Well here we are again. The Nelson Sisters are returning yet again in concert! It's really becoming an annual event. This is our third year, and we're expecting rather a crowd. On top of the two formal concert nights, we're also adding a night of music at our favorite coffee shop, which has a sweet piano in their adjoining room. People have been asking all winter and fall if we were planning a concert for this summer, and I told them 'yes, of course' and crossed my fingers because I actually wasn't sure if we were. It's a touchy sort of thing, working around both our work schedules, and all the other summer engagements we've acquired. But the music has been selected, the dates have been set, and now we're just trying to get enough practice in. I always get worried that we'll never be ready on time. In about two weeks I will begin eating, breathing, and sleeping the music. It will be ever present in my sub-conscious mind. I keep a running list in my head about everything we need to do:
Buy matching tops
Practice
Take picture for poster
Design new poster
Put add in papers
Practice
Practice
Radio spot?
Practice
But as much as I doubt our ability to 'pull it off', we always do. And people always love us (of course, they can't help that) and the masses clamour for another performance. Aaah, the life of a musician.