Welshampton Festival of Fire 2009

Sorry about the lack of posts recently. It's not because we havn't been doing anything but rather the contrary. The first half-term has been very busy with rehearsals and then finally performances of 'The Secret Garden'. More of this later when I've finished editing the video footage!

Tonight, at 6.15pm exactly, the Welshampton Festival of Fire takes place. See the details at http://www.welshampton.org.uk/website/. The Taiko Rangers have been working with members of the community for the past 3 weeks introducing Taiko to them. Each Tuesday night they've been working with about 30 people from age 6 to considerably older... Tonight they will perform 'Sakura', one of the Taiko Rangers' pieces as part of the Festival. The Rangers will also perform. 'Todoroki' will be followed by 'Matsuri'... hopefully! The weather forecast isn't good but as I type the rain has stopped. Promises to be a great occasion. Over 5000 people came to last year's festival so let's hope we get a good turnout tonight.

Last night was the 'technical rehearsal' so here are some pictures before everything gets burnt down later on!

AS Music Composition 1

This is a bit of an experiement... I wanted to share some of the composition work done by students at Thomas Adams so I've made a video file which is of course visually static but it's the music that counts. Let me know what you think. The first is by an AS Music student, Chris. We do EDEXCEL 'A' Level and so the students have to choose a composition brief and work on it under controlled conditions. Chris chose "The Night Before Battle" as his brief. The piece explores the emotions prior to a battle....

Hits Brothers...

I don't quite know how to describe the final clip.... suffice to say that the evening is all about raising money for charity and is organised (?) by the 6th Form Committee. This is their final contribution.. enjoy!

Sonnet..

Here's Will's performance of the Verve classic, Sonnet.

Junior Choir & Guests...

Here's the junior choir singing "Penny Lane" followed by a guest performance from Dr Sparkes and Mrs Rees....(be afraid).

Youngling Taiko Rangers

The Youngling Taiko Rangers perfom Jonathan Kirby's "Edge of Magic". They'd been together since September. Jamie's in charge!

When You're Gone..

Abi and Rebecca performing "When You're Gone"... good stuff girls!