Senior Singing Strings newsletter – November 20, 2013
The Christmas season is upon us and we are starting to get busy! There are a few
concerts and gigs coming up soon, so please mark these dates in your calendar and let
us know if you have any conflicts:
Friday, November 29: call 6pm, playing 6:30-8:30pm – Loyalist Inn, Summerside –
Engineers PEI AGM and banquet
Friday, December 6: Geneva House, Charlottetown
Saturday, December 7: Concert with the Summerside Community Choir, 7:30pm, Park
Royal United Church, Charlottetown
Sunday, December 15: Concert with the Summerside Community Choir, 7:30pm, Trinity
United Church, Summerside
There may also be a few additions to this concert schedule yet; Jen is looking into a
performance at the new Prince Edward home and Natalie is looking into a possible
group performance at Andrews of Stratford. We will not be performing at Confederation
Court Mall this year, so we are hoping to use Andrews as our last performance before
the Christmas break.
Of course we still have rehearsals on the following Wednesdays:
November 20
November 27
December 4
December 11
December 18.
We are working on Christmas gig music as well as the following pieces (make sure you
have all of these!)
Down in Yon Forest
Troika
Stille, Stille, Stille
Journey of the Magi
Two selections with the Summerside Community choir:
O Holy Night
Peace, Peace
Rehearsals will start again after the Christmas break on January 8th.
Senior Singing Strings UK Trip:
The UK trip is on hold for right now until spring/summer 2015; we just don’t have enough
time to adequately fundraise and plan. At the moment we are still continuing to fundraise
with FundScrip, and I would like to place another order on December 4th, so if you are
interested in ordering, please fill out an order form online and return it to me with your
cheque.
We may decide to have another trip, to a different location or at a different time. We
could travel in March break or early summer 2015, we could travel to New York,
Norway, Vancouver, or wherever. I am starting to look at possible string festivals or
competitions around the world in 2015 to see where we might be able to take advantage
of possibilities.
