ライブも無事終了。来て下さった皆様。本当にありがとうございました。
....何から書いて良いのか分からない。
私がエリカちゃんと演奏する事を決定してからは、私が指揮をとって、日程、場所の手配、他ミュージシャンへの依頼、選曲、リハーサル日程、そして一番大事な集客。
私の今までの考え方は、「もしそれが良い物であれば、自然と人は集まる。」
そんな甘い訳はなく、お客様にどうしてこのライブはお金を払ってまで来る価値があるのか、彼女の音楽はどうしてそこまで良いのかと言葉に表す能力が必要な訳で。どうしても宣伝て、甘い言葉で誘惑をそそるみたいな悪いイメージがありました。（英語ではシュガーコート、砂糖で外側を固めてみたいな意味があります）。
エリカちゃんが２０−３０のライブ日程を決めて行く事から比べればたった２つのライブの企画／運営／集客は本当大した事はないと思うのですが。1日24は十分では本当にないと痛感しました。
こういう風に忙しい時は余裕がないので練習に時間は十分にもちろんかけれないし、周りをちゃんと見なくてはならないし、いろんなトラブルが出て来るし。メンタルタフネス（精神力）は本当大事だと思いました。他の言葉で言い換えればなんだろ、自分を信じる事でしょうか。
せっかくブログを書いているので、共演ミュージシャンの事を書きたいと思います！
もう本当演奏も素晴らしく、しかも人間性も素晴らしい方達ばかりで、また演奏を一緒に出来るように頑張ろうと思いました。本当ありがとうございました。
最後に、今このブログを書いていても思います。なんだかんだ言っても挑戦してみるべきだと。この体での人生は一度だけだから。もう一体なんなのー。って思う事だらけで心折れて涙が出てしまう事もあるけど。でも以外にちゃんと上手く行くみたいですよ。
Erika chan from NY came to Niigata, my hometown on October 8th and 9th.
Both gigs were great! I thank everyone who came to see our gigs.
Well.... I don't know what to start.
I am usually the side musician. I do the gigs which were already set. I could spend most of my time for myself such as practicing.
This idea with Erika chan came out before summer. Since then, I needed to take action to decide everything, dates, places, performers, and finally the most important task, bringing as many people as I could for this wonderful 2 events.
Compare to Erika chan who schedules about 20 to 30 gigs in her tour, these were the only 2 gigs. I really felt that 24 hours a day is not ENOUGH! I need my brain to work faster and better!!!
I do not like the idea of advertising. I used to think, "If it is good, people will come". All the sugar coated words and advertising are unnecessary. But reality is not like that. I need to be able to tell how worth it is to spend money for these gigs and how good her music is to the people who have never heard her music and perhaps never come to listen to jazz. This was hard.
Above all, I could not spend a lot of my time for practicing, and my concentration was not 100% towards to the music. Other things came one after another, but this was really a good life experience for me. Mental toughness is very very very important. It may not be "toughness", but more like "trusting yourself".
OK! Enough of me. Let's change the subject! I would like to write about musicians I played with for these gigs. They were amazing! They were not only great musicians but also great people. They dedicated so much even in the short time. I hope to play again with them.
This is Sunday morning, and I am writing this blog. I really feel that challenge is not bad. I am alive with this body, and it will be the only time to live in this lifetime. There are lots of hardships and unexpected things happenings and I often want to break out in tears. But it seems that you life goes the way you want, just like that.
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