2010 Western Festival

March 10, 2010
Hello Everyone!
Every first weekend of May is the Elk Grove Western Festival and Parade. It’s a citywide celebration of its “western” roots that we, at Newsongs School of Music, contribute each year by marching in the Saturday morning parade. It’s a time where we show off what we all love about our school: OUR STUDENTS!
This year, you have the special opportunity to showcase your child’s musical talent by playing live music on our Newsongs float! That’s right, we’ll be building a moving “stage” from which chosen students and teachers will perform side-by-side and show this city what we do best: PLAY MUSIC!
The date for this year’s parade is May 1st. (There will be not lessons on that date) And the parade will be marching that morning. Rain or shine.
That leaves us approximately 8 weeks to organize our performance and build our float.
It would be extremely helpful if you or anyone you know who is interested to help volunteer for this event and possibly donate decorations for our float.
We are looking for:
Ranch-type items:
-Rusted buckets, pots and pans. Shovels, pikes, wagon spokes etc..
Patriotic banners:
-red/white/blue ribbons and/or banners
Volunteers:
-To help assemble the float, organize/supervise children during the parade, march etc.
-Rides/transportation (in the am and pm) for teachers and children from studio to parade route
Power:
-a small power generator to power the sound system
-a small 8 channel powered mixer
-microphones, cables, power cables, extension cords and more!!

Please sign up via email to Lisa, our new office manager, at lisa@elkgrovemusiclessons.com to march in the parade or to help with our float. Mr. Sam (sam@elkgrovemusiclesson.com) will be coordinating our musical performers and Ms. Cealey will oversee our musical theater students, who will also perform. Please contact them about participating in one of these areas.
Soon we will be having rehearsals for our performance, and we would like to also invite anyone who is interested in volunteering to our first “practice day” on Saturday, April 24th. Even if you or your child are not performing in this parade, please consider how you can contribute and help support our children as they give their best before the City of Elk Grove!
Many Thanks,
NewSongs School of Music staff and teachers

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