Choir YouTube List and Organization of Songs

 Here's the YouTube list for the kiddos to review and become familiar with for our fall songs.  Please let them listen to them as much as you feel comfortable having them do it.  We will assign solos during the first week of class.

YouTube Fall 2021 Playlist

"Wavin' Flag" and "I Lived" are just sign language choir.  Several of the other songs will have both sign language and choral. I don't have a version of "America the Beautiful" on there yet, either. I will have the lyrics up soon.

Here is a spreadsheet of the music and how it will be divvied up so far.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1gpSdea_QPDIV_NsQ9QqVIotbf7D-zB52HPdArHmATZ0/edit?usp=sharing

Please let me know if you have any questions, if you find any glitches or have any concerns.

For concert attire, I'm thinking nice jeans (or jean skirts), white t-shirts and red bandanas worn in some way.

Looking ahead to Fall!

 Reminder!

Tomorrow is auditions for Les Mis!  Check out the "links" on the sidebar or the pages on the top of the blog for more information.

Choir and Sign Language Choir is open until the day we start. Again, see links, registration page and top pages for more info.

History and Literature classes are open until the day we start. Ditto.  All the info that you need for the class beyond what is on the pages will be sent after you sign up by emailing me or contacting me that you are attending.

C4! Class is the same way: open until the first day.  I will have a sign-up link posted this week to make it more official since I will need a waiver for that class (we are using power tools...yay!).

Please submit questions, etc below in the comment section, thanks!

LIGHTSIDE CHOIR: Fall 2021

Lightside Youth Choir

The vision of Lightside Choir is to build youth by:
-increasing their confidence in themselves by giving them opportunities to perform solos and in a group;
-helping them strengthen friendship by creating a respectful and inspiring environment to meet in;
-exposing them to music that will stay with them and bring light into their life and the life of others;
-giving them service opportunities to use their talents to perform for family, friends and others in the community.

Depending upon our numbers, the Lightside Choir may be divided into an older (Dynamics) and a younger group (Trebles), with many combined numbers to be performed in the fall and the spring.  
Ages are approximately 8-18.  

We will meet from 1:15-2:15 pm on Thursdays at my house south of Guysville until a facility opens for rental or use.   Cost will be $20/participant plus attire this semester.  Payment is due the first day of class. 

Participants will be expected to 

--provide their own concert apparel (details forthcoming)

--review music regularly on their own to learn their parts (we will provide the links or music for this)

--participate in all rehearsals, since rehearsals are when we bring everything and learn accompanying actions, dances, and signs. 

Registration is here for Fall Semester.  Please sign up once per child involved.  We are excited to have you a part of our organization!

Last week! Technical rehearsals in full costume :D

 We had a great performance last week with our choir. Thanks for all the parents who came together to help put the production on! The youth were great and we are excited to keep the group going next year.

This week, Friday and Saturday, we have our performances of "Louis Pasteur." For those in the play, we will be doing rehearsals M-Th from 1-4 at the venue. We had originally scheduled the pictures for Tuesday with full costumes, but I wonder if a different day would work? Also, do any of you take pictures? My daughter Lily would do a great job, but she is also in it, so would just need help with shots she is in.

Please have your kids come in clothes that they will either wear underneath their other costumes or that they could change out of into their costumes. I would like them to be in costume every practice this week so we can be used to performing in them and changing for those who need to. However, I don't want them taking them home and losing pieces. We are going to try and come up with a system for keeping track of them and keeping them there.

We should have all the props in place, too, so it will be great fun!

Please also think ahead to being available for a parent meeting for next year, held sometime this summer, where our kids can hang out at a park and we can discuss options and ideas for next year....plays, songs, themes...

Keep up the great work!

Lightside Choir week 3

 Lightside Choir: please have your kids review the following vocal tracks for the songs we are singing. Not every song has an individual track and not everyone needs to sing all the tracks.

If your child wants to just sing melody, have them continue to use the original list for most of them. Just focus on the melodies from "Inscription of Hope" and "Hallelujah" from this playlist as those songs have different parts.

If your child wants to sing harmony, just have them decide which one they want to do. The kids were all split into two parts for "The Other Side." Please let me know if they don't remember which side they are on.

They were AWESOME last week! We are going to have a lot of fun this semester!

Here's the link:

https://youtube.com/playlist...

let me know if it doesn't work .

Lightside Choir Week 2 and Links to Song Words

 Hi everyone!

Please have your children review every song until they are comfortable singing along, using the words in the documents linked here.

Here is the playlist for the songs that I want them to sing along with from youtube:

Sing-a-long Youtube Lightside List

It is unlisted and only find-able from this link.

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Three things:

-Please have your children read the lyrics from the above documents while singing the songs.  

-I have not included the words for Danny Boy because they have not shipped the music yet, so the kids don't need to review that one.

-I only have the words for "The Other Side" listed and we will review them on our own because the original song has one word that we are filtering out and the kids don't ever need to hear the original. Please read through the lyrics, though, so they are completely comfortable with the words so we can teach them the song next week.

Okay, four :D...

-For the song, "Hallelujah" there are many different forms of the song words so I have selected the ones that I feel are most appropriate for our choir, with it's participants and vision.  Please only have your kids listen to the track I recorded on Youtube because I have included the words we will be singing and the rhythm we will be using.   

I will do practice with the assumption that you have had your kids review the songs.  If your kids have done it, practice will go well. If they do not, practice may be frustrating for them so please make sure they have done this.

I have included a couple tracks that have some harmony. I will eventually have the harmony parts recorded for all the songs with harmony parts.  We will be breaking out into sections to review them this week for those who want to learn different parts.  Those who don't, can just sing the melody...no problem!

We will also have many solo opportunities and will do mini-auditions this week.  If your kids are ready with the songs, it will be easy for them to try out.

Pretty please contact me if any of this is confusing or if you have any questions!  Or just reply in the comment section below.

Super excited to make music with this group!!

Opening Day of Lightside Performing Arts!!

 Today we will be starting both the choir and the acting troupe!  We are so excited!!

LIGHTSIDE CHOIR

For those willing to help with the choir, we will be having a short meeting at 12:30 pm right before choir starts.  We will be handing out folders for the youth to use here in class.  Here is a link to access all the lyrics for the songs for this semester. (I will send a link with the background music and practice tracks to listen to later.)

We will be doing some warm-ups, a small "get-to-know-you" activity and then run through most of our songs so we can get a feel for what we are doing and how this group with operate.  

For those who let me know ahead of time they would be gone, please review the songs and lyrics with your youth.  There are a few adaptations to the songs that I have made (like replacing the curse word in "The Other Side" from The Greatest Showman) so please have the youth review the actual lyrics when they go over it with the background music. Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" also has many adaptations and I have adapted ours to suit our audience better, so that will also be noted in the song lyrics.

The song list will be complete by tomorrow, so I will post links then. 

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ACTING TROUPE

Normally I will do these on separate posts, but am just going to shoot this one out for today with both groups included, as they do not overlap other than being part of the same parent organization :D.

We are excited to get going on this play!!! Everyone should know their parts and have access to a complete script. Please let me know ASAP if you did not print one up for your youth so I can print one up for them.  The link is here for the adapted script.

We will be going over the songs today, following along with the performance tracks so we can become familiar with how that works.  We will also be reviewing the opening and closing scene with staging.  We will do one read through as well as have some exercises/activities to help with our acting abilities.

Looking forward to seeing y'all soon!!