Project Philly freakin rocks

Oh my goodness!

Thanks so much to everyone who came out to the concert tonight at Lower Merion! I hope that it was worth it - coming so far at 8 pm on a Thursday night to see a 2 hour show.

The show... honestly... I felt like it was amazing. It went so incredibly quickly for me. I opened the show with Thriller, messed up a line, dropped a line, recovered, hopefully the rest of the song was good... I think? Anyway, I am sure I will be rehashing that for at least several days... my own little personal hell. There are only two things that I do that I really have little confidence in... or at least overanalyze and want to make perfect all the time: singing and teaching. I get insanely nervous doing either in front of small groups, but put me in front of a big audience and I am usually pretty cool. I had a lot of trouble remembering the lyrics to Thriller... but I did it perfectly yesterday, and perfectly at sound check... and...

Okay, obsessively analyzing, stop it.

Anyway, the rest of our set was pretty darned good, which was complemented well by the "Real Men of Genius" skits that JH & AD wrote. They were hilarious. In that choir-dork kinda way... whatever. :)

Blue went on and were AWESOME - so musically tight, and I was just really proud of them. I feel like they were the more serious of the groups. We had a lot of heart and were dancing and stuff... and they were into it, no doubt, just more sedate I think.

Things went so quickly, and we were then on to our second set. I got to announce our second Real Men skit ~ Mr. Underappreciated Utility Bass. YAY loved it!

We closed our set with my arrangement of No Diggity / Wonderwall. I think it went fairly well, though I still question our closing on it. I think perhaps opening our second set with it would have been better, then closing with Snakes On A Plane. But whatev. I have officially cut the chord of my arrangement, and now its free-floating in a cappella land, and it just went how it went. I think that was the hardest thing I faced... the arranging was difficult but I loved it, the teaching came naturally... but the letting go part, where I say ya know what, I taught it the best I could, now its up to the group to take what I have done and make it good... wow, was that SO HARD. Lets just say I was not the only one in our group to have that issue! ;)

Our final song... uhhh the Australian one... I think its called After All? That turned out amazingly. All 32 of us sounded phenomenal when coming together, and it was just great. I was insanely proud of us.

And it was so fun.

Its 2 am right now. Afterwards the "adults" went to a bar and hung out while the "unicorns" (best if you do not ask) went to IHOP. Though I was sad to not eat pancakes (really, what else is better after singing hardcore?) we had lots of fun, and MD even won some anal beads (again, best if you do not ask).

I am just super stoked. I admit it - I love a cappella. I love singing it. I loved arranging it. I just loved it.

The thought has crossed my mind to see whether I could get something going at my school. We have a performing arts center, and I know the kids would be into it. I have just doubted my abilities... plus I am not convinced of their level of training... I mean, if they cant read music, I am not sure I can TEACH them that. But after this concert, the desire is coming on pretty strong. Its hard to go a full year without singing!

We shall see.

But thanks again for everyone who came out - it really does mean the world to me to be supported by my friends and to have them share in something that is such a big part of my life.