my first "mini-gig"

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I despise parties. They've never been good for me and I usually avoid them like the plague, although I've grown enough to know that others need them.

Yesterday was our office party, very small gathering. A mention was made that there wasn't any Christmas music in the room. Having made this Christmas a cd of the stories I wrote about Burnnaice the feisty church bulletin editor who has gotten the tenor recorder this year to save her sanity.........I had put my recorder, a few books, and folding music stand in the back seat of the car, just in case.

Soooooooo............when I heard this about the music, I ran out to the car, brought in my music stuff, set it up, took a deep breath.....and played....mistakes and all.

I also told them "This works better when you all talk while I play so it covers up my mistakes."

I ended up doing "background music".

Golly it was fun! Makes me want to practice more and work on that memorizing.

Ritagail in OK

congratulations! i remember playing a christmas party with a cool jazz quartet.. one of my first performances, with mistakes keep it up! very few things in life compare with performing music in my opinion.. & great for confidence.
fudo

congrats! better than my first gig -- at an old folks home...I couldn't tell if it was me putting them to sleep or if they were just dying... either way, I chose not to quit my day job lol

keep playing.

Hey that's a great idea! I didn't think of nursing homes, etc. I wonder if some of our homebound folks would like to hear a little John Denver, maybe some oldies.

Maybe something for me to work towards, sharing the joy.