Have you ever been eagerly anticipating the chance to connect with your audience, only to discover that they are seemingly a football field's distance away from you? That's the story from our three recent above appearances. All 3 groups were adorable and well-intentioned. I could see on their faces that they wanted to "get this party started!" But due to the distance, as well as other factors, they stopped short of really letting themselves go.
It was indeed an honor to be featured at each of these high profile events, and even though the pep and interplay was decreased, the band still received high kudos from the groups after the fact. Only at the Arts Festival did we manage to reach across "the lawn" and get some booty-shakin' and shoutin' goin' on.
Actually these gigs did remind me of a weird oddity in performing which is, sometimes the quietest groups generate the most kudos, sometimes the loudest groups give little to no kudos (which isn't what it's all about anyway, but still feels good), sometimes the largest groups are touched the least, and sometimes (most of the time throughout my career) the littlest groups bear the greatest fruit and provoke the most impact. We'll just call this "the performance paradox."
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