[Sing! Rehearsals] Sing! This Week :)

Dear Sing!ers, 

Apologies for a long email this week, but please do read it all, as it contains lots of really important information 🙂

This week:

We will be in the Recital Room at Hills Road at 7.30 pm this Thursday. This week we will be recapping Joy, starting a new song, Shotgun and learning some more of Sit Down You're Rockin' the Boat. We have plenty of snacks, so no need to bring anything this week thank you. Please can you make an extra effort to spend some time learning Joy, as we won't have time to go through all of it this week. (See note about part tracks below.)

Time to pay subs:

Well done for registering for this term. It's now time to pay your subs please. Please pay by Saturday 4 April. It's £52.50 right through until the end of the summer term or £26.25 for concessions (self declared, for whatever reason with no questions asked). Prompt payment to help with planning would be greatly appreciated. Any issues please catch Claire (Treasurer) or a member of the committee at rehearsal. Usual bank details are below and please remember to add your name as a reference! Thank you!!

Bank: The Co-operative Bank

Account name: Sing! Community Choir (leave the exclamation mark out if needed)

Sort Code: 08 / 92 / 99

Account Number: 65694684

Catching up on music:

Now that we have all our new members for the term, we'd like to remind everyone of what we hope for from you in terms of learning music for the term. As we are a choir with a relaxed attendance policy (come when you can, but don't worry if you miss some weeks!), and a choir that learns by ear, rather than from sheet music, we've learnt over the years that it can be a challenge to make progress with songs in our rehearsals. For those who've missed rehearsals it can be difficult to catch up, and for those who are there every week it can be frustrating to continually have to go over things again from the beginning!

We really want to make Sing! as enjoyable as possible for everyone. So, in each weekly email, we tell you which songs we'll be singing at the coming Thursday's rehearsal. If you're going to miss the rehearsal, we'd like to ask that you have a listen and practise the songs at home instead, using the resources on our Google drive. You can find the link to the part tracks at this link: https://singcommunitychoir.co.uk/keep-singing-sum-26/ which was shared with you when you signed up, so do save it.

From next week, this link will be included at the bottom of every weekly email we send (if you can’t find it straight away, it might be in an attachment).

We aim to share as much as we can in this folder. Due to permissions, we're not able to share full scores of all the songs, but we will share lyrics and audio recordings for everything where possible. Getting all these resources up takes a lot of time on our part, so please do use them! We're working our way through the songs for this term, so keep checking back 🙂

Do follow the link above for information on term dates, subs, how to join the socials mailing list and more.

WhatsApp Groups:

You may like to join our Whatsapp community to stay in touch with what's happening in choir. You could join a part group, for news and socials related to your part, the Sing! Current Members chat for news and last minute updates, the 'warm ups' groups, or a number of other social groups.

• Read these guidelines and decide whether you would like to join or not
• (NB please read the guidance about making your name visible)
• If you would like to join, click this link (from your phone), which should take you to Whatsapp and sign you up

Weekend Away – 15 – 17 May:
You should have received the email last week about this. Let me know if you didn't get it and I'll resend it to you. Don't forget to sign up!  

Looking forward to seeing you again on Thursday 🙂