mdlbear | Songs for Saturday: Concert at Careage (Reply)

As far as I can tell, Careage of Whidbey is the only skilled nursing and rehab facility on the island; Colleen has been there since last Monday getting her legs back after a week in a hospital bed. (She's doing extremely well, but that's another story.) I've been bringing a guitar along when I visit.

So yesterday I was playing for her after lunch when somebody came to tell us that the ice cream social was starting at 3:30. Colleen and her caregiver, V, immediately volunteered (voluntold?) me for entertainment.

It wasn't a very big audience, and I'm rather out of practice, but it seemed to come off pretty well. (I was surprised at just how well - the usual sketchy chords, but no trainwrecks.) I neglected to keep track, but the songs I remember doing were: "Get up and Go" (I started with that one because it was perfect for the venue), "Wheelin'", "Where the Heart Is", The Bears (together),"Windward", "Ship of Stone", "Gentle Arms of Eden", "The Rambling Silver Rose", "The Mary Ellen Carter", "The World Inside the Crystal", "Keep the Dream Alive" (went out on that one, IIRC), "Bells of Norwich", "Bigger on the Inside", "The Owl and the Pussycat", and "The Times They Are A-Changin'". I think I'm forgetting some, and they're in no particular order.

I did The Bears ("A Talk With the Middle-Sized Bear" and "A Tribute to the Middle-Aged Bear") together, with N's brilliant parody serving as an intro to "Windward". I think they work perfectly in that order.

It was the most singing I'd done in a long time, so it gets an S4S post even though yesterday was Friday.