Jen's Cancer Fight Message Board: Music Party 2015

One of the things that Jen & I have greatly enjoyed doing over about the past decade is hosting a music party. This year marked our 9th music party. For those of you unaware, the concept is simple - everyone contributes several personal song choices. During the party, everyone's songs are put into a massive playlist and the songs are randomly shuffled. We also compile the entire playlist onto a disc for everyone to take away so that they can revisit the songs later. The songs can be well known, obscure, or even rare. People share songs they are moved by, songs they love, songs they wish simply to shine a light on, songs that make you think, songs that make you feel, or songs that just make you want to dance. It has been interesting to watch people's musical tastes evolve over the past 10 years. You really do gain some insight into someone's personality from the songs they choose to share over time. This year we took the party on the road for the 4th time and rented an amazing house in Temecula. We all gathered together for three nights and 4 days of revelry and camaraderie. Many of those who attend are musicians themselves and some of the time was also spent with live spontaneous jam sessions.
After Jen received her diagnosis and after we had begun treatment, we also discussed the things Jen would put on her bucket list. Another music party was near the top. Now of course, she wants another one next year - and hopefully many more following that.

This was the cover art for this year's disc.

For those of you interested in checking out Jen's picks for this year I have included links to her chosen songs for 2015.

Jen's next scan is tomorrow - please keep us in your thoughts and prayers. And now for some pictures from the weekend. The party fell on Halloween, so some people chose to dress a little.