A band made up of sixtysomething musicians in satin shirts plays enthusiastic, off-key renditions of "Rock Around The Clock" and "September," by Earth Wind & Fire, while people pack the tiny dance floor.
The occasional music festival travels the length of the country, playing to enthusiastic audiences in smaller provincial cities such as Hai Phong or Nha Trang.
While some artists have refused even to consider coming, many prominent performers have shown up, from the Berlin Staatskapelle orchestra to the Irish pop group Westlife and the British group Five, playing to enthusiastic audiences in concerts that went off without a hitch.
The All-American league went out of business after the 1954 season, and the images of the young women in their one-piece tuniclike dresses, skirt above the knees, playing before enthusiastic crowds in cities like Fort Wayne and South Bend, Ind.; Rockford, Ill.; and Kenosha and Racine, Wis., faded.
They played to enthusiastic audiences of mainly workers and students.
Since then, they've played to enthusiastic crowds up and down the country and made their own BBC TV pilot.
The film played to enthusiastic audiences at the Sarasota Film Festival last month, has been screened on several college campuses and is set for Internet exposure and a theatrical release this year.
It has always searched restlessly for future jazz forms, and no one can accuse this year's cutting-edge contemporary jazz programming, played to enthusiastic audiences, of being an artistic sellout.
Okin recalled his teenage years spent stringing rackets for the New York Sets, who later became the New York Apples, and watching them play before enthusiastic crowds at Madison Square Garden's Felt Forum (now the WaMu Theater).
The title of Mr. Carax's film is a French expletive that is also the name of its main character, a subterranean half-human played with enthusiastic comic zeal by the director's usual lead actor, Denis Lavant.
