Rllink
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My wife and I were asked to play and sing in one of the downtown stores for the Music Walk next week. So we are pretty excited about that. And they asked us what we called ourselves, and we never really had a name that we called ourselves, so I told them The IoRicans, being that we live in both Iowa and in Puerto Rico.
We have close to thirty songs on our playlist now, and probably ten more in our pocket that we could pull out if we wanted. I really like to get people singing and clapping along when I perform, so I got three different colored 13 pocket files from Staples. Then I printed off a dozen or more copies of each of our songs and put them in different pockets in the files. I printed a list of them in the three colors that correspond to the file that they are in. Then I printed up a poster that invites people to get into the folders and find the song sheets for the songs that we are playing, and sing along. I also said that if they wanted a different song than the next one on our list, just dig it out, and we would play that one instead.
The poster starts out in big letters, "If you've always dreamed about singing with the IoRicans, here is you chance". Then the directions are below that.
Anyway, I've always brought along copies of some of the songs that I sing, and we've always handed them out to people who wanted to sing along, but as this audience is passing through and we want to get their attention so they will stay and listen to us, I tried to get a little better organized, which is hard for me sometimes. I hope it works. We want to win.
We have close to thirty songs on our playlist now, and probably ten more in our pocket that we could pull out if we wanted. I really like to get people singing and clapping along when I perform, so I got three different colored 13 pocket files from Staples. Then I printed off a dozen or more copies of each of our songs and put them in different pockets in the files. I printed a list of them in the three colors that correspond to the file that they are in. Then I printed up a poster that invites people to get into the folders and find the song sheets for the songs that we are playing, and sing along. I also said that if they wanted a different song than the next one on our list, just dig it out, and we would play that one instead.
The poster starts out in big letters, "If you've always dreamed about singing with the IoRicans, here is you chance". Then the directions are below that.
Anyway, I've always brought along copies of some of the songs that I sing, and we've always handed them out to people who wanted to sing along, but as this audience is passing through and we want to get their attention so they will stay and listen to us, I tried to get a little better organized, which is hard for me sometimes. I hope it works. We want to win.
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