Last night's event was a bit different from what we anticipated. Instead of a dance we were kind of background music. We played hard for more than three hours, though, with lots of medleys, mostly reels and some old-timey tunes, a few waltzes, a few sung songs.

We used just one microphone (a condensor) and two speakers. Our sound man had us group for balance through the mike- it apparently sounded fine; people told us so. We could hear each other very well. The whole thing was fun, it was kind of like a focused jam. We were two fiddles, a mando, a guitar and a bass.

I suspect we're going to hold out for a single mike whenever we can.