Interesting evening and a valuable lesson or two - 09/22/18 02:10 AM
I went to a local songwriter’s circle tonight as one of my favorite worship songwriters was one of the three songwriters. His name is Jared Anderson. His songs are sung at hundreds, maybe thousands of churches globally every weekend by thousands of people in congregations at those churches. Just at his home church, I think average weekend attendance is about 10,000. He’s signed with Integrity Music which is one of the bigger publishing companies specializing in worship music.
Including me, there were 12 people there to hear the singers; at least 5 of whom were relatives of the other 2.
Lesson 1: If you find yourself eventually being kind of a big deal, pull some others up with you when given the opportunity
Lesson 2: Always do the gig no matter how few people show up
Lesson 3: Maybe bring along lyrics of some of your older stuff. Jared forgot the lyrics to one of his songs and had to stop. Called it a day on that one and just marched ahead with a different song. But the one that stopped was a better song.
Including me, there were 12 people there to hear the singers; at least 5 of whom were relatives of the other 2.
Lesson 1: If you find yourself eventually being kind of a big deal, pull some others up with you when given the opportunity
Lesson 2: Always do the gig no matter how few people show up
Lesson 3: Maybe bring along lyrics of some of your older stuff. Jared forgot the lyrics to one of his songs and had to stop. Called it a day on that one and just marched ahead with a different song. But the one that stopped was a better song.