I am in charge of organizing our cluster's musical event on Friday evening, September 29 at around 9 PM. Our event will feature musical performances by any of us who would like to play, sing or dance for our group. The purpose of this message is to tell you about the event and encourage you to think about participating.

If you would like to perform, please let me know what you would like to do and about how long it will last. Based on your responses, I'll put together a program.  An example: Having taken up singing for the first time at the age of 76, I personally would like to sing a few songs of about 4 minutes each.  

I'll send a second solicitation closer to the event.  Please let me know now or later what you would like to do, either by posting here or by email to RalphJShapira@gmail.com Our group will doubtless include professional musicians, and it will be a special treat to hear from them. But rank amateurs are equally welcome and encouraged to give us a show. The only point is to have fun. I'm confident that each performer will be enthusiastically welcomed and applauded, whatever their skill level at our advanced age may prove to be.

ACCOMPANIMENT AVAILABLE FOR 9/29 CLUSTER MUSICAL EVENT

Many of you who might otherwise enjoy performing at our cluster’s musical event on 9/29 may have been discouraged by assuming you would have no band or instrumental accompaniment.  I can solve that problem for you.

Using a free app called Moises, I (you) can download any song from ITunes and break it into its constituent tracks, including vocal, guitar, piano, drums, etc.  Then I (you) can suppress (for example) the vocal track, which enables me (you) to sing the song with its full musical accompaniment.  You’re in effect creating your own karaoke version of the song.  That’s the way I’m going to sing my songs at our event, playing the “karaoke” version from my Iphone through the venue’s audio system using Bluetooth while I sing at the microphone.

You needn’t worry about doing this for yourself — I’m willing to do it for you.  Just let me know what song you want to perform, and I will handle downloading it into Moises and playing it for you at the event.  Unlike a real karaoke system, the lyrics won’t be displayed, so you’ll either have to print them out and bring them with you or memorize them.  But I highly recommend getting the Moises app, downloading the song from ITunes or its non-apple equivalent, and practicing with it.  Buying each song from ITunecosts around a dollar.

Hopefully this will entice more of you to perform — right now there are only three individual performers to follow the group sing, which will kick off the evening at around 9 pm.

We now have five individual performers for Friday night's 9-11 PM Musical Event in the Cat in the Crème Coffee house (across the street from Wilder just before Mercy Hospital).  Our soloists will perform after the group choral sing.  All five volunteers are male.  WHERE ARE OUR FEMALE PERFORMERS???  I'm encouraging anyone else of any gender who would like to entertain our cluster by singing, playing or dancing, to let me know so I can add you to the lineup.

We now have five individual performers for Friday night's 9-11 PM Musical Event in the Cat in the Crème Coffee house (across the street from Wilder just before Mercy Hospital).  Our soloists will perform after the group choral sing.  All five volunteers are male.  WHERE ARE OUR FEMALE PERFORMERS???  I'm encouraging anyone else of any gender who would like to entertain our cluster by singing, playing or dancing, to let me know so I can add you to the lineup.