PALM SUNDAY PROCESSION 8:45 April 1

PALM SUNDAY IS TOMORROW! Meet in the narthex at 8:45 to process with palm branches on the first hymn.  We will not be singing our song, just processing and laying the branches in front of the altar. Every child who is not yet in middle school is invited, including visitors!

Kicking It Up a Notch

UPDATE 4:11 PM Tuesday, March 27:
MISS KARLA IS IN THE HOSPITAL!  She's had a stomach virus that interfered with her diabetes.  No Cherub Choir tomorrow night (Wed) and NO DONKEY SONG SUNDAY!  We will process with palm branches as usual.  We will reschedule the song when Miss Karla recovers. Please keep her in your prayers.

Also, Dr. Chris' twin grandsons are here!  Liam and Graham and mom Lindsey are doing well.  Ellis Dickinson hopes to be home soon.  What a baby boom!  Charleigh Flowers has some great playmates!

Regular Post begins here:
Omigosh! FIVE MORE REGULAR REHEARSALS! Our play WORD UP will be at 6:30 Wednesday, May 2.

As of this Wednesday, we are only using our scripts for the dialogue, not the songs.  If you are a soloist and you don't know your parts, please memorize them in the next two days.  We will be using our new karaoke machine that has a mic for solos!

Don't forget PALM SUNDAY IS THIS SUNDAY! Be in the foyer at 8:45 to process with the palm branches.  We will put them in front of the altar, then turn around and sing the donkey song with the Cherub Choir.

I need a favor. The week before our play, Thomas Haraway has his Sophomore classical guitar recital at Moody.  This means that I need two parents to supervise the rehearsal for me Wednesday, April 25th. It will be good for the kids to hear from someone besides me anyway.  Let me know if you can do this. Karla can only be there for about 10 minutes between Cherub Choir and Adult Choir.

The Connections service needs the stage Sunday AM before our play on Wednesday so we won't have a full stage rehearsal until Sunday afternoon/evening April 29th from 5-7 with pizza at the beginning.  Then we are planning a rehearsal Monday April 30 from 5:30-7:30 with snack supper at the beginning.  The last rehearsal will be Tuesday May 1 from 5:30-7:30 with a snack supper also at the beginning.

If the Sunday rehearsal is incredible and no one forgets anything, we may just skip the Monday rehearsal, but I wouldn't count on it.  I'm usually the one that forgets.

Wednesday, March 28 5:30  Regular practice
Sunday, April 1 8:45 Palm Sunday; 5PM Solo Help
Wednesday, April 4 5:30 Regular practice
Sunday, April  8 Easter Sunday: No Solo Help
Wednesday, April 11 5:30 Regular practice
Sunday, April 15 5PM Solo Help
Wednesday, April 18 5:30 Regular practice NO SCRIPTS
Sunday, April 22 5PM Solo Help
Wednesday, April 25 5:30 Last regular practice; Miss Lin out of town
Sunday, April 29 5PM First practice onstage with pizza to begin
Monday, April 30 5:30-7:30 Onstage Rehearsal with Snack Supper beginning
Tuesday, May 1 5:30-7:30 Final Rehearsal with Snack Supper beginning
Wednesday, May 2 6:00 be in Adult Choir Room with full tummies, choir t-shirts, and dark shorts. We will warm up and take a bathroom break.  We begin the show at 6:30.

Congratulations to the Dickinson family on the arrival of Ellis!  We look forward to having her in choir in just a few short years!

See the new Top Ten and Funny Animal Video in the columns to the right!  Enjoy!

Woo-hoo!

We are cookin' now!  We got through the most difficult parts of the most difficult songs Wednesday night with flying colors! It's a good thing, too, because there is only one Wednesday practice and one Sunday practice  before Spring Break. After Spring Break, we have only six Wednesday practices - get that: SIX - before the play.

Next Wednesday, March 7, you will receive your new Accompaniment CDs without my voice.  When we return from Spring Break, we will not be using the books for the songs.  We will still use the books for the script until mid-April. So practice, practice, practice! Trust me, when you know your part, it's so much more fun!

Soloists, please take advantage of solo practice from 5-5:30 on Sundays. You do not have to come every time, and I am not going to schedule you to come.  I expect YOU to tell your parents that you need to come if you need help.  Otherwise, I assume you have learned your solo and are ready to sing it without help. If you haven't been yet and aren't solid on your solo, please come.

Check out the original videos below of Upside Down, Drop it and Listen (Shut Up and Kiss Me), and If We Are the Body.

A*Teens singing "Upside Down;" try not to gag:

Mary Chapin Carpenter and her old smash hit "Shut Up and Kiss Me:"

Casting Crowns, Sara Groves, and Ginny Owens don't have videos of their songs.  Videos take lots of money to produce and Christian artists make only a fraction of what popular artists make, so they only make a few in their careers.  I decided to post an amateur video of each song followed by an original video of the artist singing another of their songs.
Here's the amateur vid of "If We Are the Body:"

 And here is Casting Crowns singing their hit, "Does Anybody Hear Her?"

Next, an amateur vid of Sara Groves' "The Word:"

And Sara herself singing her new song, "Eyes On the Prize:"

Here isa live version of Jaci Velasquez singing "On My Knees:"

Now, the original video of "Candela," the song from a Latin artist Noelia from which I wrote "The Dangers," is NOT appropriate. I found a live version.  There is a REALLY long intro.

Here's an amateur version of Ginny Owens' "I Am Nothing."It's a wedding video, so ignore that and just listen to her sweet voice:

And here is Ginny not singing, but telling how she got started in music:

And finally, Cameo's 1980's funk hit, "Word Up:"

See you tomorrow at 5!