{"id":1363,"date":"2016-09-21T12:06:22","date_gmt":"2016-09-21T12:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/juliakasdorfmusic.com\/?p=1363"},"modified":"2016-09-26T17:05:58","modified_gmt":"2016-09-26T17:05:58","slug":"reaching-crowd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juliakasdorfmusic.com\/?p=1363","title":{"rendered":"Bond with Your Crowd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every Tuesday I play live music in the America Lobby at Walter Reed in Bethesda. It&#8217;s for a program called Stages of Healing. It helps\u00a0make everyone feel a little more human in what can be a scary or frustrating place.<\/p>\n<p>I like to spy out the folks sitting, waiting, strolling, or wheeling by and play songs they might like. So I tend to play a lot of standards and pop songs from the 60s. I love to see the faces light up when I play &#8220;Tennesee Waltz&#8221;, &#8220;Lady is a Tramp&#8221;, or &#8220;Rose of San Antoine&#8221;.<\/p>\n<h5>The bond<\/h5>\n<p>Some days, frankly, I&#8217;m soundly ignored. But some days I seem to hit the mark, and many folks come over to applaud or suggest songs. Yesterday it was &#8220;Fox on the Run&#8221;, made famous by the Seldom Scene. My dad used to play that song a lot so I trotted it out with confidence and vigor. Then \u00a0I realized I&#8217;d totally forgotten how the verses went and ground to a rueful halt. But the crowd was\u00a0just delighted to hear the charming chorus. I realize again that music doesn&#8217;t have to be perfect to bring joy. It&#8217;s the shared experience between player and listener, that bond between strangers that happens for just a moment, riding on the line of song, that thrills us both.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every Tuesday I play live music in the America Lobby at Walter Reed in Bethesda. It&#8217;s for a program called Stages of Healing. It helps\u00a0make everyone feel a little more human in what can be a scary or frustrating place. I like to spy out the folks sitting, waiting, strolling, or wheeling by and play [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,4],"tags":[15,13,14,16],"class_list":["post-1363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-performance-tips","category-shows","tag-entrepreneur","tag-live-music","tag-performing","tag-women-in-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliakasdorfmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliakasdorfmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliakasdorfmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliakasdorfmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliakasdorfmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1363"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/juliakasdorfmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1374,"href":"https:\/\/juliakasdorfmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1363\/revisions\/1374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliakasdorfmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliakasdorfmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliakasdorfmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}