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Palo Alto World Music Day

We sang at Palo Alto World Music Day again, for the first time since COVID hit. Actually, it’s not World Music Day this year, it’s World Music Month, with performances spread out over three or four weekends.

Our venue was on California Ave. on the street — not our usual venue under an overhang. I was a little apprehensive about singing in the open, since the sound can get lost, but it turned out fine.

In fact, it was one of the best singings I’ve been to ever Maybe it just feels that way because it’s only the second time I’ve sung in person since lockdown. But there were some fabulous voices who showed up, some really excellent singers. And the number of singers was good, too — about 16 I think — so there was good coverage on every part, but it was small enough that the singing was pretty tight.

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Palo Alto World Music Day

A photo from today’s singing at Palo Alto World Music Day, downloaded from the event website — Thomson is leading:

The sound was pretty darn good under that overhang.

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Palo Alto World Music Day

We had a good turn out for the singing at Palo Alto World Music Day. Location was good too, in a sort of pedestrian walkway with a roof overhead.

Since this was sort of a performance, we had a set list for the first six songs — we wanted to do songs that we knew we’d sound good on: 178, Dan; 99, Peter; 40, Leigh; 47b, Mark; 236, Paul; 193, Terry.

After that it was open call. This worked pretty well.

We didn’t have huge audiences, but a few people listened to us for extended periods of time, and a couple even joined us. We had a great time, needless to say.