Flash Choir

A Message from Claudia Meza, curator of New Musics at Holocene

2011-06-17T10:58:00.000-07:00

Thank you once again to everyone who participated in the New Musics
event last night. It was our best one yet and it would have not been
even remotely possible without the Flash Choir's participation. You
guys are amazing!!! I'm in awe of the versatility, discipline, and
enthusiasm I encountered and heard about during the rehearsal process/
performance. The Flash Choir is something very special - I hope that
it continues for a long time. I also hope we get to work together
again in the future.

I will be begin organizing rehearsals later this month for the piece I
am doing with the Portland Taiko group. It will be performed at at the
next New Musics on September 14th as part of the TBA:11 festival. If
any of you are interested in taking part of that, please feel free to
email and let me know -- cemeza@gmail.com

All The Best,
Claudia Meza

What's New Summer 2011

2011-06-13T11:12:00.001-07:00

Hello Flasher Choir and Fans of Flash Choir and Flash Choir Members of the Future,

Although the group lead by Pat and Sarah has not been meeting regularly since January, there have been some interesting things that have come up.

Some choir members will be participating in an event at Holocene this Wednesday, June 15 -- more info here. It is part of a new music night, and will feature a new composition by me, Sarah Dougher for small ensemble and five voices.

From time to time, opportunities like this are coming up, and we will always post them on the Google group, so if you'd like to be on that list, just email me and I'll put you on: sarahdougher@gmail.com.

Also, a group of singers is meeting on Monday nights. Here are some (edited) notes from their rehearsals -- if you'd like to find out more, you can post your questions to the Google group.

Here are notes from their rehearsals:

June 6, 2011 @PNCA 7-9pm
Welcome to new Flash Choir member Devin Williams. She spotted the web blog and decided to check us out. Lynn Sherwood is also interested in joining, and Julie Flaming plans to come next week. Looks like a possible 9 people so far.
MUSIC REVIEW: Pieces brought in by anyone who wished to do so.
Warm up: Benji Met The Bear
William Billings songs: (rounds practiced)
When Jesus Wept
Youtube link here.
By the Waters of Babylon
Youtube link here.
Bob Dylan songs: (not reviewed)
Love is Just a Four Letter Word
Youtube link here.
It's All Over Now, Baby Blue
Youtube link here.
Warm Down: Bumble Bee scales; (1,121,12321,1234321 etc...scales)

DISCUSSIONS:
Talked about use of room at PNCA and possible use of Mary's home instead.
Mary Claire-Sprott has a piano; we currently have Ali's electronic pitch pipe setting.

People were interesed in sight reading lessons with Jo's sister Nan (jhaemer@gmail.com).

June 13th, June 20th are the remaining days on the PNCA room reserve schedule. An extension is most likely possible through Grace's husband and PNCA professor.

May 23, 2011 @PNCA 7-9pm

MUSIC REVIEW: Pieces brought in by anyone who wished to do so.
Warm-Up: None
William Stafford/Sarah Dougher “Strangers Together”: (attempted to practice a few without a piano)

Come What May by Moulin Rouge:(words handed out) Youtube link here.

DISCUSSIONS:

Director and Singer Searches:
Chorus Leader - I've forgotten who was suggested – someone Jo Haemer knows who would be opened to letting other people conduct on ocassion.
Singers - We could possibly put a “call for singers” posting near PSU Music Department, the Community Center in SE on Francis Street.
Practice Space: PNCA has been booked for four consecutive practices excluding Memorial Day. Mary-Claire Sprott has offered the use of her home if needed. She has a piano.

Performance Venue Ideas:
Performing while encircling sculptures. Some suggestions: Paul Bunyan Statue, Pod Sculpture across from Powells, Portlandia Sculpture from below, light poles (different songs around a number of light poles - one song at each pole on one side or both sides of the street - one next to another), and the Ira Keller Fountain.

Places Voodoo Donuts, Tulip Bakery in St. John's, Satyricon Bar, Henry Weinhard Brewery, Portland Train station, new homeless shelter near Portland Post Office, Japanese, Chinese, and Crystal Springs Gardens

Events Walk Portland – held in various parts of Portland during the summer.

Van Drive Ups Clowns or normally dressed singers unloading from a van in a variety of places to Flash spot sing.

Bus/Max GROUP performances Singing is normally prohibited on the transit system; but it was discussed that perhaps if done as a group FLASH (quickly) nobody would argue with a group of people who have a friendly agenda.

Song Works:
Gretchen Drilling expressed possible interest in adapting Moulin Rouge's "Come What May" to more than just two voice parts. May have to check out possible copyright legal issues before attempting. It is suggested that we try to use YouTube performance examples when suggesting song ideas along with lyrics and score.

Funding Matters:
Grant writing – Grace Saunders may be able to help out with this...she knows some great ins and outs about grant writing. We could work on something and then get funding for it, or target a specific funding with a specific project.

Links to "Between Rooms and Voices"

2011-01-11T13:07:00.001-08:00

Many Flash Choir members were part of Ethan Rose's piece, "Between Rooms and Voices" this fall.
Here are some links to information and recordings of that piece:

An OPB radio show:
http://blogs.opb.org/thespeakeasy/2010/12/16/our-first-episode/

Oregon Music News
http://oregonmusicnews.com/blog/2010/11/24/ethan-rose-takes-over-city-hall-in-portland-watch-the-preview/

A youtube video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bp3rkdkkWm8

A blog from the classical music station:
http://www.allclassical.org/blog/

Enjoy!

Videos from Paulann Petersen performance

2010-11-12T15:01:00.001-08:00

Hello all,
Many of us are working with Ethan Rose now to get "Between Rooms and Voices" together for the performance on Dec. 4+5 at City Hall. When I know more about tickets, I'll put information up.
Meanwhile, here are some videos of the choir at the Library on October 24th.
Thanks to Chuck and Lois for the a/v support.
The Youtube links are right here:

Replenish:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zo4Gs1qIwRA

Thirst:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaHSGMKEPyo

Fall Rehearsals/new music

2010-09-14T13:19:00.000-07:00

Dear choir members old and new,

Please join us to rehearse new music to honor Paulann Petersen. The show is on October 24th at the main branch library downtown in the afternoon.
The rehearsals are as follows; all 7-9pm, at Pink Martini Studio, 720 SW First Ave.

Weds Sept 22—no Pat
Weds Sept 29
Weds Oct 6
Weds Oct 13
Weds Oct 20

If you could, please let us know if you will be joining us for this.
Also, the rehearsals on Sept 22 and 29 will include some Strangers Together, in anticipation of our show on October 2nd.

Again, just shoot me a quick email (sarahdougher@gmail.com) to let me know if you will be joining in.

Thanks!

Hello September

2010-09-05T17:53:00.000-07:00

Wow! The Flash Choir is three years old this month!

We have been having a very laid-back summer, but fall is just around the corner.

We did do this fun and amazing show:
http://www.oregonlive.com/clackamascounty/index.ssf/2010/08/metro_holds_concert_in_honor_o.html

Our work this fall will be with the composer and sound installation artist, Ethan Rose. You can read all about him here: www.ethanrosemusic.com.

We have been working with Ethan through the summer to get his piece together, and our performances for this will be in December; more info to follow on that. The Ethan Rose piece is closed to new participants. We do have a couple other performances coming up that you could participate in, however, if you are so inclined.

October 2nd we will be doing "Strangers Together" at the Narcotics Anonymous convention from 5-6pm.

October 24 we will be doing two new pieces in honor of the new Oregon poet laureate, Paulann Petersen. I am writing them right now! Rehearsals for this piece will begin the week of September 20th. Since the Ethan Rose project will be working on Monday nights at our regular rehearsal space, I'm working on a place to rehearse this new piece, and for getting Strangers Together rehearsed for the 2nd of October. I will be sending info out on the google groups list so if you are interested, please make sure you email picasing@gmail.com to get on that list.

Keep in touch!
Sarah Dougher

Summer Rehearsals -- Come join us!

2010-04-27T12:49:00.001-07:00

Hello,
The choir is going to be rehearsing the following days this summer on Mondays at 728 SW First Ave, from 7-9pm.
Please join us if you'd like!

May
3 NO REHEARSAL
10 Strangers Together
17 Strangers Together
24 Strangers Together
? (not yet confirmed) Strangers Together at Milwaukie High School
31 Strangers Together
June
7 Strangers Together
9 Strangers Together at the Lake Oswego Library
14 Susan Lead/ Pat key
28 Susan Lead/ Pat key
July
12 Susan Lead/Sarah key
26 Strangers Together (no Pat)
August
2 Strangers Together
7 Strangers Together at Deep Creek (near the Boring Grange)

Tip of the Hat and City Hall

2010-03-18T12:35:00.000-07:00

The choir has been having some very exciting performances recently.

The first was at Sojourner Learning Community in Milwaukie, where we were helped out by awesome, poetry-memorizing students and even singers! We even received the NEA's Read Across America Certificate for Seussational Achievement!
I wish we had a video of this because it was also "dress like a rockstar" day so the outfits were amazing.

The second was our part of the City's State of the Art address in front of the Mayor and the city council on March 17. Together with folks from RACC and CAN, Kim Stafford, a really great teacher from Rigler Elementary and the dancer Kiera Brinkley.

Performances in Council - March 17 from Mayor Sam Adams on Vimeo.

Also, here's the poem Kim wrote for the day and read:

City of Art & Culture

for the Portland City Council, 17 March 2010

Beside the OMSI submarine, docked for good, the beaver
whittles a willow stick, while at Brooklyn School, a girl shapes
her poem, gnawing the pencil to think the words just right.

On Ross Island, the heron shouts a guttural cry
while outside City Hall, with his mandolin, Alonzo,
fingers cold, brimming with song, plucks his life tune for tips.

Mother coyote hops on the Red Line, sits tall, gazes far, leaps off
at the next stop, while a dancer at Jefferson seeks in his bones
the coyote gesture that turns pain to grace.

In the way water moves along the restless hem of Johnson Creek,
the painter finds a line thattransforms confusion into a map
of the possible. Without the poet's right word, the musician's

aching song, the dancer's feral reach, the painter's sure line, we lose
resilience at the downturn, we lack verve at the decision point,
we falter when our children beg for joy in spite of all.

It is for these reasons, friends-the way the creative heart
and mind can find a dancer's path through tough times-
that we are practical about our work in the City of Art.

- Kim Stafford

Here's an article

2010-02-14T16:11:00.000-08:00

about the choir:
http://www.neighborhoodnotes.com/news/2010/01/flash_choiryoure_already_a_member

This article describes "Strangers Together" and some of the basic values of the choir.

The latest, Valentines Day, 2010

2010-02-14T15:58:00.000-08:00

I've had a long rest from the world of blogging, sorry about that. Too busy singing. The photo is us singing at the First Unitarian Church for William Stafford's birthday on January 22.

The Flash Choir is starting our spring-summer 2010 season on March 8th. We are still working out the details of what we will be singing, but we will be incorporating some workshops of different kinds, as well as some other stuff that we don't know about yet. But rest assured, it will be fun. We are going to rehearse on Mondays, or maybe every other Monday. Again, check back here if you need more info about dates, or email me directly: picasing@gmail.com. We use a google group site to keep in touch, so we could add you to that if you'd like.

We have just gotten done with a bunch of performances of "Strangers Together", a 10-song cycle with music by me, Sarah Dougher, and words by William Stafford. We will continue to sing some of these songs around town and hopefully do another round of performances next January, but that's a while from now.

If you would like the choir to come to your institution or place of business to sing songs about nature and humanity, or something else, please contact us. We're looking for new and unusual places to sing. Bonus points for places with people under 10 or over 70. We are also interested in doing collaborations in unusual situations.

UPCOMING shows include:
March 5 at 8am at Sojourner School. It's Celebrate Reading week!
March 5 at 7:30 pm at Terwilliger Plaza, which is a retirement community. This will be the whole "Strangers Together" cycle, so it would be a good one to come to if you want to hear that.
March 17 at 9:30 for three minutes in front of the City Council to support public arts funding

If you'd like to join this free, community choir, just show up on March 8 at 7pm, at 728 SW First Ave. We'd love to meet you.

Upcoming rehearsals and performances

2009-08-27T08:47:00.000-07:00

Here is an update about our activities for September and beyond
Our rehearsals SO FAR are the following days --

August 31
September 7 -- this is Labor Day fyi
September 14
September 21
September 28
October 5

You can also mark your calendar for
September 12 -- in the morning sometime for a brief performance at a creative conference -- more details to follow
October 11 -- 3pm Mississippi Studios concert.

The week of September 28 and October 5 we will add some rehearsals, but I have yet to work out the scheduling and locations yet.

If you are interested in singing the William Stafford pieces in October and November, please plan to come to all of these rehearsals. If you can't make them and/or you are a quick study, please let me know (sarahdougher@gmail.com).

Pat and I will do our best to make all the music scores and sound files available to you. Please contact us if you need these (sarahdougher@gmail.com).

As usual, unless otherwise scheduled, our rehearsals are at 728 SW First Ave. from 7-9pm.

Please contact us if you have any questions! We sure appreciate your interest!

Caesar's Gate Videos

2009-04-28T13:00:00.000-07:00

This piece is in ten parts. If you click on the tag "Caesar's Gate" and go to the Vimeo site where it lives, you can find the other 9 videos. Thanks to Chuck Barnes and Lois Levine for this documentation!

Caesar's Gate, Part 1 from Chuck Barnes on Vimeo.

Here's a great review + more

2009-04-10T10:07:00.000-07:00

http://www.portlandmonthlymag.com/blogs/back-row/

Hi,
check out this nice review of the show!

Also, our next meeting will be on April 13th, at something more like 7:15 than 7 on the dot.

We will meet at our usual spot, 728 NW First Ave.

Looking forward to meeting new people!

- SD and PJ

We just had a great show!

2009-04-04T22:59:00.000-07:00

Here are the two awesome pieces of press we got previewing the show:

here
http://www.oregonlive.com/music/index.ssf/2009/04/flash_choir_at_
mississippi_stu.html

and here
http://www.wweek.com/editorial/3521/12366/

We will post any and all recordings of this event when we get our act together.

Please join us to sing on April 13, from 7-9 for the start of our spring season.

Email picasing@gmail.com for more information.

And thanks to everyone who came to the show today!!
We really appreciate your support and interest in our project!

24/7 performance this weekend

2009-03-16T10:04:00.000-07:00

We are singing at midnight.
This promises to be an amazing event.

For immediate release
Contact: Bill Crane, cell phone 503-544-2455 or billcrane0252@msn.com
Portland, Oregon, Monday, March 2, 2009 ‹

By mid-March, the United States will have been at war in Afghanistan and
Iraq for seven years, yet one hardly hears that fact mentioned. To mark this
important, if tragic, anniversary, over 150 of the Portland area's best
classical musicians are uniting to make a giant musical gift to the city and
region. Event curators Bill Crane and Thomas Lauderdale have recruited an
amazing roster of performers. The public is invited.

Titled simply "24/7," it will be a series of 24 dramatic concerts, each
starting upon the hour, from 7:00 p.m. Saturday, March 21, and continuing
through to 7:00 p.m., Sunday, March 22.

All 24 concerts are free and will take place in the auditorium of the
Wieden+Kennedy building, 224 Northwest 13th Avenue, between Davis and
Everett Streets, in Portland's Pearl District. Wieden+Kennedy join the
performing artists to invite sincerely all area residents of good will to
these concerts. No tickets are required.

Neither a protest nor a memorial, "24/7" nonetheless is a profound calling
by its performers to their fellow citizens to remember that we are a nation
at war. The musicians creating 24/7 hope to move their neighbors by their
music to "do what must be done" as our city, region, and nation face many
challenges. This will be music of encouragement as well as entertainment.

To add to the conviviality of this big occasion, the popular and
award-winning restaurant Bluehour, next door to the concert venue, will be
open all night and the following day. Restaurateur Bruce Carey and chef de
cuisine Kenny Giambalvo are planning a special bar menu just for 24/7
performers and audience members.

"It will be an honor to have these music lovers join us for refreshments
before, after, or between the concerts. We are having so much fun planning a
menu to go with that much music!," said says Bruce Carey as he considered
what it will mean for his restaurant team.
And, what of the planned music itself? --

"I am heartened, thrilled, and humbled by the unparalleled enthusiasm of my
musical colleagues to create this musical gift. What a 'Portland' thing to
do! Everyone is working so hard and being so creative in their programming.
Every program that our audience friends attends will be great,." said says
Bill Crane as he headed off to yet another rehearsal.

Some of the 24/7 performances will be broadcast on Wieden+Kennedy¹s new
Global Internet radio station, WK Radio, at www.wk.com/radio. The radio
station launched in January 2009 and exists to inspire provocative
conversations, interviews, and artistic expressions relating to the arts,
culture, music and media.

Final scheduling is still somewhat in the works and will be posted in
www.wk.com/radio when confirmed, but here are highlights that have been
nailed down:
Saturday, March 21
The first program (Sat., 3/21, 7:00 p.m. sharp) A huge ensemble of brass and
percussion players opens with Aaron Copland's famous "Fanfare for the Common
Man" and continues with music of Gabrieli, Richard Strauss, and others.
Second up (Sat., 3/21, 8:00 p.m.) is the astonishing 17-year year-old
virtuoso pianist Rosa Li, most recently heard in Portland in Mendelssohn's
First Concerto with the Portland Columbia Symphony Orchestra. Her solo
program will include works of Ginastera, Prokofiev, and Chopin.
At 9:00 p.m., the Portland Gay Men's Chorus, Bob Mensel, music director,
will take the stage to present the critically acclaimed extended work
"BraveSouls and Dreamers" of composer Robert Seeley.
Other highlights include three hours of particularly adventuresome
programming by area new-music ensembles playing in succession:
11:00 p.m., Fear No Music
Sunday, March 22
12:00 midnight, Melegari Chamber Music Ensemble
1:00 a.m. (Sun., 3/22), Third Angle New Music Ensemble
Programs in the middle of the night will range from wild to mild:
3:00 a.m., . Thomas Lauderdale of "Pink Martini" in a special, extravagant
program;
6:00 a.m., Pianist Ron Potts in an exceptional recital of Scarlatti,
Schumann, Ravel, and Bartok.
7:00 a.m., Obo Addy, world beat drummer, in a solo frenzy and Gregory Dubay,
cellist, and Bill Crane, pianist, in music of Brahms and Schubert.
And, as the day goes on:
8:00 a.m., Tamara Still, pianist, with Bach's "Goldberg Variations."
11:00 a.m., Pianist Jeffrey Payne of Fear No Music with ten movements from
Olivier Messiaen's monumental "Vingt Regards sur l'Enfant Jésus."
12:00 noon, Vancouver tenor Les Green in a recital of French art song,
including little- known works of Saint-Saëns and Fauré.
1:00 p.m., Soprano Lisa Mooyman and Mezzo-soprano Sherry Olson with
Clarinetist David Hattner in a varied program, including the famous "Lakme"
duet and Schubert's "Shepherd on the Rock."
4:00 p.m., Alto Angela Niederloh, pianist Janet Coleman, and violinist Julie
Coleman in a wide-ranging program best described as "rip-roaring."
5:00 p.m., Violinist Carol Sindell and pianist Janet Guggenheim (two-thirds
of The Florestan Trio) in a recital to include both the Franck and Debussy
sonatas.
6:00 p.m. All 24/7 artists and other invited musicians will join in the
final program to present the last movement of Beethoven's 9th Symphony, the
"Ode to Joy." David Hattner, the new music director of the Portland Youth
Philharmonic, will conduct the assembled forces, including many singers from
the Portland Symphonic Choir and instrumentalists from the Oregon Symphony
and other ensembles.
Still shaking out just "who will be when" are these splendid acts to be
scheduled:
To check the final schedule of all 24 concerts, please consult
www.wk.com/radio
Portland Taiko, thunderous Japanese drumming;
Cellists Justin Kagan, Adriene Welch, Irving Levin, Gregory Dubay, and
Lizzie Adelsheim
Flutist Abby Mages
Violinists Paloma Griffin, Sara Watts, Ron Blessinger, Greg Ewer, Julie
Coleman, and Nick Crosa
Sopranos Ida Rae Cahana, Lisa Mooyman, Peggie Schwarz, and Marie Fiorillo
Trombonists John Walling and Robert Taylor
Pianists Carol Rich, Jon Stuber, Jeffrey Payne, Chad Heltzel, Susan Chan,
Mike and Elizabeth Strickland, Janet Coleman, Jerry Deckelbaum, Win Hall,
and Thomas Mark
To check the final schedule of all 24 concerts, visit www.wk.com/radio after
March 9th.Dozens of Portland's most accomplished musicians offer a huge gift
to the region.

Singing in Pioneer Square!

2009-03-10T10:09:00.001-07:00

Hi Everyone!
Here's a link to our latest public show:
http://www.kgw.com/video/carney-index.html?nvid=339110
In the square with Thomas!

Spring with the Flash Choir

2009-01-29T11:04:00.000-08:00

Hello friends and strangers,
The Flash Choir will be performing the ENTIRETY of "Caesar's Gate," a piece written by Sarah Dougher, in early April.
It is for choir and electric guitar. We hope to have clips of other performances up here soon, but there has so far been no complete performance of the piece.
It is based on the work of poet Robert Duncan and visual artist Jess.
If you'd like to join us in singing, please contact picasing@gmail.com. We rehearse on Monday nights from 7-9. You need to join us by MARCH 2 to participate in this performance.
Following this performance, we will be working on a piece based on 10 poems by William Stafford, to be presented in October. Rehearsals for this begin in May.

Here's one to pique your interest:

Evolution

The thing is, I'm still
An animal. What is a spirit,
I wonder. But I only wonder:
I'll never know.

Night comes and I'm hungry.
Tempted by anything, or called
By my peculiar appetites,
I turn aside, faithfully.

What comes before me
Transforms into my life.
"Truth" I say, and it answers,
"I'm what you need."

I sing, and song shaped like a bird
Flies out of my mouth.

Videos of FC, PCP, Mirah, others, from Dec. 5 2008

2009-01-29T11:02:00.000-08:00

Videos by Penny Jam.

Mirah, Portland Cello Project & Flash Choir - Generosity from Jon Manning on Vimeo.

Mirah, Portland Cello Project & Flash Choir - Hard Times are Over from Jon Manning on Vimeo.

I Believe I Can Fly

2008-12-20T08:48:00.000-08:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoJX-yoYMKw

Flash Choir with the Builders and the Butchers! Live!

2008-12-15T18:18:00.000-08:00

This is from July 2008 --
enjoy!

The Builders and the Butchers at PDX Pop Now 2008 from Robin Margolis on Vimeo.

Flash Choir/TBA

2008-09-18T08:26:00.000-07:00

Here's the choir singing on the first night of the TBA festival, on Sept. 4th, 2008. We sang "Caesar's Gate". Pat is directing in this picture. Check out those boots! Photo by Carolezoom. Thanks Carolezoom!

Our March 21 performance video finally

2008-07-09T16:57:00.001-07:00

2008-06-17T19:21:00.000-07:00

We had an amazing show at Patton Park. The grandson of the man who founded the park was there. It was a beautiful and sunny day. There were tons of kids running around and playing, and families, and people hanging out on the grass. There were free ice cream bars. There were people crying when they heard us. The crowd contributed beautiful words for our song. This is exactly right.
This is our scene!

Upcoming

2008-05-30T15:21:00.000-07:00

The choir has a few upcoming shows of note.
1. Rededication of Patton Park, on North Interstate. Saturday June 14, 1:00-1:30pm.
2. The JAW theater festival at Portland Center Stage. Saturday, July 19 in the afternoon sometime -- this will be a site-specific work that we don't know anything about yet
3. A performance of "Caesar's Gate", by Sarah Dougher, at Reed College, 7pm. More on this soon.
4. PICA's TBA Festival, September 4th and 14th. At the Left Bank Building. Time TBD.
5. Maybe Condon, Oregon in Early Oct?
more info: picasing@gmail.com

A little note from Sibelius

2008-04-18T10:23:00.000-07:00

From Alex Ross, "The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century" (New York: FSG, 2007)

The "swan hymn" -- the second movement of the fifth symphony came from this:

"The composer...recorded it in his notebook next to a description of sixteen swans flying in formation over his Ainola home.

'One of my greatest experiences!...Lord God that beauty! They circled over me for a long time. Disappeared into the solar haze like a gleaming, silver, ribbon..That this should have happened to me, who have so long been the outsider.'

The swans reapppeared three days later:

'The swans are always in my thoughts and give splendor to my life. It's strange to learn that nothing in the wole world affects me -- nothing in art, literature, or music -- in the same way as do these swans and cranes and wild geese. Their voices and being.'

Flash Choir with the Builders and the Butchers!

2008-04-13T16:35:00.000-07:00

These photos were taken by Chris Funk, producer of the new Builders and Butchers record. The Flash choir contributed their voices to some tracks this Saturday. Pretty fun!

Upcoming Fun for Spring 2008 and beyond

2008-04-09T13:37:00.000-07:00

April 23: Oregon Arts Summit evening performance including possible colaboration with the Cello Project. More details TBD
June 21 Summer show
Sept 4 and 15 PICA TBA festival performances, including possible musical theater interludes.

Spring is Coming, Spring is Here

2008-03-29T10:34:00.000-07:00

The Flash Choir is on a two-week break while blossoms pop, rain falls, rivers run high.
On April 7th, you are all invited over to my house at 6pm for a potluck and discussion, with a little singing too. We will talk about what we liked about our spring project (what worked, what didn't) and what we'd like to do for our summer concert, tentatively scheduled for June 21, 2008.
My address: 641 NE Holland -- two blocks south of Lombard, two blocks east of MLK. There is a bus stop for the 6, 8 and 75 two blocks away.
Hope to see you all there!

Our first performance

2008-03-21T17:27:00.000-07:00

So the Flash Choir made it's debut yesterday at three parks in Portland. Our new friend Abe Ingle took this photo and put it up on the Mercury website, along with his comments: http://blogtown.portlandmercury.com/2008/03/pdequinox.php.