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.