Well, yesterday I did my first public performance since having the aneurysm. I was nervous at first, but managed to get through it. I played at a get together in the town of Mapleton, with approximately 200 people in the audience and did four songs... Me And Bobby McGee, Snowbird, City Of New Orleans and accompanied a small group of fiddlers.
We left there and drove to Fort Fairfield, where a group of musicians had gathered at a church to perform. That was the special one, because the fiddle group from New Brunswick was there, and about 2 years ago, we had worked up a nice arrangement of Snowbird with me singing and playing guitar and three young fiddlers playing an accompaniment. That song really went over well, and it's always great to see the fiddlers! I also did Blowin' In The Wind and IYCRMM. I was terribly nervous at first, which is quite unusual for me. I rarely get nervous. I guess it was because I hadn't played in public for at least 7 months.
Next week, I'm going to start going back to the weekly fiddle jam. I probably will stick to the guitar for awhile, because I'm really rusty on the fiddle.
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