Here is one of my first functional live performances in quite a while, but my voice is still not quite 100%....I have a bandanna wrapped around my hand from accidentally cutting myself with a knife at the food tent. There is a train horn in the background...and though it was somewhat disturbing I was able to play through it because I live near a major train line and am very used to train horns...no nobody mention how difficult it would be for them to perform against a train horn....
I got a pretty good audience response, but afterwards I heard an older lady remark to her friend that I seemed "a little slow" after she talked to me..
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzZ9nhsLHLE[/youtube]
This is what I did over the weekend. We go to this outdoor festival called the Woodzie every year...and sometimes i perform on the main stage..
Every year I have some sort of freak-out...the one this year was not too significant...and happened early in the morning and not in front of anybody......Last year, when asked to play on the main stage, I felt like I was being rushed, and could only make it through one song, and then totally melted down afterwards...
Every year, I play ukulele with the main proprietor's dad, and I usually have a chat with his sister about her kids, at least one of whom has a PDD. I was shy this year and we didn't talk. I did see one of her kids and he seemed to be flourishing,..he seemed cheerful and talkative...the other one, I couldn't quite recognize...
Anyway..there are more videos from my woodzie trip on my you tube page if anyone is curious...