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Make Your Last Dance Count: a bref double
If asked, I do sing father-daughter songs at weddings; it’s the worst part of my job: to put on false sincerity and smile through lyrics so trite they make my skin crawl. It’s not that sentiment is always bad; but who in their right mind would sing along and waste these precious moments on such dreck? Continue reading
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The Wedding Singer
OK, so I play a lot of weddings. And invariably, the wedding organizers will request that the band play a number of songs at key points in the evening – the bride and groom’s first dance, the bride and her … Continue reading