Well, that was different!

I hadn't expected such an elaborate videotaping production at yesterday's session. What with the lights (first time we'd ever seen that corner of The Press Room clearly) and being in a semi-circle looking AWAY from the audience . . . different. I think I was expecting a mobile camera.

Music was grand, though, and we could actually hear clearly (they turned the hum of the smoke-eaters off and asked the kitchen to keep it down a bit, I think) and be HEARD clearly.

Most of the listeners, though, were sitting at the bar and, I think they were actually listening because they applauded at the end of songs. (Being heard at the bar is sort of a first, too.)

We wrapped early as singers drifted away to other commitments -- we ended just before a raucous 30-member wedding party arrived.

Different, but fun.

Linn