I am in a band called Swing 42 with fellow Hivers @danillemurray, @purple-singer and @anna-newkey. We have played a few gigs at pubs and other events and in the last week we had two gigs. The first was a return to a local swing dancing club who actually pay us! That was fun, but can be quite hard work as it is a lot of quick tunes. It was actually on the evening that the Queen died, but it went ahead anyway.
The second gig was at Balstock Festival. This is a free festival in lots of venues around the town of Baldock. I have played there before with @daniellemurray in our duo @swing47. Notice a theme with our band names? They are named after Django Reinhardt albums. We do not have video of the first gig, but we do for Balstock thanks to our percussionist Ray. Unfortunately flautist Bob did not quite get in the shot. The audio is a little distorted, but the mix is actually pretty good after the sound guy spent a while setting us up. We did not get out full time due to this, but we played as many songs as we could. The reason we are laughing between songs is because it really rained heavily, which was appropriate for Pennies From Heaven. The audience were under cover and seemed to enjoy it. We even had some dancers join us by the stage.
@anna-neykey and Ray also had solo sets at the festival. I saw quite a few people I knew playing there, but then it is mostly local bands and artists. I enjoyed some rock and funk bands I saw there and I caught bits of other sets as I wandered around. Lots of talent there. The festival is raising money for charity, so nobody gets paid. It is great to see so many people out enjoying themselves with all that live music.
Rock on!
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