Reply To: Get Whiney and Bitch About Stuff!
@Kate, perhaps the comments seem gloomy because the commenters can’t help but assume that the die is cast, and that the performers have already made up their minds to skip their locales. What’s more, when a performer does skip a city, it’s often a long time before he or she returns to the region and has another chance to play there.
I’ve managed to persuade a few performers who were passing by Laramie (you could see from their schedules that they were driving through) to stop and play. We had a great concert from Small Potatoes recently, and a few years back we got Dar Williams to stop and play for us during a cross-country trip. But the odds are against getting a performer to stop, because they usually have every day planned.
I certainly hope to bribe Marian into playing in Laramie the next time she drives down I-70 or I-80. The last time she came through Wyoming, on her 50 state tour in 2010, she did a quick show in a little comic shop in Cheyenne so that she could check our state off her list. Didn’t even hear about it until it was over. We in Laramie would have loved to have her play — on campus, on the state’s public radio station, and at a local coffeehouse. We’ll make it well worth her while to come, but it could easily be another year before she’s back this way.