{"id":914,"date":"2014-10-04T20:00:05","date_gmt":"2014-10-05T00:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.alanporter.com\/?p=914"},"modified":"2014-10-04T20:00:05","modified_gmt":"2014-10-05T00:00:05","slug":"first-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alanporter.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/04\/first-performance\/","title":{"rendered":"First Performance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/IMG_4783A.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-917\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/IMG_4783A-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_4783A\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This weekend was a first for me. I performed a simple ukulele song on a stage with an audience. The song was &#8220;Princess Poopooly&#8221; and the venue was the C.F.Martin guitar company tent at the IBMA World of Bluegrass street festival.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/IMG_4780A.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-916 size-medium\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/IMG_4780A-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_4780A\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll admit, &#8220;Princess Poopooly&#8221; is not a bluegrass song&#8230; it&#8217;s a silly Hawaiian tune. But the kind folks at the Martin tent invited any and all to come up on stage and show their stuff. Play a song, get a T-shirt.<\/p>\n<p>The performance itself was underwhelming. I&#8217;ve never worked with mics before, so it was a little constraining to sit behind two: one for me and one for my ukulele. Halfway through my song, the uke mic dropped out of the stand and into my lap, which led to the most-remembered line of my act: &#8220;whoops!&#8221;  The kids laughed and repeated that one over and over.<\/p>\n<p>This was the realization of a promise I made to myself at last year&#8217;s World of Bluegrass festival.  After watching a bunch of other folks step up and play (including both of my daughters), I decided that it was time to pick up an instrument myself and learn.<\/p>\n<p>Big thanks to the folks in the audience who cheered me on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend was a first for me. I performed a simple ukulele song on a stage with an audience. The song was &#8220;Princess Poopooly&#8221; and the venue was the C.F.Martin guitar company tent at the IBMA World of Bluegrass street festival. I&#8217;ll admit, &#8220;Princess Poopooly&#8221; is not a bluegrass song&#8230; it&#8217;s a silly Hawaiian tune. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-music","count-0","even alt","author-alan","last"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanporter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanporter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanporter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanporter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanporter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alanporter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanporter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanporter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanporter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}