Today I get to the gig and when I walk into the room its set up for about 75 pp for an un be known to me French Style Luncheon...then in the middle of the stage in a Giant 10 foot Eiffel Tower with blinking lights.... so I say to myself now I gotta come up with a few French themed songs....so I set up to the right of the tower and here comes all the people for lunch.......so my trusty S950 "WORLD" bank and opened with a nice French Musette style named "Under Parisian Skies" which set the mood for other songs like "Domenique" &
"Fr�re Jacques", & "The Can Can".....that's the beauty of the Yamaha arrangers you can find anything and they sound amazing when your in a pinch. Any wya that set the mood of the audience & after that was dancing as usual...all in all a great French luncheon with Wine & Cheese & some good music.

Au revoir everyone....

Not just Yamaha arrangers, Donny ... I read your post, walked over to my Pa900 and there under "TRADITIONAL" was a lovely style simply titled "French Waltz" ... then I turned on my 14 year old technics kn6000, and in the "March and Waltz" section was a lovely "Musette Waltz" ...and I'm sure if I had a Roland, I would probably be able to find the same thing ...
Just Sayin'

BTW ... I was hoping the vid would have been of YOU playing "Under Paris Skies" ...

BTW 2 ... the accordion player in the vid did a really nice job ...

BTW 3 ... check out his Italian medley ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=aJb048OypzA#t=1

But where's the arranger player? All I see is an accordionist.

By the way, DOMINIQUE (not Domenique), while sung in French, was sung and written by a Belgian nun, Soeur Sourire. Apart from the language, it has nothing in common with French music culture.

Don't you just love showing up and no one thought to tell you there was a theme or special requests you would need to be prepared for ? I have all the basic Ethinc tunes on hand but French ? Did one like that but they let me know two days beforehand so I dug some stuff up. That lasted about 20 minutes then they wanted the regular stuff.

The other good one is when you show up and again no one thought of a place for you to set up. I actually had a couple of jobs where there was no place near to get electricity. One was a Sunday afternoon at a large banquet hall and they had me in the middle of two rooms against a folding wall. No plug ! Banquet manager answer to me was "thats your problem" Luckily the local harware store was open so I got a 100" extension cord. The other was a restaurant and they stuck me in a corner by the front door and had to unplug the cash register since they were closed for this private party. And they look at you like your an inconvenience to them.
Gotta love the challengers in this business.

all in all it was a great gig,... Client was more then happy,..I got paid and everyone ate & danced and loved the show.....that's all that matters. Today I'm performing at a big marketing event....should be fun 200pp can't wait..

We all get caught with an occasional surprise when working the senior circuit. However, most of are diverse enough to overcome these obstacles.

Cheers,

Gary