A New Year of Exiting Music!

Dear Choristers,

Another Season of BUF choir is upon us and I for one am looking forward to reaching greater musical heights than ever before.

Here are some things you should know.

Dates and Events:

Sept 11 - Ingathering (We Are One)
Sept 18th Whidby Island Performance*
Dec 3 - Xmas Choir retreat


That is all I have for now but Keep your eyes on the calendar for the most updated info. I will have a detailed schedule for you on the first rehearsal as well.

The Whidby Island performance on the 18th will require us to crank out some music in our first two rehearsals. I will pull out some things from last year. we will probably do a truncated version of our choir finale which should be a lot of fun for us and a great way to get things started! Click the link below to let me know if you are able to go or not.

RESPONSE SERVEY

Also if you are new or you need to update your information in our BUF CHOIR Database please click the link on the right to go to the registration form and fill in your information.

If you have any questions please feel free to call or email me any time

andygmarshall@gmail.com
360-220-3969

details for Sunday

Just a quick reminder about the details for tomorrow's performance.

When: chamber choir: 9:00, main choir: 9:30

What to wear: black plus vivid color accent [accent = scarf, belt, tie, etc.]

Song order:

• The Most Living Moment
• Good Night, Dear Heart
• Gate Gate
•  O Lux Beatissima
• Dai Lanu

Choir and Community Dinner

Hi Choristers

We are going to create a Community Dinner for BUF next Wednesday (March 30).

We can have fun socializing while we cook in BUF's kitchen!  Please let Robin Brown know if you want to help.  We plan to make nutty lentils with brown rice, salad, ginger carrots, and fruit for dessert.  All are gluten free and dairy free.  We can add to or change this menu.  We need help Wednesday morning (11:00 to 12:30) for food prep (chopping vegetables...) and later in the day (4:15 - 6:00 p.m.) to cook and put everything together.

We also want a song to start off the dinner.  Ideas?

Dear choristers,

Can you believe that auction!!! Wow. We have such a vibrant and alive community. You can almost feel the buzz right now.
Our auction item was a success! And Eric has already has an idea for us. June 12 is the last service for the long time and well loved UU minister up in Blaine. He would like to see us go up and rock the house for them and I can't think of a cooler occasion. It may end up being less random act and more of a concert but we will see how things unfold. Just check your calendar for now and get back to me on Wednesday.

"The Most Living Moment" is really coming together! I love being able to do complex music like this.

See you soon, have a good week.

Rehearsal Cancelled tonight!!

Hi Choristers,

we will be cancelling rehearsal tonight as the forcast is projecting accumulations of snow.

Chamber, the dress for sunday will be black, and the time will be 8:15 so we will have some time to rehearse the piece. If there are still snow issues on sunday, keep an eye on the blog for more information.

I will get an email out to you as well I hope.

Andy

new videos posted to blog site

A couple of versions of Jai Ho choral videos have been posted to the video section of the blog site, as well as one for The Most Living Moment. As per usual, the quality is not the best...but they are fun to listen to. 

I find it hard to believe we are going to keep as still as the other choirs singing Jai Ho [not to mention the audience!]...

Audio from our rehearsal

Hi Every one,

Click here to access the recording that Chad made of our last run of Dai Lanu on Wednesday.

Nice work Chad thanks!! Things are sounding good and I for one am having a lot of fun with this piece. I think we are going to represent BUF well at Interfaith.

Remember the Dress is Red and Black and the call this Sunday is 8:30 and it may be the only chance we get to run this with Nathan Mattson (c0ngas) and Simon Nuckles-Flinn (cow Bell) before we sing that day so lets maximize our rehearsal by being on time.

If listening to this gives you any ideas or thoughts please feel free to comment below.

Deedee (my ever candid adviser) Said that I am working way to hard jumping and snaping and shouting to get that tempo up to speed. She (as usual) is totally right! I should just be giving you a clear beat and you should be doing the work. I think we are nearly out of our music enough to actually make this happen.

Alright... check out the new you tube videos I posted to the right!

Rock on!!

Andy