I Survived my first public appearance playing the fiddle

It did not go as planned, as our initial plan was to try to play Irish washerwoman together as part of our Office St. Patty's days luncheon.

 Well we got together for the first time about 2 hours before and both being beginners and having never played with someone else before our timing was way way off.

 So we improvised and I played the A part and then she played the B part and then we repeated.

 That was all we had planned to play, but then my partner said " Play another song " so I did, the A part to Swallowtail jig, Thinking she would then play something else. but no she left me up there and said keep going, I don't really know anything else. so off I went on to paly Bile them Cabbage, Then over the rainbow an another song I have no idea the name of. Then I had to quit, as my teeth hurt from clenching them so tight as I nervously played song after song.

 You would think the more I played the more relaxed I would get, but it went the other way and I got more and more tense. Something else to work on

  But I got sympathetic applauds and realized all in all it was not so bad.

 So now there are a couple folks who want to get together and start practicing x-mas songs and see if we can't do a short concert in December.

 Nothing like pressure to make you practice harder.