lesson number thirteen.

so, i decided that i'm going to go back and re-look at all of the shows/performances that i've had thus far...

i want to find a lesson from each performance...but for now i'm just going to start with tonight.




so, i performed tonight before stephanie pilypaitis...at a martini bar here in town called myth. it's this adorable place (kinda reminds me of minneapolis) and we had a fairly packed house tonight. the fun thing about it was that we didn't know a whole lot of the people, so some new people got to hear us sing.
well, anyway...i did about an hour set in the beginning...kinda played my best songs. and i just had a great time! i was super relaxed, and just loved it.

while we were setting up, a few people asked why i had my computer with me. (i always perform with my lyrics and set list on my computer) my explanation was that i like to be organized...and save set lists so that i can reference them later.

well, about an hour and fifteen minutes into stephanie's set, a woman approached her and asked if she knew how to play norah jones' "come away with me". stephanie didn't know the song, and so looked at me and i said i would see what i could do. so, i looked up the chords, and decided i would be able to play it. i then found out it was the woman and her husband's anniversary...so i decided to tell them there was room for them to dance up in front. (there really wasn't...but i thought it would be cute) so anyways, i went back up, they came up and danced, and i played the song. it was seriously magical. there were about fifty people in the bar and at that moment, it seemed like it was just me and them. they kept saying, 'oh my gosh, you're so good'...'you're better than norah jones' and all sorts of other things...people were even taking pictures of them dancing and me singing.

after it all, i sat back down, and the woman came up to me and gave me a tip...it was the perfect ending to my playing the evening.





so lesson number 13: having your computer with you to look up music can end up making someone's anniversary...so always use it for performances...



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