The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #57617   Message #918768
Posted By: wysiwyg
26-Mar-03 - 10:59 AM
Thread Name: venue misbooking
Subject: RE: venue misbooking
Our bishop asked us, when he was up in our remote area for his annual visitation, to do the music for the annual diocesan summer camp. It's a week-long thing, and he said the diocesan youth minister would be in touch to arrange it. I just learned that she and the rest of the committee (they have no chair, either, just a group of amateurs with paychecks) have asked someone else to do the music. The youth missioner apparently has no idea she just managed to piss off the rector of the largest parish up here (who has been resourcing the smaller parishes out of the goodness of his heart, who is part of the band).... and his wife, the band leader (who has been playing at these same small farflung parishes just for gas money so that they will not fail entirely and close up shop due to lack of service music). Ooops.

Sometimes people just have no idea the backflips they are causing musicians to do. I was midway through my own prep for the event, since it was to involve a whole lot of special camp songs they do there that no one else does..... not to mention the difficulty of rearranging two schedules for busy working people and gigging musicians....

~Susan