Yippee!!! I made it through the holiday concert. My kids did an amazing job tonight. We performed at our local Barnes and Noble, which was a nice change of pace. They cleared a nice space for us and our parents crammed in around the bookshelves and it ended up being a nice intimate setting. I think I will definitely do another concert like this but maybe with less instruments. I tried to limit it but then it felt like I took everything but the kitchen sink. I'm not good at packing light.
This morning we had our dress rehearsal at school and I snapped these photos of our set up. Typically I like to use my FlipForm risers for our orff set up but after being sick this week I didn't feel up to any extra movement. Instead, I used my stash of carpet squares for comfier seating, as well as boomwhackers.
For one of the musical selections we were using boomwhackers with octivators. I like how they sound when struck vertically against the floor, so the carpet squares were great for this. When you strike them against tile floor you get an awful plastic sound, not ideal.
Now the that our performance is over, the countdown to winter break is on. 10 days to go! :)
Nice! Glad you are ready for the holidays now. Enjoy!
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