About 2 weeks ago we've had a special Classic Sinatra live music night at La Tasca Reading. Our guest was Ian Gallagher, leading Sinatra impersonator.
To be perfectly honest, I was somehow nervous about that, especially after a nice American couple booked a table for that evening. They told me, when they made the booking, they were huge Sinatra fans and they had also seen him live a few times and also a few impersonators in US.
The day of the event came and the music started flowing. Ian showed up from a staircase, in tuxedo and hat. From the first couple of minutes, he absolutely won everybody over.
A wonderful voice, topped with an exceptional interaction with the audience, turned the evening into a very successful night for. Everybody was smiling and singing along, customers, members of staff, even next door neighbours, curious to see what was going on.
Songs like My Way and New York, New York even lifted the customers off their seats…
It has been one of those nights when everything just turned out right: the food came right in time, the Sangria was pouring, the entertainment was flawless.
It has really been a magical night. The customers left unanimously incredibly positive feedback.
The nice American couple told me before they left that was the best performance they’d seen, except of course of Sinatra’s himself.
I really hope that we’ll have the opportunity to do this again sometime soon. Many of our regular customers, that were on holidays at that time, when they heard about the event and saw the footage that we recorded, asked us to book another evening.
So I’ve started spreading the news, as the song says… :)
