The group of guys I play with each week has performed for our families twice: Once this past Christmas and once the Christmas before that. The other guitar player's wife is organizing a coffeehouse event with the local Columbiettes (I guess this is the female counterpart to the Knights of Columbus). Anyway, they have asked us to play for ~20 minutes on Feb 26. Should be fun. I say its "almost real" since we got it because the organizer is a band member's wife.
It will be the second time I've played in public; in the summer of 2002 I played at a block party with another band. I was dropped from that band for unknown reasons, but after that, 3 of the other 5 guys in that band came over into the new band with me.
BTW, the son of the other guitar player is my son's drummer. Their band is also going to play. I hope we go first. My son is a much better musician than anyone in my band (actually my son plays drums in my band, but he's really a guitar player).