STV looking for talent

STV’s The Hour show launches ‘Talent on Tour’

STV’s live daily show, The Hour, is launching a Scotland-wide talent hunt. The team are looking for the most talented people, young or old, across the country as part of their exciting new Talent on Tour feature.

Over the next few weeks, presenter Vicky Lee will be touring Scotland to uncover some of the best, brightest and quirkiest unknown talents that Scotland has to offer.

Whether you have the voice of an angel, you’re a budding child star, a contortionist, a magician or have better moves than Fred Astaire – The Hour team wants to see your act.

The Talent on Tour team will be visiting Glasgow, Aberdeen, Inverness, Edinburgh, Ayr and Dundee and the following venues and times have been confirmed so far:

• 12pm, Tuesday 21 July at Silverburn, Glasgow
• 12pm, 23rd July at Bon Accord St Nicholas, Aberdeen
• 12pm, 3rd August at Arran Mall, Ayr
• 12pm, 6th August at Ocean Terminal, Edinburgh

Further details will be announced shortly on The Hour website.

Highlights from the tour will be shown weekly on The Hour throughout summer.

Vicky Lee, chief talent scout for The Hour, said: “This is a fantastic opportunity for the talented people of Scotland to show off on the telly! We’re hoping to meet a whole range of people with weird and wonderful talents – there are no restrictions, the only requirement is talent. Who knows, we might find the next Susan Boyle. So come along and strut your stuff – you never know, you might go down a storm.”

Press Contacts:

Kirstin Stevenson, STV 0141 300 3670
Anna Bondesson, STV 0141 300 3830

Web site updates

Ken sent me some information about Meet Me In St Louis, which I have now added to the web site. Please click the logo on the right-hand side of the web page, or go to http://www.sabos.co.uk/currentShow to see it.

Anyway, we now have a booking registration form on that page, so you can start selling tickets :-)

What happened to the web site?

I don't know how closely you've been looking at the web site, but some strange stuff has happened since I last looked here.

Firstly, some updates that I'm sure I put on line have just gone away. That was the "what our next show will be" stuff. No idea where that went...

The other was that our "Latest Blog Updates" went away. Now this is actually quite clever stuff.

Our blog is hosted by Google. Our web site is hosted by 1and1. When you come to the home page, a little program running on the web server asks Google for the latest blog updates, picks out the interesting bits, and then shows them on screen.

Unfortunately, Google has changed the way it gives us back the latest blog updates. It's changed from RSS to Atom. Which means that the code that used to look "here" for certain information has to look "there" - where "there" is somewhere different from before.

So i think I've now got it working, though I am aware that I'm missing a date for blog posts. That will come soon, I hope!

Social and Brain Storming Evening - 05-Jun

This came from Mandy - I think it's a great idea and hope to be there. Please come along and join us!

A few of us got together after the AGM and decided it was time for positive action. Therefore, we'd like to see as many SABOS members as possible in the TAPPIT HEN DUNBLANE, from 9pm on Friday 5 Jun, to chat, see each other, and brainstorm some ideas for FundRaising activities and Social Gathering plans for the coming year.

All ideas welcome, and even if you haven't thought of any yourself, please please come along and help us flesh out the ones I'm sure everyone will be having! If you need to contact us for more information, I can be reached on 07910 524333, or mandy.milly.molly@gmail.com, and can pass along any ideas or opinions!

Wizard Of Oz in Dunfermline - September 15-19

Anyone fancying a night out in September could do much worse than going to visit our friends in Dunfermline, The Limelight Productions. Not only are they putting on The Wizard Of Oz, but they are the first amateur company to be performing in The Alhambra Theatre.

The Alhambra used to be a theatre, then it became a cinema in the 1920s, then it became a bingo hall. Now it's been reclaimed as a theatre, beautifully refurbished, and is now one of Scotland's largest theatres. So it's well worth a visit!

Limelight is a new company, who are putting on some great shows and establishing themselves as an innovative and exciting company on the Scottish amateur musical scene.

Look forward to seeing you there!

Childrens Singing & Musical Theatre Workshops with Suzie Falconer

Got this from Suzie today and thought it might be of interest:

KRACKIN’ KIDS at MONUMENT DANCE CENTRE
Krackin’ Kids are back with a series of exciting new Singing and Musical Theatre Workshops.
We hope to run several workshops throughout the year introducing junior groups to the magical world of performing and developing these skills in the senior groups.
The first block of workshops will take place at Monument Dance Centre

HOW MUCH WILL IT COST?
Workshops will normally cost £10.00 per session, but we have lots of special offers.
The cost of the summer09 workshops will be £20 for 4 weekly sessions.
The workshops are open to everyone but pupils attending Monument Dance and Drama classes will be invited to claim a free trial.
We want to encourage as many boys along and are offering a Bring a Boy for free offer – pay only one set of fees when girls bring a boy along.

WHO IS IT FOR?
Juniors - Boys and Girls from age 8 to 13 years Seniors Boys and Girls from age 14 – 18 years who have an interest in singing, acting and performing.

WHO ARE THE TEACHERS
RSAMD trained singer and local performer Suzie Falconer will lead the first Singing and Musical Theatre Workshops, with other members of MDC becoming involved - Callan McCormack will lead workshops on acting and improvisation skills and Craig Murray will lead stagecraft and characterisation workshops. We will also be inviting visiting actors, directors, singers and musical directors.

WHAT WILL WE DO?
Generally we’ll have loads of fun learning, singing and performing songs that you love; from musical theatre and pop favourites to a few more challenging classical pieces. You will learn singing techniques such as breathing, placing and pitching through group exercises, work on some harmony and part singing, and for anyone who wants to step into the spot-light, we’d love to hear you sing a solo!

DO WE HAVE TO COME EVERY WEEK?
The workshops will be in blocks of 2, 4 or 6 weeks.
Some workshops will be held in the evenings, some during school holidays.
Young people can sign up for whichever course or workshop they wish.

WHEN ARE THE WORKSHOPS?
The first Singing and Musical Theatre Workshops will be held on Thursdays 28th May and 4th, 18th & 25th June. Please note no workshop on 11th June.

INTERESTED? RETURN THE COMPLETED FORM BELOW WITH YOUR £20.00 ASAP.
IF YOU CAN’T MAKE THE FIRST WORKSHOPS BUT MAY BE INTERESTED IN THE FUTURE, LET US KNOW. WE WILL BE DESIGNING EACH WORKSHOP WITH YOU IN MIND – TELL US WHAT YOU WANT!
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I WISH TO APPLY FOR A PLACE AT THE SUMMER09 MUSICAL THEATRE WORKSHOPS AND ENCLOSE £20.00

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I am unable to attend the summer workshop but am interested in future workshops please keep me on your mailing lists. I am interested in.………..…………………………………………

Please return to: Monument Dance Centre, Easter Cornton Grange, Easter Cornton Road, Causewayhead, Stirling, FK9 5PB

For further details, contact us on 01786 451 244 or Monumentdance@aol.com

Next year's show chosen!

Next year's show will be "Meet Me In St Louis" to be performed in the macrobert from 16-20 March 2010