Our band had a gig today. I met some very nice people! For our part, it was somewhere between mediocre and awful. A few reasons for this: our drummer had the wrong time and was late and thus we started 20 min. late; my voice was ok, not great due to no energy/food and a horrible night’s sleep the night before; bass player was off a lot, didn’t know when to go where often and was hit or miss with harmonies; the guitarist was there only half the time and I had to play a lot of his riffs on keys; and it was an outdoor poolside gig with the sun completely ignoring our tent and blazing on my back the whole gig (my back is sunburned).
That all sounds like whining. Truly, it was the truth of it, warts and all, but I am actually very grateful. Despite our rather horrid performance, we had amazing compliments and the lady who hired us- who hires us regularly- was happy, we made it through- dehydrated, hot and weak as we were. We met several really cool people, one a former musician. We received compliments from some of our regulars. So you see, God answered prayers. I pray the gig would go well and we would make it through. We did. And I did not think any of it was well (except my singing Girl on Fire by Alicia Keys was epic because I really felt like I was on fire as I sang), however people accepted it as well. They heard it well. We are always our worst critics.
So praise God for this gig and it being over. I am so thankful for His being strong when we were weak!!!😃❤️
Tonya LaLonde 