Well, the gig was last evening.

The setting was a family reunion with a bunch of siblings who have always sung together for fun. With all the deaths in the family in the last two years, somebody observed that we've all reached the age where you never know which reunion with have an empty chair.

So, just once for the sake of memories, we booked a gig to sing together in public.

I spent the past few months preparing songs thinking it would be a real live performance. Unfortunately, the siblings were not prepared, and our practices sounded so bad I seriously considered cancelling the gig.

At the last minute we switched to a 70's karaoke audience participation sing along, and it went over VERY well. We went back to the same coffeehouse the next evening and people were still talking about the karaoke act

But I learned some things along the way:

1)the best way to pack my gear,

2) which endings worked and which were overkill

3) and perhaps most important was to discover the songs that were well-received when I sang them (NOT the songs I expected)

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/ey71h8ep047758h/AAC12jNM0Hz9Q8zsh5iDeqNHa?dl=0