Hi Walker Street Fiddlers,
I'm sorry this is so late, but I had the Saturday gig and the Citrus Sale winding down this weekend and I completely forgot to send out the reminder for the BIG GROUP PRACTICE TODAY!!!
PARENTS! Please come inside today if possible to sign up for one...or more...of our next big events. The 1st weekend of December will be a three day extravaganza of events and we think it might be helpful to know who is available to attend each event. There will be sign up sheets for these events at the church tonight for those who are ready to jump in! Your choices are:
Candle Tea at First Moravian Church.............Friday, December 1st
(the time will be sometime between 5:30 and 7:00 PM) We'll announce later
We need a minimum of 8 players and probably not more than 12 for this event.
Camelot Christmas Festival...............Saturday and Sunday, December 2nd & 3rd
This is an all day thing like the festivals before. We will probably have more than one performance each day, but I do not have specific times yet. We will have vending space as before, and we will need at lease 10 or 12 players each day. For this event we are asked to dress...or at least accessorize...in Renaissance type attire. I will be researching places to rent or purchase some inexpensive items that may work for us. We are not going to panic over this, but we will try to accommodate as much as we can comfortably manage.
We ask that everybody attend at least one of these performance/fundraising events. I will try to have some more information about the start/end times for the festival by this afternoon.
In other news...Our citrus sale is officially completed! The total funds earned for student expenses came to $1577.00 @ $9.50 profit per box. Each family's total earnings on the boxes of fruit they sold will be credited directly to their trip invoice for their students' expenses. Congratulations on your success! We made a $100.00 donation (50 cents per box) to the Grimsley High School Orchestra for allowing us to become "official" members of the orchestra for the duration of this fundraiser.
Do not despair if you did not profit as much as you had hoped from the Citrus Sale. We will begin a new fundraiser immediately!!! Yippee!!! This will also be a fundraiser for families to apply the proceeds directly to our student's individual trip balances. It involves coupon booklets for Papa John's Pizza products. I understand the profit margin on these is very high and the purchase price is very inexpensive to the customer. There is a free pizza coupon that will cover the purchase price right away and the rest of the booklet is discounts and freebies when you make other purchases. They will probably be much easier to sell than the frozen pizza products so many students use for fundraising and WAY less trouble since we will not have to deal with actual product. I will have specifics available after I talk to the general manager this afternoon.
One last note! The WSF have also been asked to do a performance on December 7th. Rebecca Moore-Painter was one of our students for many years. Her mom, Terry is associated with Wesley Long Hospital. This performance will be for covered dish dinner. I think the event is for some of the folks who may be employed at the hospital...not entirely sure. Anyway, we need another 10 or so players for this event. Scott will be getting the information from Terry in regard to times and location. If you want to volunteer for this one, please let Scott know and he will get back to you with details.
So, once again, there is a lot of information for you to sift through and sort out in here! You guys are great with all your support and participation this year so far. Please let me know anything I can do to be helpful to you!
See you tonight!
Teresja
