Week 19 Newsletter

March 1, 2024

A Message from Tyler…

It was awesome to be back with you on Tuesday! I missed your smiling faces.

We did lots of great work on our songs - exploring more musical moments and adding more dynamic contrast.

Keep it Rockin’!

Announcements

  • OOTB Social

    When: Saturday, March 2nd from 10:30 am to 1:30 pm
    Where: Highland Park Community Centre - 3716 2 St NW, Calgary, AB.

    Details

  • If you haven’t brought your $15 cash for the event, please bring it Saturday and give it to Christine or Ashley in the foyer/entrance of the community centre where the welcome table will be set up.

  • Please wear your name tags on Saturday. We’re going to be meeting new people, so it’s a great icebreaker. If you don’t have one please email Christine to let her know and she will kindly make you one: spencerchristine01@gmail.co

  • If you would like to help with setup please arrive for 10:15am, and we will direct you with a task.

  • We’re going to have a little Photo Booth set-up, so if you have a fun prop/costume piece you want to bring along, please do. It’ll be fun to get sone candid shots!

Next Rehearsal - March 4th

  • We will start learning the classic groovy rock tune, ‘Your Mama Don’t Dance’. Jen McMillan - the voice/pianist behind all the practice recordings, crafted this arrangement specifically for OOTB Chorus, and it’s awesome! It’ll be a fun challenge while also help lock into a really fun groove together.

    Sheet music will be available Sunday evening as we’re still making some small adjustments.

    Songs from Memory

    As I mentioned Tuesday, we will now start working on singing our songs from memory in rehearsal.
    Next week, I would to try Heartache Tonight, as well as Hallelujah & Down to the River from memory.

    We’ve all felt how we can reach a new of cohesiveness and expressive power when we have our music memorized - so let’s do it!

Musical Moment

Here’s to Cover Songs! And a little Croc Rockin’

by, Brent Moore

Hey, do you like ‘cover songs’ as much as I do?  Especially when they are so original, that they almost become a brand new tune!  Sometimes, a cover tune can even make you forget the original entirely.  For example, Tennessee Whiskey by Chris Stapleton, or All Along the Watchtower by Jimi Hendrix.

Speaking of covers, you could say that OOTB is one giant cover band.  We may not have any guitars, but we sure have one heck of a piano player (yay Eileen!), no shortage of fine vocalists, and fantastic tunes.  One of my favorites from the last Christmas Concert was ‘Stuck in the Middle With You’.  A key element of a cover tune is the arrangement.  Major kudos to Tyler for arranging that one, as it was sassy, fun, and yes, original! 

This week, I want to introduce you to a superb cover of an OOTB song.  It is by a roots rock outfit from Georgia called Larkin Poe, which is fronted by two sisters, Rebecca and Megan Lovell.  They have gained recognition for their smooth harmonies, Megan’s dobro slide guitar, and Rebecca’s guitar riffs.  The band name comes from their great-great-great-great-grandfather, Larkin Poe (a cousin of Edgar Allen Poe). I caught them at the New Orleans JazzFest, and they raised the roof with their raucous grooves and cool covers, including Crocodile Rock.  This version below is oh-so-sweet. Hope you like!

OOTB Chorus