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Hi all, the activities person sent me her bar night spotify playlist for musicians looking for more upbeat and potentially more recent songs. Note this is probably mainly 70s age group, independent living along to semi-dependent living, and who would go to their retirement village bar, maybe dance (or chair dance), sing and spend an evening socialising. Here is her list: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1MDXzSOkVVv2lO2LJ99no4?si=R5uYA6VeQs-2UJ2V4JM-gA

So next week I have my first ever gigs coming up and I have been working on some songs and I thought I would go along to an open mic to try them out, when I got there apart from the host there was only me playing to 4 customers. The host asked me to play more I did about 35 minutes to in the end 1 customer and the bar man. anyone else played to such a large crowd😄

A resident requested a song, Here Comes the Sun, and I was excited because I knew it well and I played it and made him happy. Then, another resident requested a song. Again, I was excited because I knew it sorta well and played it and made him happy..Good right? Well..... Pretty soon , EVERYBODY started shouting out songs for me to play and the although I KINDA knew SOME of the requests, my show became a chaos of songs that I knew but I didn't know THAT well and instead of sticking with my prepared song list I got carried away trying to make everyone happy. Don't get carried away trying to please everyone and doing their requests. Stick to the songs that you know well and do the show the way you prepared. Sometimes we can do requests but it's better for you and your audience if you either set aside maybe 10 minutes at the end of the show to do requests OR say "I love that song but let me learn to play it well for you during my next visit". You can't please everyone all the time. Just do you best and be respectful and maybe add some new songs to your setlist for the next show!

Here’s a postcard I put together and have handed out a few in person with great results, 2 gigs ($150 @) and one 20-minute demo! I’m going to tweak it next printing by replacing “facility” with “community.” I wasn’t sure about the free demo part, but for now I have the time to do it.