Greetings all you "Gig Getters." This works great for me, so thought you might be interested. I recently have been getting requests from Service Clubs (Hi-12 Club, Lions Club, Optimists, etc) to present a musical program for their meetings and luncheons. Having served on the Michigan Grand Lodge Speakers Bureau for 25 years it seemed like a good oportunity for me as I can speak, better than I can play. Now this is not a 30 or 45 minute musical plying presentation, but rather a dissertation on the revolution in electronic instruments, coupled with a demonstration of the many features on my KN-6500. I did one of these, and several invitations soon came in from other Clubs, as they all have difficulty presenting new and different entertainment to their members. You receive a great lunch,in nice surrondings, $25 to $50 bucks pocket money, meet many new influencial people of the community, your skill and personally is put on display for other true gigs, and it don't require any K/B programming, or music, etc. Most of these people display high interest and great pleasure in these talks and demo's. because many organizations are more interested in "Technical information". than they are in recreation presentations, during their Club Luncion Meetings. I start with the early 60's when automatic features first appeared on home organs, and bring them up through the historical developement of keyboards, to the present day, with its 880 rythums, 1,050 different sounds, demonstrating each feature as I go along. I know from your many Posts, that most of you have that special intertainer "gift of gab," when doing your gig's. So maybe this could be another opportunity to appear before the public, just doing your thing in a little different way. Anyway its been fun for me, and of course we are dedicated to shareing our experiences with all the great members of this Forum. Your response would be just "honkey dorey" with me as this is my first thread on this forum. ARJ
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ARJ