Everything musical that's going on at Hayes School
Thanks a million to all Jamseshers who played at the Hayes Christmas Lights last Saturday.
Our next event is the Christmas Tree Festival with Concert Band on Sunday 9th: letters went out at the rehearsal on Tuesday.
Then we are in full flow for…
There will be rehearsals on the day for this: the schedule will be put in the blog on 14th December. The usual rehearsals will run at normal times between now and then.
Jamsesh you should know what you’re doing… we are starting to perform at 3.55pm outside the New Inn on Saturday 24th. You need to be there a little bit before that, but the changeover from the previous group needs to be super-quick, so you need to be ready for action!
Make sure you bring everything you need, and wear something warm (and possibly festive – Santa hat, tinsel, antlers, full elf costume…) if it’s cold. We will be done by 4.30pm.
Thanks so much to all the Music Leaders and prefects who helped out so brilliantly at the Year 7 concert. The standard was really high, and Mrs Greenidge had a difficult job to choose the winners.
3rd place (joint): Leandro Rios-Field and Chloe Moore
2nd place: Lucie Kavanagh
1st place: Angela Weinthrop
Do you need an instrument? Or strings/reeds/accessories? Do you need to get an instrument fixed? The Music Hub is based at BYMT in Southborough Lane and can offer you a great service including part exchange, second hand instruments, valuations… everything you need for your music!
Concert Band, a letter will be coming to you in your rehearsal on Tuesday, but the arrangements for this are the same as usual: meet at Hayes Free Church at 5.30pm on Sunday 9th December.
Truly amazing ukulele playing!
Our super-busy season kicks off this week with the Year 7 concert on Tuesday. Thanks so much to everyone who has volunteered to help out, whether performing at the end, or with the door/herding cats year 7s and so on.
Our next event after that is Jamsesh @ the Christmas Lights on Saturday 24th. We are on at 3.55pm. Jamsesh members should have all the info (it’s on the front of your song booklet) but the most important thing to remember during this week is that BOTH Jamsesh groups will rehearse together on THURSDAY after school.
After that there’s Concert Band @ the Christmas Tree Festival on 9th December, and then the Christmas Concert on Wednesday 19th.
Huge thanks to Ben Frost for compiling and editing the video.
Our next events are the Year 7 Concert on Tuesday 20th November at 7pm at St Mark’s, rapidly followed by Jamsesh @ Hayes Christmas Lights on Saturday 24th November, from 3.55pm outside the New Inn. We will be doing our usual collection of Christmassy songs… get your tinsel out! Do come along and support if you’re around that afternoon.
The Yale Glee Club are the world-famous choir from Yale University in Conneticut. Here they are singing Shenandoah (a lovely American folk song that we have done in the past too – perhaps we will revisit it next term so we can share it with them). They will be visiting Hayes on 13th March 2019, and will be performing for us and doing a workshop with our choirs (Choir, Boyvox and Showsongs).
Huge congratulations to everyone who performed in MusicFest. You demonstrated such musicality, creativity, confidence and teamwork, we were very proud to see such an array of great performances in so many different styles.
Now go and have a fantastic half term! Have a good rest, and recharge your batteries ready for our busiest half term of all. Christmas is coming…!
Here’s what’s coming up – make sure you have dates in your diary and that you know what’s going on!
Have heard a few of you playing this in the last couple of weeks – here is the BEST version ever (…well until we do a handbell version!).
Here are all the details you need to know about MusicFest:
We have our busiest time coming up! You might as well get used to it – November and December are always super-busy for musicians 🙂
Here’s what’s coming up – make sure you have dates in your diary and that you know what’s going on!
A huge thank you to Jazz Band, and everyone who helped out in the department, especially Harry, Ben F, Ellen and Ben M who were amazing in answering people’s questions and getting some chair drumming and Boomwhacking going. Jazz Band braved a chilly morning to put on a fantastic show at the front of the school as always. You students are our best advert! We are very proud of you all.
MusicFest is coming up fast, on 18th October. Anyone, in any year group, can perform whatever piece they like, as a solo, or a duet, or in a group – it’s up to you. It doesn’t matter if you’re an old hand, or if this is your very first public performance. The audience is always supportive whether it’s something classical, pop, musical theatre, own compositions, rock, grade 1 or grade 8+.
To enter, you need to fill in this online form (you will need your Hayes login to access this).
Everything will happen at the usual times this week, with the exception of Jamsesh #1 on Thursday, which isn’t on due to a staff training session.
…just saying!
MusicFest entries are now open. Any student is welcome to perform anything they want to – solos, duets, bands, ensembles, classical, rock, own compositions… it doesn’t matter whether you are grade 8+ or if this is your first ever performance, all are welcome.
If you would like to perform, you need to complete this form (you need a Hayes login to access this).
Thank you to everyone who has paid a deposit for tour. You all now have confirmed places on tour. We do still have room to squeeze another few people in, so if you are interested in coming on tour – and are a member of Choir and/or Concert Band, please speak to Miss W.
We are very excited to be receiving our set of handbells this afternoon! Our next job is to decide what our handbell group will be called. Please vote in our poll!
We have an early finish next Friday (5th October). So no lunchtime or after school music clubs will happen next week.
Open Day is Saturday 6th. Jazz Band will be out the front as usual. In CGD we will be doing chair drumming and Boomwhackers – come and join in anytime between 9 and 12!
This is another great opportunity at BYMT!
MusicFest is coming up on Thursday 18th October. Any student, in any group, can perform in any style of music. We welcome solos, duets, bands, own compositions… anything goes (as long as nobody will be offended by the content of your music). Get planning what you might perform! We will start online booking of performance slots in next week’s blog.
A huge well done to those of you who performed at Hayes Primary this week – Mr Vitarana was very impressed and proud of his ex-pupils! Hayes Primary are looking for some of our students to help out with their band – in particular, people who play sax, clarinet, trumpet, trombone or baritone. This is on Wednesdays, 12.45-1.15. Obviously for us, this cuts into p4, as you would need to leave at 12.30 to get to Hayes Primary in time. So really we’re looking for 6th formers who have a free p4 on a Wednesday (either week) or students lower down in the school who think that they could find reasons to justify missing part of p4 sometimes on a Wednesday! Hayes Primary are happy for any input we can give – whether that’s regular or more occasional. If you think you could help with this, please speak to Miss Werry.
Hopefully we will be getting our handbell set soon! We won’t have quite as many as this… but we will definitely be this good! 🙂
Rehearsals have got off to a fantastic start! However, if you still haven’t come along to anything, it’s not too late. Look back to last week’s post for the schedule of what’s on when. You can find some video clips of rehearsals this week for Handbells and Jamsesh #2 on our hayes_music Intagram: sounding great already!
Another opportunity for Hayes students is the SEN department Pops Choir on Friday lunchtimes. Hop on over to the Choir page (on the dropdown menu under the home tab at the top of this page) to see what they (and the other choirs) are doing this term.
Some classes have seen this already this week, but it’s worth sharing with everyone. Esperanza Spalding is amazing – here she is playing a 5-string fretless bass, and singing – and doing both brilliantly. She is one clever woman – she does this on the double bass as well – check it out!
