Well lets' see. I've had a lot of special moments...got to play with Johnny Cash and Willie Nelson...got to record with Kathy Mattea and Delbert McClinton. Had one of my all time favorite singers, Razzy Bailey, tell me he was my biggest fan. Those were pretty special, but there's one recently that beats anything I've ever done hands down.

Last month my daughter got married. She married a wonderful young man from China. His family lives in New York City where they own a restaurant. He works here as a chef in another family restaurant. Some of his family are older and do not travel well, so we had the wedding in New York. It was a modern traditional Cantonese Chinese wedding, which is very joyous and downright spectacular. During the ceremony and celebration, my daughter wore four different wedding gowns, traditional western white gown; a traditional Chinese red silk dress; A blue gown and a pink gown that looked like fairy princess'. The wedding party was showered with confetti shot from tubes like fireworks. There was a tea ceremony, an eight course dinner, and Karaoke with the english speaking emcee, the Cantonese speaking emcee, and one of my daughter's friends, a singer from here in Nashville.

I heard somewhere that it is a high compliment for a non-Chinese person to sing in Chinese, so I learned a very popular wedding song, "The Moon Represents My Heart" in Cantonese. Not being a big fan of Karaoke (and it's not chinese anyway LOL), I sang the song a capella. It was a surprise to all except my wife. After the first verse, the entire crowd sang along. I was the only one singing who had no idea what the words meant smile I looked over and my son-in-law was singing too. There was laughter and tears.

That was undoubtedly my most special musical moment.

You've got to know your limitations. I don't know what your limitations are. I found out what mine were when I was twelve. I found out that there weren't too many limitations, if I did it my way. -Johnny Cash

It's only music.
-niteshift

Mike Dunbar Music