Greenhorn 2019/2020 Schedule

Sept 30–Session Begins! Pick up instruments, charts, etc…
Oct 7
Oct 14—No Workshop (Thanksgiving)
Oct 21
Oct 26–performance (Parade of Little Souls)
Oct 28
Nov 4
Nov 11—No Workshop (Remembrance Day)
Nov 18
Nov 25
Dec 2
Dec 9
Dec 16
Dec 23—No Workshop (Winter Break)
Dec 30—No Workshop (Winter Break)
Jan 6
Jan 13
Jan 20—No Workshop (Pro-D day)
Jan 27
Feb 3
Feb 10
Feb 17—No Workshop (Family Day)
Feb 24
Mar 2
Mar 9
Mar 16—No Workshop (Spring Break)
Mar 23—No Workshop (Spring Break)
Mar 30
Apr 6
Apr 13—No Workshop (Easter)
Apr 20
Apr 27
May 4
May 11
May 18—No Workshop (Victoria Day)
May 25
June 1
June 8—Last Workshop of the Season

TBD: July/August 2020 Greenhorn Summer Camp and B’CHonk 2020!

2018/2019 Start Date

So, this is a first ever: we’re setting the start date for our next session as Sept 17, 2018. Hope to see you all there and please bring all your closest friends and enemies.

As much as possible, we will continue to follow the 2018/2019 VSB school calendar and provide exemplary programming for new instrument learners as well as provide instruments whenever possible.

Oh and there’s tag. And parades. And sometimes sushi and lemonade and pool parties so really, we’re buckets of fun.

June 2nd Performance Details.

Location: Edam Dance/Western Front 303 East 8th Ave. close to Main and Broadway

Arrival time: Feel free to arrive anytime before 1:45pm and band members can leave their cases and personal items here (I’ll make sure that they are safe) at the WF before the downbeat! Music will be located in the EDAM Dance space downstairs so feel free to come and find Tim or Brenda!

Set times: 2pm, 2:30pm and 3pm

Set List: Please bring your books so we can play harder stuff if we are ever stationary, but we will be parading with songs we have off book: When The Saints, My Buckets…., Little Liza Jane, You Are My Sunshine, Greenhorn Bounce, Birdhead Forever

Dress: Crazy

Greenhorn Winter/Spring 2017 Workshop Schedule

January 23, Workshop, Rm 111
January 30, Intensive, Rm 111
February 6, Workshop, Rm 111
February 13, No Workshop–Family Day
February 20, Workshop, Rm 111
February 27, Workshop, Rm 111
March 6, Workshop, Rm 111
March 13, No Workshop–Spring Break
March 20, No Workshop–Spring Break
March 27, Workshop, Rm 111
March 28, OAOS AGM, 6:30pm potluck, 7pm AGM
April 3, Workshop, Rm 111
April 10, Workshop, Rm 111
April 17, No Workshop–Easter Monday
April 24, Workshop, Rm 111
May 1, Workshop, Ice Rink Mezz.
May 8, Workshop, Ice Rink Mezz.
May 15, Workshop, Ice Rink Mezz.
May 22, No Workshop–Victoria Day
May 29, Workshop, Rm 111
June 5, Workshop, Rm 111
June 12, Workshop, Rm 111

Uploading Charts

This is how I upload charts to the Greenhorn website.

To start with, I usually have the charts as JPEG or PDF files.  Often when I get them, the files are named in a way that would be irritating and confusing, like this:

Finale Print Music 2009 - [afro blue - Flute.mus].pdf

charts_before_rename

The first thing I do is to rename the files to something that is easily to recognize at a glance, and easily searchable.  The naming scheme I like is

<name of piece>_<key of chart>

like this:

afro_blue_Bb.pdf

Or, if there’s more than once chart for the key, then I like

<name of piece>_<instrument>_<key of chart>

like this:

afro_blue_Trumpet_Bb.pdf

charts_after

The next thing to do is to upload the charts.  We use the WordPress Download Manager to manage charts.  This is available in the administration dashboard of the site, under the “Downloads” menu item.

 

Changing Website Appearance

WordPress is a “Theme” based system.  The “Theme” you choose dictates the basic layout and appearance of the website.  Once you’ve chosen a theme, you can customize it by changing the colour scheme, background images, what’s in the menus and sidebars, and so on.  The WordPress documentation for Themes is at:  http://codex.wordpress.org/Themes.

In the administration menu, you change themes and customize the current theme with the Appearance menu:

Appearance

 

To change theme, pick “Themes”:

ThemesMenu

This will take you to the screen that allows you to pick a theme for the website:

Themes

By default, you start with just a few themes to choose from, but there are hundreds more that you can download with just a click of the mouse and try out.  To browse and download themes, click on “Add New Theme”

AddTheme

Once you have a theme that’s structured the way you like it, you can customize it, changing colours and so on.  To do so, click on the “Customize” menu item in the Appearance menu:

CustomizeTheme

This will take you to a screen where you can customize the theme’s appearance, changing colours, background images, menus, what’s in the header and sidebar, etc.

customize