Rowan's Journal

As of right now, except for the fee they take out, I have almost enough donations to pay for the basic registration.

I sorta expected a quicker response but I'm trying not to be too discouraged.

Here's the link to it:

(as ganked from hdsqrl with a few changes to make it mine, of course)

Hey everyone,

Before your holiday calendars get completely booked, I wanted to let you all in on the most-awesomest-best-holiday-program EVAR, and my fingers are crossed that you'll come! What is it? WELL, hold onto your seats, ‘cause I’m about to tell you. :)

What: The Kansas City Women’s Chorus holiday show
: Saturday, Dec 10, 8pm (one show only!)
Where: Downtown KC, at the Folly Theater
Who (will you see?): ME!! (and probably some others you know...Megan Olvera, for sure.) :D
Cost: Depends on the seats you choose, but it’s roughly $22-$25/ticket when you figure in service fees and such. I know, I know, it’s not cheap, but it’s the FOLLY, and we had to rent the place using our cute looks and a promise to pay the bill when all is said and done.

Why? Well, duh, of course, I’m singing, and I want an audience with faces that I know. Also, Megan's on the “fund development committee”, and as a responsible member of the committee, she's supposed to “fill a row” – that is, get 10 tickets sold. She's already bought 4 of those 10, so she just needs 6 more tickets to be ordered (fill her name - Megan Olvera - in the blank on the online order form) to meet her quota. Help a girl out? (They don’t all have to literally be in the same row, no worries.)

I will say (without bias) that it really ought to be a good show, and as the chorus has its roots in the GALA Chorus org, you can bet we’re taking the whole “Christmas” thing with a grain of salt. There are indeed some classical Christian holiday pieces, but also songs representing other faiths, and some that are completely unrelated to any faith at all. And, as is our tradition, there are a few slightly irreverent, tongue-in-cheek pieces as well. :) We have approximately 100 singers, and we range from 18 yrs into the 80’s, so the range of voices is amazing.

How do you order? Go to https://www.boxofficetickets.com/kcwc and click on "Joy" – that’s the winter show, or if you know you want to see the Spring show as well, save a couple of bucks and get a season ticket or two.

What’s nice about us singing in the Folly is that you get to pick your seats NOW. There are LOADS of good seats left, but don’t wait too long or you might get stuck along the outside edge. If you've been to a concert there, you know how wonderful shows are in that gorgeous space.

Dr. Joe Nadeau, our Music Director, is also the Director of the Heartland Men's Chorus, and is utterly awesome at programming and teaching non-professional singers to sound really amazing. Leslie McLean is our accompanist and is Director of the "Treble Makers" in which I sing. We'll be doing at least one number in the holiday concert.

But definitely DO come see the show! (Please? Talk amongst yourselves and plan a dinner out, followed by the show!)

Hope to see you there!

This Saturday, December 11, at 8pm and Sunday, December 12, at 4pm will be the Holiday Concert for the Kansas City Women's Chorus. Our conductor, Dr. Joe, has selected a really great program of fun, beautiful, funny, and gorgeous songs (seriously, we crack up in rehearsals!) for this concert. You won't want to miss it!

Tickets are $15 for Adults, $10 for Seniors and Students and are available at the web-site and at the door. (I believe they are still looking for several ushers who then get in free to the concert, but I'd need to know about that today, if you're interested!)

It will be at Congregation Beth Torah in Overland Park, which is a gorgeous venue.

http://www.kcwomenschorus.org/

Please come and join us! We've worked really hard (all music is memorized *gulp*) and we'd love to share it with you.

Hey Everybody in KC and nearby...

There's something really fun happening this Wednesday night at Hamburger Mary's!

http://www.hamburgermaryskc.com/

It's Charity Bingo night and the charity happens to be the Kansas City Woman's Chorus.
It starts at 8pm and the individual tickets are only $5. I'm told that their food is fabulous, that this event is a blast so I wanted to invite everybody.

It's campy, fabulous and fun. We've all assembled some outrageous White Elephant prizes and I've heard that the bingo caller is a HOOT!

I'll be there starting about 7, selling bingo cards, if anybody wants to drop by for the food, the frolic and the fun. It should be a blast!

Just heard about this on the Classical Radio station here in Tulsa:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1209371/Secret-code-etched-Stirling-Castle-revealed-oldest-written-music-Scotand.html

Thank gods for the powers of observation and critical thinking of this family!

Really stoked about this; can't wait to hear someone record this "new" old piece of music.

Now I really, really want to go there!

I'm desperately seeking a new blank book for the lyric book.

I pretty much want to duplicate what I've used for the last, ye gods, seven years now. Those of you who have seen me using it, toting it around, leaving it gods-know-how-many different places...know of what I speak.

This is an 8-1/2" by 10", hard-bound, covered in velvet, spiral ring notebook containing about an 1" stack of lined paper. I found the original one in Borders in Overland Park on Metcalf back in '03. It's lasted very well, all things considering, since I've carted it all over the midwest, filling it with lyrics, leaving it out in the rain and well, yeah, using the hell out of it.

I have looked at every Borders, every Barnes and Noble, on-line, in office supply stores; I've googled and searched and Can't. Find. One. At. All.

I really don't care what color the velvet it; this one is red. I'd love blue or green or purple...or whatever. But I can't find ANY. Needs to be spiral bound so that I can turn it all the way open so it lies flat with one page showing on front; regular notebooks can't do that.

This one is DONE; the venerable lyric book is FULL, it's been well-loved, scribbled in, scratched out and underlined. It has no more blank pages; each one is covered both front and back. It's warped and water marked, literally, from having left it in the book bag overnight at OKRF one night accidentally. It was after one of the evening events, King's Feast, I think, two years ago when we thought it was just the cooler we'd left there. And then it rained overnight and the next morning, got out there and realized that I'd also left the book bag, which protected it fairly well, just a few pages got wet and the ink ran a bit. I kept using it as the valuable resource that it is for someone like me who has such trouble memorizing lyrics, not to mention being the place we keep the final word on keys and arrangements.

So I need another hardbound, spiral ring notebook, preferably containing about 200 blank, lined pages, preferably covered in velvet but at this point, it's getting desperate; I NEED another lyric book!

Anybody know where I can find one?

Many of you have heard me go on (and on!) about this wonderful Celtic band I heard many years ago at a Living Statue gig I had at the Smoky Hills River Festival in Salina, KS (yes, in Salina and one of the best craft faires anywhere in the States.) I was doing the Mother Nature statue that had a water squirter in the cornucopia and I squirted the bare heel of their bag-piper, Ian, as they walked by. Startled them and we all laughed; I hadn't realized it was them; they were just patrons walking by as far as I was concerned.

That evening was the evening big concert and they were "Rawlins Cross" and they were FABULOUS. I bought 2 of their CDs and only have one now, thanks to the divorce. I thought they'd broken up. Well, they had been on hiatus for 6 years. But they're now back and I found them through a side ad for the CD that their lead singer is coming out with just now. Guy looks a bit like a truck driver but has this wonderful, amazing voice,and is named Joey Kitson.

Here: www.rawlinscross.com/

Of course, my East Coast friends probably know all about them already but I was so excited to find them. Now I know what I want for my birthday next month; ALL their CDs!

I can't get away from it...

Now they're playing "Fantasy on Greensleeves" on the classical radio station.

Hey, at least it's not Danny Boy or Londonderry Aire. No, that'll be tomorrow!

Thanks to Eric Williams of WWC Marketing, we are delighted to announce that we will be having a CD release party of "Castle Queen's Side", the 6th QG CD in Tulsa on March, 29th.

It will be at 2:00pm at Borders Books at 2740 E 21st St. .

We are working on getting a CD release party in Kansas City or Lawrence for the day before; any help in that endeavor (of finding us a retail location for the party) would be most appreciated. Yes, we're crazy enough to travel to different cities for CD release parties; but then, we're a tri-city band!


*cross posted to QG group and yahoo group*

Please come, tell all your friends and help us launch this new CD (and help our sales at Borders!)

THANK YOU, Eric; you rock!

Ganked from billthetailor

This is just too nifty while weird and I wanted to share it, thanks to Bill for posting it.

Bruce's and my thought was "wow, somebody has Waaaay too much time on their hands.

http://dailymotion.alice.it/video/k43lM543O6wrtwyFlK

And a "real" post coming up with some news in a mo'.