New Costume

Sambistas – like a new costume?

A small working party (Miki, Tamara, Paul, Claire and Patti) has been set up to:

• Compile ideas/suggestions for a new costume for the samba group
• Use Remko’s criteria - practicality, functionality and cost - to drill down to a few choices
• Submit these to Remko and all members to see which designs are the most popular
• Undertake a complete costing of the final choice
• Organise the making of the costumes

This is a great opportunity to update our look and for everyone to have a say. We’d love to hear any ideas you may have - your feedback would be really appreciated.

In case we are accepted to play at Woodford, we’d need to have the new costumes agreed on and completed by 1 December, so we don’t have a lot of time. So let’s make a deadline for receipt of any ideas you have, to be by the first Samba Class in July - 3/7/06.

Email your ideas/suggestions to us at costumes@brisamba.com !

Class cancelled Thursday 22 June

All

I'm very sorry: I'll have to cancel tomorrow's class because of workload at my day job. After last Saturday I think some of you feel like a break anyway, so I hope this won't upset too many of you!

See you all next week!

Cheers
Remko

Upcoming Tango Four gigs

Here are some dates to put in your diaries for some exciting tango gigs coming up with Tango Four.

• Friday 30 June Wellers Hill Sports Club Esher Road Tarragindi from 7.30pm
• Saturday 29 July also in Brisbane however place yet to be confirmed
• Saturday August 12 at the Irish Club in CBD.
  

Shall keep you posted with regards to exact times.

Hope to see you there!

Nicki

Pride - I'm proud of you!

All,

Just a quick note to thank you all for playing yesterday at the Pride march and also the performance in the evening. Again, everything went really well, and I'm really really proud of what we all have achieved in Brisbane, starting from nothing and now being the loudest gig in town!

Congratulations to Marcel, Dionne, Kanae and Jane for their first march (for Jayne it was her first performance too!). Well done. Thanks to Claire for stepping in on 3rd surdo. It was also great to see Juliana playing again!

Extra thanks for Gail, Patty, and Paul for helping out with the logistics.

Nicki made quite a few pictures during the march, I'll send you the best ones soon. In the meantime, Denis wishes you a "Happy Pride Day"...

So ... what did you think? Log on to blogger and post a comment!

Update: Let's take over has a detailed report about the day, including a fabulous comment about our costumes:

"I was a bit upset about the shiny green, pink and white uniforms they were wearing, though. Don't these people realising that trapping polyesters is a cruel procedure, and that we are endangering the nylon species by over-hunting?"

Cheers
Remko

Details for Pride Gig - Saturday 17 June

Hi all ,

First performance: parade from King George Square to Musgrave Park

We have to be ready to play at King George Square at 10am. We'll play on the square, then start parading to Musgrave Park at about 10.45am. The parade will be nice and slow (we'll be leading it!) and I expect it will take about 45 minutes. Same route as last year. So we'll be ready by about noon, I guess.

• Dress code: Primavera Pink & Green for those with a costume, else white pants & green shirt
• Instruments: please collect your instrument on Thursday the 15th and bring it to King George Square on Saturday.
  
• Be there: by about 9.40 at the latest please
  

Second performance: on stage at Musgrave Park

We perform on stage at 7.10pm. This is a bit later than I thought earlier! However, we need to be ready to play a bit earlier, so everyone please be ready behind the stage by 6.30pm. We'll play for half an hour, and I'll try to make this even better than last year!

Paul and Remko will drop off the Surdos at King George Square at about 9am. Patty and Gail will park their cars at Musgrave park early that morning, then take a taxi to King George Square. Thanks for your help!!!

Cheers
Remko

The Trams of Rio

PLEASE NOTE: Tomorrow evening (Wednesday 7th) at 6pm, on the SBS program "Global Village" they will have a segment titled "The Trams of Rio". I'm hoping there might be some footage of Santa Tereza.

Wanted to let you know.

Cheers
Patty

Beading Gourds

If you follow this link you will find stuff about treating gourds, beading etc
http://djembelfaq.drums.org/v8b.htm