Singing for my supper is a busy business

Christmas is coming and as someone who just adores everything about the silly season, I couldn't be more excited. At the moment I'm preparing for my upcoming Christmas gig, A Very Swinging Christmas in Bewleys Cafe Theatre (Click here for more details - http://www.bewleyscafetheatre.com/evening.php) and things are going well.
Well that is, apart from trying to arrange rehearsals. Blessed as I'm with the musicians that I work with, because they are all so good, they're all very much in demand which means that trying to get us all together in one room is proving very difficult. But rest assured we'll get it together in time for the big night.
I really want to make this Christmas gig as festive as possible, with mulled wine, decorations and some truly classic jazzy Christmas tunes.
While preparing for the Christmas gig, I've also been playing a few gigs, the most recent being last Friday night. It was a charity gig for An Taisce in the very prestigious Tailors' Hall and all proceeds went to the restoration of the hall. It was a beautiful venue to play, we had a lovely set of swinging jazz standards and we got a great reception from all there. The lovely people who ran the event looked after us very well too. The room had great acoustics and made us sound great, especially the sax (provided by the very talented Dennis Wyjers) Hopefully we'll be able to play there again and bring more people to this truly wonderful building. I'll be chatting to them on monday about maybe doing a Christmas gig there too so watch this space....
As well as working on my own gigs and promoting for others I've recently taken on a new project with a good friend, Tommy Ellis who runs a very successful voice over studio. Together we're putting a vocal workshop together that we can run from his studio. It will allow people to come, have their voice trained and also record a track. This will not only give them tips for using and maintaining their voices but also the experience of working in a real studio and they'll have a track to take away and possibly use to promote themselves and get work. Our first workshop is going to run this coming Saturday the 5th of December so fingers crossed it all goes well.

So with the run of gigs that I've had recently, promoting gigs for others, as well teaching private lessons from home and preparing for the upcoming workshops, I really do feel that my old saying "I'm the girl that sings for her supper" is very apt right now.

Thanks for stopping by,

Valerie. x

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