Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Strings (Things) Are Happening!



We are having lots of music in the air around here lately! Carlin is going on his fourth year of playing the violin. He takes orchestra every day at school. On Monday nights he plays symphony in a youth orchestra group. Guess its not all youth though, since adults are in it, too. On Thursdays after school he takes a bus to the middle school and they learn fiddle music. That group is a lot of fun. They play at our historical lantern tours each fall. There are a lot of actors for these tours acting out historical events. This year the fiddle group will be playing for a wedding.
Kyle just started orchestra last week. He is playing the cello! They can start in fifth grade, but they go to the middle school for orchestra. On Tuesdays and Thursdays he rides the middle school bus and it seems pretty strange sending him with all the "big" kids! After orchestra they are bused back to their elementary school. I think he likes the part of being able to get to school about 20 minutes after it starts! On those mornings I have all my kids out of the house before 7:00!

2 comments:

The J's said...

Wow, the fiddle group sounds like alot of fun!
Morgen is "playing" the cello this year too....don't know that it will last tho, he's kind of fickle :*(

Elaine T said...

Glad to see your boys on instruments..we'll have to try to get out there to hear their groups.