Wednesday, October 21, 2015

Week 2 Term 4

BIG BAND FESTIVAL
This weekend our Jazz Band are playing at the Botanic Gardens Visitors Centre and Ilex Cafe on Monday at 10am. Oct 26.
The choir is singing at the Big Band Festival church service on Sunday morning 11am at South West Baptist church (corner of Cobham and Lyttelton Streets). Oct 25.
There are 40 gigs over the 3 days in 10 venues!
Check www.bigbandfest.org.nz for details.

Yesterday the jazz band were very privileged to perform with Nola Mills in assembly and are looking forward to her being at the Gardens gig on Monday.

CHRISTCHURCH PRIMARY SCHOOLS' FESTIVAL
Next week is the Primary Schools' Festival is on in the Horncastle Arena. Our choir is performing on Friday 30th. Check out http://musicfestival.school.nz/ for details about the festival.

Some of our music groups will be performing to visiting schools next week.

ITINERANT NIGHTS
There have been a couple of small changes to the itinerant nights:
Nov 25 - Clarinet, sax, keyboard, piano, cello
Nov 26 - Vocals and drums
Dec 1st - trumpet, trombone, violin, flute, bass, guitar

Coming up:
Guy Fawkes night at New Brighton - Nov 5th 6pm-7.30 Jazz band, Cosmic Latte and Catch Phrase.
Rock Night Nov 7th.


AURASMA APP
This week guests have been enjoying the Aurasma triggers on our music wall of photos.
If you are in the department, make sure you download the Aurasma app on your device and follow the judith.bell channel to see snippets of student performances come to life on our wall!

STRUM STRIKE and BLOW - LA BAMBA
Here is some newly uploaded footage of the massed La Bamba performance from last term!
https://youtu.be/iD0vsL1J4zo