Manage Handwrytten Notes

The staff at the Holiday inn were super helpful throughout this event! We especially appreciated the big cargo carts, which made load in a snap.

While we set up, Kevin and I met Heath, the owner at Midway Auto dealerships, who made sure we had everything we need and let us know what to expect from the crowd: not a ton of dancing, but with a few real characters. This proved correct!

We sat down with some of the attendees and introduced ourselves over a great steak dinner. The Metallica requests were coming in from some of our tablemates before salad was done!

There were some quick announcements, and we started right into the show. We had them singing at their tables and fielded a ton of requests, with old country and tv theme songs being the biggest hits. Heath was right about the dancing, but we did get a good line dance going at the end of the night.

Most of our crowd participation came from our guest vocalists (a wireless is always so great at these events), which was mostly a fellow named Josh who rapped, sang, and solo danced much of the night. I also want to shout out Joe who did a spot-on Willie Nelson while I backed him up as Waylon on "Mama Don't let your babies grow up to be Cowboys". These guys helped make the night more fun and memorable for all of us.