Long Island
The band travelled to Long Island on Sunday to play a wedding gig. It was a good day to go, as the traffic was very light, and we arrived with lots of time to set up our gear.
This was my first performance at a Jewish wedding and it was an eye opener. There was lots of ceremony that I, as a Catholic, had never seen before. Lots of dancing and not as much drinking as I have seen in other weddings. The highpoint of the dancing for me was when the crowd surrounded the bride and groom and picked them up in their chairs, and proceeded to toss them into the air, chairs and all. They repeated this for about ten minutes. The groom was digging it, and the bride looked scared to death.
The ceremony after the wedding vows consisted of a medley of songs that the crowd danced to nonstop. We played this medley of tunes for about thirty minutes. the dancers were quite resiliant, and they did their thing at full speed the whole time.
There wasn't any tossing of a bouquet, and no garter ceremony either. It was a quite different experience for me. It was fun, and I look forward to performing at the next one.
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