Love is calling you

 Love Songs Open Mic, February 13

As of now (Monday afternoon), 17 (yes, seventeen) BUFsters and friends have signed up to sing something for this Saturday's Drive Thru-Love Fest-Open Mic-Fair Trade-Bubble Event at BUF, between 1-3pm. 60+ singers were invited, but 38 haven't answered yet. If you're one of them, please email me a quick yes, no or maybe. We'll be practicing, encouraging and brainstorming for this event at Wednesday's choir rehearsal via Zoom.

Virtual Choir of 2021 Interfaith Music Festival

All the instructions and materials have now been created and posted on our choir blog for you to film yourself singing "We Shall Be Known" for our next virtual choir project. We will have sectionals on the song again this Wednesday evening, and review the process. It is my hope that all of you BUF singers who have been attending Wednesday Zoom rehearsals will film yourselves, as well as other BUF Choir members who have been on Covid hiatus. The deadline for submitting a video is March 5.

Interfaith Liaisons

I need one BUF liaison for each of the 42 Interfaith Coalition member congregations. Your job as liaison will be to explain our project and get a photo and a music video from each congregation; not just to ASK for them, but to actually GET them - so this may require some doggedness. I will give each liaison the needed contact info. Here is the ask:

Please provide the following for this year's Interfaith Virtual Music Festival:

-TWO PHOTOS (can include your meeting place inside or outside, clergy and/or musicians)

-A ONE-MINUTE MUSIC VIDEO (we suggest filming one verse of a favorite congregational hymn or song. If your video is longer than a minute, we can trim it down. 

You can take the pictures and video using a smartphone, and email or text the results. Pklease submit by March 5, 2021

Yo,

Kevin       kevin@buf.org

Wednesday Feb 3, 2021

 
Dear BUF Singers, 

Thanks to Karen FitzGerald, we now have a new updated score for "We Shall Be Known" and separate sheets for each part: Soprano (harmony), Alto (melody), and Baritone (harmony). These can be found in the "We Shall Be Known" folder on the Choir Blog site:    http://bufchoir.blogspot.com

Thanks o Al Heezen, we now have rehearsal tracks for each part as well. These can be found on the BUF Choir Practice site:    http://bufchoir.org

Please print yourself a copy of the score and/or your individual part, and rehearse it before choir on Wednesday,= if possible. That will help us make better progress as a group over Zoom - or at least it may help us to know what questions to ask.

Also in Wednesday's rehearsal, i will share with you a video clip of one of my favorite moments in music of all time. Just wait for it . . .  

Regards,

Kevin

Meal Train for Ernie Hinds

Greetings BUF community.  Ernie Hinds is scheduled for surgery on Feb. 1, 2021.  I have set up a Meal train for him starting Feb. 5.  Thanks to all of you wonderful cooks out there for helping Ernie.  

https://mealtrain.com/2608w5 

Heather Higgins hhiggins31@gmail.com

Choir Rehearsal January 27

 Hi Choir,

On Wednesday, January 27, we will spend some good time learning "We Shall Be Known." You will get to choose which part you want to learn, and then break out into a sectional on that part. 

The score and other related material is on the choir Blog page

http://bufchoir.blogspot.com/

in the upper right.

See ya, Kevin

Choir rehearsal Zoom link

 Hi BUF Choir,

Here is the proper link for Wednesday choir rehearsals

             https://zoom.us/s/203732613

Password:  BUF

See ya at 7pm, after the Inaugural concert tonight!

Kevin

BUF Choir Resumes Wednesday, January 13, 2021

 Hi Music Makers, 

We will meet in our regular way on Wednesday, January 13 from 7-8pm using our regular Zoom link:

https://zoom.us/j/8419446253

We will be rehearsing for the January 17 MLK Service and launching our "We Shall Be Known" project for a 2021 virtual Interfaith Coalition Music Festival. 

See ya, Kevin

No Zoom Choir tonight - January 6

 Hi BUF Music Makers,

Let's cancel Zoom choir for tonight. There is too much chaos in the country. I, for one, can't concentrate. See ya next Wednesday,  January 13.

Regards,

Kevin