Thursday 07/11/2024
A good time was had by all. What more can a happy promoter say? I was the promoter for a concert by the Keller Sisters. Several of us had been to hear them at the San Gregorio General Store (Days 4.255, 4.344, 5.135). I wanted them to play a concert here. As I’ve hinted, the job of booking music acts has been pretty much in the hands of one resident for a while, and her tastes run to classical and occasional jazz. Sheryl and Kerry do rock/pop/folk, original songs and covers. So despite me and several other residents recommending them, no move was made to book them. So a couple months ago I just took it on myself to book them. Which caused some resentment, but I stayed cool — but I was extremely concerned that the concert go well. I set up the auditorium at 5; the musicians arrived at 6:30 as scheduled. I had one minor A/V hitch: I knew as pros they would want a monitor speaker, a speaker turned toward the stage so they could hear themselves. Unfortunately our monitor speaker had developed a 60-cycle hum. Quite unacceptable. But they were chill and go by without..
We had about 70 people in the auditorium and just about everybody had a good time. I saw a couple of people edging out the back door after a couple of songs; well, you can’t please everybody. Lots of people hung around after to chat with the musicians and talk. It was a success. So hopefully our performing arts committee will be a little bit looser about who they’re willing to book in future.
My foot was really sore, several people commented on my limping. At 5pm I took a half of a tab of codeine — I stashed away a bottle of it from hospice days. It didn’t make a lot of difference, of course I can’t say how hobbled I would have been without it.
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