We have our first date set for October 2 for the family band. My son and I played at a senior center once for his piano teacher, but this is our first time on our own. It's a simple and free program with my 6-year-old daughter and my 10-year-old song, but it's a start! It's the moment we go from saying it's something we'd like to do some day to really doing it, and I'm excited!

The first of it's kind but certainly not the last...The Performer's Circle livestream begins tomorrow at 10am EST. Who has questions? Who has concerns? How can we encourage and motivate each other to bring more music to senior communities and make our elders happy with music?!? See you there👍

So some good news today first call and I booked my first gig in about 2 weeks time going to call a couple more places in morning.

I have an Android Phone (but I'm sure this works the same way with the Siri feature on iPhones) I have made my list of Senior Communities to dial. I dread each dial because cold calling is WAYYYYYY out of my comfort zone BUT one little trick that is helping me is that I have set up "Google Assistant" on my Android phone. (Newer models have Gemini as the Assistant feature) I can simply be hands free and say "Hey Google - Dial 615-300-2751" and it says "Sure - Dialing 615-300-2751". The point is that it's so much easier, faster and 100% accurate when I'm staring at an intimidating list of numbers to dial. The process has removed some of my apprehension and made the deed less painful. Just thought I'd share...