Gigs?
School principal's conference in a big city hotel/convention centre. Totally lifeless audience.
Dance studio. Trained dancers, fun to watch.
Museum lecture halls. Studious audience.
Biker club. Attentive and appreciative audience, free food and drink, volunteer roadies.
Provincial Park. Early start and finish, all ages, discreet drinking.
Arts and crafts festival. Open air, weird questions like "Is that a banjo?" when it was a mandolin.
Non gigs?
National and provincial parks, forests, boats and canoes, campgrounds, cottages, beaches, back seat of a car on a road trip, etc.
I once had a non-music day job in school maintenance where I refused a transfer to a different building because there wasn't a good piano there. When the higher-ups expressed their disgust I exercised my union right to stay where I was...unpaid night shift meal breaks would be boring without a piano. On the whole they must have liked me as they rehired me twice, for decidedly non-musical reasons.
