To get over my nervousness, I've been playing during the charity dinner at a local church. They have a great Baldwin console piano on the stage. Sometimes a catering team church member plays it, but mostly it is ignored. I found the situation when my church was catering, the piano was just sitting there, and before the dishes needed washed I had a little free time. The audience ignores me, except to interrupt me sometimes to make a request - most often for Amazing Grace which I truly detest as the hymn that Janis Joplin made famous, but I do comply. Another person interrupts me to find out if the music I'm playing was played by Marvin Hamlisch. Sort of correct, I do play Scott Joplin, but not in the wimpy fashion Mr. Hamlisch made famous in the Entertainer movie. People at charity dinners are not the politeest people in the world, but getting along with ordinary people is a skill I need to work on anyway.
Look around, some cities have public pianos on street corners or in train stations, others like mine just have churches with free dinners and an out of tune piano in the fellowship hall. I suppose there are still bars with pianos. In most cases, I have to tune the piano myself before I start, but that doesn't cost me anything. I've got a grand piano almost to pitch in at a church in the next county, that allows me to play with the middle pedal, what a pleasure to a console owner. The church secretary there is a Scott Joplin fan. Onward and upward, next, maybe someone will recognize Lecuona or Granados! One guy did recognize Beethoven, Moonlight, no surprise really.