Update

[catsittingstill]

I am probably a bit behindhand in mentioning that Friday's concert at the Library went... interestingly.

1) The kids were younger than I'd anticipated.  As in many of them were too young to read 

2) The librarian asked me, two minutes before I started, to teach the kids the songs.  This meant some on-the-fly set rearrangements, as teaching the choruses meant I had time for fewer songs.  But that was okay, since the younger kids had a short attention span anyway.

3) The kids didn't always seem to get that the funny parts were funny.  Their parents seemed to, though.

4) People seemed to have fun.

I actually spent the weekend on non-album stuff (preparing songs to send to the UU church's music director, who has expressed an interest in doing some of them in services.)

Then I got right back on more mastering tweaks--now I am reducing the volumes of all the breaths in all the songs.  Supposedly an expander should be able to do this but I spend two hours fiddling with various ones and having them fail in various interesting ways, then gave up and started doing it by hand.  Which only takes about half an hour per song so I should be done tomorrow or the next day.  I've also been fiddling a bit with levels--not so much over whole songs, but on the quiet bits that tend to disappear in the car.

Album wise things appear to be on track which makes me wonder if I'm overlooking something.

Comments

[laughingrat]

I am super glad people had fun at any rate. That was low of the librarian, to pull that on you. Oh well.

[catsittingstill]

Well, it was a bit of a surprise, but maybe she didn't realize I hadn't come expecting to do that; she does this kind of event often, so it may seem obvious to her. I wasn't mad, just kind of ...bemused. File it under "things it would have been helpful to tell me when you asked me to give the concert" type thing.

But I'm fourty-eight years old; I don't perform *often* but I've been doing it for a lot of years and I've had far and away bigger surprises on stage. The time my performing partner started vomiting in the middle of a song pops to mind. (Not her fault--violent coughing fit triggered by blowing air conditioning-dry air on an asthmatic for too long. We took a fifteen minute break and sent the audience off to use the restroom and get snacks and such.)

[laughingrat]

Oh my, that sounds...exciting. (And prompts me to find that vid of Siouxsie barfing over the other side of the speakers during a show, come to think of it.)

[catsittingstill]

The surprising bit was when the audience member lunged for the stage holding out an empty cup (the nearest available substitute for a basin, I surmise.) But I sing mostly on autopilot, so it didn't throw me off any.

I looked over to see what the hell was going on, realized, finished the song at about the same moment, and told people we were taking a break.