ACCORDING TO THE TALMUD

At about one-third of my gigs, the client forgets her checkbook. These clients are all wound up in the simcha (wedding or bar mitzvah) and don’t have “paying the band” on their minds. According to the Talmud, day-laborers are supposed to get paid the same day they work. Doesn’t always work that way.

I pay the band anyhow. Like clockwork, twice a month.

Money and music go together, particularly with a bunch of middle-aged musicians. If you have kids, you don’t have the luxury of starving to death. Nobody in Yiddishe Cup is a doctor. Everybody thinks a klez band is full of dilettante musicians who are doctors and lawyers. Not true.

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