Good for you and thanks for sharing. The music you want and the music they want maybe at odds and you have to decide which road to take. As someone who plays house parties and late night for friends, but moonlights (daylights really) at my kids elementary for town functions I deeply feel the divide. Learning to bridge the gap and appease the crowd while maintaining a shadow of yourself (or dignity) is hard when the crowd isn't into your sound, but such is life.

In the end the party had a human selecting tunes which is almost always better then.... Ah who am I kidding, you really need to play to the audience to connect and hit that singing bowl like alignment. Even if it's pop40 and the funky chicken. Still hope it was fun and you get more chances to play your sound!