Thanks for your interest in rocking with us for our Fall/Winter2024 season! Please read this entire form carefully before signing up.
By submitting this form you are committing to the full Fall/Winter 2024 season, regardless of show placement. Please be sure you are able to make this commitment before signing up as it makes rehearsals difficult for the other students and directors alike if a student were to suddenly drop out after initial casting.
DIRECTIONS: Please let us know your name, which instrument(s) you take lessons for at SoR and choose which rehearsal time(s) you are available to rehearse weekly.
Mondays 4:00-6:00
Wednesdays 4:00-6:00
Saturdays 1:00-3:00
Students rank their top 3 shows in order of preference. Students are encouraged to discuss their preferences with their instructor prior to the submission of this form. Sample playlists for all shows can be found below.
Show Directors and rehearsal times will be announced along with the final show placement announcements on Wednesday, August 21 ahead of our Summer 2024 End-of-Season Show on Sunday, August 25th. Here are the important dates for our Fall/Winter 2024 Season (Please mark them in your calendar):
Sign Up Deadline: Monday August 19
Show Placement: Wednesday, August 21
Rehearsals Start: Saturday, September 1
Important Dates: Labor Day Mon 9/2/24: CLOSED
Veterans Day Mon 11/11/24: OPEN
Thanksgiving Day Thur 11/28/24: CLOSED Thur 11/28/24 - Sat 11/30/24, re-open Sun 12/1/24
Xmas Day Wed 12/25/24, New Year’s Day Wed 1/1/25: CLOSED Tue 12/24/24 through Wed 1/1/25, re-open Thur 1/2/25
Sun 1/26/25 End of Season Show
CHECK OUT OUR SAMPLE PLAYLISTS AND DESCRIPTIONS BELOW THEN CLICK THE FORM TO SIGN UP!
In the 1990s, artists such as Green Day, Offspring, and Blink-182 achieved success by blending punk attitudes and influences with a more polished, melodic, commercially appealing sound than their often raw predecessors. By the 2000s, Pop Punk and its Emo offshoot (featuring lyrics that touch on emotional and confessional topics) were fully entrenched in the mainstream music world, with bands such as Fall Out Boy, Paramore, My Chemical Romance, and Panic! At the Disco topping the charts and selling out arenas. Of course, this music is still incredibly popular and influential today. A fun show that can be musically challenging but also teaches solid fundamental skills, Pop Punk & Emo is sure to appeal to all levels of students and will entertain any crowd!
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Indie Rock emerged as a genre in the 1980s as a response to the highly polished music of the '70s and '80s. The origin of the Indie movement can be traced back to the year of 1977 when the Buzzcocks self-published their Spiral Scratch EP. The band’s rejection of the typically major label-generated approach to the recording and distribution of music earned them their independent, or “indie”, status. As other bands adopted the Buzzcocks’ DIY ethos, the movement grew, and Indie Rock came to describe a particular sound that came from small post-punk labels of the early 1980s. In the '80s, bands like REM, The Pixies, and The Meat Puppets were known for putting musical experimentation before commercial goals, and gained popularity through college radio. In contrast with the synth-heavy pop music of the day, those Indie bands continued the emphasis on guitar that earlier Rock and Punk music popularized. In the '90s, the influence of Grunge helped usher in an era of commercialization in the Alternative genre. After many influential Indie acts achieved great commercial success, “Indie” soon began to describe artists who clung to their independent status and refused to sell-out. The music industry began to market any music that embraced a retro, guitar-centric sound as “Indie” as well. Through the 2000s, groups like the White Stripes, Jet, and The Strokes released garage-twinged music that received a massive amount of radioplay. The Indie Rock Show will give guitar players a look into unconventional chord voicings and manipulating guitar sounds with effects. Keyboardists, too, will enjoy applying more sound patches into the songs’ soundscapes. The rhythm section of bassists and drummers will be challenged by the diversity of playing styles of which Indie Rock is known for. This fun and musically varied show is a great choice for all experience levels.
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One of the world’s best-selling bands, Fleetwood Mac formed as a British Blues group in 1967 and morphed into a chart-topping British-American pop band in the mid-1970s. Despite several band member iterations, the Fleetwood Mac’s best known lineup featured Mick Fleetwood (drums), John McVie (bass), Lindsey Buckingham (guitar/vocals), Christine McVie (keys/vocals), and Stevie Nicks (vocals). It was this lineup that recorded their most successful and critically acclaimed Rumors album, which featured hits like ‘Dreams’, ‘Go Your Own Way’, ‘The Chain’ and ‘Don’t Stop’. Throughout the remaining decades, Fleetwood Mac went on to produce material that, while somewhat popular, did not critically live up to the success of Rumors. Their May 1997 live concert on a soundstage in Burbank, CA, was recorded and subsequently released as The Dance, which premiered on MTV that year and brought the band back into the public spotlight and widespread popularity. Fleetwood Mac, including the Rumors-era and the original (Green, Kirwan, and Spencer) lineups, was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1998. Fleetwood Mac is an amazing show that will challenge vocal students to master harmonies, guitar players to learn the unorthodox fingerpicking style of Lindsey Buckingham, drummers to study Mick Fleetwood’s extremely versatile drumming, keyboardists to grasp how Christine McVie merged classical-training playing with rock improvisation, and bassists to learn from John McVie’s creative and rock-solid bass foundations.
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Have you already graduated Rock 101 or participated in Performance Program before?
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