Week 6 Term 3

Festival of Voices - Well done to our choir, orchestra, school rhythm section and ukulele players for their performance on Tuesday night. Well done to our rhythm section who also accompanied all the adults in the massed item at the end! If you missed the performance, you can hear our choir next Tuesday at St Margaret's performing as part of the Voices Festival. 7pm. They will be performing alongside high school contemporary choirs.

Strum Strike and Blow - Well done to our 70 Chisnallwood ukulele, marimba and recorder students who performed amongst 1000 students from 35 schools last night.

Tonight: BandQuest at Chisnallwood 7pm-9pm $10 ticket at the door (free for band members).

Sign-in and sound checks for bands 3.15 - 5pm

Dinner break 5-6pm - sausage sizzle and canteen open

6pm door sales open

7pm Concert starts

6 bands from Chisnallwood bands, Genuine Fakes, Electric Twitch, Static Movement, Catch Phrase. Cosmic Latte and Automatic will perform along with other primary school bands from schools such as Waitakiri, Prebbleton, Opawa, Kaiapoi North.

AFRICAN DJEMBE DRUMMING group starts Friday (tomorrow) lunchtime. $5 week. Signup out the music office or online here. The group will be taken by Nicho Greig.

Next week's performances:

Monday - Irish band at the Cultural Festival (Horncastle Arena)

Tuesday - Choir, orchestra, ukes at the Voices Festival (St Margaret's Charles Luney Auditorium)

Thursday - Jazz band at DigiAwards (Burnside High Aurora Centre)

Friday afternoon - Ukes and choir at the Cultural Festival (Horncastle Arena)

Three great concerts this week!

The Chisnallwood Choir will be joined by member of our orchestra and our ukulele band in this pop-rock-barbershop choir concert on August 25th. Chisnallwood is the youngest choir in this concert. Other choirs include the ChCh pops choir, the Plainsmen Chorus, MUSOC contemporary choir, Vocal Network, Bromatics, Sweet Adelines, Magna Voce, NASDA cast of Sweet Charity, Vivace, Nth Canterbury Musical Society, Global Voices and Malestrom. Only $5 entry and free parking. 7pm-8.30pm. 

On August 26th around 80 Chisnallwood Ukulele players as well as our marimba and recorder players will join 1000 students from 35 schools in a fun concert backed by a professional live band. The concert will include a massed piece premiered which was composed by ex-Chisnallwood student Michael Bell as well as some great popular songs. $5 door sales and free parking. 7pm-8.15pm

Six Chisnallwood rockbands will be competing at BandQuest next Thursday 27th August along with 12 other primary school bands from schools such as Waitakiri, Prebbleton, Opawa, Kaipoi North and more. Our bands are Genuine Fakes, Electric Twitch, Static Movement, Catch Phrase. Cosmic Latte and Automatic.
7-9pm in the Chisnallwood hall.
$10 door sales (free for band members)

Check out details and permission forms at chisnallwoodmusic.org.nz
There will be no itinerant lessons next Wednesday 26th.
A reminder - if students have to miss a music lesson, please let the music teacher know in advance.

Chissy Music News week 4 term 3

Last week we had a great saxophone masterclass at school taken by ex-Chisnallwood student Samuel Jones who has gone on and completed a degree majoring in saxophone.

Last week we celebrated our Bronze awards the Chisnallwood bands won. I forgot to add that Aya McLarty got special mention for her trombone playing, and so did Asher McNeil for his trumpet playing (from Halswell School, who joined us). Also many of the individual top awards were won by ex-Chisnallwood jazz band students! Congratulations to Hamish Smith (best bassist and best overall musician), Matthew Howes (best guitarist), Ella Dunbar-Wilcox (best vocals and best original song).

Oct 17 there will be a 24 hour Busk-a-thon to raise money for "Home and Family". We might have a group or 2 play from school, but if you know someone who would like to perform for this good cause, here is the registration page:
http://buskathon2015.com/contact/

Special ticket offers for the Voices Festival close on Friday. (See choir page on the music website)

Next Friday a weekly lunchtime African Drumming group is starting up. The cost will be $30 for the remainder of the term and it will be taken by Nicho Greig. Sign up is at http://chisnallwoodmusic.org.nz/djembe-group/

Please pass on to your music friends that applications close soon for the 2016 Chisnallwood music scholarship for new year 7s. Auditions will be on Sept 15th.

We have a busy 2 music weeks in weeks 6 and 7, so here's an overview:

Week 3 Term 3: Theory, Jazz and Probus

Congratulations to Keira, Myffy and Ryan on their Theory Exam results!

Well done to the JazzBands at JazzQuest in the weekend. They played really well and both bands achieved Bronze awards at this high school event! Here is a link to a photos.

The Jazz and Irish played on Monday. Click here to see the photos.

This Sunday you can catch "Catch Phrase" (Chisnallwood Rock band) playing at the Waimak Club at 3.30pm.

All music groups have upcoming gigs and permission forms at http://chisnallwoodmusic.org.nz/. (please check this out if you are in group).

Well done to all the music groups at Open night last week! Great performances from all groups and it was fun seeing so many visitors trying out new instruments and computer software....

Welcome to term 3

In the holidays to was great to have some of our ukuleles perform on What Now with Mel Parsons.

Students have also recently enjoyed attending special concert deals and tours seeing Pirates of the Caribbean and Madama Butterfly.

Coming up over the next week we look forward to Open Night next Wednesday from 6-8pm where many of our music groups, including choir, orchestra, jazz, Irish, dance, and more will be performing and demonstrating for new families. There will also be "try an instrument" rooms!

Upcoming performances this term:
JazzQuest (Jazz bands) - Aug 1-2
Festival of Voices (choir) Aug 25
Strum Strike and Blow (ukuleles, marimba and recorders) Aug 26
BandQuest (rockbands) - Aug 27-29
Voices Festival (choir) - Sept 3
Christchurch Schools' Music Festival Area Rehearsal (choir) - Sept 9
Junior Jazz Jam (Jazz)  - Sept 17

All permission forms and information can be found for these on the relevant group pages at chisnallwoodmusic.org.nz

End of term 3 music update

Well done to the performance groups last weekend!

Chissy band "Automatic Growth" at Pacifica Beats

Chissy Hip Hop Dance Group at Xpression Dance Studio Mid-year concert

Jazz Combo at Rotary Dinner

These holidays we look forward to having students attend the backstage tour of Pirates of the Caribbean on Saturday, hosting a West African Drum Workshop on July 10th,
and having a special Jazz practice to prepare for JazzQuest.
There's lots of fantastic concerts and events to go to through KidsFest.

Next term we look forward to lots of performance opportunities such as
Open Night, JazzQuest and Junior Jazz Jam, Voices Festival, Strum Strike and Blow and the Cultural Festival. We also look forward to Robert Koffie Fugah coming to Chisnallwood next term to teach African drumming to all our students.

Music Group members are encouraged to remember there are resources on our music website to help practice over the holidays, and itinerant students are encouraged to take the holidays to do some extra practice and maybe even get creative and make up a melody! All itinerant students have the opportunity to perform in the itinerant concerts in term 4.

Music Update June 25

Click here to access the 2015-production photo gallery.

Click here to register your interest in buying a $12 DVD of production.

Both of these links can be found at chisnallwoodmusic.org.nz.

The photo gallery from opening night is now complete.

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SmokeFree Pasifica Beats 4pm, June 27

aWhere: WE HQ, 422 Tuam St

featuring our band “Automatic Growth” from Chisnallwood.

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Xpression Mid-Year Show  6:00pm June 27 @ Celebration Events Centre – 81 Bickerton Street, Wainoni Tickets $5 Single / $10 Family (No charge for students who are performing) featuring the Friday after school Chisnallwood Hip Hop Dance group.

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JAZZ WORKSHOP

We are looking forward to Cameron Pearce from CPIT Music Arts Jazz School working with our jazz bands on Friday June 26th at Chisnallwood as part of the JazzQuest Mentoring scheme. 12noon – combo, 1pm Big Band. This will be combined with Halswell School players.

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TWO SPECIAL OFFERS FOR OUR STUDENTS TO ATTEND DRESS REHEARSALS IN JULY!

Pirates of the Carribean: Dead Man’s Chest is on Saturday 4 July

The film will be on the big screen accompanied by the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra.

The CSO production manager, Pete McInnes will be running a limited space tour backstage so you can what goes into putting together this event.

Tour is at 11.30am, and students can stay on for the rehearsal from 12-3pm.

They have limited space for this tour, and we need to confirm our final numbers by the Friday 26 June (tomorrow). If they still have space, we will be informed, as some schools may not take up the offer.

Students can attend the full rehearsal (with film and orchestra) at no cost, and this number isn’t limited although we will need to know the numbers expected by the 26 June. Please fill in this form if you are keen!

The actual concert is July 4th, 7pm at Horncastle Arena.

Madama Butterfly July 21st Dress rehearsal 6.30-9pm

If you are keen to get a cheap “Chisnallwood schools’ offer” ticket to the Madama Butterfly Opera dress rehearsal on July 21st ($10 student, $25 adult) please fill in this form. It is sung in Italian and accompanied by the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra at the Isaac Theatre Royal.