Gary, there were about the same number of people at your party as the one I played at Barksdale AFB!
It was a reservations-only dinner-dance at the Officers Club and catered to retirees. Everyone in attendance was pretty old, except some brought their grandchildren.
I started about 6:15, took a break to eat (prime rib) about 8:00, and everyone was gone by 9:30.
I was home by 10:30 and barely stayed awake to see in the New Year.
The main problem was lack of publicity. There was no advertisement aside from a little sign or two, and really very few people knew there was to be entertainment or who it was to be.
The affair was switched from the Ballroom to the Dining Room because of the low number of reservations, but they neglected to tell me, so I took the big equipment. I never turned anything above about 2 or 3 and in fact could have probably played with just the keyboard speakers!
It's the first NY party I ever played that I didn't play Old Lang Syne!
Now to watch some football!
Happy New Year everybody!
DonM