Wednesday, May 20, 2015

Rockquest week, Raffle and other May news



ROCKQUEST THIS SATURDAY




The Canterbury Heats of Smokefreerockquest are being held at the Aurora Centre at Burnside High, Corner of Greers Rd & Memorial Ave, on Saturday May 23rd. Our bands are on between 2-4pm.
Tickets $10 at the door. No charge for band members, teachers and children 5yrs and under.
Below is a list of the bands performing at the 2-4pm session on Saturday including our five bands, Electric Twitch, Genuine Fakes, Catch Phrase, Automatic and Cosmic Latte. All bands have had to write an original song for this, and most bands are from high schools. Come down and support our bands!
2pm  – 4pm session                              

Contraband                         
Rangiora High School
Silentium                             
Burnside High School
barracuda                           
Oxford Area School  
electric twitch                     
Chisnallwood Intermediate
Cosmic Haven                      
Burnside High School
Genuine fakes                   
Chisnallwood Intermediate
Æons Collapse                    
Hagley Community College
Indispute                             
Mairehau High School
Catch Phrase                      
Chisnallwood Intermediate
The Forgotten Project      
Kaiapoi High School  
banter Cats                        
Rangi Ruru Girls' School
Automatic                          
Chisnallwood Intermediate
The NinETY-NINERS           
St Andrew's College
the blind fishermen           
Cashmere High School               
two fists and an afro           
Hurunui College
cosmic latte                        
Chisnallwood Intermediate
TOWERS OF KYOTO            
St Andrew's College
Untitled                                
Rangiora High School
6 of Us                                  
Rangi Ruru Girls' School
Forlorn Bloom                    
Hagley Community College


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Wow! Check out this fabulous NZ Music Month Raffle!  Tickets are only $2 and are on sale until the end of May. The hamper contains lots of music stuff, yummy NZ food and an awesome $70 ukulele. Proceeds go towards benefiting Chisnallwood Music students.








PERFORMANCES COMING UP FOR OUR STUDENTS IN MAY (NZ Music month)
  • Sat May 23th ROCKQUEST competition. 2pm-4pm at the Aurora Centre at Burnside High. (Corner of Greers Road/Memorial Ave) $10
  • Tuesday May 26th Choir and Ukes 11am-11.40am at Aranui Library
  • Wed May 27th Sing-off in the school Hall 12 noon for NZ Music Month Hook line and Singalong ("Stickytarday")
  • Friday May 29th Jazz and Irish 3 performances: 
  • 11-11.45am Aranui Library - Jazz Band
  • (12.45 performance for teacher cluster meeting)
  • 2-2.45pm Shirley Library - Jazz bands, acoustic trio and Irish band
The orchestra looks forward to playing in the school production in June.

Please keep an eye on chisnallwoodmusic.org.nz for music updates.

You can find the Hook, Line and Singalong song at http://menza.co.nz/stickytarday/ and get practicing!
The house that knows it best on May 27 wins lots of house points! Judges on the day are the president of MENZA, Celia Stewart and our vocal programme leader, Ravil Atlas.

Rock Night May 2015
Best wishes to our rock band performers:

Genuine Fakes
Charis Naylor
Ella Peoples
Isaac Turnbull
Jordan Griffin
Maddi Wilson
Olivia Welsh

Cosmic Latte
Josh McCaffery
Kayne Child
Keira  Jonkers
Max Aldridge
Nic Ryan
Ryan Bell

Automatic
Aaron Schwenke
Anika Aldridge
D'Angelo Tauti
Emmanuel Fruean
Tamsyn Reynard
Lanita Singh

Electric Twitch
Alisha Isaacs
Brydie  Crates
Luke Tappin
Michael Nehoff
Nick Wickins
Rubi Hofstee

Catch Phrase
Herrick Zhang
Jai Tudor-Oakley
Jamie O'Brien
Luca Macleod-Watts
Oliver Coleman
Timothy Carey

Friday, May 15, 2015

Mid-May Music update

NZMM at Aranui Library May 15 2015
Rock bands, Irish and Acoustic

PERFORMANCES FOR OUR STUDENTS IN MAY (NZ Music month)
  • Friday May 15th 1.20-2.30pm Rock, Irish and Acoustic at Aranui Library
  • Wed May 20th 7pm Parent Rock Night at Chisnallwood in our school hall.
  • Sat May 23th ROCKQUEST competition. 2pm-4pm at the Aurora Centre at Burnside High. (Corner of Greers Road/Memorial Ave) $10
  • Tuesday May 26th Choir and Ukes 11.15-11.40am at Aranui Library
  • Wed May 27th Sing-off in the school Hall 12 noon for NZ Music Month Hook line and Singalong ("Stickytarday")
  • Friday May 29th Jazz and Irish 3 performances: 
  • 11-11.45am Aranui Library - Jazz Band
  • (12.45 performance for teacher cluster meeting)
  • 2-2.45pm Shirley Library - Jazz bands, acoustic trio and Irish band
The orchestra looks forward to playing in the school production in June.

Please keep an eye on chisnallwoodmusic.org.nz for music updates.

You can find the Hook, Line and Singalong song at http://menza.co.nz/stickytarday/ and get practicing!
The house that knows it best on May 27 wins lots of house points! Judges on the day are the president of MENZA, Celia Stewart and our vocal programme leader, Ravil Atlas.

Congratulations to Room 26 for winning the NZ Music Month Quiz and earning a poster and 100 house points!

A reminder to let the music department know directly if your child will be absent from a music lesson. 

Well done to the Irish Band who played at Trade Aid last weekend.


Irish Band at Trade Aid in Papanui

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Sunday, May 3, 2015

Term 2 week 2

MUSIC NEWS
Photos from the Burnside High visit to Chisnallwood this week. They brought their jazz Big Band, members of Bel Canto (one of their 6 choirs), one of their chamber groups and a singer/songwriter and talked to us about their Special Music Programme. It was great to see so many ex-Chisnallwood students performing with them at such a high level. This included students who have just been accepted into the NZYouthJazzOrchestra 2015 - Matt Howes on guitar, Hamish Smith on bass, Ryan Hall on sax and Ella Dunbar-Wilcox on vocals. Congratulations to these students. The Burnside Open Day is May 19th 7-9pm and information about the music programme is available at the Chisnallwood music office.

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PERFORMANCES FOR OUR STUDENTS IN MAY (NZ Music month)
  • Tuesday May 5 CHOIR sings to visiting teachers at school at 11am
  • Friday May 8th is closing date for any students who wish to sit a theory exam on June 20
  • Sat May 9th IRISH BAND perform at TRADE AID on Papanui Road for World Fair Trade Day 2pm
  • Friday May 15th 1.30-2.20pm Rock and Acoustic at Aranui Library
  • Wed May 20th 7pm Parent Rock Night at Chisnallwood
  • Sat May 23th ROCKQUEST competition 
  • Tuesday May 26th Choir and Ukes 11.15-11.40 at Aranui Libary
  • Wed May 27th Sing-off in the school Hall 12 noon for NZ Music Month Hook line and Singalong ("Stickytarday")
  • Friday May 29th Jazz and Irish 3 performances - school, Aranui Library and Shirley Library


The orchestra looks forward to playing in the school production in June.

Please keep an eye on chisnallwoodmusic.org.nz for music updates.

You can find the Hook, Line and Singalong song at http://menza.co.nz/stickytarday/ and get practicing!
The house that knows it best on May 27 wins lots of house points! Judges on the day are the president of MENZA, Celia Stewart and our vocal programme leader, Ravil Atlas.

Term 2




All itinerant lessons have rolled over into term 2 and it's wonderful seeing the progress being made. Practice makes all the difference. If students struggle to find a place to practice at home, please note there is some space available before and after school if students want to book in time to practice at school. Please remember to let the music office know if your students can't make a lesson for any reason. Remember students may join the orchestra any time they are ready. 

The orchestra is looking forward to playing in the school production in June.

In the holidays we had a great sound tech training course where 15 students had visiting experts in the field helping teach all about sound and light and how to use our gear safely and well. This included learning how to operate our new digital mixer for the hall.

We also had a fabulous jazz day combined with Halswell school students where we played jazz together and had visiting jazz experts to help with sectionals, then we all went to a workshop at Orange Studio with tutors from the NZSM jazz programme.


PERFORMANCES FOR OUR STUDENTS IN MAY (NZ Music month)

  • Tuesday May 5 CHOIR sings to visiting teachers at school
  • May 8th is closing date for any students who wish to sit a theory exam on June 20
  • Sat May 9th IRISH BAND perform at TRADE AID on Papanui Road for World Fair Trade Day
  • Friday May 15 1.30-2.20pm Rock and Acoustic at Aranui Library
  • Wed May 20 7pm Parent Rock Night at Chisnallwood
  • Sat May 23 Rockquest competition 
  • Tuesday May 26 Choir and Ukes 11.15-11.40 at Aranui Libary
  • Wed May 27 Sing-off in the school Hall 12 noon for NZ Music Month Hook line and Singalong
  • Friday May 29th Jazz and Irish 3 performances - school, Aranui Library and Shirley Library


You can find the Hook, Line and Singalong song at http://menza.co.nz/stickytarday/and get practicing!
The house that sings it best on May 27 wins lots of house points! Judges on the day are the president of MENZA, Celia Stewart and our vocal programme leader, Ravil Atlas.

Keep an eye on www.chisnallwoodmusic.org.nz for music updates and timetables.

A concert this weekend with special deal tickets:
Monday April 27th 4pm at St Margaret's College
Michael Houston with the Rodger Fox Big Band
Special price tickets available from www.bigbandfest.org.nz