Christmas Jazz

For the past 2 years I've been apart of this Christmas Jazz ensemble.  It consists of a bunch of random musicians who come together once a year and just rock out and have fun.  Most of our venues are assisted living places or hospital lobbies... but the people are always so excited to have us.  This will be my third year and I look forward to more years to come!

This year was a little different.  Normally my dad plays in the group, but because Jon got married he was out of town for all our gigs.  I was a little nervous about playing with them, because honestly, I'm not quite sure what a violin's place is in a jazz group, but it all seems to work out.  Initially, the reason why I even joined the group was to have more opportunities to play music with Dad.  There were a few gigs this year and each one had different people filling in.  It was a blast though.  :)  And my wonderful wonderful husband watched the kids so I could go off and play my instrument.

Our last gig was the infamous D & W Produce section... but this year we got upgraded to the Starbucks in the D & W... haha.  It was really nice because this venue people actually come to sit and listen.  In the other ones they are just listening from their rooms or they are listening from afar.  But my sister in law, Zoe, Tristan, Lucy, Gaetan, Jon, Megan (the new sister in law) Onca (a capo friend) and her Mother came to watch.  Then Mom and Dad had just gotten in from CO so they stopped in to see us play too.  we had a really good time and I'm glad that I got to do this!

I didn't really feel very Christmasy this year (whatever that means) but this was something fun that I don't get to do all the time. :)

JVG