Entertainment in hotels and clubs has died off in recent years but Dexter (Fudge) Flood has come up with an idea he thinks can help get musicians excited about playing.The drummer is proposing a free, open-air concert to get once popular local musicians back on stage.“My aim is to ask for a consensus for what I would like to call a local musicians’ summer gig, a three-hour hit and the location I feel should be somewhere like Clearwater Beach,” said Mr Flood.“That would be an opportunity for guys who don’t play or rehearse all the time with a regular group to look forward to that three-hour hit.”Mr Flood, 56, has touted the idea with a couple of former musicians but is hoping to get the word out that he wants to be involved in a free concert. He recalls his first exposure to live music in the early 1970s when he took an interest in drumming.“My parents sent me away to school in the late 1960s and I was banging on trash cans prior to that,” he recalled. “When I came back for the summers one of the first bands I ever got a chance to sit in on was the Imperial Ts I’m talking early 70s. From that one gig alone my drumming bug was confirmed.”Many of the Island’s veteran musicians have quietly gone into retirement and many establishments that once catered to live music are now closed.“I don’t know who to ask or who would be interested, I just want to be able to bring back something for Bermuda’s musicians. The music I would want to present would involve stuff from Earth, Wind and Fire, Four Tops, James Brown and Roberta Flack, [music] that the younger folks probably wouldn’t be interested in. This will be for an older crowd, a three-hour solid hit with one or two intermissions. That’s one of my ultimate goals before I close my eyes, to organise, see and participate in this event coming off, even if it is only done once.“My drums haven’t seen daylight since Winston DeGraff died in 2003; so it has been seven or eight years since my last gig.“This is something I hope the musicians would do from the heart because I’m certainly in no position to pay them. I’m keeping my fingers crossed we call pull it off.”Anyone interested can contact Mr Flood on 292-5606 or 334-7380 or by e-mail, chinanae@northrock.bm.