Today is my debut on the harmonica.<\/p>\n
Last time I played a musical instrument for an audience was in 1968 when our folk group, The New Creation, sang a number for KVII TV’s noon farm and ranch show with Bedford Forest.<\/p>\n
I played the guitar, knowing all of five or six chords, which was a problem since the cameraman kept taking close-ups of my fingering.<\/p>\n
Back to the harmonica. I’m performing at a talent (obviously, the organizers are using the term loosely) show put on by the mission team at First United Methodist Church Canyon.<\/p>\n
Was going to play “Somewhere over the Rainbow,” which I learned after seeing a cute Aborigine boy belt it out on his harmonica in the movie, Australia<\/em>. But when Pam the accompanist grimaced on my high note, I opted for “Shenandoah.”<\/p>\n “Perfect for a harmonica,” said Pam with a relieved smile.<\/p>\n Actually, we sounded pretty good in practice. OK, the truth is that Pam plays a mean violin and could make Tiny Tim (remember him?) sound good.<\/p>\n Let’s just say I’m not expecting a call from Simon Cowell. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today is my debut on the harmonica. Last time I played a musical instrument for an audience was in 1968 when our folk group, The New Creation, sang a number for KVII TV’s noon farm and ranch show with Bedford Forest. I played the guitar, knowing all of five or six chords, which was a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}