As far as I know, there's only one bluegrass song with a happy ending: "Nellie Kane." I've never understood hiring a bluegrass band for a wedding, but I've played a few mostly just mandolin. The best one was up in the mountains around Taos, snow covered peaks in the background, just played some fiddle tunes before, march in, and march out. Easy and paid well. I've played a couple free but that was for nephews and nieces. Marched them in to "Haste to the Wedding" one time and to Jesu another time. Had to figure out how to make the Jesu go on and on on the fly since it took them a lot longer to get down the aisle at the wedding than at the rehearsal. I'd never do it for free for someone I'm not related to, though.
I did like the part about giving away your CDs to all the high class people who will be sure to ask you to play for free too. Nice. And exposure? A person can die from exposure. On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 9:00 AM, erik berry <eberr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > My band's been pretty lucky, but all the same after a couple odd > wedding experiences, we instituted a "band member invite" rule. What > that meant was that we'd only play a wedding if at least one band > member was going to be invited and attending anyway. That way, we > could still do some work. Otherwise we'd have the weekend off while > the invited member attended the wedding. It's worked pretty good > because it means at least one member is actually friends with the > bride or groom and that connection goes a long way. Our most annoying > deal is "Man of Constant Sorrow" requests, which isn't so bad. We just > say we've never learned it and we don't wanna fake it. We also will > play the cocktail hour or the reception dance, but we don't do both. > We've also almost always been given an open tab at the bar, which is > its own mixed blessing, I'll admit... > > erik > > On Oct 29, 8:59 am, Mike Hoffmann <mikehoffma...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I don't know Dip, but I was in Passaic, NJ (griz's childhood home) the >> other night. Had a dandy time, saw a punk rock cover band play an hour >> and half long Operation Ivy cover set. Was tremendous. Great, fun >> people were around and all live in the area. All I have ever heard DG >> say about Passaic is he is glad he doesn't have to go back! It is >> sort of a run down ghetto now that all the Italians moved out, but a >> fun one nonetheless where a lot of people our age can afford to live >> and work in the Big City. Dude totally abandoned Jersey for >> California where the weather and women are beautiful! Ha, to each his >> own, just my Jersey pride coming out. >> >> This reminds me I really gotta learn that Tarantella! >> >> Mike Buttacahoffi >> >> On Oct 29, 2009, at 9:44 AM, diptanshu roy wrote: >> >> >> >> > any idea as to who were the lucky couples?- Hide quoted text - >> >> - Show quoted text - > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Taterbugmando" group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugmando@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to taterbugmando+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/taterbugmando?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
