Congratulations to all of our performers!

What a way to start term 4. We held our inaugural Minimbah Music Festival and held 4 concerts during weeks 3 and 4.

First up were the junior students from Foundation, Year 1 and Year 2. They shared two of their favourite songs, Flies and The Addams Family, complete with actions and spooky sounds. Foundation showed off their body percussion skills with a class composition called Go Matildas, whilst Year 1 demonstrated their understanding of major and minor, as their Hot Cross Buns turned into Cold Stale Buns! Year 2 shared their excellent work with Charlie Over the Water, demonstrating their rhythmic, tuned percussion and singing skills.

Our students from Years 3 and 4 followed the juniors, singing an Australiana Medley of Click Go the Shears and Along the Road to Gundagai. Year 3 have been learning about prominent figures in music, and they performed the Bob Marley song, Three Little Birds; with students performing on recorders, xylophones, and vocals. Year 4 have worked incredibly hard on their ensemble playing, combining glockenspiels, xylophones, drums and vocals to produce a toe-tapping version of Viva la Vida.

The senior students shared their music at a special music assembly. It provided a great opportunity for the Year 5 class to demonstrate not only their ukulele skills but also their singing in their rendition of the classic, The Lion Sleeps Tonight. The string students shared two beautiful pieces, Kingston Calypso and Deep Sea Fandango and our Year 6 wind and brass students played a favourite concert band piece, Penguin Promenade. The Minimbah orchestra consists of students from years 4 - 6 and they played a wonderful piece, Eastern March. The super cool Rock Band took us all on a Highway to Hell and the 5/6 choir sang beautifully. All this was topped off with a swash-buckling solo performance from Austin in year 5 who played the Theme from Pirates of the Caribbean

It was wonderful to see all our students involved during these 3 events, being risk-takers while often stepping out of their comfort zone to play an instrument and sing in front of an audience.

Our Music Festival concluded with our termly Soiree which featured the talents of many of our instrumental students as the sounds of music rang out from the Music House.

**Insert photos from Soiree (24/10/23)

We are not quite finished yet, as we are still learning music to share at Perberkoong and the Year 6 Graduation. Two wonderful events to round out a fabulous year of music-making and sharing.

Sue Fletcher and John Beckley (Minimbah Classroom Music Teachers)