Saturday 15 June 2013

house concert

So I went to a friend's house concert where several seasoned and amazing musicians played a few songs each.  There was some really incredible talent in that room.  Effortless, beautiful talent.  Especially Jory Nash who totally amazed me on a bunch of different levels. Amazing.  And Jess McAvoy blew everyone's heads off. She was so powerful, so brilliant.

At the end, the hostess opened the floor and, much to my own surprise, I played a song. I messed up and I was a nervous wreck but I did it. I was shaking and playing too fast and too sloppy (it didn't help that I was playing on a horrible sounding uke) and at one point I even stopped and asked the crowd to stop clapping along!  ha!  But I DID IT!  I did it.

Now I am trying to beat down the demons in my head telling me how horrible I was and that anyone who said I did well was just being nice to the pathetic girl who followed all that great stuff.  Trying.  Trying.  It's not easy.

I don't think I'll sleep tonight.

This is what I played for the people (only not as well):


4 comments:

  1. Ha! I love the wink at the end. And your voice. In my experience when people are clapping along it means they're enjoying the music. I don't think they were mercy clapping heh. Good work honey!

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    1. Thank you, Lolliejean! I have to say, I think the people were totally grooving on it. I got so excited to hear them digging it that it threw me off! ha!

      THANK YOU!

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  2. Congrats on spontaneously getting up there! Honestly, sometimes messing up adds more charm to a performance. Especially if you weren't planning on performing in the first place! Great song choice. Perfect for your voice and your style. I loved how you looked around at the one line. Heehee. :-)

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    1. Thanks so much, Kristina! Someone at the concert said that my mistakes were charming (because I made a joke about them! haha) so I'll go with that.

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