This evening I don’t have a band practise to go to (a week off for half term) so I’m going to head down to Sileby for Cafe Live, an event that moved down there from Loughborough after the pandemic.

We’re taking a couple of friends down with us so the double bass will have to stay at home. What I’m going to do instead is take the banjo. As I mentioned a couple of days ago, I’ve been giving some banjo lessons recently and this strikes me as a good (or perhaps foolhardy) way to keep my skills moving forward ahead of my student! If nothing else, it means it doesn’t matter whether it is mainly an acoustic evening or one where most stuff is plugged in – it has been a while since I last went along. Banjo is pretty good at being heard so I shouldn’t have a problem either way!