First November CMG Rehearsal, Saturday, Nov 7th 2pm

The next Christmas Music Group Rehearsal is Saturday, November 7th at 2pm after a hiatus for the CMSA.

I'm sure we'll all be back with great stories!

Address:

404 Washington Ave N #210
Minneapolis

Dotty's phone: 651-605-5009

CMG Rehearsal: Saturday 10/24 at 2pm at Security Lofts

The CMG group will rehearse at Security Lofts (404 Washington Ave N #210) from 2pm to 4pm this coming Saturday.

Oct 19 at 4820 Elliot

I just found out that the Bahai Center is not available for our October 19 rehearsal. We'll meet at the Inghams' house, 4820 Elliot Avenue South, instead. Depending on the weather, we may play indoors this time.

Gypsy Moon mp3

I made an mp3 file of the MMO playing Gypsy Moon at our October 5 rehearsal. There's a link to it on our "current tunes" page, or you can go directly to
http://www.minnesotamandolinorchestra.org/gypsymoon.mp3

Give it a listen.

New music from John Goodin

I printed and photocopied parts for John Goodin's "Last Call at Hawley-Cooke." We'll try it out Monday, October 12. If you want to look at the music before then, you can find it at
http://www.contratopia.com/mtopia/Lastcall.htm

Also coming soon are "Palladio" by Karl Jenkins and "Preludio e Fuga" by Claudio Mandonico. The parts for those numbers will be ready in another week or so.

CMG First Rehearsal 10/16 at 7:30 PM

We'll meet at my house Friday, 10/16 at 7:30 PM. 404 Washington Ave N #210 in Minneapolis.

Street parking only - unless you check with me first - I have 1 permit we can use for guest parking. There should be plenty of street parking on Washington and 5th within a block of the building.

Please download and print your music from the Mobile Me site: http://idisk.mac.com/djcoffey-Public?view=web in the Christmas Music scores folder.

The download button is the down arrow on the far right.

I'll send email out again on Wednesday 10/14 as a reminder.

Christmas Music Group

Today I sent out an email to the orchestra about the Christmas Music Group. Hopefully everyone who has email got a copy.

If you are interested in being part of this, email me at dotty.coffey@gmail.com. We are selecting the date for our organizational meeting/first rehearsal. Let me know if Friday Oct 10 @ 7:30 PM, Saturday Oct 11 @ 2:00 PM or Sunday Oct 12 at 2pm work best for you. Choose a first and second best so I can figure out a time the majority can join in.

The music we have so far is available here: http://idisk.mac.com/djcoffey-Public?view=web

Last year we managed to rehearse once a week for 90 minutes or so. We gave 4 concerts at Grace House, the VA, Dunn Bro.s in Apple Valley and at Jay's assisted living apartments. We had had a group of 7 people representing most parts and it worked out very well.

We had a great time and it was a great way to get into the spirit of the season a little early.

Dotty