PERFORMING ARTS

Alice @ Wonderland

We have been treated to some wonderful performances this week. Our school production of Alice@ Wonderland is a superb slide through a rabbit hole to unearth some amazing talent. Daniel Nobelius leads a tight band that punctuates these colorful scenes from the Lewis Carol story. Director Josephine Thomson and crew have worked tirelessly to put on this amazing production. Do not miss it. As for that rabbit...a menace!

Battle of the Bands

It had all started when we had talked to each other on our Facebook group chat which was made a while back due to the other opportunities we have had and still get. Our lead singer Joseph Stewart asked us if we would like to participate in the event and all band members Daniel (Lead Guitar), Jonah (Drums), Pj (Rhythm guitar) Sarah (Lead singer) and myself without hesitation answered with yes. We chose the songs Master Blaster by Stevie Wonder and Treasure by Bruno Mars hoping that we would get the crowds voices amplified and projected like never. The action that we took to create this was that we thought that we should create our own versions of our songs. With the versions we had created the crowd had shown the actions we had wanted. Before winning the show I was awarded “Best Player in the southeast” which has been a big achievement so far, the techniques I had used in the first was finger plucking with a reggae feel to it. I was highly influenced by this technique through a man called Nathan Watts. The second technique I used in the second was song was the slap technique. The man that gave me this influence was Victor Wooten who is my favourite bass player of all time due to his technically innovative playing and the other talent he brings to the table. All in all this experience at Battle Of The Bands was a really good time and the band I are just stoked to be going to nationals.