ChromeDrummer
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I am currently playing in a band which plays mostly rock with a female singer and we have been playing anything from Evanescence to Whitney Houston with a little Grace Potter thrown in. Last summer we played at our local outdoor venue for a RibFest event. We played a 45 minute set, playing a variety of styles of music because all ages attend these concerts. Everyone enjoyed our set even though the sound on stage was very bad and our singer couldn't hear herself. I know, you all have been there. Later, in the fall, we were asked to support a touring artist at the same venue, I think because the original band booked for the show bailed out. We were being asked to do a 50 minute set. We told them that we could do basically the same set that we played for RibFest. They agreed but one of the guys that was involved with the event told us that he DID NOT want any country music. He knew that we come close to county by playing Good Girl by Carrie Underwood (our singer really tears that song up). He told us there is no way we could play that song for this event. The city in which we were playing has two really popular radio stations that play these pop songs plus, I don't really consider this song "country". We thought that since it is an all ages family concert and combined with the fact that we play it well, that this song would appeal to the younger attendees. I know what I wanted to tell him, but we complied and omitted it from the set. Everything went great and had a good time. My question is, have any of you been in this situation and what did you do, or what would you have done. BTW, we have been asked to do at least two more shows this year, so maybe we did the right thing. Just bothers me to be told what we could or couldn't play. Never been told this before. What say you?