I have been a professional musician for 20 years, I know over 500 songs by request, and I am super confident in my performing ability. But as an introvert who is not a huge fan of small talk, the thing that I hate most about that job is the hosting - talking on the mic between songs. It has plagued me for 20 years and I’ve never gotten that much better at it. In fact, I have sort of settled into being a kind of Zen performer that doesn’t talk very much and lets the music speak for itself.

That said, I would like to get better at the emcee / talk part.

Most of the time when a song ends, I really just don’t know what to say besides Thank You. Especially during FOUR hour sets.

I would love if you all could help me come up with an ACTUAL BULLET POINT LIST OF IDEAS I could draw from. Especially if they are general. If I had a list of like 20 prompts, I could just pull from those on sort of rotation until I eventually got better.

Thanks in advance!