Tiny Sax's words about Time For My Music

This is the last, but in no way least, post about the stars who shone in the Time For My Music Evening Showcase at the MAC theatre of Birmingham in October last year. Sign-ups for the programme will open very, very soon, and we have a lot in store. Join the mailing list to be the first to know when recruitment starts.

So, here's Tiny Sax. She’s an alto saxophonist with a deep appreciation of Blues, Soul, Jazz and Funk. She fell in love with the sound of the saxophone after hearing the soundtrack to the film ‘Alfie’, played by saxophone legend Sonny Rollins. As well as solo appearances, she also performs regularly with soul band As One Collective.

This is what she told the audience about her experience with Time For My Music:

I came upon the group quite by accident. When I was invited, I thought, “great, I’ll go along.” I said, “saxophonists? It’s only me and Millicent who are saxophonists, I better represent!” I opted in really, really confident, and then there were seven of them. Not only that, but I was the least experienced! But that’s not how they made me feel, really. It was just phenomenal. We met for a whole day and I didn’t want to go home. I wanted to chain myself to their door. We had lunch as well. Anyway, no, seriously, for a professional to share her dos and don’ts! Her experience is unique and very, very rare.

I don’t know if you noticed, during a song in the first half, that my backing track disappeared. Yes, that wasn’t designed, it was an accident. Now, given a time before Cafemnee, I’d have run off the stage crying, or to my mum or somebody, but the show must go on. That’s what we’re taught.

It feels quite alien to sort of be standing here. Actually, I’m okay with public speaking, by the way. I don’t know if you’ve noticed. But yes, my journey’s been a bit hit-and-miss. If you want to know more, that’s what I’m going to tell Graham Norton when we talk. Anyway, it’s been really, really good. As one of the girls said, [about] the technical side, I can now just walk in and say, “right, I want channel 16, I don’t want too much gain on it, and yes, I want room temperature, water, and green M&Ms.” It’s given us lots and lots of confidence. We wouldn’t be standing here, otherwise. I mean, you don’t know how scared I was to get on stage with a saxophone, I was scared to death of my own shadow, and here I am now!

You can watch Tiny Sax’ first solo performance at the 08:59 mark of this video:

And her second solo performance is at the timestamp 42:00 of this video:

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