Oh No, Another NOLA - Paulie's New Orleans Jazz n' Blues Festival, B.A. Event Promotions, B.A. Event Promotions

Yes Wusta, another NOLA has come and gone. Whew!

First off. Had a lot of activity on Wonderland this past weekend by two of Wusta’s least upstanding citizens - Paul W. Collyer and Harry Tembenis, spent the weekend checking Wonderland, T&G and WOMAG, scouring the blogs for derogatory comments wasting a perfectly good Friday night (when they should be partying) and a good chunk of Saturday morning (when they should be recovering). Um... didn't see Bill Randell popping in. Maybe his iPad is broke. 

Did see the T&G stuff. Cute. Nice pic of the crowd – escaped nursing home patients. Even ole Harry "coulda sworn I was anonymous when I post on WOMAG" Tembeni [sic] got his pic in the T&G. Is that costume considered drag? Wonder what he'd look like with a lampshade stuck on his head?

In any case Paulie Collyer. Call Paulie at 617-625-2140.must be relieved and disappointed that the WOMAG or T&G articles didn’t get any comments, or show up in the T&G's comment, email or read rankings. Seems the DiAngelo Bros. at the Hanover garners more local attention, and they haven't played together in 40 years and still drawing crowds. And NOLA?

Not surprisingly NOLA didn't make the WOMAG Weekly Events-Editors list. Remember folks, if ya don't buy an ad in WOMAG, ya don't make the list. Money talks.

Saw nothing on the blogs. Bill Randell - nada, and he’s Paulie’s biggest fan. Even local nutjob Rosalie Tirella failed to mention NOLA. Um... considering all the BS she wrote a couple months ago praising Paulie and NOLA. But even InCity Times has rules - no money, no plug. It'd be a waste of money anyway. No one reads ICT. I proved it.

Thinking here, maybe if NOLA was advertised locally, say in the T&G, or on WTAG or WCRN, or even InCity Times (with its handful of followers), the locals would take notice. Might get a real attendance boost if Mr. Wusta himself, Jordan Levy, endorsed it. Or Mr. Downtown himself, Hank whats-his-name, or that Jim guy. But they appeal to the wrong demographics - locals. Ya know, who cares what kinda folks show up, if they got money in their pockets, as a businessman, its his job to separate it from them.

And finally the cat is out of the bag - the top secret attendance numbers. Somehow they don’t add up. I think in WOMAG he claimed 1,100 attendees last year. Can’t imagine some 366.7 fat bodies a day with their festival chairs squeezed into a parking lot 40,000 SF, of which ½ is staging and amenities. But hey if the city issued a permit, so its gotta be right. What happens when those 2,000 folks show up next year?

According to the T&G, the crowd was mostly out-of-towners, from Boston and points East. Sadly not a whole lot of locals. No surprise there - want locals, advertise locally. Or maybe it’s that infamous Wusta apathy. Lots of that going around, like some 2 decades now. Or maybe its cause the locals ain’t never heard of the Village of Piedmont; the lifers are having a hard time finding the place. Maybe there’s a message in all that.

Um… maybe NOLA should find a new, more NOLA friendly, home. Like Sommerville.

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