March 24, 2014
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On Thursday it was the last day of the Music festival twenty fourteen.We had to perform at the gala concert at the Mareel and it was exciting and after we sang our song we watched everyone else and there were at least 250 children there and when we got on the bus it was dark and we were very sleepy. When me and my sister got of the bus at the school the bus driver my Dad Jennifer and Ms.Breyley carried the instruments inside the school.
March 24, 2014
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We went to Lerwick on Thursday the 20th of March to go to Mareel for the Gala concert. The Gala concert is a follow up of the Music Festival with certain acts that were chosen to play from the Music Festival on the Tuesday during the same week .We were one of them so after P.E. we all headed strait home or went to trampolining. When most of us got home we ate our tea quickly and head to the school before 5:00 to catch the 5:30 ferry to Lerwick. Most of our family were on the same ferry as us because they were coming to watch us preform on stage in the auditorium. When we got there we went to the toilet. Then we got lead to the café bar were we sat down for a little while and read the program for the night we were on 4th strait after Tom Tait and Attie Black who did a piano duet and they were the 3rd group to preform. Then it was our moment to shine again we were all very nervous and very very warm underneath our school jumpers. We played Minnie o’ Shirvas Cradle for the second time once we had finished we walked of the stage and we were lead off back stage to the auditorium balcony. We watched the rest of the acts the only down side was we missed junior musician of the year Mike Laurenson. After Mike had finished his song or songs we don’t know because we weren’t there then we entered the auditorium balcony and had to sit on the steps because they were so many people already watching from the auditorium balcony but in the end we got seats after Cunningsburgh School had left we got two rows of seats for us all to sit in. We watched the Bells Brae Boy’s Choir they were very very good. Then we watched the rest of the acts they were all equally good. I loved them all but the others might have a different view but I enjoyed it.
March 24, 2014
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We went to Mid Yell to watch the Shetland Youth Wind Band on Thursday the 13th of March. We went at 10.30 on a bus, We got there at 11.00; the concert was being held in the Leisure Centre where we usually go for P.E. every Thursday. When we got there we got to watch the SYWB (Shetland Youth Wind Band) practice before the concert started.
We were the only school that had arrived at the time, so a couple of musicians from the band came across to show us their instruments, we got to try and play the saxophone, flute, piccolo and a clarinet. Only Kerry made a sound on all the instruments. When other schools came pouring in. The musicians from the band went over to them and do the same thing is they did with us.
When all of the schools had come in the band sat down in their places and got ready to start playing their instruments. They played The Great Escape, The Muppet Show Theme Tune, Spongebob Squarepants and Mission Impossible. When they played Spongebob Squarepants everyone in the joined in singing the chorus! It was great fun! The conductor asked us questions about the instrument groups that were in the orchestra. She asked us about the brass group and what instruments were in it. We all loved watching it them perform!
Getting a go at playing new instruments
Watching them perform in front of us!
This is them performing The Muppets Theme Tune.
March 24, 2014
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March 24, 2014
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We were at the Shetland Schools’ Music Festival Gala Concert on Thursday the 20th of March. We were performing because we were the only group in our section who got a gold plus. We caught the 5:30 ferry on the way to the concert. We went on Sonia’s bus. Everyone was so excited. We had to wear our school jumpers and black shoes and breeks again. The adjudicator left us some really nice notes from the Tuesday and then decided to invite us to perform in the Gala concert. On the bus we got bread sticks and digestives. We then got to Mareel and we were getting all of our instruments out of the bus and put them in a big room where they kept all of the instruments. We went to the balcony to watch the performance until our turn, then we went to get our instruments all ready then we went up to the bit where you wait for the people before you are done, then we went up on the stage. We played Minnie ‘o Shirvas Cradle Sang. We did exactly the the same as on Tuesday. Charlotte went up on the stage first, then it was Bradley and me, Then the keyboard people in at the back, then the xylophone people then the percussionists last. We all played on our instruments twice then we all sang the first 2 verses with Charlotte playing the piano, then it was Phoebe and Leah on the xylophone, Kerry and Melissa on the keyboards and me on the fiddle for one round and then everyone played one verse. Then Everyone sang and nobody played for verse 3. Then it was Honor on the keyboard playing the bass guitar part, Bradley playing the bass guitar, Emer, Neil, Rosie and Sonia were playing percussion instruments and me on the fiddle playing it once through and then everyone joined in. Then everyone sang the last 2 verses and Charlotte and I played along to them singing. To finish off with then we all played 2 verses. It was fun! We then went back up to the balcony to watch the rest of the concert.
March 24, 2014
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On Tuesday 18th March 2014, the school went to the music festival. We sung and played, but before that we went for a walk because we where going to go on the 9-15 ferry but then we had to go on the 8-45 ferry in stead so we had time to have a walk and a snack and have a look at the others peoples groups singing and playing our musical instruments and we sung and played Minnie O’ Shirva’s Cradle Sang, because the festival was in the pictures we got to see them on a big screen so it looked like the other groups where in a film. We where the forth in our group first we played the first two verses on our instruments, then we sang the first two verses, then the xylophones two of the keyboard players and the fiddle player played at the same time, then we all played together, then we sung the third verse then the base played, the other keyboard player played, percussion played and the fiddle played, and we got gold+. We where so happy, and that was our long day.
March 23, 2014
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March 21, 2014
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From home we went to the port. I went out of my car with mum to the bus. I put on my jumper and seat belt and rode to the ferry. We went up stairs to meet our parents there. We went down stairs and to Lerwick. We had bread sticks. At Mareel we went upstairs to the green room for a bit of practice to be perfect. I was exited to go on the stage I couldn’t stop being exited on the stage but it was a bit better then waiting to go on the stage. It was better than last time. We won a trophie. There were lots and lots of schools again. We went to the bus and got dijestefs it was really good. I loved it. This time we played in the bus the game was about silly names and then mum took me home.
March 21, 2014
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On the 18th of March it was the Shetland Schools Music Festival. We played Minnie o Shirva’s Cradle Sang. We got a gold plus which it the best you can get. We went on the 8.45 ferry to Toft from Ulsta. Then we went to the Anderson High School to get a snack and we went for a long walk around there. Then we went to Mareel and got our instruments set up and tuned. Then we watched some of the acts on the big screen in screen 1. We then had to go and get our instruments and then go om stage. After we performed then we went on the balcony and watched all of the other acts. After everyone had done in our group when the judge went up on the stage and said that we got the gold plus. There are only one gold plus in each group. We saw the comments and they were all very positive. We could’t believe that we won the gold plus. We had Hamnavoe Primary School sit in front of us on the balcony. We then had our lunch and it was good. I had a tuna sandwich with grapes and a sausage roll. I really enjoyed the day.
March 21, 2014
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On Tuesday it was the Music Festival we went to Ulsta then on the ferry then we were in Lerwick. we went to the Mareel to sing a song and play instruments. then we went to watch other people then we won a certificate and we won gold plus and I was VERY happy we went back on the bus and went home.
March 20, 2014
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On Tuesday we went to the Music Festival in Mareel which is a cinema. We had to wake up at 7.00am and get to school by 8.15 and get ready for the ferry at 8.45. First we went on the ferry then drove down to Lerwick. Then we went for a walk in the rain and then by the time we got back it was time to Mareel.
We were Forth to perform but we only got to see two schools performances before we had to go into a room with a mirror and rail and we had to wait for a guy. He had long hair and had a t-shirt that said staff on it. Then he came up and got us he took us down stairs into a room with a cement floor which was back stage. Then they took us on stage. I felt quite scared.
We played Minnie ‘O’ Shiva Cradle song. The amount of time you got was six minuets. After three minuets we were done and happy. We went of the stage wile people were clapping. We walked to out side the Mareel balcony which took you to the very back seats. When the festival before lunch was finished so we went into the cafe and had our pack lunch. 
March 20, 2014
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Yesterday we went to the Music Festival. We where in 4th of the 2nd categories. The Music Festival was in the Mareel. We sat in the Cafe Bar when we are waiting. We played Minnie O Shirva’s Cradle Song. We got a gold plus for our performance. We got ferry but our booked ferry was double booked so we got the 8.45 ferry. We watched the Cullivoe School and Mid Yell Junior High’s performance on Screen 1. Honor and I carried the keyboard and Kerry and Phoebe carried the keyboard. We waited quietly backstage for the other School to finish then we going to play.
March 20, 2014
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We went to lerwick to have a Music festival i saw the cullivoe school in the cinema . We sang minne o shirva cradle sang i play the tumbren i was smiling . We got the gold plus
March 20, 2014
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On Tuesday it was the music festival there where lots lots schools in the Mareel. We sang Minnie O Shirva’s Cradle Song I love it is ab0ut a little lamb I had a shaker. first we saw the Cullivoe children on a white board on the 4 turn it was our turn it was fun I saw my mum there I trid to not laugh because mum made me laugh we had lunch I had a sandwich with ham my fruit was grapes we put lables on our bottles so we dont be thirstie my mum got the same lunch for pudding we had choclat biscits then with mum and Filip we went to the coop to get some flour and paint and then a book for my book token.
March 20, 2014
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On Tuesday it was the Music Festival and some of us had to be at school quite early because we had to put the instruments on the bus. After we did that we set off to the ferry when we were at Ulsta we saw Melissa and Neil they were catching the bus so when the bus was waiting for the ferry Melissa and Neil got on the bus. When we were on the ferry we saw peoples mums. When we got off the ferry we set off to Lerwick because the Music Festival was in the Mareel after our long journey to Lerwick the bus parked at the Anderson and we went for a walk. When we got back to the bus we went to the Mareel when it was our turn to perform we sung Minnie o Shirvas Cradle Sang. After we performed we watched the rest of the Music Festival in the auditorium and after we did the adjudicator said who got gold plus and it was Burravoe Primary School and we were so excited .
