I’ve got lots of nervous energy churning inside and around me these days. I am getting ready for a weekend appearance in Durham at the Triangle Corporate Battle of the Bands Competition. It’s just a friendly competition between six Triangle companies whose employees happen to have business as well as musical savvy. I was thrilled to be invited to host the night’s festivities. No biggie there.

Here’s the thing. The planners for Saturday night’s program have heard that I am doing a bit of singing around town and they asked me to do one song. Woo-hoo!!! I have a songbook that’s ever expanding, but there’s a theme to Saturday night and until 2 days ago, I didn’t have a song that would flow with the Gangster-Sinatra-esq atmosphere they’ved created.

Everybody associated with Battle of the Bands is wearing pinstripes and neon accessories. I didn’t have the right song, but I really wanted to sing. Arrggghh!!!!
That’s how I was feeling. Thank God, again, for Lisa my voice coach.

During my session with Lisa on Wednesday, she pulled out the music for ALL THAT JAZZ. We practiced it a few times. I’m lying. We went over it for the entire 45 minute session. I am still trying to memorize the lyrics, and the clock is ticking. Thus, the angst. ))

For the rest of this week, I’ve been singing ALL THAT JAZZ everywhere I go! I am making progress, but there have only been a few times I’ve gotten through the song without messing up. I don’t even have a breathing pattern established for this song. Believe me when I say, to get through certain parts of ALL THAT JAZZ, you have to get that right!

Today and tomorrow, I will be summoning all the energy I can from my WHOLE body to serve this song, and the one thousand or so folks who will be at the American Tobacco Campus on Saturday night.