Worst or Weirdest Gig Happenings stories…

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January 29, 2010 at 8:34 pm #150591

Harper Cait
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I’ll start… I played in the tea room at an Antiques Roadshow type of affair where there were many items also for sale. While I was on a quick break, and up getting something to drink, a woman came in carrying a bunch of heavy bags, looked all around at the available tables, finally fixed her gaze on my harp and marched up and leaned all her shopping bags against it, instead of putting them on any of the 3 empty tables right nearby. I, of course, came running…

What’supwiththat??! lol

January 29, 2010 at 9:15 pm #150592

kay-lister
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That’s why I NEVER leave my harp unattended at a gig.

January 29, 2010 at 9:22 pm #150593

carl-swanson
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A friend of mine-someone whose name EVERYONE would recognize- was playing in a fancy hotel in Europe. One night a big fat businessman type with a cigar in one hand came over to her and complimented her on her playing. THEN, he put his cigar out on the soundboard!

Another friend of mine-again, someone(else) whose name you would recognize- was playing in a very upscale resort hotel in her state when some Japanese businessmen came in. After listening to her for a while, one of them came over to the harp and, while she was playing, shoved some money down the front of her dress! She just kept on playing, but thought to herself, ‘that better be a hundred dollar bill. It was.

January 29, 2010 at 10:58 pm #150594

Jerusha Amado
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This is simply outrageous!

January 29, 2010 at 10:59 pm #150595

emma-graham
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Oooh, love this kind of thread! I once played for a smart

January 31, 2010 at 3:40 am #150596

jennifer-buehler
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I played a wedding reception this summer

February 1, 2010 at 1:32 pm #150597

kay-lister
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I played a wedding reception and a toddler kept coming up to me and the harp and on about the 4th trip up, he finally reached out to give it a bang.

March 3, 2010 at 6:11 pm #150598

janelle-lake
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Kay,

March 5, 2010 at 3:48 pm #150599

Miriam Shilling
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This is not a wedding story (of which I am enjoying reading the above accounts because we’ve all been there), but I was hired to play “The Fantasticks” with a local theatre company.

March 5, 2010 at 8:47 pm #150600

kay-lister
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This past summer I was hired to play in a private home for their sons 50th birthday.

March 5, 2010 at 10:49 pm #150601

Dwyn .
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Yikes, this lady sounds like

March 10, 2010 at 8:50 pm #150602

Miriam Shilling
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Oh that’s a great story, Kay.

March 11, 2010 at 12:00 am #150603

Karen Johns
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OMG- I am just beside myself laughing at these (wiping tears away, sides hurting). But some of course are not so funny. I think I would have had to hurt the man with the cigar.

Keep ’em coming!

March 14, 2010 at 12:24 am #150604

Sylvia Clark
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Not my own (those are all available in my book).

March 14, 2010 at 12:45 am #150605

carl-swanson
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Kay- That’s a priceless story. Thank you. it’s unbelievable how some people live. As a harp technician I have seen my fair share of great, and aweful habitations. I’ve gone into one or two apartments or houses where it was overrun by dogs or cats and was never cleaned. I could barely breath from the stench. How can people live like that?
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