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Originally Posted by Dr Winston O Boogie jr
Live music in the squares was one of the big reasons that I moved here as well.
It is so disappointing to see so many disc jockeys and people singing to pre recorded tracks. I hardly ever go to the squares anymore. What a waste. They might as well just stick a drum machine on the gazebo and let the people line dance because that pretty much all it is anyway.
Occasionally, they have a decent live band, but I've seen most of them. They're great, but how many times are you going to see Rocky and the Rollers.
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There is still enormous value in the nightly live music at the three town squares, regardless of the recorded tracks some of the
live singers sing with.
The live music and dancing in the squares is a reminder every day that there IS a community with three "downtowns" left in the USA that actually has thriving and wanted retail businesses that are actually OPEN after 5pm!
Even more important is that the music and dancing is a reminder that we have a
safe place to go out in every night of the year.
We and most people have not had a thriving,
safe downtown to which we would go, in decades. Even the malls are unsafe, especially in parking lots.....and who wants to go to the mall and watch roaming packs of kids in their dark, angry look and scary dress intimidating the average decent person there, and shoplifting??
The squares here provide vitality and safety that few or no other communities are willing to cultivate.