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In 2024 Teaching Services Australia (TSA) is proud to host the Central Coast Band Showcase. This will involve 11 school concert bands from the Central Coast in a workshop and competition style festival.
Participating bands will attend a 1-hour intensive workshop during the day at Mingara, and then return for a performance that evening for family and friends.
The Central Coast Band Showcase will provide schools with the competitive element from eisteddfods whilst providing a performance opportunity that families can attend as it is in the evening. The bands also get more “bang for their buck” with more performance time than normal eisteddfods as well as the workshop during the day.
Workshop
Bands will be scheduled throughout the day to attend a workshop with a guest clinician. This workshop will be a chance for the bands to perform their concert repertoire and be given feedback to improve their performance. This feedback will not only be musical, it will also include presentation advice and other aspects of live performances. Schools will travel to the venue for their allotted session which will be between 8am – 3pm.
Performance/Competition
The seven schools participating in the daytime workshops will return to the venue in the evening with their family and friends to participate in the competition side of the event. Bands will perform their 10-15 minutes of repertoire that they workshopped throughout the day. The guest conductor will adjudicate these performances with points awarded to bands that show they have listened and executed the advice from the workshop earlier that day. Bands will be able to nominate teachers/high school helpers to participate in their evening performance on selected instruments. This option will alleviate the stress on conductors that may have students missing due to other commitments.
Awards
All bands will receive an award on the night of their performance, in addition to two special awards given by the adjudicator. These awards will be in the form of trophies that schools can then keep and display. Students will all receive a participation ribbon or certificate. Every student will leave this event with a feeling of achievement. Adjudicator feedback will be sent to schools after the event. This will come in the form of a recorded adjudication made during the performance.
Recording & Slideshow
Bands will be recorded at the evening performance and this recording will be made available to the schools. It then could be used at an assembly or other school event. Schools will be given the option if they want to release this recording to band families. This will depend on permission to publish rules at the different schools. Still pictures will be taken during the workshop which will then be displayed at the evening performance whilst bands are changing over.
Cost
The festival will be funded by tickets from the evening performance. Schools will not need to pay entry fees for this event. Bus transport during the day for the workshops will be subsidized from the school band resource levies. Audience tickets will be $15 per adult and $10 per child and will be pre-sold through TryBooking.