Nowadays

Hello.

Sadly, last week I was absent from college and rehearsals as my Grandpa passed away at the weekend.

Here is my update of this week and the fundraising cabaret.

The fundraising cabaret for PAOS was very successful. I was asked on the day if I would also do a duet at the cabaret as well as my solo. I sang "Nowadays" from "Chicago" with Holly Stanford. It sounded really good and I am happy with the way we managed to pull it off after only two run throughs. My solo performance went well also, I did make a couple of mistakes but covered them successfully. I felt that my stage presence was good and I portrayed the emotions in the song. We raised about £500 for our production of Sweeney Todd at this event.

This week I started researching musician websites in ICT to get ideas for my own website. I plan to make up a mood board of my favourites to inspire me.

Band rehearsal was productive this week, we have all decided what song we want to perform at Fat Sams and we made a start on all of them. We are lacking a drummer in our band and so we are going to be doing an acoustic set. I was happy with this as the song I had chosen is acoustic, "Trust" by Bitter Ruin.

Today we had our music history exam. I think it went ok, I passed the mock test and had revised quite a bit and so I went in pretty confident.

Graded Unit
I have finished plotting the bare bones structure of my website and have now created a time plan so that I can start ticking things off and getting on my way towards completing it by the deadline (18th April).

LcB

Bleurgh

Hello

Not much to report as I have had a horrible cough and sore throat for the past week. I am on the road to recovery, however, and am trying not to overstretch myself before Friday. I have decided that the song I am doing for the fundraiser will be "If My Friends Could See Me Now" from "Sweet Charity", I decided on it after getting my hair cut as my new style reminded me of the character Charity. Also it is more of a character song and not very vocally demanding, so I should be ok even if my throat is still rattly.

Still have yet to hear the results of my history essay.

First study, I have to choose a Simon and Garfunkel song to sing and a Jacques Brel one too. I already did "J'aimais" for my last singing assessment so I think I need to choose a different one to do for this one. Also doing "Fascinating Rhythm" which is, unfortunately, probably my least favourite jazz song.

Other than that I'm a bit fed up of the course to be honest. As soon as I can get more recordings done and the sooner the 2nd semester gets up and running, the sooner I can start creating this graded unit website and doing something that feels creative and productive.

Streets rehearsal and Sweeney Todd rehearsal both physical workshops this week and so my voice was not put under strain. I felt like I gained a lot from both and I am really excited about the shows.

LcB