The first day of the festival was a busy day!
We all had to meet up at the lower school at 8:45am to get marked in as present and also get on the coach for 9:00 am.
We got on the coach a bit late because there were people who didnt get to the lower school on time so we had to await their arrival. When they arrived we finally started our journey to the SouthBank Queen Elizabeth Hall (QEH), where the festival was going to take place for the 2days.
It took us about 45minutes to there. When we arrived we went through the back door of the QEH. We had to get all our eqipments from the Van and set up and get rehearsals done befire our first audience shows up to the Festival.
Before we could start rehearsals we had to setup the stage settings and make sure sounds were working properly, set up the steel pans in the right order (which took quite a lot of our time), set up the drum kit (which takes skill and good memory since it has a lot of parts to it), set up the viewng screen with a set of chairs for the audience to sit on while watching whatever it is on the screen, we setup the main stage chairs where the audience are going to come together and watch a performance. The DJing decks had to be set up at two posts, one on the main stage and one on the far end of the room for presentation use.
When everything was ready we started with steel pan rehearsals because there were people who still didnt know parts of other song that we were playing so we spent alot of time trying to get it right over and over again till it sounded good enough. The dance performers had to rehearse even more since they wern't ready to perform so they had to work even harder so that they could be fitted into the schedule for performances for the day. They had an option where they could either practice or just not do the performance. Luckily they got the dance right and performed.
The DJ's had to practice playing their songs to get an idea if what to play after each other. Two of the DJ's had to go over the mix for the dance performers since tgey were going to mix while they were dancing to it.
After reahersals were done, it was time to start the festival (morning). we had a route of how the audience and festival are goint to run smoothly.
Everything went well for the morning performance. After all shows were done we fed our first audience lunch and then they headed back to school and we had 1hr lunch break so we decided to explore SouthBank.
Later on in the afternoon everything had to be done again for our next audience. We got ourselves ready and in place and with music in the background everything went well again. The performance were good and much appreciated.
We had to pack everything up and put them in the QEH stage for tomorrow's use !
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