Sit-down concert a SUCCESS

We played our second sit-down concert yesterday, in Marine Park. The first was on Sunday in the JACC due to rain potential. Both concerts were good, for different reasons - the Sunday event was all about history, our 50th anniversary as a state, speechifying, etc. Yesterday's was just about playing the music and it was a BLAST. LOTs of players, great audience (repeat, great audience), we played well and we were just plain playing fun music.

As we were setting up yesterday, a woman off the ship asked me when the concert would start. I love the way that people know that something's happening and just start gravitating toward it. When we played our first song, the National Anthem, yesterday, we started the song with a small audience. By the next song, the Alaska Flag song, we had a big audience. Just like that.

I have the thought sometimes when I'm getting set up for a concert, and playing it, of the long history in humankind that I am a part of. For how long have musicians, performers, set up to play, people see them setting up and know something's going to happen, then the event is there and we are making the music and our audience is loving it, and we've all just transformed the space for that little chunk of time. It's hard to describe, it makes me emotional thinking about it - this is such a human thing to do, and now I am part of this long, long, long line of people throughout history who have come together to play for people like this.

I am so ridiculously lucky to be able to do this that I can't even find the words.