BS: Potluck Singalong Announcement

Subject: Potluck Singalong Announcement
From: Crowhugger
Date: 31 Mar 00 - 08:06 PM

Echo: A choir of women's voices presents:

You are about to read a shameless plug for the best $10 evening in the City of Toronto.

Potluck Singalong
Saturday evening, April 1st, 2000
5:30 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.

Location:
Church of the Holy Trinity
(Behind the Eaton Centre)

Tickets $10 at the door
Note: sliding scale for the un(der)waged.

Alcohol-free, caffeine optional.
Special diet? Each dish is accompanied by a list of ingredients and many limitations are accommodated. Check it out!

Join Echo with your musical instruments, friends and family of all ages for a lovely evening of
Folk
Familiar Favourites
and maybe some gospel and world choral in the mix.

Come early to stake out a table! Food served at 6:00 p.m. sharp!

And you'll still have a young night ahead of you to get to that blues club! Or folk club...

Subject: RE: BS: Potluck Singalong Announcement
From: Sorcha
Date: 31 Mar 00 - 09:42 PM

Wish the WYO contingent could be there! Guess we'll have to have our own, and invite you.

Subject: RE: BS: Potluck Singalong Announcement
From: katlaughing
Date: 31 Mar 00 - 11:17 PM

Too right! CW...sing out and give yer mom a hug! Have a good time!

luvyakat

Subject: RE: BS: Potluck Singalong Announcement
From: Crowhugger
Date: 01 Apr 00 - 01:52 AM

shamelss refresh.

Subject: RE: BS: Potluck Singalong Announcement
From: WyoWoman
Date: 01 Apr 00 - 03:17 AM

This sounds like great fun. Maybe we WyoWimmin could hop in the Magic Bus and just come on up ....

Subject: RE: BS: Potluck Singalong Announcement
From: Crowhugger
Date: 01 Apr 00 - 06:19 AM

Magic Bus, Magic Carpet...parking for all, at a hefty price since it's downtown.

Last session's WAS great fun. There's an Echo songbook, lyrics really, and a copy of the table of contents is put out for each person to check off 5 songs they want to sing. The as-many-as-we-have-time-for with the most checkmarks are the ones on the program.

It is definitely a time for voices to unite. One of the co-conductors is a great pianist, and someone who came last time knew the most wonderful accompaniment to "Solidarity Forever." So, if guitars are lacking or unsure of leadership, we can count on Becca and people who've come for the singing.

Or we just belt it out!

Subject: RE: BS: Potluck Singalong Announcement
From: Crowhugger
Date: 01 Apr 00 - 04:27 PM

one last shameless refresh...Kashmiri lamb is my contribution...how can you resist?

Subject: RE: BS: Potluck Singalong Announcement
From: GUEST,hollowfox
Date: 01 Apr 00 - 05:05 PM

Yum! And the checkmarks on the songlist is a great idea - but how do you tally them quick enough to have a full evening of singing? (Wish I could be there)

Subject: RE: BS: Potluck Singalong Announcement
From: Crowhugger
Date: 03 Apr 00 - 04:45 AM

HF,

To answer your question, I believe that one of the co-directors gets indigestion doing a fast tally after dessert while the other directors leads the choir in 3 songs.

Rule number 1: count the number of dotted songs to make sure it's more than 20! People can have bandwagon tendencies sometimes.

It's not so bad; we're set up for it. There are BIG **no, I'm not yelling ;-)** pages with the songs listed and a separate long narrow sheet for the dots hung beside it. So the same song list is used at each fundraiser. Only the dot-strips need to be replaced. It's pretty funny to watch the odd person put all 5 of their dots on one song it the hopes it gets in. Which it does.

We have a few people who like to pick difficult or obscure songs from the section called "Echo Favourites." The title of this section means that some are quick-success numbers and others required good hard work to learn. Someone always puts their 5 dots beside one of the trickier ones and cajoles a friend into doing the same with another. Then they'll teach it to the roomful of song lovers.

BTW, the tables are laid out in 3 rows to make easy marking of sections for rounds, always popular at these things.

Bigger BTW: it was grand fun and a smashing success!

Next time (autumn term, probably in late October or early November before Seasonal Spending Disorder sets in) I'll try to announce it sooner for those in the area.

Ya had to be there to hear so many voices beautify "Wild Mountain Thyme." And to see a most peculiar array of home-made percussion instruments.

CH

Subject: RE: BS: Potluck Singalong Announcement
From: katlaughing
Date: 03 Apr 00 - 05:41 AM

Wow, CH, that sounds so well organised and what a great way to involve everyone! Thanks for letting us know about it. Any chance anyone made a tape you could send into Max for the radio program? Or that we could buy individually?

T'anks,

kat

Subject: RE: BS: Potluck Singalong Announcement
From: Susan A-R
Date: 05 Apr 00 - 08:33 PM

Sounds great. I have sat in on Echo before (when visiting Alan and Becca) I am sure the place rocked. Say hi to them for me.

Susan A-R