It’s not often in life that you get asked to grace a stage a second time in your life, but it happened for me! I would like to think that they really, truly wanted me to sing some Christmas songs for them again but I’m pretty sure they were just really desperate. ;-). Haha!
Last year I had the honour of playing for the Optimist Club Christmas event in the village. I was on the hook for a lot of work…an hour and a half worth of songs! Both in English and French…some that I had never played or heard before in my life! It was a large undertaking and I think I did pretty good.
Fast forward a year and they needed someone to play again but the gig was a bit more reasonable this time around…20-30 minutes and I would have another guitarist and drummer playing with me. Brilliant!
Considering I had a few ideas bouncing around in my head of songs to play, I quickly assembled a setlist, shared it with the guys and we had a practice the week before and it was sounding pretty good. It’s fun to play with other people who are pretty great musicians.
I have to rewind a bit and tell the story of going a bit overboard as soon as I got the gig. I was excited to give something to the kids…I decided upon little egg shakers used for percussion. On Amazon, you could get a bag of sixty. I sat and thought about it and thought “What if more than sixty kids show up?! I don’t want anyone to be upset!” I ended up ordering 120 egg shakers for the event. Vero had a good laugh at this. Turns out that 35 kids took a shaker. Ah bein.
Everything went great and it’s always a pure joy in my heart to make kids smile and laugh. In another life, I wish I was on a show like Mr. Dressup or the Friendly Giant. But this is the next best thing. I didn’t mess up too much on the french songs and I was very proud that Sierra and Ezra joined in throughout the concert.
Here is a video of the concert. Vero was nice enough to videotape it. There are sections where it’s audio only so I put in a few photos here and there. Enjoy!
