Final Days for Selling Tickets-Let's Sell! Sell! Sell!

With the Rossini concert less than a week away there's not much time to get out there and sell tickets.  Fraserview is a wonderful place to sing in, but it is a big venue.  It would be great to fill it up as much as possible.

Right now our ticket sales are quite low, so please consider if there is anyone else you might approach who would like to attend the concert.  We've worked hard (as usual!) on this one and it should be a wonderful night out for anyone who attends!

Possible Tour for Chorus

From Brigid

Since our trip to New York in 2005, I constantly receive invitations from concert tour businesses asking if we’re interested in doing this again.  They include

All three of them offer the opportunity for school, college and community choirs to perform in premier venues – notably in Carnegie Hall, but also in Lincoln Center, Chicago Orchestra Hall, Washington’s Kennedy Centre, LA’s Crystal Cathedral, Grace Cathedral in San Francisco, as well as venues in Europe.

Cost would depend on many factors – where & when, how many sharing, whether we went through the company for everything or planned travel separately. The New York land package (transport to/from hotel, tour hotel, rehearsals, concert & reception) varied last time from US$1880, single occupancy, to US$969 quad occupancy (which was very cosy!), plus air-fare.

If this is something you would like to consider doing again, there are a few questions that I need answered first.  Can you complete the following, and return it to me by the end of February, please?

Chorus Tour Questionnaire

Please click on the Tour Questionnaire button below to complete the Chorus tour survey.


Brigid – brigid@uniserve.com  (or just give it to me at choir rehearsal)





Tour Questionnaire Information for Chorus

Some of you may have received a rather garbled version of the tour Questionnaire directly into your email box this morning which I hope you will disregard.

The best way to get to an easy version of the questionnaire is to click right at the top of the blog where it says, in red, Possible Tour for the Chorus.

Read to the bottom of that and you will find a black button to click on which says Tour Questionnaire. This leads to a really easy version to fill in and you can submit it right on line.

Sorry for the confusion.

Memories of Audrey Fricker - request from Barb Baker

As she mentioned at rehearsal, Barb Baker would love to hear anything people might share with her about their interactions with Audrey, so that she can weave some of the stories into her remarks at Audrey's memorial next Sat., Jan. 30.

She's thinking of things like a memory, a comment on her personality, how/when they met her, her musical influence- anything like that. Or anything else people have come to mind. Humour would be good, too.

Please email Barb at bgbaker@telus.net or phone her at 604-224-0054 if you can help out with this.

CONCERT - Erato Ensemble- with Larisa Lebeda

 

ERATO ENSEMBLE

presents

PLUCK! 

Contemporary Classical & Minimalism for Amplified Voices & String Quartet, 

Guitar, Double Bass, Piano and Winds

 

Saturday, January 30, 2016 • 8:00 pm

The Orpheum Annex

823 Seymour Street, 2nd floor
Vancouver, BC V6B 0G4

 

REPERTOIRE

Max Richter - On The Nature of Daylight

Osvaldo Golijov - Lua Descolorida

Lou Warde - Songs from Geometrics

Stefan Hintersteininger - After the Fact (World Premiere)

Vladimir Martynov - The Beatitudes

Michael Nyman - Two Songs from Anne Frank

Ben Yarmolinsky - Nathan Songs

musicians:

Dory Hayley, soprano

Melanie Adams, mezzo-soprano

William George, tenor

Vaughn Chauvin, baritone

Stanton Jack, guitar

Larisa Lebeda, violin

Yun Jung, violin

Sarah Kwok, viola

Alexandra Sia, cello

Stefan Hintersteninger, cello

Michael Vaughan, double bass

Michael Park, piano

Jeff Pelletier, flute

Colin MacDonald, saxophone

Julie Begg, clarinet

Tickets:

Door - $30 general/$20 seniors/$15 students

Advance - $20 ($15 for groups of 10 or more)

http://eratopluck.brownpapertickets.com/

 

EratoEnsemble.com

Social Media Strategy - Volunteering has become so easy!!

Many thanks to those of you who have used social media to promote ROCA the last few years. All your work has been very appreciated.

Meghan Verdejo, our new administrator has created a social media strategy to take us into the future and as you will see, she has made it very easy for volunteers by outlining specific categories we need to address, creating a time line for posts and setting up a Google calendar to help remind us when posts need to be completed. 

Please read the following list of categories and see if you could help out with any of them.  We would like at least 10 people working on this from both the Chorus and the Orchestra.  If you can help, or have questions, email Meghan at roca@roca.ca

Social Media - Members' Blog Post

Facebook - Concert Promotion and Event Promotion

Volunteers Required: 2

Before the event: 

• Invite followers and encourage them to invite their friends

• Regularly update events page with relevant information

• Add promotional image or blurb to page banner with a “call to action”

• Share images, bios, links and/or materials of the guest speakers and artists

• Share teasers such as rehearsal photos, flower draw prize, interesting music facts, etc.

• Hash-tag event names in each post

After the event: 

• Share images and videos

• Post and promote a short survey or poll to engage fans and followers to drive engagement and get feedback

• Review the comments and conversations on wall

• Post "Thank You!" to guest speakers and artists - share a specific moment 

• Thank sponsors and donors by creating customized tabs that showcase financial contributors

• Begin promotion for next event

Announcements, News and General Posts

Volunteers Required: 2-3

• Post examples: new members, job positions, ticket promotions

• FREE community performances (for example: Christmas carolling venues and times or exhibit at RCSS)

• Projects and awards - interviews or testimonials from performers, project participants, and award recipients

• #TBT - ROCA Throwback Thursday

• Create contests, polls and surveys on social media platforms

• Industry news – re-share music industry news, industry studies or new music technology and/or products, music competition results, etc.

Sponsors, Advertisers, Cross Promotion

Volunteers Required: 1

• Neutral acknowledgement of sponsors on event pages - include logo and link to their websites

• Thank sponsors and advertisers on all platforms - include mixed media and graphics

Throwback Thursday - #throwbackthursday or  #TBT

Volunteers Required: 1 project manager, but many contributors

“The art of Throwback Thursday is selecting an appropriately nostalgia-inducing picture from a different era of your life” – source Katie Knibbs on Digital Trends

• Category structure of #TBT - 20+ years, 15+ years, 10+ years, 5+ years

• Posts/articles should be relevant, relatable, nostalgic, funny, etc. 

• Try matching #TBT post to a holiday or ROCA anniversary

• Ask members for the earliest photos anyone ever took of ROCA – could be photos of founders, original members or first ever concert program or poster

• Added benefit of involving all members and archiving history at the same time

Crowdfunding via Social Media Platforms and Kickstarter

Volunteers Required: 2-3

• Begin crowdfunding campaign after all social media platforms have been generating more followers and engagement – a solid social media presence needs to be in place

• Select a campaign hash-tag

• Create a Facebook page for the campaign to amplify reach – deliver campaign news to advocates and backers for re-shares, comments and “calls to action”

• Increase awareness and drive contributions to campaign through informative (80% of campaign) and sales-type posts (20% of campaign) – educate and inform without focusing on asking for donations

• Mention important milestones – major funding milestone 

• Share stories from supporters, post campaign updates, behind-the-scenes looks, and impact/success stories

• Focus on creating shareable content

• Prepare as you would a grant proposal – include objectives, budget, etc. 

• Video clips of project 

• Create a press kit of the project for media outlets and reach out to news outlets

• Introduce project team to let supporters meet the people behind the campaign

• Thank contributors and thank community 

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