After a whole weekend filled with song, and a good portion of them acapella, it is even more obvious that you must have a strong, memorable, song to create interest in a listener. Can you stay in the same key without an instrumental clue? Are there songs you are used to singing in car or shower or times with you hand otherwise occupied? Audience participation helps for acapella - great choruses and snappy refrains give some added value. When a song has to stand on its own, you need to know it very well, no time for reading it off a cribsheet.

I hope your enforced instrument embargo gives you some songs that you get more comfortable with and appreciate in a new way. I've a list of songs I've come to realize felt better (for me) singing acapella. You can use this time to expand your repertoire.

Joanne in Cleveland