Tonight we went to the Redmond Regional Choir Concert, which was hosted by the Redmond High School choir. Many schools participated -- all schools that feed into RHS. We saw six elementary school choirs, two junior high choirs, and two different high school choirs, jazz and regular choir. The bleachers were very crowded, and about 350 kids were there to sing!
In spite of the cramped conditions, the program was a lot of fun. Katrina saw her friend from summer daycamp, and they waved at each other about a million times. Some of the songs were really fun. The first school did a song called "New Shoes Blues" which was very cute. Abby's school did a very nice job, and was definitely the biggest elementary school choir there.
It was interesting looking at the outfits the schools had. Many of the elementary schools, including Abby's, had the kids wear a choir t-shirt and jeans, which looked fine. The elementary school that looked the best had all the kids wear black pants/skirts and a white shirt, and then had a deep red loose-ish cummberbund for all of them to wear, and the cummerbund made them look really put together. Another elementary school had the black bottoms/white tops look as well, but without the cummerbund, it didn't look anywhere near as smooth.
My favorite piece of the program by far was the end, when they got every single student up there, and had them sing a closing song. It sounded great, and what impressed me the most was that even though they had not ever all practiced together, they were doing parts, and it sounded wonderful! I forgot my camera, otherwise I would surely be posting a picture of all of them up there together.
I am looking forward to doing nothing after work tomorrow, as this afternoon Abby had softball from 5-6:30, and choir from 6:30-9. We did manage to find the mysterious indoor facility where her practice was, which was better than we did last week. I would think that if you were directing someone to someplace that looked like a shut-down hardware store, and had really no identifying marks on the outside of the building, you might give them more information than telling them that the "indoor facility" (no name given) is somewhere in the 500 block, but that's me, and apparently other people have lower standards, (or maybe higher standards for the people they give directions to, like psychic abilities?).
Other music news is that Abby has a solo for the spring concert, it's a verse from the "Be Our Guest" song from Beauty & The Beast. It's really very long, but she is doing a great job with it already.