Let me face it

Let's face it. In another couple of months, I should be ready with a band that will perform songs from different regional languages of India. I have gathered a bunch of people who can sing and all that. But I am not really sure how good they are. I'll have to hold an audition sometime next week to find out. Also, I need to talk to the instrumentalists and find out what they are comfortable with. The slowest person will determine the pace of the group. So far, a percussionist seems to be the bottleneck, although one of my good drummer friends has agreed to play. If he becomes busy or something, I would like to have a back up, but I don't have a choice at this point. Now, the last year when we performed for the same show, I kind of joined after the songs have been decided - they were all Hindi songs and there was no questions to be asked from my side although I did end up giving a lot of input. This time, I am kind of concerned about the song selection because I don't know all the other languages. I want to have only popular songs that are not more than 15 years old. I want to bring freshness and make the audience dance for our songs. At the same time, I require that the song has some decent musical complexity so that all our participants have a chance to showcase their talent. We will have to see how this goes. I wonder whether all the participants will share the same enthusiasm as me. I have to be the bad guy this time, beating around people to do their work after office hours :) Hopefully, the show I am going to put up should top the previous year's show. We shall see and I'll keep this blog updated on the events.