Simply the Best
Congratulations to our students Nicholas Larsen and Yury Onikashvilli for their outstanding results on the Canadian Conservatory’s contemporary guitar exams! Both were the best in all of B.C. for their respective grades, Larsen, age 15, for grade 4 contemporary idioms and Onikashvilli, age 11, for the same category in grade 1. We are so proud!
Follow the link below to read the full article from The Maple Ridge News.
A Pitt Meadows Christmas
BAMA is proud to support A Pitt Meadows Christmas taking place on Friday Dec. 2nd at spirit square. There will be a ton of fun festive activities from 6-8pm including all of our vocal teacher Rayne Beveridge’s glee choirs. There’s also been some talk that the big jolly man in red will be taking time out of his busy schedule to make an appearance. Our lovely leading lady Judith Bergthorson has donated her time to help make this event a success so you can be sure to find her and many more of the BAMA clan in attendance. We hope to see you too!
6:00-6:10: Event begins
6:10-6:25: Showstoppers Academy of Performing Arts performance
6:25-6:35: Bergthorson Academy of Musical Arts performance
6:35-6:45: Greetings from the City and the Pitt Meadows Community Foundation and countdown to the lighting of Spirit Square Christmas Tree
6:50: Santa arrives
7:00-7:15: Carolling with Showstoppers, RCMP and Bergthorson Acadamy of Musical Arts
7:20-7:45: Bergthorson Academy of Musical Arts performances
7:45: Event wrap up
PM XMAS
Rossi Tzonkov’s New Vancouver Trio to Play Kino Cafe Nov. 21st
Our bass/guitar teacher Rossi Tzonkov’s New Vancouver Trio (a very accurate name!) are playing at the Kino Cafe in Vancouver at 3456 Cambie Street Monday, November 21st. The gig starts at 8pm but make sure you get there early to get a seat.
NVT describe themselves as follows:
The idea behind this project is rearranging some of the music from the modern classical guitar repertoire adding a strong rhythmical structure instead of the “rubato” feel. Most of the music coming from the regions of Cuba, Brazil and Argentina have a strong rhythmical pulse which is normally understated as our classical guitar training focuses our attention on the musical phrase while performing it. Well, we’re trying to do both – integrating a powerful rhythm with an intricate phrase. We have put together all our different backgrounds, training and experience and poured it into our creative interpretation. We let our imagination run wild and we hope you enjoy it!
To hear some of their music go to http://www.wix.com/newvancouvertrio/newvancouvertrio#
A BAMA Halloween
Don’t forget to swing by our Pitt Meadows location this Halloween as our drum instructor Adam Rayburn will be hosting our (temporarily) spooky house and handing out candy. We welcome all you goblins and ghouls to come in and take a look at our great new location.
Want A Free Lesson?
For this holiday season we are having a contest to receive one free lesson for the instrument (voice included) of your choice! All you need to do is “like” us on facebook to enter. Also, we would love to get your feedback on how we are doing so if you write a review on our page (found on the left hand side tab) we will enter your name as well. You may enter a total of twice for one page like and one review. On Dec. 1st we will draw names out of a hat and give the lucky winner an instant x-mas gift. Good luck!
Our Famous Blue Grass Circle Is Back On
We know we will see most of our last season’s blue grass circle jammers back out as we get it fired up again but we are looking forward to meeting some new faces as well. Bring your fiddle, flute, guitar or just your voice to our Pitt Meadows location at 12229 Harris Road for a stompin’ good time! The circle will take place the 1st and 3rd Mondays of the Month, hosted by our very own Denis LeClerc. There is a $5 drop in fee. We’ll see ya then!
