Gigging...

I had a gig today!! It was sooooo nice to get to play in a string quartet...it's been WAAAAY too long.

The gig was a fantastic idea too...

It was a Royal King and Queen Etiquette Ball...or something like that.

The local Home-Schooling super-group came up with an idea to teach all their kids good manners and dancing techniques. The kids were 14-18 years old. Apparently it was a multi-day experience for them. They learned how to speak, eat, treat ladies and gentlemen, etc. Then the night of the big event, they dressed in their very best finery, adorned themselves with crowns and tiaras, and the young men escorted the ladies to their seats, ate a lovely 3 course meal which was served by the kids fathers, and then danced.

The dinner was amazing (they fed the poor starving musicians afterwards, soooo yummy, it was catered), and the kids danced to our waltzes and tangos. Would be a great thing to do for a youth conference I think.

In a moment of self-realization, I discovered my sight-reading skills have gone the way of the world. Need to do something about that. Hooray for a paying gig! AND I got a free meal AND a tiara out of it. Yes, the musicians were given tiaras to wear for the event. I love it!