Msg #20 (3 weeks to go) Summary of important information

Welcome to our twentieth preparedness update.All previous updates can be found at https://nehbprepare.blogspot.com 

Useful info and links at the bottom of this update..

To prepare to sing properly, stand tall and squarely with pride, unlock your knees, and take a deep breath through the nose.  What's that  you smell?  You can almost smell the excitement for the Rally!

Much Important Information, Kept Brief

• Run throughs are still useful, and we encourage you to schedule and attend them.

• Rally schedule is now online (subject to change if necessary)

• Ticket Sales for the Saturday Night Show now available (promo page, direct ticket ordering)

• We are still looking for 2 members to become Board Members at Large, please write to Daniel to volunteer
• If you plan to apply for membership, you can also apply for the Board.

• Sign up for Friday singouts, for extra fun

• We are still planning a Sing With The Judges opportunity, info soon

• Housing forms have been received, rooming assignments will be coming shortly.  You can still order upgrades like extra meals or a single, for a limited time.

• The ride forms for rides to and from the rally will be closing soon - fill them out now.

• Reminder: the 2020 rally is going to be held one weekend earlier than usual, to accommodate the Jewish holidays

Random Quartet Contest and Advice

This year the contest format will be SLIGHTLY different, but no less fun.

When random quartets are assigned after dinner, only the quartets for the first half will receive their assignments.  They will get a block of time to rehearse, and then compete.

Just before intermission, the second half's quartets will be announced.  They also get an equal block of time to rehearse, and then compete.

This makes things a touch more fair, because not only will quartets in both halves get about equal rehearsal time, but quartets that have to share a singer (for part-balancing purposes) can be split between the first and second halves, again making a fairer rehearsal time.

Last year, we wrote a guide for new Rally attendees on how to maximize your rehearsal time in a random quartet - or really, in any pickup quartet during the weekend.

Links To Everything

• The Preparedness Blog
• Ticket sales
• Geomap of participants
• Sign up for singouts on Friday
• If you MUST skip the rally, the withdrawal form
• The Housing form
• The Upgrades "Shop"
• Our Guest Quartet and Judges will be Rooftop Records!  Get to know them on Facebook, their website, or their most recent performance at the SUN District this spring.
• The New England Harmony Brigade Home Page
• The NEHB Application Page
• A Video Retrospective of the 2018 Rally (credit Jim Schumacher)
• Getting Rides To The Rally, Rides Home From The Rally.
• Run-throughs
• Volunteer by sending email to Rob Sheridan
• See the calendar on the NEHB web site
• Add the calendar to your own.
• Mark Schuldenfrei's personal music status (bass)