A Fender Passport, that is.
My son and I played my daughter's graduation party and played for three different sets of people. He did great! I messed up...
But I think he can start doing small gigs if he can get about 5 songs down to start with.
So I bought a used Passport 250 for only $350.00. It works great for a small little thing. Not much EQ control, but I'm thinking of putting my 8 channel mixer in front of it instead of using the built in mixer.