Year 5 Bucket Band

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Practising at the front of the school

If you happen to be in the school on Wednesday at 9:45 or Friday at 12:00 you just might be lucky enough to hear the year 5 bucket band and their African rhythms pulsing throughout the hallways.
The year 5 bucket band is for the children that weren't selected for the school the band program. It started in 2001 when teacher Michael Rosenberg, who had been learning congas, taught a few rhythms to his class and it has been growing ever since.
There are about twenty five of us and we play a range of buckets - plaster buckets, chlorine buckets, feed buckets and even a nappy bucket. We also use fry pans, lids and plastic bottles as well as a pair of old marching drums and some traditional percussion instruments. Our music is polyrhythmic (many rhythms) and some of the rhythms have ten separate parts.
The bucket band learned various African rhythms throughout the year, and performed them at the school shivoo, assemblies and this year we were even invited to perform at the opening of an ACER (Australian Council of Educational Research) conference, where we performed to hundreds of teachers, principals and educators.

The bucket band is greatly enjoyed by all students and we all hope that the fun of the bucket can be passed on to students to come. - Emma & Caitlin

In December the 2006 Bucket Band performed for the final time in front of an audience of several hunderd parents, teachers and children. The occasion was our annual end of year Shivoo, or whole school outdoor concert. We loved it!

To see pictures of the teachers' band, also performing at the Shivoo, click HERE

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Performing for a visiting high school dance band from Queensland, and years 5 & 6 from Forrest

Here is the Teachers' Band at the 2006 Shivoo
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