Stopped in to a little jam they have in the next town down the road.
All kinds of music, drums, piano, accordion, and about 15 or so musicians all on stage at once.
Sign up when you come if you’d like to be featured and they call the names in order for the “show”. Featured people call out the key and they light up that letter on a “light sight” like they have at bingo games except it just has the letters A – G. They play one song each, then start the rotation of players over. You get the choice of playing without everyone on stage, but no one opted that way…though a few did songs the rest sat out on.
I think there were maybe 4 of us that were under 70…audience was about the same 70-90 age bracket.
I sat & followed along & filled in on fiddle at back of stage but didn’t play at the mics. Maybe next time.
Never played so much in Ab & Gb. There were several in every key though so the variety was there. Genre-wise they were all over the map…rock, pop, country, original, traditional, bluegrass, folk, lots of old gospel & newer Christian hymns…
Even got to meet another fiddler…plays all Celtic and did a very cool little tune when he took his turn…very good player.
It was good to get out of the house, socialise a bit, and got some good practice in on improvising to different things.
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