The Cellar

[cweeds]

Hello everyone. I wanted to put something out there for people to respond to. The Cellar has now been around for over nine months. Quite frankly it has been the weekends that has kept the club alive. Unfortunately so much great music is missed during the week. Does anyone have any suggestions on what would bring people out on Tuesday's, Wednesday's and Thursday's. The Mike Allen Trio tears it up, Brad Turner smokes and various bands have torn it up on Thursday's but not a lot of people have enjoyed it. I've tried offering cheap beer, no cover if eating etc and it hasn't seemed to work. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

[Justin Marks]

I used to go see Brad every week at the MOJO room when it was still open, but haven't gone to see him yet during his wednesday spot at the cellar. For me, its a problem of transportation. I live in white rock, and the 351 bus doesn't run very late and i am forced to drive to the cellar (or anywhere to see music) eveytime i go. For a high school student (and with gas prices the way they are) this is very expensive. Now i know that you probably aren't trying to target high school students to come to the cellar either cause it certainly isn't a large interest group (aside from my friends), but that is why i don't go to the cellar as much as i'd like to. But we do come to the cellar whenever we can (ie metalwood, seamus blake, mike allen) as we love jazz and try to encourage our friends to go as well.

By the way Cory, I met your uncle on a flight home from Cuba in april. I was there with my high school jazz band and he was coming back on the same flight as us, and he mentioned that his nephew had a jazz club in vancouver. After finding out that it was the cellar, we had much to talk about! So he wanted me to mention it to you if i got the chance. Later!

[eac]

Cory,
Maybe instead of having the same groups play on particular nights, change it up a little. I know these guys are smoking, and all that, but variety is the spice of life, or so they say. Or maybe start doing like Jazz Alley in Seattle and bring in the odd big name act and have them play for a week.