{"id":2292,"date":"2017-12-31T06:51:14","date_gmt":"2017-12-31T06:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/juliakasdorfmusic.com\/?p=2292"},"modified":"2017-12-31T06:58:57","modified_gmt":"2017-12-31T06:58:57","slug":"playing-for-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juliakasdorfmusic.com\/?p=2292","title":{"rendered":"Playing for Free"},"content":{"rendered":"

I played for free the other day.\u00a0 I walked into a nursing home and played music for the denizens’ monthly birthday party.\u00a0 I enjoyed the hell out of it. I played a lot of the old songs I love best – Frank Sinatra stuff, Big Rock Candy Mountain (the real version!), and old Carter family songs.\u00a0 And after all these years of performing, I finally realized how my music could be a gift to people.<\/p>\n

The assembled folks had no expectations about my music prowess, and I had no expectations of how I was supposed to smite the crowd. They were glad to have someone there to liven up the place, and I was glad to be that person.\u00a0 They love music, and I love music, and we found common ground. We celebrated the joy of sharing beloved tunes, the unifying power of rhythm and heart-felt lyrics.<\/p>\n

\"\"I have been feeling kind of lost and down lately. Bad news on the radio about war and the state of the earth doesn’t help, and sometimes I don’t know where to put my feet.\u00a0 When I feel rattled and jumpy, the best thing for me is to serve others.\u00a0 So I arranged this visit to Potomac Falls Health and Rehab<\/a> for my own well-being, honestly.\u00a0 For that one hour, sharing music with strangers who quickly became friends,\u00a0 I knew I was in the right place and I knew that I was doing my bit to nudge the joy needle in an upwards direction.\u00a0 I can’t put a price on that.<\/p>\n

I’m going back for the next batch of birthdays.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I played for free the other day.\u00a0 I walked into a nursing home and played music for the denizens’ monthly birthday party.\u00a0 I enjoyed the hell out of it. I played a lot of the old songs I love best – Frank Sinatra stuff, Big Rock Candy Mountain (the real version!), and old Carter family […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliakasdorfmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2292","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=2292"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/juliakasdorfmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2297,"href":"https:\/\/juliakasdorfmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2292\/revisions\/2297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliakasdorfmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliakasdorfmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliakasdorfmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}