http://cindygrayson.com/blog.html Cindy Grayson: Blog Jannis' PHPRss class - http://www.jannis.to/ Sat, 24 Dec 2011 10:06:08 -0800 http://cindygrayson.com/blog.html/merry_christmas_and_a_happy_new_year_201112 My job at the Manhattan Fine Dining Restaurant in Lufkin is also going very well. I've even got to do a couple of private parties lately and my delivery has gotten so much better, I even got a $200 tip last weekend. I need to get on the ball and make some more copies of my CD's and some more cards. I'm almost out and my music requests are picking up.
I've also been volunteering at my Dad's Nursing Home the last month or so and the theory that music can reach where the human touch can't is so true. Faces light up and they go thru the day with smiles when they use to just sit. It's wonderful!
So " Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from Nacogdoches, Texas and keep the music going!!!]]> http://cindygrayson.com/blog.html/merry_christmas_and_a_happy_new_year_201112 Sat, 24 Dec 2011 10:06:08 -0800 " I will play for you and touch your soul" - Cindy Grayson - Blog http://cindygrayson.com/blog.html/whats_happening_now http://cindygrayson.com/blog.html/whats_happening_now Sun, 27 Nov 2011 18:54:37 -0800 " I will play for you and touch your soul" - Cindy Grayson - Blog http://cindygrayson.com/blog.html/update http://cindygrayson.com/blog.html/update Sun, 20 Nov 2011 19:59:15 -0800 " I will play for you and touch your soul" - Cindy Grayson - Blog http://cindygrayson.com/blog.html/the_mnahattan7_29_11 I never know if I'm going to play a set that will strike home for anyone. I use to start from the front of the book ( which has gotten quite big) and then I started opening it at the middle and this time I went from the back to the middle and jumped to the front and skipped around sort of as it felt right.
I use to make a set and stick to it but as you play longer, you learn to look at the audience and feel the mood and change songs to fit the mood. I use to have a stack of sheets laid out that the waiters could hand out but I've expanded my list of songs so much that I need to completely revise my sheets and I haven't had the time to sit down and redo it. I'll do it.
A new friend of mine, Ann Castle, came and sat right in front of me. It's funny. When I started, people said they preferred to sit in one of the back rooms and now lately, people have been opting to sit in the same room where I play. I think they were afraid that I would be too loud and they wouldn't be able to talk but one of the things I try hard to remember that dinner music should be in the background and you don't want to read lips during your dinner. It's suppose to inhance the meal - not wipe it out. :-)
It was a good evening!]]> http://cindygrayson.com/blog.html/the_mnahattan7_29_11 Mon, 01 Aug 2011 19:27:06 -0700 " I will play for you and touch your soul" - Cindy Grayson - Blog http://cindygrayson.com/blog.html/the_manhattan_7_15_11 I covered most of the James Taylor and Joni Mitchel and Paul Simon songs I knew and then switched to Peter Paul and Mary, Dylon and squeezed in various originals as I could. They really want to hear the song they recognize. Leonard Cohen's " Hallelujah" and the old traditional" There's Whiskey In The Jar" from the traditional Irish is always a great one as long as I put John Denver's " Country Roads" before it and after a couple of bottles of wine. It was a great evening!]]> http://cindygrayson.com/blog.html/the_manhattan_7_15_11 Mon, 18 Jul 2011 20:35:14 -0700 " I will play for you and touch your soul" - Cindy Grayson - Blog http://cindygrayson.com/blog.html/the_manhattan_7811 It's been so hot here in East Texas that I'm hoping I can spend more time indoors and maybe get some practicing in. I only have the mounted speakers and I'll have a portable PA system with monitors. I may buy another small amp though. I enjoy being amped because it means I can do things with my voice I can't do otherwise since I don't project well. Maybe my neighbors will hear me:-)]]> http://cindygrayson.com/blog.html/the_manhattan_7811 Mon, 11 Jul 2011 20:00:57 -0700 " I will play for you and touch your soul" - Cindy Grayson - Blog http://cindygrayson.com/blog.html/hot_this_morning I fed the fish and the cats and went about getting my meds together. I believe that we need to take a multi vitamin and a few other vitamins to make sure I get what I need. My Aunt Violet takes a lot of vitamins every day and she's 88 years old and still push mows her lawn and walks 2 miles a day and cleans 2 houses a week and if I can be that active when I'm that age, I'll do the same. I believe that our bodies are our temples and that if we expect to keep them, we aught to do our best to take care of them.
The time is coming when we will have to take care of what defines us as humans and part of that is taking care of ourselves. Indulgences are nice but they won't hold us through the rough times to come, and they are coming. What defines us as a culture is our science and art and architecture - and of course our music. I'm not sure that my personal music will make much of a difference but I am a musician and an artist and that is what I do so I will continue.
The weather is changing and the laws of survival will be define us as survivors or the next extinct species. Personally, I'd rather take it all with my music in hand.
Of course these are just my thoughts. It could be one of those evening things - or it could be really happening :-)]]> http://cindygrayson.com/blog.html/hot_this_morning Mon, 20 Jun 2011 19:37:44 -0700 " I will play for you and touch your soul" - Cindy Grayson - Blog http://cindygrayson.com/blog.html/music http://cindygrayson.com/blog.html/music Tue, 31 May 2011 20:02:28 -0700 " I will play for you and touch your soul" - Cindy Grayson - Blog http://cindygrayson.com/blog.html/manhattan__52711 More later. It was great though - and the food is amazing!]]> http://cindygrayson.com/blog.html/manhattan__52711 Fri, 27 May 2011 22:26:17 -0700 " I will play for you and touch your soul" - Cindy Grayson - Blog http://cindygrayson.com/blog.html/personal_dreams http://cindygrayson.com/blog.html/personal_dreams Sat, 21 May 2011 18:45:30 -0700 " I will play for you and touch your soul" - Cindy Grayson - Blog