I took my double bass to the sing around session this afternoon but just led one song. It was the best attended session in a long while (about 20 performers) so it took a long while to go round the circle and I decided to head home at half time to get a few seeds sown in the polytunnel. We’re due quite a warm week but, although the evenings are getting lighter, it still wouldn’t have been quite light enough by the time I got home.

Anyway, the song I performed was I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free – a jazz classic I’ve used a lot but I wanted to try it in another key as I’ve got a duet with a flautist next month where it has been shifted down from G to F. That cuts out some of the open string options compared to what I’ve been used to but I’m now confident that it works both for the playing and for my vocal range.