The performances and personalized songs have made the shop more of a multimedia scene, which is exactly what Quint and Petroff intended.īut hip musical connections and the occasional visit from an imaginary Frank Morelli aren’t the only ways that Juilliard has helped with the business. Cutlet’s “Big Gay Ice Cream Truck,” which with their thousands of hits have given Big Gay and their musician friends a healthy amount of publicity.
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Videos from these events are posted on YouTube, alongside music videos of Jane Wiedlin’s “Big Gay Ice Cream Song” and D.J. ’04, flute) and the self-described “post post-feminist feminist all-female horn experience” Genghis Barbie (whose members include French horn alumnae Danielle Kuhlmann and Alana Vegter and also Leelanee Sterrett, who is in the Academy, the joint Carnegie Hall-Juilliard teaching program). On occasion, the shop has morphed into a performance space, with performances by musicians like Andrea Fisher (B.M. And then they filed into the brightly colored space for treats like the Choinkwich (bacon marmalade and chocolate soft-serve sandwiched between two chocolate cookies) and the Salty Pimp (vanilla soft-serve sprinkled with salt and covered in dulce de leche and chocolate sauce). Cutlet on MIDI timpani and a benediction by celebrity chef and author Anthony Bourdain. In September, the team opened the Big Gay Ice Cream Shop in the East Village with a bang: crowds lined up and witnessed a performance of Also Sprach Zarathustra by a contrabassoon octet with pop sensation D.J. But for the winter months, Quint got back in musical shape and continued his bassoon career.įast-forward to the summer of 2011, when business boomed “right from the get-go,” Quint said, and it was clear the team needed a brick-and-mortar space with a real kitchen in which to experiment-and practice (just as Morelli’s spirit had advised).
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Factor in a spot on The Village Voice’s list of best street food and two Vendy (best street vendor) Award nominations, and the venture’s success was promising enough to drive the first-time business owners to plan for a second year using more conventional business strategies. They named it the Big Gay Ice Cream Truck and soon gained something of a cult following, with upward of 1,000 Twitter followers (this number has since grown to more than 30,000) and a write-up in The New York Times Dining section. That summer, Quint and his partner, Bryan Petroff, adopted a beat-up old Mister Softee truck and began dishing out soft-serve with unusual toppings, like crushed wasabi peas, olive oil, and toasted curried coconut. Luke’s, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, and a number of ensembles in Boston. at the CUNY Graduate Center and freelancing with the Orchestra of St.
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“I thought, ‘I just want to do something weird for the summer after finishing my comprehensives and practice-but not have to worry about going to festivals or making money,’” said Quint, who at the time had been working toward a D.M.A. In the spring of 2009, Quint said , he noticed a friend’s Facebook post seeking summer ice-cream truck drivers.