Gig Nov. 17 - St. Germain-En -Laye

Tomorrow night I have a gig with some friends from school, a great pianist named Wil has invited me to sing a set at his small, hole in the wall gig.

It's not in Paris proper, but out in St. Germain En Laye. If you by chance are reading this and will be in Paris, you'll have to take the RER out of paris and pay an extra 3 euros - 6 rue st pierre at 8:00

The gig is unpaid and I hear the venue is TINY with a capital T. It's unpaid and last week at the 2nd rehearsal, the pianist and organizer didn't show. This is the unglam, reality side to being a musician. 

I bought a dress at a marche - huge garage sale in the middle of a park. It was only 5 euros and seems the perfect gig dress. This is me trying to make the gig more glam.

I know all the songs and have transposed the parts for the saxist that will be accompanying me. Good change no one will be there, so I'm hardly nervous, though it might be good if I were. I think I will enjoy it though. I usually do enjoy any chance to play with other musicians and especially to sing into a microphone:)

I'll let you know how it goes. 

I'm also heading tomorrow to see the Patron of this other venue I've been trying to get a solo gig at. I dropped the cd off, and did a small performance. He seemed pleased but then has been staling on giving me a date. His chef was sick for like 3 weeks so he asked for some time. When I showed up last week after a month he still was not ready. So I've decided to show up every monday morning till he gives me a gig. We'll see if this works. Hard to know if they are just not interested, or if persistence is needed. I'll give it a few weeks to see. Then I'll start trying somewhere else for my solo gig. I really felt this was the place though. 

That's the gig news from Paris.