Your Song: 'Zimbe' Choral Work

Cycle of Song participants are invited to have an opporutnity to continue singing together by joining this fantastic project - running 23rd September to 29th October - with rehearsals and performances at the Music Faculty, West Road, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge Music Education Outreach (CaMEO) is offering a wonderful chance to celebrate community singing in Cambridge, with a wide range of choirs and people of different ages singing some really joyful pieces from the African choral work 'Zimbe' and also a piece that sums up a choirs own unique 'identity'.  The performance is at the Music Faculty's West Road Concert Hall on Wednesday 29th October - the first half will be choirs singing one or two pieces from their repertoire to fit with the Festival of Ideas theme of 'identity' and the second half will be the performance of the Choral Work 'Zimbe'.  CaMEO will encourage families to participate, by offering rehearsals for the 'scratch choir' scheduled at a family friendly time in early evening.  Also,  the concert will be scheduled for early evening, with the aim to finish for 9pm.

Singing/Choir Opportunity for Individuals/Families  

Come and join their 'scratch choir' which will form especially for this event, from people from the 'Cycle of Songs Scratch Choir', University of Cambridge staff/students, and anyone else who would like to join.

This choir will sing a couple of the 'Zimbe' songs and also a song which sums up their 'identity' as a choir.   The 'scratch choir' will rehearse at a slightly earlier time than we had for 'Cycle of Songs popup Choir' rehearsals - to test out if we can encourage parents/carers to come with their children-  therefore the 'Your Song' start time of 6.30pm and running until 8.00pm is designed to allow teenagers to join for the entire rehearsal if appropriate with homework schedules -  families with younger children to come for the first half and then take their children home to bed, if they wish.

Individual Singers/ Tuesday Rehearsal Schedule - Join us at West Road Recital Room at the Music Faculty for the following dates this Autumn, culminating in the Performance on Wed 29th October

Rehearsals/Performances as follows:

Tuesday 23rd Sept 6.30pm - 8.00pm

Tuesday 30th Sept 6.30pm - 8.00pm

Tuesday 7th October 6.30pm - 8.00pm

Tuesday 14th October 6.30pm - 8.00pm

Tuesday 21st October 6.30pm - 8.00pm

Sunday 26th October- daytime whole choir rehearsal (probably afternoon)

Tuesday 28th October- early evening rehearsal

Wednesday 29th October- from early evening for final sound check/rehearsal and performance (finishing at approx. 9pm)

If you would like to find out more, please contact CaMEO at outreach@mus.cam.ac.uk

Opportunity for Choirs

The commitment from choirs would be: 

Songs

To perform 3 songs (as a minimum, but could be more ) comprising of the following:

1 song that represents your choir's identity- choir's own choice to perform on stage in first half

2 songs from 'Zimbe' for your choir to sing joining forces with the 'scratch' choir & other choirs

'Zimbe' Music

The 'Zimbe' music will be available for people to start rehearsing from the beginning of the school term, so they will have almost two months to rehearse songs as a choir. You can listen to some audio clips of songs from the 'Zimbe' on their website: http://www.zimbe.net/audio-clips

Time commitment from Choir Leaders & their Choir Members

Choirs are to have learnt all 'Zimbe' songs (that the choir has chosen to sing) ready to perform at the rehearsal on Sunday 26th October, in their own choir rehearsal time.

Then the choirs will come together for the final rehearsals and performance, on the following dates:

Sunday 26th October- daytime whole choir rehearsal (probably afternoon)

Tuesday 28th October- early evening rehearsal

Wednesday 29th October- from early evening for final sound check/rehearsal and performance (finishing at approx. 9pm) 

"YOUR SONG' - SUPER USEFUL LINKS & CONTACT INFO

If you would like to find out more, please contact CaMEO at outreach@mus.cam.ac.uk

You can visit their website via http://outreach.mus.cam.ac.uk/

Cambridge Festival of Ideas http://www.cam.ac.uk/festival-of-ideas