Video: Inara Sings "I'll Tell My Ma" (Patreon)

OMG! I had soooo much fun last night. I didn't realize how excited I was until 30 minutes before Inara, Kenzie, and I were were ready to depart for The Lost Druid Brewery. That’s when I pulled Kenzie aside and asked her to help Inara get dressed because she was taking too long. And Inara would also want to put on makeup.

We got to the brewery later than I would’ve liked. It was kind of dead when we arrived at 6 PM. I was a little nervous. Tho fortunately, Carol was there. So there’d be at least one person to listen. Gwen arrived shortly afterward. But it was almost 7 PM before most people arrived. That’s when I finally invited Inara up to sing her songs.

Inara was in great form. Our practice this week REALLY helped. She sang with confidence and her voice sounded good.

Funny thing about kids is they usually sing with a kids voice. But singers know you have to support your voice. You train it to sound pretty. This is something I never thought about until I started recognizing my own kids voices.

One of Inara’s strengths is that she is able to sing with emotion when need be. I learned that from Elvis Presley. Inara learned it from every pop singer she listens to. It’s a special talent that I don’t ever hear anyone talk about. But it’s the wee difference between the kids voice and the grown up voice.

Interestingly, I think I found that from playing Celtic music. Whereas Inara and even Kenzie find it more from some of their modern singer influences like Grace VanderWaal, Cher Lloyd, Ed Sheeran, Taylor Swift and the Julie and The Phantoms soundtrack.

She still needs practice. We are now doing that almost daily. Mostly with the guitar, but I’m hoping to add more vocal exercises to our practice sessions to come.

Inara sang 6 or 7 songs with me. Two them she took the lead on—“Irish Lilting” and “I’ll Tell My Ma”. But I felt like she added a lot to all of the songs we sang together. It definitely sounded different. But it was solid!

Quick side note, the girls raised $65 for the Atlanta Community Food Bank. I know it’s not much, but I gotta say, I am proud we did that and raised even that small amount. It felt good. And hopefully, we can do it again.

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Any case, the evening was a huge success in my book. We had a great turnout. People had fun. All of Inara’s friends and their siblings raved about how great she did. I am happy and proud daddy!