We played in New Braunfels, TX, tonight. The crowd brought us a bunch of requests. One of my favorite tunes “What A Wonderful World” was requested, so I played it for a woman in the front row. A couple songs went by, and she came up the piano while I was in the middle of a song and began shuffling through my requests, looked upset, then sat down. After I finished that song, I asked Heather to talk to the crowd and I got the woman’s attention to see what was wrong. She quickly got a waitress’s attention, paid their bill, and left with her husband. After the show, we asked the waitress what was wrong. She told us the woman was very upset that we played her request and then put the tip she left with the song into our tip jar. I’m so confused. To be clear, she was upset that we DID play her song and put her tip into our jar. Everyone else had a great time and told us how much they loved our show. One guy even came up after a song to tell me how good Heather and I sound together. I told him it’s easy when you love who you play with!
