Band versus weather, 2023: 7-2
Jul. 14th, 2023 03:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jennlk(one of the three gigs last week was an indoor gig, so doesn't go on the summer record.)
Monday was FCB outreach. Concert went well, appreciative audience; many on their own balconies or even inside with open patio doors. It was a bit warm, but it wasn't humid, so it was pretty OK. The extra chair and stand I carry came in handy - the extra euph player that DC recruited didn't bring theirs....
Tuesday was LCCB in Howell. There was some concern that we wouldn't actually play, but the storms went through earlier in the afternoon, and had cleared the area by 5:30. There were some ominous clouds, and a few people got a few drops of rain on them, but it did not actually rain. There were a lot of people at the concert -- DM got to 100 and stopped counting.... That concert also went pretty well, by LCCB standards. I flailed a bit more at the marches than I usually do, but I blame that on tired music brain. (The TSax parts in marches are much different than BSax parts, and I'm still wrapping my brain around that.)
Thursday I worked a funeral meal at a church not my own. Which is both easier and harder than working SEMGS wakes, because I wasn't 'in charge'. (I used to be, until the chair of the memorial committee decided that I was cherry-picking because I declined hosting a funeral meal that she didn't want to host because "I work full-time". And what part of "I'm going to be out of town for a week without phone or email until the day before" makes you think that I can do it?) With bonus song leading, because Pastor saw me and said "Make sure you have all the music, I need strong singers." No Amazing Grace, thank Ghu. (He Leadeth Me, In the Garden, Hymn of Promise; and a bonus three-fold Amen at the end. A Capella, because the piano player didn't have music.) DS and I led the songs from the back of the congregation, because there was no way I was going to stand in front and lead unless specifically asked to do so. Strong voices from the back is just fine for a funeral. (DS is one of the other songleaders at church; the funeral was for the eldest child of the third.)
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Monday was FCB outreach. Concert went well, appreciative audience; many on their own balconies or even inside with open patio doors. It was a bit warm, but it wasn't humid, so it was pretty OK. The extra chair and stand I carry came in handy - the extra euph player that DC recruited didn't bring theirs....
Tuesday was LCCB in Howell. There was some concern that we wouldn't actually play, but the storms went through earlier in the afternoon, and had cleared the area by 5:30. There were some ominous clouds, and a few people got a few drops of rain on them, but it did not actually rain. There were a lot of people at the concert -- DM got to 100 and stopped counting.... That concert also went pretty well, by LCCB standards. I flailed a bit more at the marches than I usually do, but I blame that on tired music brain. (The TSax parts in marches are much different than BSax parts, and I'm still wrapping my brain around that.)
Thursday I worked a funeral meal at a church not my own. Which is both easier and harder than working SEMGS wakes, because I wasn't 'in charge'. (I used to be, until the chair of the memorial committee decided that I was cherry-picking because I declined hosting a funeral meal that she didn't want to host because "I work full-time". And what part of "I'm going to be out of town for a week without phone or email until the day before" makes you think that I can do it?) With bonus song leading, because Pastor saw me and said "Make sure you have all the music, I need strong singers." No Amazing Grace, thank Ghu. (He Leadeth Me, In the Garden, Hymn of Promise; and a bonus three-fold Amen at the end. A Capella, because the piano player didn't have music.) DS and I led the songs from the back of the congregation, because there was no way I was going to stand in front and lead unless specifically asked to do so. Strong voices from the back is just fine for a funeral. (DS is one of the other songleaders at church; the funeral was for the eldest child of the third.)
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