Rehearsals for School Choirs
It is vital that your choir is able to attend the following rehearsals.
There are just two rehearsals that your choir will have to travel to before their Performance Night in the Festival - a Massed Rehearsal and the Morning Rehearsal before your performance.
Massed Rehearsals - a rehearsal with some of the other choirs in the festival.
	When you apply to participate in the Festival, you will be able to indicate your preference for a morning or an afternoon rehearsal with other choirs in the festival at the Massed Rehearsal. This year these rehearsals will be held at Christ's College over two days. Your choir only needs to attend ONE rehearsal - EITHER the morning session 9.45am - 11.45am OR the afternoon session 12.45pm - 2.45pm on Wednesday, 18th August OR Thursday, 19th August. We will let you know the time for your school's Massed Rehearsal when your school's representative attends the Teachers' Demonstration Meeting.
	This rehearsal will allow you as Director of your choir to find out which areas of the repertoire you need to focus on, and it allows the Music Directors of the Festival an opportunity to start to mould the massed choir sound.
Morning Rehearsal - before the Night's Performance
	When you apply to participate in the Festival, you will be able to indicate your top three preferences for a Performance Night for the Festival. Your choir only attends ONE performance night but you must give us three choices - we need to balance the combination of choirs for each night. We will let you know your performance night at the Teachers' Demonstration Meeting.
	Your school choir rehearses at the Town Hall 10.00am - 12.15pm on the morning of your Performance Night. You MUST arrive AT LEAST by 9.30am, preferably earlier so that your choir can be properly seated before the rehearsal commences.