BS: Your Proudest Moments

Subject: RE: BS: Your Proudest Moments
From: Celtic Soul
Date: 20 Apr 02 - 08:43 AM

My proudest moment was also the moment when I was most humbled.

There was a fan who had come to see us faithfully for years, and I knew her fairly well from her frequent visits. She came up to me after a show at a venue we play regularly and told me she was about to go totally deaf (in around 2 weeks). She added that she was already mostly there, but still had a little hearing in one ear. She asked if we would sing "Carrick Fergus" for her so she could remember it for as long as possible. So, more than a little shocked and more than a little humbled, I told the rest of the band, and of course, we did it for her.

It was damned hard to get through the song, as her crying made me cry, which doesn't make for a lot of good voice control. We sang a few more of her favorites as well, and a couple of new ones we thought she might enjoy.

In the end, all we could do was sit there and be sad, but also be rather amazed that, of all the things she might have wanted to hear last, it was one of our songs. What an amazing honor.

Subject: RE: BS: Your Proudest Moments
From: kendall
Date: 20 Apr 02 - 07:52 AM

There have been many. When my first recording on Folk Legacy was released, when, after a performance at the Press Club in Washington DC, Senator (soon to be Secretary of State) Muskie took me aside and said how much he enjoyed it, and that people like me have more power to influence others than do politicians such as he. Being asked to represent Maine on the TODAY show, being asked to appear on ON THE ROAD with Charles Kuralt, doing a play based on a book with Julie Harris, then, getting an unasked for autographed copy of the book from her. I've had many lucky breaks.

Subject: RE: BS: Your Proudest Moments
From: gnu
Date: 20 Apr 02 - 06:33 AM

I appreciate every single compliment. Recall, I play Hran.

Subject: RE: BS: Your Proudest Moments
From: Amos
Date: 20 Apr 02 - 05:43 AM

I was unexpectedly accosted by an old Chinese man in Kuala Lumpur who told me that a talk I had given was the best he'd ever heard. Swole mah head up awful.

A

Subject: Your Proudest Moments
From: Stephen L. Rich
Date: 20 Apr 02 - 04:14 AM

I'm very curious (allright! I'm just plain nosey. I'll cop to that) about what you consider to be your proudest moment since you started performing. It can be an unexpected cudo facing someone you admired, a time when you got on stage and could do no wrong, a time when you felt that you were making a difference, or just about anything. What was it? When and how did it happen?