We¹ve done a couple of marathon medleys where there was continuous music for 3 hours! We did it by having four 3 or 4 person bands playing about 40 minutes each. We overlapped bands by swapping out one player at a time, which meant we needed to prearrange a swap tune everyone knows for each band switch. The last 20 minutes all the musicians piled on stage and played as a megaband. It was a real hoot! I think your melody players will have more fun if they can play off book and be comfortable handling changes on the fly - long medleys are bound to have a few surprises and if they're glued to a book they have a harder time making adjustments. Also you have to have a sound crew who is up to the challenge. We are fortunate to have pretty good equipment and generally cheerful sound people. Sarah On 10/7/15, 4:06 PM, "Musicians on behalf of Susan Rachel Lorand via Musicians" <musicians-bounces(a)lists.sharedweight.net on behalf of musicians(a)lists.sharedweight.net> wrote: