Re: [Harp-L] Re: Spah and Jam Camp

[The Iceman <icemanle@xxxxxxx>]

Jon,


Why get smarmy over a comment that was a compliment to your endeavor? "Expensive" is not an insult. ("Expensive" is defined as "costly")


Compared to fees paid for Augusta Blues Week, SPAH, the gatherings being organized by Adam Gussow, and most other harmonica related events, your Camp is costly. I used you as an example of a harmonica event success story that was worth analyzing and a source of inspiration. 


I'm glad you think so highly of your Jam Camp and appreciate your honesty in tooting your own horn and informing us about what you offer, as well as revealing how you really feel about SPAH and me.


Hopefully your posting will generate a lot more interest in your Camp from the readers on this list.


Larry Eisenberg


ps: Jam Camp is not self-sufficient? This I didn't know. Do you apply for grants or federal aid to help out?


pps. I actually had to look up the word "churlish". It's an adj. that means acting like a surly, ill-bred person, a boor, a peasant. 





-----Original Message-----
From: jon Gindick <jongindick@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: harp-l <harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thu, Apr 21, 2011 2:36 pm
Subject: [Harp-L] Re: Spah and Jam Camp


Larry Isenberg  wrote-- Hey, it seems to me that Gindick had a good idea, as 
his events (expensive as they are) are self sufficient and he always seems 
to find new blood.

Hey Larry, Jam Camp is neither expensive or self-sufficient.

Maybe we have a great product. Any possibility of that?  Maybe I beleive in 
actually paying harp teachers well instead of asking them to work for free.
Maybe limited enrollment (25 campers for 6 or 7 coaches plus band) makes for 
a better experience than Spahs attenadnce of several hundred people?
Maybe Spah is more about good players showing off, and Jam Camp is about 
good players sharing the love and fun with all campers?
(Although  Spah has improved on that.)

Maybe the fact we don't use hotel ballrooms near highways and airports, 
rather put our event in the Heart of the Blues Country at the Shack Up Inn, 
so that people come to a place that enhances
the subject matter. Maybe the fact that we take our campers to famous juke 
joints and make sure they get to jam, or the fact that we bring in a blues 
band 4 times
for the jamming of campers, as opposed to the showing off of our coaches?

Maybe the fact we are about music, not only the harmonica , and get people 
singing, writing songs, being creative is part of our formula.

Lastly, if you think $995.00 is too expensive for 5 life changing days, with 
coaches that are absolutely the best  teachers in the business, coaches that 
are for once fairly well paid, then you need to get a life.  I understand 
about being broke, but  complaining about  people charging fairly for what 
they provide  is churlish. $995.00 for 5  amazing days days is nothing in 
this world of ours.

No one is going to hand it to you, Iceman.  You may not be able to afford 
it, but it is an incredible bargain.
It must be, or we wouldn't be looking foward to our 42nd camp this May.

Anyone interested in the best musical experience on this planet or the next 
one  should check out this You Tube video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Zt86tU-0Ag

For more info go http://www.bluesharmonicajamcamp.com

Jon