this is bit of a variation on keyboard subjects ,but do any of you include other bits of business apart from playing and singing to your audience,ie ,audience participation,i have a few ideas for getting older audiences involved for a bit of fun,after all playing to an audience is good,,,, but entertaining ,well this is a lot more difficult,well here goes i bought an old drum, old trumpet and cymbals,i get three people on stage and ask them if they play an instrument normally the answer is no ,and so i tell them that i m going to turn them into my backing group,i set the keyboard up so that i can use the multipads for drum rolls etc set the trumpet on main ,so when i get them to have a practice they mime and i play the sounds from the keyboard so it looks they are proffessional players,i mean can you imagine an old lady of about eighty playing eddie calvert,then i set up a march and while they are marching around the dance floor blowing trumpet,beating the drum crashing cymbals, i,m playing colonel bogey,the audience get involved the band gets involved and you get the credit,this is an idea i have put together and i want to try it out at our xmas party,i would like your views,and do you do anything similar,mike