Busy Times

Busy Times indeed, although this is a long bank holiday weekend, I can't say that it has been particularly restful, Friday included a long drive home from Cardiff after a day of working around my Mother's house and garden, then a Saturday the Croydon Band played the first of two performances at the Brockwell Park Lido, they have an event going on over the weekend involving all sorts of activities and stalls selling various things, we were just providing some background atmosphere. After lunch I then had to work, with all these holidays I need to make sure that my customers don't go too long without having their lawns mowed. Then this morning we had a repeat performance at the Lido.

We are building up quite a good relationship with the company that runs the Lido - Fusion Leisure - and will be playing there again at Christmas, if not before.

Since our Centenary Concert we have only had one rehearsal, and that wasn't too intense, I'm afraid that means we are a little under rehearsed for this weekend, tomorrow, Monday, we are playing at a craft fair at Morden Hall, we will be expect to play 2 sets so will need around 90 minutes of music. A lot of the music we performed at the concert will not be suitable and we will be using a few deps, so quite few people may end sight reading on the stand.

We played for this event last year, it was my first performance conducting so something of an anniversary for me.