Our Jam meets to play music every Tuesday night throughout the year. We just play for ourselves and the few people that come to listen. Then suddenly June arrives, and the Jam gets all these invitations to play for the public.
In the first weekend of June McBride celebrates Pioneer Days, and we play in the park pavilion for a couple of hours. Then a week or so later, we drive out to Dunster to perform at the Dunster Museum opening. That happened on Sunday. Then two days later we had our regular get together, and now a day later, we will be playing for the Old Age Pensioner’s picnic. ( At present, I am worrying about my voice and fingers functioning today, after last night’s jam.) The photo above shows us playing at the picnic last year.
Because it is summer and everyone has so many other things going on, I never know how many of our musicians are going to show up for these public gigs. There are about eight musicians that make up our regular group, but at this year’s Dunster Museum opening, five of our members couldn’t make it, so only three of us were there, luckily we were augmented with two other local musicians that came to play with us.
I am not sure how many of us will show up for this afternoon’s performance, I think maybe there will be five, but no matter, we will be happy to play our music. It is always interesting to hear how which musicians show up, changes the dynamics of the music that we make.
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