Re-Percussion 2016

The Marimba groups performed at the annual RePercussion concert.

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Broken Jandal at Orange Studios — by Judith Bell

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NZ Ukulele Festival last weekend

Full article at http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/86861520/christchurch-school-only-south-islanders-to-attend-ukulele-festival-in-auckland — by Judith Bell

A few photos and video from the day in Auckland on Saturday with our Chissy Ukes. 

Santa Parade

The Chisnallwood Band played for the City Santa Parade last weekend - and most of the band will be playing again THIS SATURDAY Dec 10th at the New Brighton Seaside Christmas Parade!

Summer Band Project

The Summer Band Project — by Judith Bell

The Summer Band Project is a holiday programme for rock musicians years 7-11 which will run from Jan 16-20. Registrations close Jan 1.

ALL EARS - January holiday programme for all ages

ALL EARS — by Judith Bell

A jazz holiday programme with a difference! 23-27 January.

Ukuleles to Auckland

Chissy Ukes — by Judith Bell

Dylan Jonkers has won the Kiwilele Rap competition! Please help Dylan and 5 other  Chissy uke players head to Auckland for the Kiwilele Festival to perform with 2500 other uke players!

Itinerant Nights

Well done to all the students who took part in the itinerant nights.

Urban Rock Afternoon

Urban Rock Afternoon — by Judith Bell

5 bands and farm animals...

Music for Grey Power

Sax Section — by Judith Bell

50 senior citizens visited Chisnallwood for a concert last week.

Jazz and Irish Bands at NZEI Graduation

Jazz at NZEI  — by Judith Bell

The jazz and Irish bands provided music for the NZEI Teachers' Graduation ceremony on the day our school was closed.

CHISSY ROCK WEEKEND!

Chissy Rock Night 2015 — by Judith Bell

The Chissy Rock and Irish bands have their big weekend on November 26 and 27

Jazz band and Irish Band at the Art Gallery

Jazz combo at the Art Gallery — by Judith Bell

The Chisnallwood Jazz Band, jazz combo and Irish band played at the Art Gallery last week as part of Kids in Town.

The Chisnallwood Jazz Band performed at the 10th anniversary Christchurch Big Band Festival

Lena takes a trumpet solo — by Leonard Wilcox

The Chisnallwood Jazz Band was one of 24 bands from around NZ to perform as part of the 10th anniversary Big Band Festival.

Junior Jazz Jam

Chisnallwood Jazz Band performing at Junior Jazz Jam — by Judith Bell

The Chisnallwood Jazz Band performed stunningly at Junior Jazz Jam on Sept 14th.

Bandquest Congratulations

LaMon — by Judith Bell

Well done to all the 6 Chissy bands who played at Bandquest last week with 8 other bands from around Canterbury and congratulations to our prize winners!

August Music

Jazz at NZGSE Graduation Ceremony

Last week the Chisnallwood Jazz band played at the NZ Grad School teacher Graduation ceremony.

Strum Strike and Blow

Congratulations to all our 75 students involved in Strum Strike and Blow last week. We had ukulele, marimba and recorder players playing with 800 students from around Canterbury. Dylan Jonkers was a winner in the rap competition and got to perform his rap, and Dylan and Lena Krakowiak also performed improvised solos on marimbas.

You can find more photos at http://strumstrikeblow.org/photos-and-video/ and videos from the night will be uploaded there later.

Chisnallwood Choir at the Voices Festival

Chisnallwood Choir was the only primary school choir on our night at the annual Voices Festival for school pops choirs. Congratulations on their fine performance and for their Excellence Award for Ensemble Singing and an Outstanding Award for Choreography. It was great to be able to be part oft he festival and get to hear other choirs. The evening finished with a fun massed song.

Irish Band at the Cultural Festival

Well done to the Irish Band who performed at the Cultural Festival last night.

They performed a medley of "The Shores of Lyttelton" by Phil Garland, Kingdom Dance from Tangled and Shetland Reel. We will hopefully have a video  soon to share from the Festival.

BANDQUEST FRIDAY 2nd SEPTEMBER

Best wishes to our 6 bands playing BandQuest tomorrow night.

7pm at Chisnallwood Hall

Bands need to be there from 3pm for sound checks and workshops.

There will also be bands from Opihi, St Andrew's, Prebbleton, Opawa and Templeton schools.

Our bands are called Broken Jandal, Wild Zodiacs, @nonymous, Farmyard Children, QuadChoc and Am I Right?

There will be door sales for audience. Tickets are $10 and door open at 6.30pm.

COMING UP: JUNIOR JAZZ JAM

Primary School Jazz bands (including Chisnallwood!)

4pm-6pm September 14th 

ARA MUSIC ARTS 130 High Street

Note there is a special special student ticket offer ($10 student and $20 accompanying adult) to the "Swing Into Spring" Rodger Fox Big Band with the NZSO at 7pm also Sept 14th. The offer closes on Sept 9th, so fill in this form if you are keen.

Term 3 week 4 music update

JAZZ TOUR

The jazz band had a successful trip to Wellington to play and workshop with Dr Rich Roberts in the WeBO festival and also performed at Hanmer Springs School on the way home.

Next week they give a guest performance for the Grad School Teacher ceremony, then on September 15 will take part in Junior Jazz Jam. They will also play in October as part of the CHCH Labour Weekend Big Band Festival.

Click here to see the whole photo album of the jazz tour

CHOIR

Choir has both the Voices Festival and the Schools' Music Festival coming up. Choir parents are encouraged to check out the permissions on the choir page and reminded that choir music can be found on the backstage page for students to help students learn any music.

Voices Festival Aug 30

Music Festival area rehearsal Sept 14 and final performance Oct 28

STRUM STRIKE and BLOW FESTIVAL

This is next Thursday Aug 25th at the Horncastle arena. It will be a fun concert running from 7pm-8.15 and is just $5 on the door for audience to attend, so bring all your friends! You get to hear almost 1000 students (including 78 of our own) playing ukuleles, marimbas and recorders accompanied by a professional rhythm section band.

BANDQUEST

Our rock bands are getting ready for BandQuest on Sept 2nd.

Term 3

Term 3 Music Dates

Aug 12-15 Jazz tour to Wellington for WEBO

August 22 (Monday) Jazz Band - Graduation ceremony gig 5pm

Aug 25 (Thursday) Strum Strike and Blow 
A fun festival for massed ukes, marimbas and recorders
Venue: Horncastle Arena
All day rehearsal at the arena 9.30am-2.15pm (travel by bus)
Concert  7pm-8.15pm
Audience entry $5

September 2nd (Friday) - Bandquest 
For rockbands from Canterbury primary schools
Venue: Chisnallwood hall
3pm sound check, 7pm-9.30pm concert
Audience entry $10 

September 13 - Music Scholarships (Tuesday) - for year 6's coming to Chisnallwood next year (Please tell your friends entries close Sept2)

Sept 14 - Area rehearsal for Choir (Wed) 
For Christchurch Schools' Music Festival choir
Venue: Shirley Boys High from 9-11.30am

September 15 (Thursday) - Junior Jazz Jam 
Venue: ARA Music Arts,130 High Street 
5pm

Sept 16 (Friday) - Entries close for Music Theory Exams

Term 4 Dates

Oct 20 Kids in Town - Jazz band 12-1
Labour Weekend - Big Band Festival (Jazz Band)
Oct 28 Christchurch Schools' Music Festival performance (Choir)
Nov 5 ABRSM Theory exam
Dec 3 Ukulele trip to Auckland for Kiwilele Festival

Term 2 week 9

CONGRATULATIONS

Congratulations to the following students who got into Special Groups for the ChCh Schools' Music Festival:

Senior Choir
Dylan Jonkers
Grace Bevin

Flute - Concert band:
Sarah Powley

Percussion - Orchestra
Sho Woodhouse

SMOKE FREE PASIFICA BEATS THIS WEEKEND

We wish our band Quad Chocolate the best as they take part in Pasifica Beats on Saturday 2nd July. They are on at 3pm at Orange Studio where they have the opportunity to record their original song and have a talk with Anika Moa about their song at the end.
Then at 5pm Anika Moa will be giving a workshop for anyone interested.
Quad Choc are Emmanuel Fruean, Dominic Petelo, Xavier Lam Sam and Aaron Schwenke.

ROAD SHOW

The following groups will be performing at Chisnallwood for Bromley and Linwood Ave at the school Roadshow tomorrow morning (July 1st):
Orchestra, Choir, ukes, marimbas, Jazz band, Pasifica, Quad Choc and Broken Jandal.

VISIT BY NORTH LOBURN SCHOOL JAZZ

It was great to have the North Loburn Jazz Band at school today playing with our jazz band and staying on for a workshop.

Term 2 week 8

String Visit

It was fabulous to have Sandra Logan from Wellington visit Chisnallwood last week. She worked with some of our string players in a String Ensemble setting as well as helping our strings at orchestra time. The students had lots of fun and leant lots about tuning and other string techniques.

Schools visit to Chisnallwood next week

We are looking forward to our music groups having the chance to perform next Friday July 1st to visiting schools in blocks 1-3

Change of date

Pasifica Beats will be Sunday July 3rd and attend a special workshop on Saturday July 2nd.

Open Night August 3rd

Permission forms will be given out soon for music students taking part in this important evening. It will involve short performances by orchestra, jazz, choir, marimba, ukes and a sample of rock.

Theory Club activity

Click here to see one of the sorting networks in action at theory club on Friday.

Term 2 week 8

String Visit

It was fabulous to have Sandra Logan from Wellington visit Chisnallwood last week. She worked with some of our string players in a String Ensemble setting as well as helping our strings at orchestra time. The students had lots of fun and leant lots about tuning and other string techniques.

Schools visit to Chisnallwood next week

We are looking forward to our music groups having the chance to perform next Friday July 1st to visiting schools in blocks 1-3

Change of date

Pasifica Beats will be Sunday July 3rd and attend a special workshop on Saturday July 2nd.

Open Night August 3rd

Permission forms will be given out soon for music students taking part in this important evening. It will involve short performances by orchestra, jazz, choir, marimba, ukes and a sample of rock.

Theory Club activity

Click here to see one of the sorting networks in action at theory club on Friday.

June update

We are Aotearoa prize

Congratulations to Chisnallwood on winning one of the 5 national prizes for our video upload of our performance of "We Are Aotearoa"! Well done to all the performers and thanks to Charlotte Crone from Orange Studio for editing the phone videos together. 

Calling all our violin and cello players for Friday

We are very lucky to have string-expert Sandra Logan from Wellington visiting Chisnallwood this Friday. She will run a session with all our violin and cello players in block one and then work with our orchestral string players at lunchtime and block 5 as part of orchestra! 

Some upcoming music dates:

July 1 music performances for visiting local schools

July 1 Pasifica Beats

August 3 Open Night

August 5/7 possible Jazzquest (if space available)

August 25 Strum Strike and Blow (Ukuleles, recorders and marimbas)

August 29-31 Voices Festival

August 29-Sept 2 Cultural Festival

September 2 Bandquest

Sept 14 Junior Jazz Jam

Term 2 Week 5

Christchurch Symphony Orchestra concert-talk next Wednesday

Click http://chisnallwoodmusic.org.nz/cso-june-8-ticket-offer/ to fill in for free seats for this 1 hour talk about Aaron Copland's Appalachian Spring Suite with 13 orchestra players playing the music extracts.

NZ Music Month

Thank you to Dan Callahan and the team at Aranui Library for hosting Chisnallwood music groups three times during NZ Music Month. Our final performance was last week with our choir, ukes and Irish and we even had a visiting preschool audience!

ROCKBANDS and ROCKQUEST

Chisnallwood had 4 bands who performed at Rockquest alongside 40 high school bands. All bands had to perform an original song. We also have an online entry in the Solo/Duo section with about 20 high school entries, and an entry in Pasifica Beats which will be held early July.

To see photos of our bands Broken Jandal, @nonymous, Wild Zodiacs, 82 Beats, Double Chocolate and the Semitones click the link below....

The next big Rock event will be Friday September 2nd for BandQuest!

http://chisnallwoodmusic.org.nz/rock-band-photos-may-2016/

HOOK LINE AND SINGALONG

We had Hook line and Singalong on Friday to celebrate the end of NZ Music Month. Singing the song together has been a fabulous tradition we have had with Avondale Primary fro the last few years, and this was the last time we could share this as they are due to close at the end of the year. We had some spot prizes and a house sing-off as well as the massed renditions complete with students who had learnt to play the 2016 song "We are Aotearoa" on different instruments. Air house blew us away with their knowledge of the song, NZ sign language and yellow dress code. Water showed excellent creativity with their original clapping beat and great rhythm section. Earth house was the chosen favourite by the judges and took 1st prize with Air coming second and Avondale 3rd.

Judges: Charlotte Crone from Orange Studio

Dan Callahan from Aranui Library 

Carl Everett from ChCh Boys High School

The full video will be online by June 9th, and you can click the image to see the CTV coverage of the event!

https://vimeo.com/168734163#t=535s

JAZZ at the ACCORDION SOCIETY

The jazz band recently gave an excellent performance as invited guests at the Accordion Society concert in Sydenham. 

New Music Tutors

We welcome Hayden Sinclair on clarinet and saxophone, who is filling in for Ellen Deverall as she takes up a contract with the NZSO for the rest of this year.  

We also welcome Rosa Elliott who has taken over from Ravil Atlas as choir director while Ravil takes time to focus on his doctorate. 

Piano for Sale

about 45 years old, English make- Kemble

Well used, but well maintained

A good learner's instrument

$200 plus buyer to remove from Opawa

Contact  981-7384 (Kimberley family) or Marnie on 027-4923014

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