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Thread #135018   Message #3077031
Posted By: Black belt caterpillar wrestler
18-Jan-11 - 07:33 AM
Thread Name: The first song you performed in public?
Subject: RE: The first song you performed in public?
"Treadmill song" learned from Steeleye Span was my first attempt in December 1982, Bridgwater Folk Club. I had made a concious decision to turn myself into an extrovert and this was my first try at standing up at the front.
There was a stool there to sit on if you wanted. I stood behind it so that my trembling knees would not be visible!
I had also started on the Anglo so my other item was a set of three tunes, starting withthte inevitable "Winster Gallop".
It went OK and I performed a different song each week there for more than a year without repetition. Wish I could learn things that fast nowadays!