After many years touring in the US, playing traditional jazz festivals, cruises and what have you, there’s an unavoidable truth that we’ll have to address sooner or later. One that may affect the future of our community: our audiences are old. This in itself is not a bad thing of course, but with no systemic changes in place, it’s a possibility that in a number of years we trad musicians will have no audience to play for. And so the question that often gets passed around at these festivals:
Our audience is ageing. How do we get young people to come to our event?
