[Blgspops] Thursday -place and times

[Jacquie Ziegler]

The building is at 511 Custer. There is a parking lot behind the former 
Holy Rosary church - accessible from 5th if you turn South from 
Broadwater and take the alley. The main doors face Custer to the south 
of the building, and there is a good-sized flight of stairs leading up 
to the entrance. We'll be straight back at the end of the room, where 
there is a raised stage area. The acoustics are really pretty good, we 
found out, and the upright piano should be available (Margaret is 
double-checking on this).

We should be able to go around the back of the playing area - there are 
some rooms back there where we put our coats and cases last year.

The concert itself is scheduled like this:

The Eckroth representative is going to show up around 5:15 pm to set up 
the 'instrument petting zoo'. He has requested help from anyone who 
feels like they can assist young kids (remember, the target audience is 
3 and 4 years old) with this display/exhibit. So, if you want to help 
with that, plan on being there by 5:30 pm to 5:45 pm so you can get set 
up and still assist him.

The doors will open at 6 pm, and we should be able to start playing 
between 6:30 pm and 6:45 pm - this time is a little fluid as it depends 
on how popular the petting zoo is and how quickly we can get folks into 
chairs and the kids seated on the floor to listen.

Please try and be at the building - 511 Custer - by 6. We can be setting 
up and warming up our instruments while the petting zoo is running, as 
the sound won't be an intrusion, but we do need to be ready to go by 
6:30 if possible.

This is a SHORT concert, since the attention span of the kids is not 
long - and they will be doing things like marching around with lion 
masks and generally being pretty active during the whole thing.

After we finish playing, if the Eckroth representative wants to have the 
petting zoo run again, we'll do that. There will also be cookies and 
lemonade for treats afterwards, so I expect that there will be a lot of 
mingling around between the snacks and the instruments.

Margaret expects we'll be done playing by 7:30 and out of the building 
completely by 8 or so - this last depends on how much time the zoo and 
snacks portion after we play will take.

Final info in the next message!

Jacquie