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Playing in a restaurant (advice?)
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Playing in a restaurant (advice?) 9 months, 2 weeks ago #6217

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Hi everybody.

My name's Bashu, and I've got a recent accordion habit.

I was mostly using it to write my own songs, like here, but it's true that when you play accordion, you get a lot of requests to play places, and an Italian restaurant has engaged me to quite happily play classics on its patio for customers. I'm pretty satisfied with this gig,

But I seem to have a limited repertoire. Does anybody have any suggestions for songs that are nice to hear in a restaurant on accordion? Especially some soft Italian ones. I think the chef would be happy to hear that.

Also, I'm never quite sure if I'm being too intrusive, or on the other hand not engaging enough. I try to intuit it. Does anybody have any advice, especially anyone who's done this kind of gig before?

Thank you very much for any answer you give.

-Bashu

Re: Playing in a restaurant (advice?) 9 months, 2 weeks ago #6226

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Hi Bashu; Happy to hear about your new gig. I've been performing this type of venue for some yrs. now and have a simple solution for your needs. you want to pick up a publication called THE ULTIMATE FAKE BOOK 'C' EDITION its published by Hal Leonard and contains about 90% of the singalongs,special requests,novelty and nationality tunes you will need for this type of gig. If you check out Amazon.com you can find this for 1/2 its retail price. Good luck and have fun. JIMD This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
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