My new boss at work came by. She's Vietnamese, and sang in a "family band" back home, apparently many years ago. But she has a webpage with some recordings of her singing some Vietnamese songs, and some "Foreign" ones, including "Yellow Bird", which I play sometimes. Her husband spotted it on The List, and requested it, so I asked her if she wanted to sing it, and without too much fuss, she came up, and after a bit of confusion about what key I should play it in, did a pretty good job singing it -- though she has a much more "formal" vocal style than I do, and we had some kind of disagreement about how fast it should go.
Later on, Warren's son and his girlfriend came by for quite a while, and requested some good songs, and gave us a reason to play them well. Luc is a local music entrepreneur (runs a rehearsal studio business), and has more of an idea of what it takes to make those sounds come out of those boxes than the average person does, so it's nice to see him impressed.
And for the last hour or so, we had a somewhat shy couple listening in, so I asked the lady if she had any requests off the list. She replied in a heavy but wonderful accent, and her husband tried to "translate", showing off his equally outrageous one. Warren finally asked them where they were from -- he was from Israel, she from Mexico. But they live in Chicago, and were out here for vacation. Wow.
They stayed all the way to the end, and apparently thought that we were some kind of Real Band, 'cuz the guy came up and talked to us a bit while we were packing up and told us that if we were ever "touring through the Chicago area", that we should let him know. Unfortunately, I don't think that our Nationwide Tour of Borders Coffeeshops is coming up anytime soon...
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