask!
For details, see: “Upcoming Jazz Events”.
From the Board of PRJC: Happy 2010!
We hope to see you at some of the local hot jazz event happening in the New Year.
Attached is a copy of our January Tailgate.
Looking for
something else? PRJC’s “All That Jazz This Month”
is a comprehensive listing of live traditional jazz and ragtime music
happenings in the Washington-Baltimore metropolitan area.
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Are you going to the New Orleans French Quarter Festival in April 2010?
PRJC member Rachel E. reserves a block of rooms
for PRJC memebrs who wish to stay at the same location. See contact info under "Festival Info" at: “All that Jazz” or email: Rachel.
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The 2010 New Orleans Traditional Jazz Camp
The NO Trad Jazz Camp runs August 1-6, 2010, and PRJC musician, David Sager, (Trombone) is one of the camp's faculty members. The Jazz Camp was stared with the goals to: teach and perpetuate the musical style of early jazz music as it originated in New Orleans; create a yearly musical event in New Orleans that will raise the level of musicianship and knowledge of early jazz; expose traditional jazz to a larger audience; and to attract musicians from around the world to NOLA to learn traditional jazz.
For more information visit their website at http://www.neworleanstradjazzcamp.com/.
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Back to the Fut...er, uh...BLOB'S PARK!
From the October 2009 Tailgate Ramblings
Read up on the occasion of the annual picnic's return to Blob's Park and the bands that helped make it a celebration to remember!
Read the article.
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PRJC is on Facebook
Visit and join our Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=98892562844.
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Wolverines Romp at Rosensteel!
From the April 2009 Tailgate Ramblings
Read up on one PRJC member's account of the Wolverines Jazz Band's performance
in March at Rosensteel.
Read the article.
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Buck Creek Farewell Cruise
In addition to an appreciation by Don Farwell, past president of PRJC and former editor of "Tailgate Ramblings", we have added a few photos from Buck Creek's
farewell cruise on the Tailgate Ramblings
Page.
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Blob’s Park Gets a Make-over and Still going Strong After 70 Years...
Blob’s Park, the German beer garden in Jessup, MD, has re-opened
and will once again be the location of the 2009 PRJC Jazz Picnic in September.
Max Eggerel is using $250,000 to rehab the main building (kitchen, restrooms and bar) and celebrated a reopening welcoming in the New Year.
Blob’s Park’s new website can be found at http://blobspark.net with photos of the current renovation.
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2008 & 2007 PRJC Picnics BOTH Available on DVD
If you missed
the 2008 PRJC Picnic or are nostalgic for the 2007 PRJC Picnic at Blob’s Park, or if you particularly enjoyed these two great events, you will want to order a three-DVD set of the picnic music produced by Ron Israel, a professional videographer and longtime jazz fan.
Both sets contain the full performances of all picnic bands (2008 Bands: Big Bertha’s Rhythm Kings, Hal’s Bayou Jazz Band, and Bob Thulman's Special Jazz Band. 2007 Bands: Fallstaff 5 +2, Federal Jazz Commission, Big Bertha’s Rhythm Kings, Hal’s Bayou Jazz Band, WCM Traditional Jazz Band and Jim Ritter’s New liberation Jazz Band).
These DVDs are bound to become collector’s items, and are wonderful not only for the great music, but also as great gift ideas for all your jazz-loving friends.
The DVD set is only $15 (plus $3 postage and handling). If sufficient copies are sold, PRJC will receive a portion of each sale.
To order, make out a check for $18 for each set, payable to “Behind the Scenes,” and mail to Ron at 7918 31st Street, Baltimore, MD 21237. For more information contact Ron at
potchki@verizon.net or 410-866-6951.
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E-Mail Service With Jazz News of Interest
The
Potomac River Jazz Club offers an e-mail information service. The Club will e-mail
a periodic
“Hot Jazz Flashes” containing
information we think may be of immediate interest to members We don’t plan to send Flashes
about events that have been advertised well in advance, but will do so if
there are changes to the information.
If you would like to be added to our e-mail list, send an e-mail to
prjcweb@prjc.org,
put “PRJC Hot Jazz Flashes” in the subject line and the word “subscribe” in the text.
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Advertise in the Tailgate Ramblings
You can place
a jazz-related advertisement in the PRJC’s 12-page newsletter and pay for it online using your credit
card and the PayPal system. “Tailgate Ramblings” is read by more than 800 PRJC members in the
Washington-Baltimore area when it is delivered to their homes every month.
Get details.
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you need to change your e-mail or street address? Send PRJC email with your former street address or e-mail address and new street address. |
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| To receive a free sample copy of "Tailgate Ramblings"
send an e-mail to PRJC
with "Sample Newsletter"
as the subject line and include your name and address in the text. |
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All That Jazz
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