001good morning and Welcome to our seventh concert in the spring string Festival series we have been doing this for many years we started Mrs kachmarik and I Mrs kachmarik is a uh General music teacher at the Lafayette school we started this string program together in the year 2000 and in the first year we had one big concert with about 80 students and it was wonderful the next years coming we had to split it to two concerts because we had more students so we had younger students first then we have older students in the second concert then we have more students and this year we have all together 550 students in the city of Everett that play violin and we are very proud of it and in the program that you had at the front if
002you haven't gotten one there's there are programs there in the front and there is also a a scan for you to get a digital copy of the program they're all outside the door there you will see what big thing uh your children are part of it's 550 students from kindergarten all the way to high school and um it's going great and we are very very proud of it we are very thankful also for your support for acquiring the instruments for helping the students bring the instruments every day uh they have violin class thank you very much for your support parents and students thank you very much for your all hard work so this is um so we are going to play for you kindergarten and first grade is going to start then second grade will
003come on stage and play along kindergarten will watch us then first grade will leave and second grade will play by themselves and then at the end we'll play a a a piece all together together so everybody is going to come back on stage and play together I would like to thank Miss delin for working with me Miss delin started just like these students uh in the ever Public Schools playing violin she went through the school she was my high school orchestra student and then she went to berky and now she's teaching alongside with me so this is very very very [Applause] nice so now we we are going to start our program without further Ado as they say are we ready the first thing you're going to hear is singing Because in Violin we need
004to have very good pitch recognition and the best way to recognize your pitch is to sing the violin doesn't have any threats or keys so it's very important for us to hear the pidet and adjust our fingers so we sing a lot so the the first song You're going to hear is about us being ready and safe to play the violin [Music] with Mighty change your [Music] Bri he came out at [Music] you 1 2 3 4 take out [Music] [Applause] excellent all right very good the next piece we are playing is that we are traveling around the world and playing all our strength and you will hear sounds from all over the world with different instruments and different rhythms so now we are going to play 1 2 3 4 stump violent out put
005it on your shoulder please chin on your chinrest slide your thumb back wiggle your fingers say hello strings hello strings stringling stringling FP your ball pinky on top of the stick please ball on the skinniest string in the middle of the cact area and we're going to play the E string four times ready [Music] e e ready [Music] play e [Music] Eon [Music] ponza a second Str go second go [Music] and [Music] and be there straight up third go [Music] J go J [Music] [Applause] [Music] together together [Applause] please now we are going to uh show everybody that we know our violent parts and we are going to sing about them right and point make sure you point with your pointer finger as your scroll your pegs ready scr ready go scroll should Bri and
006Chin Bri and Chin brid [Music] [Applause] all right now we are going to travel to New York and play Manhattan blues for you um a very very American type of Music Ready 1 2 3 4 stump violent up put it on your shoulder chin on your chin rest on the E Str [Music] go two [Music] [Applause] now we are going to continue with our singing and showing how we know our violing part but now we going to point our B right ready ready go [Music] screw [Music] screw never touch the [Music] [Applause] now we are going to travel a little farther to the continent of Africa where it's it's common to sing a call and response songs and this call and response is similar to Simon Says touch your toes touch your hair but it's
007in a call and response format so our second grade is going to call and our kindergarten and first grade are going to respond ready [Music] all right excellent you now we are going to do the same thing we are going to do the same thing however the violinists here are going to answer with their violin while our second graders are still singing okay yeah all right ready one 2 3 4 stump button up put it on your shoulder chin on your chinwi FP your ball hell string hell string okay put your ball on the E string roll it over to the A and D now we are on two strings the D and a string ready [Music] go one more time [Music] hey and job now we are going to continue a little bit with
008our singing this piece we sing because we don't want to forget our violins on every Friday right so at the end of each class we sing Our Song when we're parking up and it goes like this [Music] Friday Friday is my violin day Fray Frid is when I bring bring [Music] my Friday it's my by wed Friday Friday that is [Applause] and our next and last piece for the kindergarten section of this concert is the technos symphony the technos symphony I created it uh 25 years ago or so it is for um students to develop strength in the violin it is takes a lot of effort to hold your hand up like this for a while so we use that we do it in a fun way and it's called the technos symph One 2
0093 four stump out on your shoulder chin on your chin slide your thumb back wiggle your fingers say hello strings hello stringing your ball call on the a string call on the a string [Music] [Applause] [Music] heop outop ready go [Music] go go ready go hey he ready go [Music] go go go [Music] ready [Music] down e e ready out out [Music] 2 and up and on the a Str a [Music] e hey e hey [Music] [Applause] right let's B together practice 1 2 3 4 F stay stay stay up one more time C your shoes 1 2 3 4 five stay stay stay up good job [Applause] bra you're going to come back for the last piece [Music] spee no all right ready please stand up in this position [Music] I [Music] all right
010welcome to the stage second grade so now we have second and first grade guys there we go all right now we are going to travel to a farm where we are going to meet a old M Fiddler a fiddler is somebody who plays the violin a violin is just a different name for a fiddle is just a different name for violin it's a different technique but it's still the same exact instrument so let's do old Midler 1 2 3 4 stump violent out put it on your shoulder chin on your chin rist on the on the e i e i [Music] the e i e i [Music] everywhere I [Music] my EXC now we are going to travel a little bit to South America and we're going to play a song that we call laa
011and you know all what that means right yeah good one 2 3 4 stump violent out put it on your shoulder so let's do that on stage can we can we smile a little bit there we go show youly here's Lon recent [Music] go he a b ready go B hey [Music] under your arms together very good job all right now we are going to um show how we can use our long bows and play sustained long sounds and beautiful this one is a very emotional one it's called sailing home right all right 1 2 three four stump B out put it on your shoulder chin on your chin wrist slide your thumb back wiggle your fingers flip your bow place your bow again on the B string the third string over and we are
012going to play sailem [Music] home long be ready go [Music] up down ball up down up open a down down g b be long [Music] open a and [Music] free [Applause] excellent all right now that we say almost home there's one last leg on of the trip that we have to take what the what the what the St strain and that is our favorite piece today one 2 3 4 stump violent out put it on your shoulder chin on your chin let's take our train all the way home [Music] ready [Music] go g [Music] hey and excellent together one 2 3 4 bow stay stay stay out one more time one 2 3 4 B stay Bravo guys good job excellent thank you first grade see that table where the second grade was sitting you
013sit that table first [Music] guys just sit down on the tables please yeah [Music] okay are we good all right so this is our second grade good year next year guys there is no talking sit down please I'm wearing a concert no talk gentlemen there's no second grade will be going to the big concert next year because third grade has a concert at night and that at Night concert already happened last week we had grades three through 5 that was our first string Night concert and our second string Night concert was 6 through 12 so you guys are be going going to be going next year with the big concert at the high school all right so I think some of you have done it before but we changed it this year right yes okay
0141 2 3 4 St up put it on your shoulder chin on your chin now we are going to show how we have learned a technique on the violin which is plucking which is called Pato so we do a little Pato with little attitude right yes ready [Music] open a go A1 a a a one Circle [Music] open E A open eing up [Music] a a [Music] one a open the [Music] Apple hey [Music] [Applause] all right you know what guys I feel a little squish can you walk can you walk to this yell line behind two more step [Music] okay now we are going to go to Ireland where we are going to do a little jig for you uh don't forget only one turn and then only one turn again that's it right
015yes all right okay one 2 3 4 St while out put it on your shoulder chin on your chin wrist this is called swallow tail [Music] J fing [Music] go [Music] [Applause] excellent now we are going to do a March that is very marato short notes and we are going to actually March in place right all right let's do our March 1 2 2 three four stump violent up put it on your shoulder chin on your chin rest [Music] the finger your middle finger [Music] [Applause] now we are going to go this piece is played all over Latin America I I grew up in Mexico so I know it's there uh it's called El Torito Pinto which means the little pool with little spots on it spotted and I hope you enjoy it we do
016also violin techniques where you play tremolo and we go across all the strings really fast right 1 2 3 4 STP out put it on your shoulder chin on your chair elito Pinto [Music] [Applause] [Music] g g [Music] keep [Music] hey hey [Music] [Applause] together ready one two three four bow look at your shoes and up one more time guys two three four stay stay stay up excellent very good now we are going to do our grand finale which is the hipop we combine some humming uh with pitches we combine some rapping we combined some uh playing and all a little dancing it's all fun time so guys could you please move back back a little more this doesn't have to be perfect a little okay first grade come with me please come upstairs first
017grade we coming back on stage [Music] all the [Music] way a little farther up very good all right kindergarten [Music] ex all right guys are we ready to do the hipop yes yes we are going to do the Hip Hop one you ready 1 2 3 four stump violent out put it on your shoulder CH it on your chin rest slide your thumb all the way back wiggle your fingers say hello string hello [Music] string all right [Music] slide your finger up and [Music] down St [Music] open [Music] e [Applause] [Music] g i o i again again [Music] [Applause] [Music] Happ [Music] off ke [Applause] [Music] i o f i n I say again I say again [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] excellent position good job guys bravo bravo bravo let's all together one two
0182 3 4 bow stay stay stay up one more time 1 2 3 4 bow stay stay stay up excellent thank you very much good job guys so proud of you we're going to keep going thank you very much for coming uh please if you did not get a program there are programs out there so you see what part of our system you are and also U Miss delin will be sending on Class Dojo the link to the concerts so if you would like to watch this concert thank you very much Josh we really appreciate all that you do for us all the concerts are there they're really beautifully videotaped and you will be able to see all the schools that we've done the concerts just like this one and ever and also the two
019Night concerts and if you would like to see what they if they stick it stick together with it until high school you'll see what kind of music they will be playing at the high school so please uh check it out thank you very much and we hope you have a wonderful day and have a wonderful weekend good job