WAU Music festival
February 14-17 , 2024
Schedule:
- Wednesday 14, Leaving HVA by 6:15 pm.
- Thursday 15, all day rehearsals - Night HVA strings performing at WAU HS showcase.
- Friday 16, all day rehearsals and worshops. - Night vespers at Sligo Church
- Sabbath 17, morning worship at Sligo church, WAU festival students participation.
- Sabbath afternoon concert (Time to be announced) at Sligo church.
Packing list:
- Performance uniform for Sabbath.
- Personal hygiene items for 3 days.
- For rehearsals: No school uniform necessary. Approve school apparel (no pajama pants, no sweet pants, no yoga pants)
- Instrument and folder.
Rules:
- Hotel curfew time: 10:00 pm
- No mixed gender in the rooms, or halls. Only in designated lobby area.
- No Doordash purchases to Hotel.
- On-time attendance to bus loading, rehearsals, lunch time etc.
- No visits with anybody who is not participating in WAU festival, except for direct family members. (no visits with former or current HVA students during the festival).
- Cellphones will be collected by sponsor on on Friday night.
- No cellphone use during rehearsals, neither during church time.
- No TV, movies, secular music during Friday night.
Participants for 2024:
The festival is directed for Choirs, Orchestra and Band. The following criteria will apply for your participation in the WAU festival.
- Registration fee $100
- Intermediate to advance level of performance.
- Active membership in either choir, band or strings.
- Space will be limited to 24 students in total. 8 (choir), 8 (strings), and 8 (band).
- Registration for the Festival is now closed and the festival fee is due by January 15, 2024. Students who registered are listed below.
- Please note this year's festival falls during Homeleave. That means once the festival is done on Saturday, February 17, around 5:30 pm, HVA campus will be closed. Therefore, every participant student will need to be picked-up at the Sligo Church at WAU, after the concert.
- Festival music repertoire is at www.hvamusic.org/music