Day Tripper

Saturday 13th August 2011


9.30am and the coach headed out to Alexandria.  Alexandria is an historic town with beautiful buildings and a lovely marina.  Modern America moved in though with the old building frontages but modern shops including a Starbucks inside.  There is a ferry that runs in the week which goes to Mount Vernon (this is where George Washington lived) but as it was the weekend the ferry wasn't running.

The coach was back at the hotel by about 4.30pm and by 6pm we were all ready in our band uniform and heading to Gaithersburg Concert Pavillion for our 7pm performance.  Like the majority of our performances this one was also well attended by the people of Gaithersburg with easily 140 people in attendance.  We played for an hour and a half and every number was received with rapturous applause.  The set list included:

Castel Coch
Final Countdown
African Funk
Way Down Yonder in New Orleans
James Bond Collection
L'il Darlin'
I Will Follow Him
Memory
Reet Petite
Fascinating Drums
Everybody Needs Somebody
Sparks
Bacharach for Brass
Valero
America the Beautiful
God Bless America

and One Voice as an Encore.

The crowd loved us and again gave us a standing ovation.  It was a wonderful end to our concert tour performances and meant for the next day we could let our hair down.

Once back at the hotel it was free time and dinner time, once again off to the Rio Centre.