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Spectacular 2021

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Hi All

I think I may have already mentioned about the hopeful plans for the “Spectacular 2021”. If all goes well and we can get back to choir that we do a Concert similar to the Summer Spectacular in 2019, we have booked the Village Hall for SATURDAY 2ND OCTOBER.  Just noticed it is Percy’s birthday.  We have booked the hall for the day and the Concert will be in the afternoon.  We will be looking at them on Zoom but will fully rehearse them when we can get back together.  

All Things Bright and Beautiful

Can You Feel The Love Tonight

Chattanooga Choo Choo

Everything’s Coming Up Roses

Let The River Run

One Voice

Simon and Garfunkel Medley

Sing Sing Sing

The Lord Is My Shepherd

You’ll Never Walk Alone

West Side Story

When The Saints – if they win the cup 🏆???  We might sing it even if they don’t 🥴

If you would like sing along to the NMM performances this is the link.  They are in the same order as above.  

https://youtu.be/THvfgD7-w7o

We are also going to sing Jerrys Arrangement of Memories by Maroon 5.  Not heard of it?  Well here’s the link to Maroon 5 singing it.  If you think you recognise the accompaniment  it is based on Pachelbel Canon.

https://youtu.be/SlPhMPnQ58k

Below is the link to Jerrys arrangement with a pdf to print and the learning parts. If you are unable to print the music off let me know and we will try and get a copy to you.

https://1drv.ms/u/s!AgDytR9wvtjYzHudIDOPPGP-w0wF?e=AdFWwk

Happy Singing

Lin

 

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Hi All


Isn’t it nice to see some Sunshine 🌞 although not sure how long it is going to last, but lets make the most of it.  Well that’s another month nearly over, April Fools Day tomorrow and Easter 🐣🐇 weekend.  Hope you have all got some nice things planned. It is lovely to at least now be able to meet up with people but we still have to be careful and stick to the rules. Not that we need reminding but the more we do to help this thing end the sooner we can all get back together again and sing  🎶🎶.

So not three buses this week but two.  Auntie Eileen Eyers birthday is on Saturday 3rd April  and Margaret Ballard on Tuesday 6th April.  I looked back on last years email at the photographs so have been trying to find some different ones. Not easy when some people seem to be very camera shy.  So if you have a birthday coming up and would like to send me something about yourself and a photograph that would be lovely.  So as I have only just mentioned this I will have to go back to my resources.

Auntie Eileen?  Why do I call Eileen Auntie Eileen a very good question.  Well being a simple woman I get mixed up with Irene, Eileen Elaine and any other combination that I can get confused with and I kept calling Eileen anything but Eileen so to remind me, my godmothers name was Eileen and so I started to call her Auntie Eileen so that I could try and get the name correct.  I bet you are all glad you know that!  I first met Eileen at a musical event at Wildern school, I am not sure how long ago,  and we started chatting. She had the most amazing long plait, anyway I must have talked enough and she came along to join the New Music Makers.  I am pretty sure that the plait had gone by then and she had gone to the very short style that she wears now but not in such amazing colours.  

Have a lovely day with your lovely husband Dave.

Margaret Ballard joined the choir in February 2016 and is a Contralto.  Apart from playing the maracas like a mad woman she is a member of the Committee.  I don’t have many pictures of Margaret as she is one of the ones who likes to hide.

            
Seems I have more of Margaret than I thought something like 88 photos  I wonder what we were singing in the pink? Answers on a postcard!  Looks fun it was at the Berry in 2016.  Have a lovely day Margaret.

ZOOM THURSDAY 1ST APRIL

Hello all,


We have a tentative plan for an October Concert with the following songs:

All Things Bright and Beautiful
Can You Feel the Love Tonight
Chattanooga Choo Choo
Everything’s Coming Up Roses
Let the River Run
One Voice
Sounds of Simon and Garfunkel
Sing Sing Sing
The Lord is my Shepherd
You’ll Never Walk Alone
West Side Story
When the Saints Go Marching
Memories (Maroon 5)* – New Arrangement by Jerry (not yet ready to send to everyone)

Here is the plan for tomorrow’s rehearsal (* are songs for our possible concert):

Chattanooga Choo Choo* – https://youtu.be/dXKoY__lOt0
West Side Story* – https://youtu.be/AIZJ8piEwIg
Everything’s Coming Up Roses* – https://youtu.be/Rx4KSQnS9cQ
Sing Sing Sing* – https://youtu.be/OA6oE0RfTlg
Sounds of Simon and Garfunkel* – https://youtu.be/je4QtCUO72s
Can Can – https://youtu.be/aa7uRilM6JI?t=32 (starts at 0:32)
Nella Fantasia – https://youtu.be/65U2MNx0mOA?t=84 (starts at 1:24)



Looking forward to it,
Lillian

We will be singing to Chris accompanying and to backing tracks with Lillian tutoring the pieces as well, so a mixture to help everyone.

You should be able to find all of the songs on the website OneDrive link.   Jerry has been working hard putting it together and as he said doing housework on it on his holiday.  Thanks Jerry.

I will send out more information later about the proposed Concert in October.



ZOOM DETAILS


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We would love to see you all, so don’t forget if you would like a one to one instructions send Eric and email – ericgerrey@aol.com -and he will happily set it up with you. 

If we don’t see you tomorrow I hope you all have a lovely Easter.


Lin










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Lins Emails
Hi All


Hope everyone is fit and well and looking forward to Monday and being able to Socially distance outside with six people or two households, so things are getting better hopefully. It was Mary Gunns 80th Birthday and a card was sent from you all wishing her well and a Happy Birthday.

Talking of Birthdays, as I said last time, not one, not two but three birthdays this week.  Just like busses again.   I wished Margaret Hockey and Jerry Happy Birthday in an email last year and here we go again.

Margaret is a very special lady in the choir she is our only Lady Tenor and she sings with the ladies when we have a ladies only song. Margaret joined the choir in January 2016.  It is Margarets Birthday on the 27th March it would be lovely to see you on zoom.


              

A different shot from last year but still the same strange man, and here she is amongst the ladies, I couldn’t find a good one of her with the men. I think Margaret needs to be in the middle of them.  Have a lovely day Margaret.

It is Jerry’s Birthday on the 28th June.  Going back through the old video’s it seems that Jerry has been in the choir since year blob.  He is a great technical support for the choir, because of him we were one of the first choirs to own a webpage which was all very knew to us at the time. He also spends hours making us learning tracks from the sheet music putting each note in individually.  We are very grateful for these when it comes to a new song and especially for the sopranos when we haven’t got the tune — or is that just me?  Jerry is a member of the Committee and is always helping us out with techno questions.  I could have done with his help sorting out the photograph of him when he was Old King Cole in 2008. Should have been a video of him doing a bit of his solo but that didn’t work so we have just got the still.


                
Not sure when the other photograph was but it was before I joined, so prior to 1998.  Hope you have a good day Jerry.

We have one more Birthday. Our newest member Vanessa Wilkinson’s Birthday on the 30th and on request she sent me some photographs.  
                  

It will be nice when we can actually meet up, I wonder what you will think of us when you can actually see all of us and not just our heads.  Hope you have a lovely day Vanessa.

ZOOM THIS WEEK

For this week’s rehearsal, I’d like to do the same format as before:

Sectionals: Chris with Ladies, Lillian with Men

-You’ll Never Walk Alone: https://youtu.be/e_WVwUkNLhQ  – Last sung 2014
-The Lord is my Shepherd: https://youtu.be/yLxdb3ov-zE   – Last sung 2016

Breakout Chat

-And So It Goes: https://youtu.be/GVdt3x9jdOk  – Last sung 2019
-One Voice: https://youtu.be/7f0xXbHnkqA  – Last sung 2017
-A Clare Benediction: https://youtu.be/5KfP6xSAK_c   –  Last sung 2003
-Let the River Run: https://youtu.be/bNit57FmCz8   –  Last sung 2019
-Happy: https://youtu.be/1v0HkQCd8Y8  – Last sung 2016

Looking forward to it,
Lillian

MISSING MUSIC LINKS FOR NUMBER 50 – 60

Numbers 50 – 60 may  not have Clare Benediction and Happy.  This should be the link to the pdf’s

Clair Benediction pdf


Happy pdf

LINK FOR PAST PERFORMANCES OF REHEARSAL SONGS

Thank you to those who said that they enjoyed looking at the past performances of the songs, this is the link selection for 25th March Rehearsal Songs.



ZOOM DETAILS


Don’t forget you can join the meeting from 7.10 for a chat

Join Zoom Meeting

Meeting ID: 816 9136 7380
Passcode: Gold

We would love to see you all, so don’t forget if you would like a one to one instructions send Eric and email – ericgerrey@aol.com -and he will happily set it up with you. 

Lastly
 
Rosie sent me this photograph, we think we may have to improve our parking skills before we can get back into the church hall.


See ya

Lin

If you can see a link below this just ignore it I can’t get rid of it????  Where’s Jerry????

 


PAST RECORDINGS OF SONGS THAT WE SANG ON THURSDAY

Lins Emails
Hi All

If you would like to hear past recordings of the songs we sang on Thursday, open the YouTube link.  The times are when each song starts with a short break in between.






Bring Him Home  Start from 2013 Berry
All Things Bright & Beautiful 3:44 from 2017 Berry
Battle Hymn Of The Republic 6:43 from 2013 Berry
Chili Caliente 11:36 from 2017 Berry
Cant Take My Eyes Off Of you 15:13 from 2019 KCC
Africa 18:49 from 2019 KCC
Best Of Bond 25:54 from 2013 Berry


Lin

Week +1

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Hi All


I looked at my emails that I sent out this time last year (on the website – members page) and we had our first ever zoom call this week last year.  How new to us was that! We all just said “Hello” and waved at one another, some couldn’t work out how to put the sound on, so were waving bits of paper around with Hello written on it.  After that we became more organised with social evenings, quizzes etc and then progressed to online rehearsals when we realised that the situation was not going to improve anytime soon.

It is great that so many of us have learnt new technology skills and even managed making some virtual recordings.  Those that haven’t tried it yet, or haven’t been for a while, pop in and say hello. It can be great fun and it is lovely to catch up with people that we are unable to see.  Again  if you would like any help with it Eric can set you up a private zoom call and talk you through how to log on and you will see how easy it can be.

Well Louise was one of the first people that we sang Happy Birthday to. That was when we realised that we can’t all sing together on Zoom, but Hey we still do it just because it is funny.  Louise missed out on the embarrassing photographs last year so I will try and make up for it this year.  Louise joined in I believe in 2008 as a Soprano 2 in time for our last Christmas Pantomime “Lost In Pantoland”.  This is her second time of being on The Committee and she has taken on the role of Choir Archivist keeping a record of what the choir is up to.  She has had a bit of an easy time this year but you wait ’til next year, Louise, you will be so busy you may be sorry you offered to take on the job.😍



                


                    

Have a great day Louise.


THIS WEEKS ZOOM


             Hello all,
II’ve received some good feedback that this new format of our Zoom rehearsals is working, so here is the plan:

7:30pm-7:40pm – Warmup


7:40pm-8:00pm – Sectionals Women with Lillian, Men with Chris working on:


-Bring Him Home – https://youtu.be/U8qPNDfqUio


-All Things Bright and Beautiful – https://youtu.be/qY9G00WWUVI


8:00pm-8:10pm – Breakout Chat Rooms


8:10pm-9:00pm – Sing to backing tracks:
-Battle Hymn of the Republic  -To Follow
–Chili Caliente – https://youtu.be/arZvqt63YDU
–Can’t Take my Eyes off of You – https://youtu.be/Xh03dK9S-zM
-Best of Bond – https://youtu.be/QM2HKrP80YU

See you soon,

Lillian


ZOOM DETAILS

Don’t forget you can join the meeting from 7.10 for a chat

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Meeting ID: 816 9136 7380
Passcode: Gold

Looking forward to seeing you.


Lin





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Hi All 


Yes it is week 52 again!!  I thought I had gone wrong somewhere when I typed in Week 52 last week knowing that I was actually away and knew that I had sung once more.  Checking back I had written week 51 in the space in Feb and then went 52 in the space in March.  So this Thursday last year was the last week that we were all together singing at the Methodist Church Hall.  We decided that we should not meet the following week thinking it would be for a few weeks. Who would have thought that it could last a year and still counting?  I certainly would have made sure we took those cakes out of the cupboard 🥴.   Lillian kept us very busy on the 12th March 2020. This is what she had planned for the night:
 Here’s the plan for this week: > > > > Joseph Medley > Gold > You Raise Me Up > Pick a Bale of Cotton > Singing in the Rain > Can-Can > Les Miserable > Africa > > Break > >  – Your Song, Fields of Gold, Pinball Wizard, One Moment in Time > > 
At least it looks like we had a great night.

So moving on, we had a Committee Meeting on Monday and we are trying to plan for the future.  We have a few things in mind but it will all depend on how things are and what we are permitted to physically do safely and under any government rules.  We are meeting again when the next phase of the “roadmap” has been reached to see how things are.  Hopefully it will all be positive.

Meanwhile Zoom this week. I have already sent out Lillians Email but as a reminder.  

Warmups

Lillian with the Men, Chris with the Women:
Gold
Joseph

Breakout Rooms for Chat

Together with Backing Tracks:
Skyfall: https://youtu.be/eZP9WncfL8c – Last Sung 2018 in Gold Programme
When the Saints Go Marching In: https://youtu.be/OX5FK0qRVto – Last Sung 2018
Lean on Me: https://youtu.be/dCwmqNxon-Q – Last Sung 2015
Your Song: https://youtu.be/sHsjZpgaGAc – Last Sung 2016 in Gold Programme
The Rose: https://youtu.be/PEM5hNw4Cn0 – Last Sung 2018



ZOOM DETAILS

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Meeting ID: 816 9136 7380
Passcode: Gold

Looking forward to seeing you.


Lin