Autumn/Winter 2016

We have been enjoying some wonderful Thursday evenings singing together – and we are now looking ahead to performing in December.

We’ll be singing in the lovely Parish Church here in Otley on Saturday 10th December at 5pm to close the Christmas Tree Festival. Those who have been before will know what a lovely setting this is to sing in. I hope you can join us 🙂

These are the songs we’ll performing (and therefore concentrating on in our up and coming Thursday evening sessions…)

For the PDF of the words and music please have a look at the SONGS WE DO page
For the individual parts – please have a look at the HAVE A LISTEN page

Caramel – Corinne Bailey Rae

I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free – Nina Simone

Royals – Lorde

(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher – Jackie Wilson

O Holy Night – Traditional

I hope to see and sing with you all very soon

Jen
🙂

Getting Ready For Christmas

We’ve started working on our Christmas Songs!

O HOLY NIGHT

– O Holy Night (all parts)

– O Holy Night (lead)

– O Holy Night (harmony 2)

– O Holy Night (harmony 1)

And here is the score

O HOLY NIGHT score

WHITE WINTER HYMNAL

– all parts

– harmony 2

– harmony 1

– lead

– bass

Score

WHITE WINTER HYMNAL oac

We’ve also got a few gigs coming up and I’m really excited to perform these songs – it’s been great to hear how much the songs are improving week on week thank you to all your hard work

26th November – Horse and Farrier from 8:30pm
12th December – Otley Parish Church Christmas Tree Festival from 4pm

17th December – Horse and Farrier Woolpack Christmas Tree Festival from 8:30pm

So spread the word and get all your friends to come and hear us!

Here are the songs we’ll be singing… so get listening to them and get familiar with them before our Thursday sessions

OAC WINTER 2015

Hope to see you all really soon 🙂

Merry Christmas Everyone!

I just wanted to say a huge thank you to everyone who has come along to The Woolpack on a Thursday eve and put in so much to the choir. We have had a great year and I really can see and hear that we are going from strength to strength.

One of the most magical moments for me was WHITE CHRISTMAS and WAR IS OVER with The Fortnights at Korks last Sunday. AMAZING! But this year we have also had the magical experiences of singing for the Tour De France crowds, the Food Bank, the Donkey Sanctuary and The Christmas Tree festival.

It’s really exciting to think what 2015 has in store for us… new songs, performances and lots of fun Thursdays together.

Wishing you and your nearest and dearest a very Happy Christmas and a lovely new year! (We are singing for Tealbeck on Christmas Day at 2pm if you fancy joining us for an hour – meet at The Woolpack 1:45pm – all welcome!)

Listen to how amazing you all sound!!!!

December 2014

We have been busily preparing for Christmas and the songs are really starting to take shape!

We have 4 performances over the festive period so I really hope you can make some (or all!) of the dates… even if you haven’t been along for a while we’d always love to see you.

7th December – Victorian Fayre (2:30pm) at The Woolpack. Victorian costume encouraged but not essential!
13th December – Christmas Tree Festival (4pm – 6pm) at The Parish Church
18th December – Carols at The Roebuck (7:30pm)
21st December – The Woolpack Christmas Party (7:30pm onwards) at Korks (we’ll be singing one song with a band!!)

Click here to see the calendar of events including rehearsals and songs we’ll be singing…
OAC December 2014

CHRISTMAS DAY
A few of us are gathering on Christmas Day to sing for our friends at Tealbeck. If you are free and fancy a sing – we’d love to see you. Meet at The Woolpack at 1:45pm and we’ll have a sherry afterwards!

NEW YEARS EVE
We’re throwing another party this year because we had such a great time last year! Entrance is ticket only so please email me for a ticket jen@bighooha.co.uk. £15 includes hot food by Nikki’s Pop-Up Kitchen, dance floor, great tunes and cafe area. Come and welcome in 2015 with friends!

JANUARY 2015
THE FIRST OAC of 2015 will be Thursday 15th January 7:30pm!

Think that is all for now!

I will add all the sheet music you might need to the SONGS page (up top of screen!) 🙂

Getting ready for Christmas!

Oh yes it’s that time of year again! And this year we are excited to have 4 opportunities to sing in Otley this festive season

December 7th – Otley Victorian Fayre
December 13th – Otley Christmas Tree Festival
December 18th – Carol Singing at The Roebuck
December 21st – The Woolpack Christmas Party at Korks

Here are the carols we are learning – I will upload more as we go along!

OAC Hark The Herald Verse 1 and 2

OAC Hark The Herald VS 3

OAC Silent Night

Hope to sing with you all very soon

War Is Over

We’re starting our preparations for Christmas early this year! We have lots of songs to get ready for our Christmas gigs!

Come and see us sing at the Otley Christmas Lights switch on (Monday 2nd December) and at our Christmas Party (Sunday 22nd December – Korks)

Last night we started work on Happy Xmas (War is Over)

 

The song was written by John Lennon and Yoko Ono and released in 1971. It is a protest song about the Vietnam war, encouraging social unity and peaceful change.  Lennon apparently wanted the song to be optimistic whilst avoiding the sentimentality of many Christmas songs. 

 

You can find the score here…

OAC WAR IS OVER

and have a listen to the demo (thanks again to Richard for helping me record it!)

WAR IS OVER (no ukes)

WAR IS OVER (with ukes)

WAR IS OVER (lead only)

 

WAR IS OVER (H2)

 

WAR IS OVER (H1)

WAR IS OVER (Bass)

Happy singing! See you all soon 🙂

happy new year!

hello lovely singers!

i am really looking forward to thursday – and we will carry on where we left off with AIN’T NO SUNSHINE. have a listen to the demo to refresh your memory

OAC AINT NO SUNSHINE MP3

i hope you can join us. if you are thinking of coming for the first time then you will be more than welcome. i promise you, there is no better way to beat the january blues than with a good sing with some lovely people!

so here are the photos from our end of term show back in december. my only regret is that i didn’t take any more – but i had quite a lot of running around to do! the performance was incredible and to think of what we achieved in such a small amount of time.

 

what a beautiful bunch of people! 😉

 

don’t forget our juniors! sing it! starts up again this saturday (12th jan) from 10.15am. they sounded so awesome at the show and overcame their nerves to put on a great performance.

see ya!

 

Come and hear OTLEY A CAPPELLA and SING IT! in action this monday!

hello everyone!

just reminding you that our first proper performance is taking place this monday (17th december 2012) at the courthouse, otley, as part of the woolpack end of term show! tickets are £3 on the door (if you are not performing) and it’s going to be a cracker.

we have some festive songs for you to enjoy as well as some songs we have been working on in the relatively short time we have been singing together. the sing it! girls also have a lovely performance lined up for you….please come and show your support for them….!

at the a cappella session tonight we consolidated all the songs we will be performing paying special attention to MOVING ON UP (which is sounding so awesome!)

here are the separate parts from the original rough demo i did if any performers want to practise them but please excuse the quality!

MOVING ON UP LEAD

MOVING ON UP harmony 1

MOVING ON UP harmony 2

MOVING ON UP bass

 

we are also looking forward to a new year and new songs. mondays gig will be an excellent opportunity to see if you would like to be a part of what we do – it really is a lovely bunch of people who love to sing. if you’re interested in popping in to see if you’d like it then you would be VERY welcome!

 

 

Coming up this week – the boys take the lead!

carrying on with our christmas theme – i have wanted to do another song that people might not expect to hear (or indeed may never had heard before!)

i also wanted to give the boys the lead for a change so what better way than to look to bing crosby – mr christmas himself! (?!) but what’s better than bing? bing + the andrew sisters! this song was written for otley a cappella!

check out the recorded version of MELE KALIKIMAKA here….

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqeT1ZQ0I4M

so hoping that the otley ukulele orchestra join in with us on this one – have a listen to the demo i have recorded with the ukulele and get familiar with the song before thursday if you can.

Mele K 3 parts with uke

until then….keep singing!

x

 

 

 

o come and be christmassy!

last night we had a great time looking at the christmas songs we will be performing very soon (9th and 17th december!!!!!)

we looked at a traditional arrangement of o come all ye faithful – have a listen to it here

O COME ALL YE (4 parts)

or for individual parts (so you can practise!) here….

O COME ALL YE (soprano)

O COME ALL YE (alto)

O COME ALL YE (tenor)

O COME ALL YE (bass) – this is an octave up as i cannot sing THAT low!)

we also practised OAC BLUE CHRISTMAS NO UKE mp3 too and it sounded incredible.

i am really enjoying our thursday nights and have so many ideas and aspirations for us as a group…if we have achieved all this in such a short time imagine what we are capable of!?

 

see you next week!