This blog almost didn't make it. I had a church rehearsal and didnt' get back home til 11:45pm.....very late for me.
So...when I was in college, one Christmas a restaurant named: The Loft in the Mt Moriah area offered our church a donation if we supplied a quartet every Friday and Sat night in Dec to sing Christmas carols. They would donate to our Music Ministry and the quartet would get a free meal each night.
So, me, Chuck, David, and Priscilla (Prissy to us) got together and worked up some music sets and I played the guitar. I am only a marginal player but managed to pull it off. We sang 3 different 30 min sets with breaks in between.. We also had to move to 3 locations. We were like roving minstrels.
It was fun....but by the 3rd weekend in December...we were all pretty tired of our weekends being tied up. Amazingly, we all got along well and the patrons seemed to enjoy being serenaded while they ate. Even a few people asked what church we were from and said that they would visit us.
I really loved the free meals! Since they were free I ordered steak and lobster tail every time. It was my first time ever to eat Lobster and I fell for it.
Not sure what the donation amount was, but I really enjoyed doing that gig and eating the free food. I think I gained about 10 pounds that December.
4 comments:
I kept the books at the church then and remember it being a nice check, especially considering you guys were also eating the profits each night! Ha
I'm so glad I found your blog through Erica's...that's SUCH a great memory, especially because I am assuming Prissy is the one I am related to? :)
Yes katie....it is the Prissy that you are related to. WE sang together alot back in our college days.
at Larry/Dad/Pepaw: I should have know that you would remember the amount. Glad it was a good amount since our weekends socially were occupied by this gig.
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