Concert in Milwaukee April 18th, 2009

Our Junior Orchestra has been invited to be the guest performers for Milwaukee CFU on April 18th, 2009. It is their annual concert that starts at 4 pm and includes dinner and a social immediately following. Our Juniors will be performing a dance set and music from Slavonija. Anyone interested in attending the performance, dinner, and social can sign up for the bus by contacting me at wkgntammies@comcast.net or 847-662-8850. I will have general prices for non-performers once I have a more accurate count. This is a wonderful opportunity for our Junior Performers and will be a lot of fun for all of our members. Milwaukee always has wonderful entertainment for the social and great food! Please RSVP in the next couple of weeks. Julie

2009 Junior Festival moved to the Hyatt Downtown Chicago

By now I'm sure you have all heard that the 2009 Festival scheduled in Croatia has been canceled because of economic issues by the CFU. It is now going to be held at the Hyatt Downtown Chicago, right off of the wonderful Magnificent Mile :) If you're interested in doing a little more research on the location, please see the link below.

http://chicagoregency.hyatt.com/hyatt/hotels/index.jsp


Thanks
Julie

September 23, 2008 - Practicing for the week

I just wanted to thank all of the students for practicing last week. Keep up the good work!

1. Beginners, please practice your picking exercises (down & up stroke with pick getting faster towards a tremolo) and Scale Exercise #1 - 15 minutes a day.
2. Advanced Orchestra should be working on Chromatic Scales on all four strings, Exercise #1 improving speed and consistent rhythm, Zagorski Ples - all sections, and Zagorska (handed out 1st week). Please practice for 30 minutes at least 3x a week.
3. Rhythm section should be practicing chords G, A, D, & E with transitions and Exercise #1 with bar chords along with the first two lines in Zagorski Ples for beginners (15 minutes daily).
4. Advanced rhythm players all of the above plus Zagorski Ples and Zagorska (30 minutes 3x week).

A warm welcome to our new students: Simo, Alex, and Mara Dragin; Skye, Kylie, and Eden Jones.

Jason, Jen and I are looking forward to teaching programs from the regions of Zagorje and Podravina this year and having an excellent tour and performance in Croatia and an annual concert 2009. Thanks for all of your hard work in advance!

See you all Sunday!

Julie

September 13, 2008 Adult Tamburitzans

We are now in our 3rd week of rehearsing and I wanted to tell you how impressed I am with our progress as an orchestra.  I want to thank everyone for attending the rehearsals and I look forward to finalizing our program and heading to Nashville.  Jaime will be helping me write some of our final arrangements, thank you Jaime, and we should have everything together soon.  Our rehearsal schedule will be changing and I will be posting the new schedule here and handing it out tomorrow.

Julie 

September 13, 2008 Junior Tamburitzans

I'm looking forward to seeing everyone tomorrow for our first Junior rehearsal and meeting with the parents.  Pam Sarich will be bringing information regarding World's Finest Chocolate Fundraiser.  Don Weakley will be providing us with an update on Croatia 2009 trip and I know that we will be getting off to a good start.