It’s just like Reaganomics (”Voodoo Economics” George H. W. Bush, 1980), but different. So, follow me on this one. I realized the other day how my shows at KC Fringe displayed a trickling down to Jonathan Ramsey.
Missouri Valley Folklife Society sponsored a stage. For that stage, they’d arranged a band, an incarnation of Uncle Dirtytoes from Lawrence, KS. Maria, singer and fiddler for the band, was to have hand surgery, so they might have had to bow out. My friend Gordon’s band was put on standby. The crew each said that would work, and all was set. Sometime later, as the time to call up Gordon’s band came, one band mate realized he had a Belgium trip. Another had a conflict. So, they weren’t going to be able to do KC Fringe.
So, MVFS called Jonathan (uh… me). I was able to do it. I may be number three, but I’m certain MVFS may call on me again, if disaster ever strikes a couple other performers.
On with the show. I discovered that many of the fine folk who came to my Friday and Saturday evening shows in 412 Delaware Street were, in fact, there only after they had been turned away from the sold out Naughty Knickers burlesque show in 412-A Delaware Street. They got there too late for nudity and coarse social and political banter. So, they came into the next hottest venue they found, and lucked upon my coarse social and political banter. My absence of nudity must not have been too disappointing, since many signed up on my mailing list. Indeed, I must point out that these folks were not the bare skin show seekers of the River Quay run by the mafia days of the 70s and 80s. They were well dressed, literate folk who had, in fact, come for cerebral stimulation, not the other kind of stimulation found in the River Quay’s “all girl show” establishments. The area now called The River Market has, indeed, improved.
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