Term 2 week 3

NZ Music Month Chisnallwood Rock Week!

Thursday 19th May - Family Rock Night

6.30pm-7.15pm Family Rock Night in the hall.

This night is for families of students in RockQuest and Pasifica Beats on Saturday - a chance for students to practice performing, get some feedback, and for parents to get final details about Saturday.

Friday 20th May - Aranui Library

2pm-2.30 All Rock Bands at Aranui Library as part of NZ Music Month!

Saturday 21st May

4.30pm (-5pm)
Four of our rock bands will be performing at RockQuest at the start of the 4.30pm session. This will be at the Aurora Centre at Burnside High. Our bands performing are Broken Jandal, 82 Beats, Wild Zodiacs and @nonymous. The order of their performance times are posted on the Rockband page. 
The Semitones, a duo, are entering the online category and duo Double Chocolate entering Pasifica Beats.

JAZZ

Saturday 21st May

2.30pm Our Jazz Band are the guest performers at the Accordion Society Concert held at the Salvation Army, 250 Colombo Street. 

Rodger Fox Visit last week
Hi my name is Lena and on Thursday 12th of May some of my jazz band fellows and I went to see the famous Rodger Fox! We all learnt a lot of jazz techniques and heard him play his trombone. He also got to hear some of the pieces we played and he helped to fix them up. Rodger Fox is an amazing jazz master and I hope to see him again!

CHOIR, UKULELES and IRISH

Thursday 26th May 11.15am
The choir, ukuleles and Irish band will be performing at Aranui Library as part of NZ Music Month.

House Sing-off May 27th 1.45pm

Chisnallwood will be combining with Avondale school for this special NZ Music month event! You can find the music to learn at hooklineandsingalong.com/2016-2 

Term 2, week 2

Burnside High Visit

It was great to have Burnside High School outstanding music groups at Chisnallwood today. We saw their Big Band, their senior chorale, a guitar/vocal duo and a string trio. It was great to see lots of ex-Chisnallwood students among the performers.
Anyone interested in auditioning for their Specialist Music Programme can visit specialistmusicprogramme.co.nz  or pick up a brochure from Mrs Bell. They also have their Open Night next Tuesday. There are two rounds of auditioning - the first closes tomorrow, and the next one on July 22nd.

Coming up:

Today at 1.25pm Chisnallwood Jazz Band in Open Rehearsal with Rodger Fox at Aranui Library as part of NZ Music Month.

Thursday 19th May 

6.30pm Family Rock Night in the music room

Friday 20th May 

2pm Rock Bands at Aranui Library

Saturday 21st May

2.30pm Our Jazz Band are the guest performers at the Accordion Society Concert held at the Salvation Army, 250 Colombo Street

4.30pm Four of our rock bands will be performing at RockQuest at the start of the 4.30pm session. This will be at the Aurora Centre at Burnside High. Our bands performing are Broken Jandal, 82 Beats, Wild Zodiacs and @nonymous. The order of their performance times will be posted on the Rockband page as soon as they are confirmed.We also have a duo, The Semitones entering the online category and duo Double Chocolate entering Pasifica Beats in early July.

Computer Music - Do you have something you'd like to advertise on the Chissy Radio Station?

Computer Music starts next week as part of Leisure Ed. Students will be composing ads for the school radio station, so if you have any ads you'd like made, please fill in the form at http://chisnallwoodmusic.org.nz/chissy-radio-ads/ 
Students taking computer music are encouraged to bring their own headphones.

House Sing-off May 27th

A reminder that "We are Aotearoa" the 2016 Hook Line and Singalong song can be found at hooklineandsingalong.com/2016-2 

Studio Tour this weekend

The free STUDIO TOUR on May 15 at Orange Studio in Ferrymead is now offering a second session as the first one is fully booked. This is run as part of NZ Music Month. There are both adult and junior tours. Booking is at orangestudio.co.nz/shows/

MAY 2016 NZ Music Month!

Well done to the 16 sound techs who trained in the holidays. They covered a lot of skills to do with sound, lights and audio-visuals at Chisnallwood and got to work with Jono Teague, an audio engineer and ex-Chisnallwood music student.

There is a free STUDIO TOUR on May 15 at Orange Studio in Ferrymead as part of NZ Music Month. There are both adult and junior tours. Booking is at orangestudio.co.nz/shows/ This studio is owned by ex-Chisnallwood music student Michael Bell.

Thank you to Lena Krakowiak who played so well for Waitakiri School on Monday at the local ANZAC memorial.

Students who applied to audition for the Primary Schools' Music Festival Special groups now have audition times and locations allocated. Please see Mrs Bell if you have any questions.

In May we are looking forward to a number of extra music events celebrating...

 NZ Music Month!

Hook Line and Singalong

The winning Hook Line and Singalong Song, "We are Aotearoa" will be sung as a massed House Sing-Off combined with Avondale Primary on Friday May 27th 1.45pm.
You can get learning this now by singing, signing, strumming and visiting
hooklineandsingalong.com/2016-2 or
menza.co.nz/hls/we-are-aotearoa

JAZZ BAND -  OPEN REHEARSAL WITH RODGER FOX next week!

We are excited that our jazz band has the opportunity to work with NZ's one and only Rodger Fox next Thursday May 12th 1.30pm. This will be held at Aranui Library as part of NZ Music Month.

That same day we are also looking forward to Burnside High School bringing music groups with a number of ex-Chisnallwood students to perform for us in the morning!

ROCKQUEST and PASIFICA BEATS

Entries close May 9th. Our school bands will be performing original songs at the family rock night on either May 17 or 18, then at Aranui Library on May 19 1.45pm and at RockQuest on May 21 or 22 at at Aurora Centre, Burnside High.

IRISH BAND, CHOIR and UKULELES

Our Irish band, choir and ukuleles will perform at Aranui Library on May 26 at 11am.