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| Four Seasons Hemet Herald | April 2016 | 22 With spring right around the corner you will enjoy our next event. We plan to carpool from the Lodge on April 19 at 9 am to the Carlsbad Flower Fields. Lucille Gould, (951) 325-8366 and Colleen Rosenberger, (951) 926-1230 are your hostesses. We will be stopping for lunch before heading home. Looks like some of the ladies want to visit the outlets and then join the rest for lunch. This is a good time to mention tipping the driver for gas at $5 for 25 miles, over that is $10. Future events include visiting beautiful gardens and then lunch. In June is our annual visit to Capistrano with lunch at the Cedar Creek Inn. Our past events were to Pala Casino for the 60+. Rod Stewart and the discount buffet made the trip fun for about 14 ladies. March 28 was our brunch and a fun game. Our Bistro set up a wonderful buffet for $12 and our hostesses had nice gifts for the prizes. A big thank you to Dee Martin and Pat Hall for all the hard work. Four Seasons Ladies Club Chairman is Dianne Nauialis, she can be reached at (951) 926-3537 or Co-Chairman Linda Bryan at (951) 282-2001, if you need any information about the club. Karaoke & Dance Party I received a question a few weeks ago about how the "singers rotation" works at karaoke, and I hope eveyone got the email blast on this subject before the March karaoke. To follow up, maybe I should explain why I do it this way. I've been going to karaoke bars and venues for about 10 years, from Maine to Florida, and So. Carolina to California and watched a lot of KJs host shows. But the best I've seen is Broadway Jake at Broadway Louies in Myrtle Beach So. Carolina, a tourist spot amongst clubs like the Hard Rock Cafe, Froggy Bottoms and Margaritaville. Jake hosts karaoke seven nights a week, 9 pm to 2 am, and I use his system. This bar is huge! On Friday and Saturday night there will be 200 to 300 people there for karaoke. It's four steps up on the stage, entertainment smoke, professional lighting, and a sound system that could rock a stadium, intimidating, even for good singers. If you don't fill out a song slip and hand it to Jake by 9:30 pm, you won't get to sing. He won't accept a tip to move you up in the rotation, makes no difference who you are, and there are a lot of famous people who show up to sing. Check out his website to see the stars that show up for karaoke, even Pres. Obama (Broadway Jakes All-star Karaoke). Like Jake told me, when you have 60 or 70 people who want to sing, the only way to keep track is with song slips. There are a lot of clubs where it makes no difference if you're the first one to fill out and turn in a song slip, (Don Laughlins River Club in Laughlin or in Carlsbad, Coyote Bar & Grill) the regulars are going to sing first. It's not fair, but I understand it. The regulars are there all the time and tip all the time--its the nature of the business. That's why I try to keep the rotation in order, because to me, its about the music. Each singer has their own taste in music and sings their favorite songs. There's nothing better than someone coming up, grabbing the mic, and blowing the room away with their voice. It happens all the time. My wife and I shared a table with Courtney Cox and the cast of Cougartown at the Backstage Bar & Grill for karaoke. Brian, the ex-husband on the show, told me his dad used to bring him to Hemet as a kid to hunt rabbit. I told him he must be lousy shot because there's still a million rabbits in Hemet. When I finished my song at the Laughlin River Club and the KJ called up the next singer Jay, he walked on stage and announced "I'm going to sing a song I did in the 60s," and he broke out with "Cara Mia." It was Jay Traynor of Jay and the Americans. He was in town visiting his brother who lives across the river in Bullhead City. I talked with him for the rest of the evening — what a nice guy. Karaoke is a great way to meet nice people and have some fun, so come join us next time April 10 in the Ballroom at 2 pm.