Dear All,
PARTY SET … all songs and lyrics are on the website – The Best Seas is on the Cantata 2002 Concert page
CHILDREN DONT GET WEARY
KYRIE ELEISON ( Ghanaian- not mine )
ASIKATALE NOMAJIA BOSHWA
BESIDE THY CRADLE HERE I STAND ( weds)
TODAY IS SUNDAY
THE BEST SEAS ( if we get time to revise/learn this on Monday )
WHEN YOU LEAVE
None of them will be perfect … that’s fine, its a party singalong – not a gig but you can’t have words on stage, its against Songlines official policy! If you don’t know a song at all, don’t worry – sit it out , but if it’s a Cantata piece you might as well try to learn it cos you’re gonna have to!
THE DAY ITSELF
GET IN IS at 4PM to prepare the Hall and PA
all choir rehearsal 4.30 – 6pm, then we will have an hour to get food and ourselves ready – there’s plenty of warm spaces to change in side rooms . You really must try to get there for 4PM- without this 1.5 hr session. with both Mon and Weds choirs singing together for the first time in months, I think we would all be very insecure to sing in public and not have half as much fun doing it.
You are supplying the food , ready to serve on a platter , suitable for fingers only as there is no kitchen at the Nave. We’ll be passing a paper round for you to write your offering up so that whatevers’ missing from the Monday menu, can be filled in by the Wednesdays! Chris and I will supply the plates/napkins/crockery/ glasses etc and the gorgeous galloping GORDON AND GAIL (or Fanny and John Craddock?….how very dare you! ) are running the bar. We’ll have wines/beers/soft drinks /juices and mulled wine – and I’d like 3 volunteers to be in charge of making and serving it PLEASE EMAIL me YES BOSS if you are willing to take this on.
TICKETS …As we have only actually sold 11 tickets so far I have had to cancel the musicians I booked for the party to play with/for us Sorry, but we haven’t any money to pay them! Even so the party will still run at a considerable loss if you don’t start ringing round mates and family. I think I can honestly say nobody ( unless they are having a major personal breakdown on the night ) has EVER not enjoyed a SONGLINES PARTY … its something we are VERY good at so get on the phone PLEASE ! We are not able to SELL tickets on the door as legally this is a private function but of course you can pop outside and hand tickets over to your guests until 7.30 and collect the money of them personally . Please make sure you get ALL MONEY to Chris on the night though as our last class before Christmas is A joint weds and MONDAY ON MONDAY 19TH 6.45-8.45 ( we will be singing through the Cantata so far and fixing the overture with NICK BB and possibly Kate ) We do not want to be chasing you for party/class money in January.
2012 TERM BEGINS AGAIN ON SATURDAY JANUARY 14TH 2-6 at the Union Chapel with a workshop on the new material for the Cantata with the musicians - NORMAL CLASS TIMES FOLLOW AFTER THAT both MON and WEDS at Harecourt ( not The Nave ) MON 16TH/WEDS 18TH . It doesn’t look like we will have enough mixed choir members to divide into mon/tues and certainly not until half term in February .
The big Cantata Date at The Union Chapel May 12th … I am hoping to do a press night and invited audience preview on Monday 7th and Full dress in The Chapel on Wednesday 9th May so this will be a very busy week for Songliners but its a BIG show and we need to get it right . You can take a week of the following week!