comfort zones

We just did a concert and workshop at Anglia Ruskin University and the same at the University of Wolverhampton. the first was a strange concert set up as the theatre was set up for a musical and so there was a massive orchestral pit between us and the audience, we got a good response, but it was hard to tell until I got some nice emails a few days later. the workshop was a little strange as we thought that it was going to be a practical workshop but no-one had brought any instruments! so Adrian and I ended up giving a lecture recital about ourselves for just over an hour, and it felt like the longest hour ever. you may think I like to talk about myself but that was pushing it. luckily i have alot of musical epiphanies up my sleeve. I put a lot in but who knows if it was useful to anyone else. SImilar in Wolvehampton, though great lecturer and very keen of shaking things up a bit, so we did i think. We took people out of their comfort zones I think (sorry!) but there were some amazing results, some great musicians and energy and some people not ready to go for it. And some who seemed really annoyed by the challenge which is as good to me as someone getting really into it... I don't want to rile people but if it challenges you, you will get something out of it.

I now know that I do not want to become a lecturer, I like doing it randomly and workshops and seminars are great, but it is all consuming, I don't know how I could be a performer and give so much to other people through teaching. Teaching isn't the easy option, I definitely can't even do have and have, it tales the same kind of energy and for me gives satisfaction but I expect so much from people, so I'd rather expect alot from myself and not get annoyed!

Anyway, having said that I'm really looking for to the fiddle party I'm holding on saturday at my house and to TUNE-UP Folk Day in April.

I think the roasted vegetables may be done, smells that way....