I have quite a few performances coming up over the next month or so. On Saturday I will be playing tuba with the Pelly Concert Orchestra. I am really looking forward to this, they are a lovely bunch and it looks like a fun program with a couple of favorites that I have never played. It always amazes me that after well over 40 years involved with performing music just how much music there is that I have still to play. I have played most of this concert before, but only in arrangements for band. Possibly rather sadly, I am most looking forward to the Thunderbirds and Barwick Green. This probably says more about me than it does the rest of the program.

I have yet to decide what I shall wear for this concert, but it is a straightforward decision between some posh trousers and a nice black top or the single dress I can wear while playing the tuba.
The following weekend I will be playing twice, with my latest band, but this will present a whole different set of problems. First it is a jazz / blues band in which I play electric bass, so the safety of the all black concert kit of the orchestral musician doesn't apply. The second of the two performances is a lunchtime Gig at St Christopher's Hospice I believe this is the oldest Hospice in the UK, and being local I am very pleased to support it.
This band is made up of members of my Church, and I only finally came out to all of the band a week or so ago, so was very relieved on Sunday to be told that they were very happy to have me playing with them. So on Sunday week I will have to find something appropriate for the environment, the band, and my comfort. After a while a Bass can get quite heavy which is one factor, another is that standing while playing I will not want to be wearing too much in the way of heels.

Incidentally does this mean that most female Japanese bass players are left handed?
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