This is my entry for the Pay it forward Curation contest by @thedarkhorse.

This week, I find myself in Prague at short notice for a couple days. And it is the weirdest job, I play in only one programme of this orchestra, and during the day they rehearse the other programme. So I have just two short 2 hour rehearsals in the the evenings of the next two days and then straight into the concert on the next day! And I get paid the same as everyone else.... Strange, but I'll take it!

Sketches

Heh, I've started to learn that I should lead my Pay it Forward posts with an artist and not a musician... No one likes to look at the musician, and artists just make a better visual lead!

@teukuhanis (REP 49) does some pretty impressive pencil sketches. His most recent post is My Original Painting : a funny facial expression pencil painting is an example of his pencil sketch art, but he also does some pretty cool digital art as well as some crafts. Pretty talented work if you ask me!

Singing

Now, I'm pretty sure I haven't yet featured @mariajruizb (REP 46), but she is a singer from Venuzuela who I found whilst doing my curation rounds with @classical-radio. She has some great videos up (this one is "Siempre estarás presente" video especial de @mariajruizb "zamba para no morir"), and regularly appears with @danieldedosd2 and @davidcentenor; I think I may have featured one or the other, it's getting pretty hard to keep track of who I have and haven't mentioned! Anyway, both her friends are great guitarists and singers as well, but this was the post that caught my attention this morning when I was running for the airport....

Positive Steemian

Pexels

When I think postive person on Steemit... I would have to say it is @dreemsteem. She writes an ongoing novel and some poetry, but her main passion seems to be making god-awful jokes (mostly in Discord) that are so terrible that you laugh (speaking of which, that picture above is my contribution to the bad jokes...). If you look down her comments, she seems to be perpetually on a high... LOLLOLLOLOLLLOLOLOLLOLOLL appears to be in ready supply!

A couple of weeks ago, I heard what she sounded like in real life and it was a pleasant surprise... and she is just as cheery sounding as I would have thought (just maybe a few octaves lower and not like a chipmunk on speed!). In the Discord, it seems like she can bat out several sentences to my couple of syllables... Anyway, she is a top Steemian (forming @welcomewagon) and the poster child for positivity!