Notes from "rehearsal" 7/1 - revisited

(Sorry for the repeat email - I'm making it do the notifications again because of the orange/bolded clarification.)

The quotes are because it was more chatting and wine-ing than rehearsing but still rates a post.

In attendance were:
2 Susans
1 Elaine
honorable mention: Sara


Elaine and I apologize that neither of us got around either

• to confirming what was on the blog last time (there indeed will be no rehearsals/services for the month of July***) 
• or to spreading the word that at the last minute Sunday she and Susan and I decided it would be fun to meet at my house for wine and song Monday in lieu of normal rehearsal.

Anyway. Subsequent to the no-She-Sings-July decision we were asked to sing for Eve Stevens' service on 7/21. Long story short, what we're working on --for anyone interested and available, no pressure-- is "You Are Loved (Don't Give Up)" which Josh Groban made known (see vid at bottom). Eve's service is to be --if I understand correctly, Elaine please correct/specify-- roughly kind of a big "All Will Be Well" message so we were looking for something uplifting/encourage-y.

We didn't think of simply doing "All Will Be Well" I think mostly due to lacking Heather's guitar contribution, but also we'd probably need more prep for it to sound comparable to how we did before voice-wise, too, since there are so many of us who are unable to take part these days.

Anyway I will send out an email with the pdf for the song above if you would like to access it. (Please don't tell the copyright gods - feel free to go purchase your own if you prefer at musicnotes.com in F maj.)

So far with Elaine's guidance and accompaniment Susan and I are kind of doing with it what we did with "He ain't heavy" but others are welcome to join us as long as you can come to all rehearsals between now and then. This will not be able to be a jump-in-at-the-last-minute piece and the fewer the voices the more stuck we will be arrangement-wise so if you come we will be counting on you for both rehearsals and for the service itself.

***Ergo, there is still no rehearsal in July except for this piece/service. So if you cannot make both of the next rehearsals and the service, there is indeed no She Sings stuff for you to worry about this month.

Here's the Josh Groban song:

We are doing it a good bit faster and changing the multi-voice/fadeout stuff at the end (still in progress). Verse 1 solo Clay, verse 2 solo Chandler... still working out harmonies for the refrain.

Elaine and Susan please remind me if there was something else to announce - seems like there was but it escapes me.