A Ca-Bellas Performance at the Germantown Festival

I have loaded the performance from A Ca-Bellas at the Germantown Festival on the the website. Click Here to watch the video.

Congrats!

Congrats to the 6 students who made it into the All-Southwest Honor Choir!

Evan Hoover
Amanda Dickenson
Caleb Suggs
Trevor Davis
D'era Shack
Carmen Walker

Click Here to view the full results.

Good Luck!!

Good Luck to all my students auditioning for the All-Southwest Tennessee Honor Choir today! I really hope you all do well. So many of you have put in a lot of hours on this. Check later for results!

Peanuts! (P.L. Incentive)

I Peanutized myself. What do you think?

If you write "Peanuts" at the top of your Practice Log this week, I will give you an extra point. Let's see who checks the blog.

ASW Audition Tracks!!!

The tracks are available for your use. I've put them on the website.

CLICK HERE FOR AUDITION TRACKS!!

Picture from Pops Rehearsal

It's blurry....but still fun! I love Pops in the Park!

ASW Audition Times

Hi everyone! Long time, no write.

The times for next Saturday's audition have been released. I have posted them on the GHS CAPA page. Here's the link: http://www.ghscapa.com/s/2015ASWSHAUDITIONTIMES_GHS.pdf

And So It Begins: All-Southwest Honor Choir

Hi,
I've started making tracks for the All-Southwest Honor Choir. I'm sorry I wasn't able to get music to you this year before school ended. I have put the list online for your information and convenience. Go to the new GHS CAPA website for the information. 

Website Change

Hey everyone, as you might have noticed the website (especially the mobile version) has be deluged with ads recently. I've decided to make the switch. I'm moving the content from the gdriv.es site to the GHS Creative and Performing Arts Page. It's going to take me some time to get everything there, but I think the look and functionality will be better in the long run.

Anyway, the new URL for the choir site will be http://ghscapa.com and then click on the Vocal Music tab on the top menu. A Ca-Bellas will be happy to see that you have your own page now!

Go visit the new site and make sure it works for you. I'll be updating it as frequently as I can.

Mr. D

2015-2016 Roster

Here is a link to the choir roster for 2015-2016:

CLICK HERE

S&E Canceled

Boy, what a year: first Pops in the Park, then Peabody, now Solo&Ensemble. It's been canceled for tomorrow and will hopefully be rescheduled. We'll see, I guess.

Anyway, we should be at school tomorrow, so I'll see you there!

Big Website Update

I have just completed a major update to the website. I have put all the rehearsal tracks needed for Chorale and Chamber Choir on their respective pages. I have also posted pictures on the Photos and Albums pages. I still have to post the tracks from the Holiday Concert, but that should be done soon.

Folks going to New York need to be working on their songs. You need to know Beautiful City by next Tuesday (Feb 17). I will hear you sing it in class.

UPDATE: I have put the Holiday Concert on the Performance Page

Rehearsal Tracks....Finally!!

I have finally put the tracks for Cloudburst online. I have new tracks on the Chamber and the Chorale pages. Check it out!!

Chamber Choir Holiday Greetings

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More presentations from Steve Danielson

Booster Take 2 and next deposit

Next deposit for the New York trip is due by Dec 3. The price will be $265 (down from $420 after raising almost $160 per person). The last deposit will be due right at the beginning of January.

Due to popular demand, the t-shirt is back on sale - this time with LONG SLEEVES.


If you want to order one, follow this link: https://www.booster.com/ghs-new-york-t-shirts and order by December 12. The shirts will be delivered during the Holidays and we'll get them in January.

Big Fish Audition Tracks

I have just posted and uploaded audition tracks for Big Fish - our spring musical.

The URL is http://gdriv.es/ghschoir/GHS_Choirs/Big_Fish.html

Auditions will be on December 2. See either me or Mrs. Williams for audition music. See you there!!

Next New York Payment

So, the end of the month is coming upon us…so is the deadline for our next payment for New York. We're needing $420 by next Friday. I'm sorry there hasn't been more traditional fundraising set up yet. This is for a couple of reasons: 1) We haven't been able to end coupon book sales because I hadn't hit my quota – we are ending this Friday! 2) I literally have not had time to stop and think about fundraising. We did set up the Booster accounts (please take advantage of those) as well as the evening at Mellow Mushroom on November 6. Please encourage your friends and neighbors to join you there for some pizza that night! I think we may be able to set something similar up with Chick-Fil-A.

I have not received the total from the concert last night (which I thought went really well!), but it should take a couple dollars away from each total. I'll let you know when I get that figured out. PPAG and GFAF have agreed to give us $4500 (about $100 per person), but that won't come until our November deadline.

Fall Concert Tickets

The tickets for the Fall Choral Showcase are now available for purchase. The tickets are $3.00 each. These are available through the Poplar Pike Playhouse website (ppp.org). You can click this link to get directly to the purchase page: http://ppp.tix.com/Schedule.aspx?OrgNum=703. You may also call our box office to reserve tickets by calling 901-755-7775. You may buy tickets in advance or purchase in person that evening.

The concert is going to be amazing! We'll see you there!

UPDATE: just realized that I didn't actually put the concert information in the post. The Fall Choral Showcase is on Tuesday, Oct 21 at 7:00 PM in the Poplar Pike Playhouse (the theater in C Building). 

Booster.com setup

Hey gang,
I set up two accounts at Booster.com. On one site, a T-Shirt is available to buy to support the choir. NOTE: This is not the official shirt that we will use on the trip. That will be designed later.

The other site is for someone to just make a flat donation without buying a shirt (better for people who aren't local, or not really affiliated with our school). 

The goal is to sell 50 shirts, but of course, more shirts means more profits. All shirts will be delivered to the school by Nov 21, so if someone outside of the Memphis area buys a shirt, we'll have to figure out how to get it to them.

Here's the link to the T-Shirt Booster page: https://www.booster.com/ghschoir-new-york
I encourage everyone to buy a shirt - even if you're not going on the trip!

This is the link for the Donation Booster page: https://www.booster.com/ghschoir-new-york-donations

Please copy both/either link and send it out via email / Facebook / Twitter or any other means you have.

Update: We've sold 1 shirt so far and it's only been live for a couple hours! Woo-hoo!

Sponsor Letter

I finally was able to post the Sponsor Letter on the website. It's on both the Chorale and the Chamber Choir pages. Please mail this letter out to as many people/businesses as you can. I've had one returned so far with a check for $200. That's $200 that someone doesn't have to pay toward their trip because a sponsor paid it for them.

I've figured out that our next deposit (due by the end of the month) should be $420 per person. There will be another payment of $420 due by the end of November. The balance will be due right when we get back from the break in January.  If you play your cards right, you could get some sponsors this month and not have to worry about the second deposit!

Check this blog over the break in case I have information about fundraisers.

Cheers!