Sweet & Low Concert Weekend!

Hi everyone!

Thanks so much for all your hard work and dedication to making this concert come together! We're only two sleeps away from performing and we are so excited! Here's some important info for everyone to note for this weekend!

• Dress Rehearsal - Friday April 26 from 6:30-10 pm at Fairview United Church
• Everyone will need to be present for the entire rehearsal.
• We will take staggered breaks so the women will break while the men are singing and vice versa. Adjust your snack expectations accordingly.
• Change from Sunday's rehearsal - Come in concert dress with hair/makeup done as someone has volunteered to take photos for free for us on Friday night. 
• Concert dress:
• Women: short Xara dresses, leggings, black belts, Xara shoes, solid colour pashmina
• Men: black pants, long-sleeved black dress shirt, black shoes & socks, solid colour tie (your choice of colour)
• Everyone must have a black folder to use for the unmemorized pieces.
• The students from Lockview will be rehearsing in the space from 5:30-6:30 so please enter quietly and don't disturb their rehearsal!
• Very important - Please bring all tickets and money to Erin at the dress rehearsal! She will not take it on Saturday!
• Concert Day - Saturday April 27, call time is 6:00 pm, show is at 7:30 pm
• Please arrive ready to sing at 6:00. We will do a warm up & sound check, but we also have to have time for the Lockview singers to warm up as well.
• Tickets will be available at the door - please encourage your friends and family members to come!!!
• The after party is at Robin's house - check the Facebook event for more details.

Important Sweet & Low Details!

Hi everyone,

Sweet & Low is fast approaching!!! Thank you all for the hard work you have done so far. Now that the show is around the corner, we have to kick everything into high gear so we give a stellar performance!

• Unless you have a prior written agreement with Christina & Claire, attendance this Sunday is mandatory. Sunday's rehearsal will be for both men and women for the entire time frame: 1:15-4:45 pm.
• This Sunday, you need to be off book for all of the pieces that are required to be memorized: 
• Men and Women: Dobbin's Flowery Vale, And So It Goes, Butterfly, A Boy and a Girl, Odi Odi, Tres Cantos Nativos, Adiemus
• Women Only: Voice Dance, Kaipaava, I'll Give My Love an Apple, Dana Dana
• This is the week to sell your tickets!!!!! Don't leave it to the last minute as we want to make sure we have as many people in the audience as possible! Please bring ticket money in an envelope to Erin this Sunday.
• Women only: The date for the IWK/Irving event has been changed to Wednesday May 8th at 11 am. Christina has put a poll on the Facebook group to make sure that we have enough singers. Please give your response ASAP.

Thank you all!!!! SEE YOU SUNDAY!!!!!!!

Prep for Musquodoboit!

Hi all,

Here's the schedule and a list of everything to bring with you to Musquodoboit this Sunday!

Schedule on Sunday, April 7th:

• 10:45 am Arrival at venue
• 11:00 am Rehearsal in the venue
• 1:00 pm Lunch potluck
• 2:00 pm Prep/hair/makeup
• 3:00 pm Show!

Things to Bring:

• your Xara dress
• your Xara shoes (gym slippers or black flats with no heel)
• black leggings
• your black Xara belt
• your Pull shawl and gloves
• Claire/Camila/Kristin: Pull dancer costume - skirt, shirt, dance shorts 
• your Reverberations costume including shoes
• hair elastics/bobby pins/product
• stage makeup 
• tuning fork (if applicable, Christina will also bring some)
• food to share for the potluck and extra water for yourself
• music and scripts
• gas money for your driver

Costumes:

Wanting Memories

• short Xara dress
• leggings
• Xara shoes
• hair down but off the face

Pull

• long Xara dress
• Xara shoes
• shawl
• gloves
• hair up 

Reverberations

• individual costume
• shoes
• hair as appropriate to your character, but off your face

Makeup:

• the look for all three pieces is fairly neutral, but we need to see your beautiful features
• foundation/concealer
• blush
• eyeliner/mascara
• lip colour (fairly neutral)

Unraveled Take Two!

Hi all,

Some important details for our upcoming performance of Unraveled on Sunday April 7th at 3 pm at the Musquodoboit Valley Bicentennial Theatre.

• Our only rehearsal for Unraveled will be Monday, April 1 from 5:30-8:30 pm at Fairview United. Please make sure you have reviewed all music, lines, and blocking before this rehearsal. You do not need to bring your costumes except Pull girls must bring their skirts to rehearse in. Please eat supper before you come, as we will only take a regular 15 minute snack break. We will rehearse in this order:
• 5:30 pm (sharp) Run of Unraveled
• 7:30 pm run Pull
• 8:00 pm run Wanting Memories
• Schedule on Sunday, April 7th:
• 11:00 am Rehearsal in the venue
• 1:00 pm Lunch provided by the Bicentennial Theatre
• 2:00 pm Prep/hair/makeup
• 3:00 pm Show!
• Driving to MVBT - You will need to sort out your own drive/carpool to and from the theatre. Map/directions on how to get there are here: http://bicentennialtheatre.ca/index.php?id=contact
• Tickets - For this performance we are receiving a sold service fee, but we will also receive a 50% split of the profits from the door. So, we have the potential to earn more money if we sell lots of tickets. If you have anyone who missed the show the first time, or would like to see it again, please let them know about the performance and encourage them to come out to the show! The information about tickets can be found here: http://bicentennialtheatre.ca/
• Mary's Lines - Claire has asked a few people to cover Mary's lines in both Reverberations & Wanting Memories. We don't anticipate any major changes in the blocking with her gone, but we will work through anything that comes up on Monday night.

Thanks for all your hard work, and let's give this show another spectacular performance!!!

March Update

Hi everyone!

Wanting to update you on some important things. Christina sent some of this information out today in an email, but we felt it was important to share it with you on the blog as well so you were sure to see it! Just a reminder that we save emails for *very* important information only and expect you to read them thoroughly. 

1. Fund Raising Letter: As we've mentioned previously, Xara is in a critical year for fund raising and we are doing a mail campaign for more "traditional" donors (who wouldn't go online to give). In order to do this, we need addresses of people who fall into this category and we need them this Sunday. COULD EVERY PERSON PLEASE BRING A MINIMUM OF TWO NAMES/ADDRESSES WITH THEM. We will be circulating a clipboard for you to write them down. I can't stress how important this is.

2. Rehearsal Schedule: Christina has made a few adjustments to the remaining rehearsals to allow us just a bit more time on our joint repertoire. These adjusted times begin this week. Please see below and schedule accordingly.

Mar 24 1:15 - 4:00 Men & Women (including snack at 3:45); Xara only until 4:45; choral competition recording session is scheduled until 8 pm 

Mar 31  NO REHEARSAL - Easter Sunday

Apr 1  SPECIAL REHEARSAL (Women only) 5:30 - 8:30 p.m.

Apr 7 Women Only - "Unraveled" Show in Middle Musquodoboit

Apr 14 1:15 - 4:00 Men & Women (including snack at 3:45); Xara only until 4:45

Apr 21 1:15 - 4:45 Men & Women - MAJOR REHEARSAL (attendance is mandatory)

Apr 26 5:30 - 10:00 DRESS REHEARSAL

Apr 27 6:00 CALL FOR CONCERT

3. Choral Competition Recording: See above re: the day's schedule. This is the day for the choral competition recording for women only. We will be recording at Fairview United Church after rehearsal, until no later than 8 pm. Please bring your supper!! Reminder that the repertoire is Tree of Life, Pen-Pen, Uraren besotik, and Les Angelus. Please refresh this music before Sunday's rehearsal.

4. Sunday's Rehearsal: We are only about 5 weeks away from the concert! This means that memorization needs to go into high gear. Please note that Christina has asked for Odi Odi and And So It Goes to be memorized for this Sunday.

5. Unraveled Run Out: This is fast approaching. Women, please review your scores, lines, and blocking in the next 10 days before our rehearsal on April 1. We are expecting you to come to that rehearsal with everything fresh and performance ready. That rehearsal will be used to refine the piece, not to relearn anything.

Thanks everyone for all your hard work!!!!!! Lots to do in the coming weeks but we are going to rock it!!!

Some Important Upcoming Things!

Hi everyone! We wanted to give you an update with some info for some important upcoming things!

But first, just a reminder about our attendance policy. If you anticipate missing a rehearsal, you must inform Christina, Claire, and Erin via email as far in advance as possible. Reminder that singers should miss no more than two rehearsals per concert period. If you told any one of us in person that you will be missing any upcoming rehearsals, please send us an email reminder so we have a record of it.

• Choral competition recording - we will be sending out a Doodle poll to figure out the best time to finish the recording for the choral competition. In the meantime, remember to review your scores for the competition pieces so that the music stays fresh!
• Fairview Church service - as part of our deal with Fairview United (they rent us the space for the entire year for VERY cheap), we usually sing one or two church services for them. This year, we will be singing in church on Sunday March 17th (yes this is the day after Pacifico, you will have to deal!). It is super important that as many people as possible are there so that we are a balanced choir and are sounding great. The call time is 9:30 am.
• Unraveled run out - Our second performance of Unraveled is scheduled for Sunday April 7th at 3 pm. You need to book off the whole day for this performance. We will be heading to the theatre in the morning to do sound checks and get used to the space. We will put up a separate blog post with all the details regarding this performance but we need to make sure that everyone has it in their calendar.

Thanks so much all! Sunday's rehearsal was a great one, and it's so fun to be singing with the boys! See you all this weekend (and if not make sure to email us!!!!) :)

Love Claire & Christina

Unraveled Dress Rehearsal!

Hi everyone,

We wanted to fill you in with some details for the dress rehearsal! Rehearsal is at 6:30 pm at St. Matthew's. We will be starting at 6:30 so you must arrive a few minutes early so we are ready to go. We should be finished by 10 pm. The photographer will be there to shoot the dress rehearsal so be prepared to ignore him and give it your all!!

Things to Bring:

• your Xara dress
• your Xara shoes (gym slippers or black flats with no heel)
• black leggings
• your black Xara belt
• your Pull shawl and gloves
• Claire/Camila/Kristin: Pull dancer costume - skirt, shirt, dance shorts 
• your Reverberations costume including shoes
• hair elastics/bobby pins/product
• stage makeup 
• tuning fork (if applicable, Christina will also bring some)
• snacks and water for yourself
• music and scripts

Costumes:

Wanting Memories

• short Xara dress
• leggings
• Xara shoes
• hair down but off the face

Pull

• long Xara dress
• Xara shoes
• shawl
• gloves
• hair up 

Reverberations

• individual costume
• shoes
• hair as appropriate to your character, but off your face

Makeup:

• the look for all three pieces is fairly neutral, but we need to see your beautiful features
• foundation/concealer
• blush
• eyeliner/mascara
• lip colour (fairly neutral)