Sugar and Spice are hitting it hard again since our week off. We started it off a week ago with our debut at the dance in Newton at the Moose club. We thought we had every thing under control, even had a bass player and a drummer going to help us out. On Friday the bass player ended up in the hospital so we played it as a duo. Things were going good until we noticed that the dancers were huffing and puffing as they returned to their chairs! Now we kind of knew that we played our songs a little fast - the thought there was we could play more songs for the residents that way - but for dancers we had to slow things down. That is not an easy task when you are used to playing them faster! So now we are slowing down all our songs so that if we do play another dance we will have the tempo right for dancing. At times I feel like I am a bobble head trying to keep the beat in my head so that I don't speed things up again!
I don't think the residents mind the slower pace and it makes it easier for them to sing along on songs that they know. We were at Bickford Assisted Living last week and the activity director took a cordless mic around and had the residents singing along with us for a couple of songs. I was surprised that everyone that she went to sang into the mic, no one was afraid to sing along with us.
Tomorrow starts another busy and fun week, can't wait to see what God has in store for us!
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