Music For A Wedding
I drove to Houston last night for the wedding of one of my best friends, Stacy. She asked me to play a song in the wedding too--"Frog Kissin'". The problem... I forgot my autoharp!
I don't know how I forgot it. So don't ask. I was really spacey. For some reason, I grabbed my laptop instead of my autoharp. Bizarre.
It worked out well enough despite the prob. A couple more musician friends of Stacy's were there--Chelle Murrey and Paul Martinez. Paul was kind enough to not only let me play his guitar, but horde it for about an hour and a half before the wedding so I could learn to play "Frog Kissin'" on the guitar.
Normally changing songs from autoharp to guitar isn't that big a deal. It's just chords. But "Frog Kissin'" has one of the weirder chord progressions that I play. So I practiced in the cold outdoor hair for quite while.
The wedding started and somehow I stumbled through the song with only a couple minor screw ups that I don't think anyone really noticed thanks to the humor of the song and the dancing of the bride, groom, and audience. But I think I'll stick to the autoharp for now.
Labels: autoharp, chelle murrey, frog kissin, music for a wedding, paul martinez, wedding
posted by Marc Gunn @ Sunday, February 04, 2007 0 comments links to this post