Re: [microsound] On canadians performing in the USA...

[Neil Wiernik <neil@xxxxxxxxxx>]

thats an old antiquated union rule 99 percent of all musicans unless they
are session or jazz or some thing along thoughs lines dont belong to the
union...

On Sun, 31 Jul 2005, Jonathan Hughes wrote:
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> I believe the Canadians are just as strict, if not more, than the
> americans when it comes to musicians performing and "stealing jobs."
> I don't know if it's still in effect, but it used to be that if a
> canadian club hired an american band, they also had to pay a canadian
> band for the gig (and the canadian band could just stay home). This
> may have jut been a union rule, and not a law, but when my uncle's
> dixieland band would play gigs in canada, they knew that a canadian
> band was getting payed to sit at home.
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