Leixlip’s Got Talent

May 13, 2010

Hey Guys!

So our very own Yvonne is singing in the final of Leixlip’s Got Tal­ent, tomor­row night in Leixlip GAA at 8pm… who’s up for it?

There is info to be shared about 2 more upcom­ing Jack gigs (Naas 3^rd June, National Con­cert Hall 3^rd July) but I will fill you all in on Sunday, just throw them dates in your diary…

Ok guys,

Chat soon…

Eimear

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Gig tomorrow… Festival Friday.. Whoop Whoop!

May 4, 2010

Hey guys…

hows the form… sorry I am only email­ing ye now, I had a really busy week­end.. So!!

Meet tomor­row 7pm in the Venue, Stu­dents Union, North Cam­pus… we will have a sound check and run over a couple of things.. then the gig is at 8 and should run until about 10… If any of ye can get there early to help put out chairs that would be fab. if any­one wants to run over their songs, be there about 6…

I really hope you guys have spread the word and are bring­ing all your mates ok… tell them all tomor­row, the word has to be spread!!! It would be really nice to have some people there to sup­port you all.. so get crackin ok!! There is a nice ses­sion on in Caulfields after­wards that might be good, a sin­galong of sorts.. sure we can fig­ure it out tomor­row night… but its our last gig of 2010 and lets make the most of it ok guys!!!

In terms of the wknd, as I said we will leave Rye Hall car­park at 3pm… i have paid for the hostel so please please please dont let me down guys!! Can you also let me know if you are will­ing to drive? I need 5 cars… thanks! If you are head­ing down sep­ar­ately please let me know as I am work­ing with the fig­ures that I have for everything, if this changes I need to know… It is gona be a great wknd guys, really cant wait for this!!

Ok guys… see ya tomor­row for the last gos­pel gig… AHHHHHHHHHH!!!

Love ye all xxxxx

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End of Year Gig, and Gospel Rising Festival!!

April 26, 2010

Hey all!

What a great two gigs we did there, well done to every­one!! Super job! I think in total we brought in 8000 EUR for those two schools — pretty good eh! Ima­gine, 8000 EUR just for us singing some songs, its crazy that some­thing we love doing could bring in that much money for people, its just great — warms my heart up!

So there are 3 things left to do before its the end of another gos­pel year… I know, I know.. its gone so quickly.. its crazy! Don’t worry, not time to get sad yet!

Rehearsal Wed 28^th: At this rehearsal we will be decid­ing on set list for gig the fol­low­ing week, look­ing at who is singing what and hav­ing a good oul sing through! I know I keep going on about this, but I am not choos­ing people to sing stuff for the end of year gig — you need to let me know if you want to sing some­thing and what it is you want to sing. Some people have told me already, make sure you con­firm this this week at rehearsal. If you cant make rehearsal please let me know if you want to sing and we will try to fit it into the set list.

End of Year Gig 5^th May: Meet in the venue (in the SU) at 7pm to sound check etc, gig will start at 8pm and run until 10, and will be fol­lowed by lots of drinking/socialising etc! The set list for this will be decided on Wed night. Please also remem­ber that this is YOUR gig, its not for any­one else, it is for YOU so you need to invite people, get friends and fam­ily to come along so they can sup­port us and see what you have achieved all year. It will be 3e in to the SU — a small price to pay to hear how amaz­ing we are!!

Gos­pel Rising Fest­ival:
Ok, I can­not wait for this one! So this sched­ule below is sub­ject to change as Andrae Crouch has joined the line up and I am not sure what he is doing yet, but this is an idea of what it will look like.

Fri­day

So we will be leav­ing for Ennis from Maynooth at 3pm. This will get us to our hostel for 6pm at the latest (http://www.rowantreehostel.ie/) and give us a chance to get freshened up before get­ting to the venue for the warm up gig with the Lon­don Com­munity Gos­pel Choir at 8pm. That event con­tin­ues until 10pm, and then we are free to explore the cul­tural high­lights of Ennis at night (i.e. go for a pint!). If there is any­one who wants to make their own way there that is fine, just let me know so I can con­sider that in the car pool­ing (hope­fully there will be 6 cars driv­ing). You could also get a train to Limerick/on to Ennis, timetables avail­able here. It will be great fun car pool­ing and head­ing down together as a group though!

Sat­urday

9-5pm — work­shops! Most people have signed up for whatever work­shops they want to do, I will have the choices with me again on Wed so if you missed that oppor­tun­ity let me know and I will give you a chance to fill these out. If you haven’t decided yet, then have a look at this, and let me know on Wednesday.The organ­isers do need to know by the end of the week who is doing what work­shops!
8pm — con­cert! We are per­form­ing a 25 minute slot at this, in col­lab­or­a­tion with the Cel­bridge choir. Set list to be con­firmed, but def­in­itely includ­ing Stand by me, hal­le­lu­jah and Amaz­ing Grace. After this con­cert we should most def­in­itely sample the cul­tural high­lights of Ennis. A lot.

Sunday

Morn­ing: Lie in!
Lunch time: Work­shop with Jack L!
After­noon: Home time

People and Costs:If any of those who singed up can’t make it, PLEASE let me know, if you want to come now please let me know so that I can sign you up!

The break-up of the cost is the fol­low­ing:
Accom­mod­a­tion for 2 nights = 40 EUR
All week­ends events = 50 EUR
Total = 90 EUR
Gos­pel Dis­count = 10 EUR
Final Amount = 80 EUR.

I am cov­er­ing the cost of the deposit for the minute so that we don’t have to be mess­ing about with money — you will need to give me 80e on the day that we are leav­ing and that will cover everything. Con­sid­er­ing that we are get­ting a whole week­end away, this is extremely reas­on­able and doable. If any­one cant afford this but would really like to go, please let me know. Con­sid­er­ing we are get­ting to work with the Lon­don Com­munity Gos­pel Choir, Jack L and Andrae Crouch this is extremely reas­on­able in terms of a week­end away! It will be highly bene­fi­cial to you as a singer and to us as a group to get this experience!

Ok, I think that’s it for now, phew! So I will see you on Wed­nes­day, let me know of any changes around the trip, and let me know if you would like to sing at the end of year event but you cant make rehearsals…

Love ye all!

Eims x

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Gig tomorrow Wed 21^st April…

April 20, 2010

Hi guys!

So well done last week, it was a bril­liant gig, such a suc­cess and such a good laugh! Well done to every­one, so much fun!

Tomor­row we leave Rye Hall car park at 5pm again to go to St. ultans in Cherry Orch­ard. Here is a link for dir­ec­tions to the school if any­one wants to meet us there instead, but please let me know so that I am not freak­ing out won­der­ing where every­one is! I need every­one for this gig so please make sure you can be there!! If there is any prob­lem with the meet­ing time please let me know so that I can try to sort some­thing out. Wear all black and col­oured shoes if you have them! The school are provid­ing us with soup, sand­wiches and cock­tail saus­ages, whoop whoop!

In other news, our end of year gig is con­firmed for the 5^th of May in the Venue (thanks Tom!). Please tell all your friends and fam­ily etc, and let me know if you are inter­ested in doing some­thing at it (like a solo or some­thing dif­fer­ent!). Here is the face­book event — have a look and invite people from there if you like.

The fest­ival is going ahead the wknd of the 7^th–9^th of May. If you have not put your name down for this and would like to, please let me know ok! You can find more info about the fest­ival on www.gospelrising.com

Ok guys thats all, see you tomor­row at 5pm, be there or be square!!

Love Eimear

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It’s gospelling time!

March 23, 2010

Hi guys!

Hope you all had a great study week! Now it’s back to gos­pel and we’ve got a lot going on– two rehears­als, then it’s Easter week, then gigs on April 14^th and 21^st, two more rehears­als, and the end of year gig! That’s it! So it’s time to pull our col­our­ful socks up and get into per­form­ance mode. We really need every­one to be at rehearsal as we have to go back over the usual set list as well as fin­ish­ing our new songs and giv­ing out solos.

Also, this week we have the parade with Samba. We’d like as many of you as pos­sible to meet at 11am this Thursday at The Venue to jam a bit with the pro­fes­sional Samba-ers they’ve got com­ing in (maybe even learn a new song!), march in their parade at lunch­time, and sing a few songs around cam­pus. They’ve also invited us to their samba event at Man­tra that night. (I’ve been told there’ll be dan­cing and girls in feath­ers!!) It looks like it’s going to be pretty crazy and a great oppor­tun­ity to have fun with another society.

In other news, don’t for­get that our eagerly anti­cip­ated new-look hood­ies are on their way so please try to get yours paid for this week as we’re being quite strict about the no money, no hoodie rule this year. It’d be really help­ful if as many of you as pos­sible could bring cor­rect change.

That’s it from me!

It’s gonna be a great week! Can’t wait to see you all!

Yours until the kit­chen sinks,
Paula x

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