Thank You Horsemen's Run!
Last Saturday October 15th, the BlairOutLoud BAND performed for the Horsemen’s Run Neighborhood in Fayetteville, GA for their annual Oktoberfest Gathering. This is the second time that we’ve been asked to be their musical entertainment, and we were happy to set up in their beautiful park area, and we put on a great show!
The Horsemen’s Run gate at the front of the subdivision.
Horsemen’s Run has a huge centralized park in the middle of the neighborhood. They also have a gazebo that faces the park, and this is where the band sets up to play for everyone that comes and gathers for the event.
Horsemen’s Run’s gazebo that faces the park: a great place for photos, gatherings, and live music.
Last year we sat up in front of the gazebo on the softer ground. The thought was that we wanted to be closer to the participants. Although it was a fun night, at the end of the evening as the band was cleaning up and loading out, every cable and a lot of the equipment was wet with dew. It got messy and we quickly regretted that decision.
For this year.. we decided to go ahead and set up fully inside the gazebo. This would be a little easier on the gear, and it made our load-out a lot easier as well. We weren’t as close to the crowd of course. But at the end of the evening, we received many complements on our sets, and several folks commented that it we were at a perfect volume “to rock out to the music”, but also be able to “catch-up with our friends”.
We took a mixed approach to the music that we performed. We started with a few tunes that we’ve done at many recent shows, opening with “Come Together” (with Amanda Blair singing lead), and then followed it up with “We’re An American Band”.. both in the key of D. Both of these songs work to warm things up. All of us sing so we’re also listening for balanced sound levels for instruments and voices. We can usually iron out the kinks in the sound within the first few songs.
After two or three tunes, we opened up the invitation to request tunes from our online song list. Have you seen this yet? If you haven’t checked it out yet, when you get a second, click the button and it will take you to the BAND Tips and Requests Page.
The requests started pouring in, as well as the tips.. and we so appreciate that Horsemen’s Run! We really appreciate your participation and the support that you gave us all night long. We had a blast and look forward to doing it again in ‘23! Below are some more pics of us jamming in the gazebo.
BlairOutLoud BAND left to right: Amanda Blair, Tom Blair, Darren Goot, and Tom Carling
Oktoberfest participants staking out their area to sit and enjoy the show.
BlairOutLoud BAND rockin’ the gazebo!
We always bring an assortment of colorful lights to brighten up the stage area at every show.
Thank you again to Horsemen’s Run for having us again this year to play for your neighborhood! I wanted to include this in the blog because there might be some of you reading this that would love for the band to come play your neighborhood party.. maybe you don’t have an awesome gazebo like Horsemen’s Run LOL.. but we can set up almost anywhere, as long as it’s a hard surface and level.
Hire BlairOutLoud for your musical entertainment at your next event! Thanks all!