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December 2, 2008
Attention all Yule Ball showgoers!
We will be trying something really special at the Yule Ball and we would love for you to be a part of it!
We are having an open call for musicians to accompany us! Our friend Sam Bortka was kind enough to write horn charts for a handful of our songs, so we're posting them right here and hoping that you will come join us for our fourth annual Yule Ball and be a part of Harry and the Potters.
The songs we may or may not be playing together are:
New Wizard Anthem
Song for the Death Eaters
We Save Ron's Life, Part 8
Hagrid
Save Ginny Weasley from Dean Thomas
the Weapon
And here are the links to download the horn charts!
Clarinet
(3 parts)
Bass Clarinet
Flute/Piccolo
Mellophone (3
parts)
Alto Sax
Tenor Sax
Baritone Sax
Trombone
Bass Trombone
Trumpet (3 parts)
Tuba
If you play something that's not listed there, find a part that's in the same key as your instrument and use it! Sorry, but we cannot accomodate any electric instruments.
If you are interested in performing, you must email us to let us know! We will send you instructions on where to be and when. On the day of the show, you must be available from 2:30-4:00pm for a rehearsal and from 9pm to 10:30pm for the performance. You must also purchase a ticket to the show! Sorry, we'd love to get you all in free, but we can't do it! We will have a safe space for you to store your instruments between the rehearsal and the performance. You should also plan to bring a printout of your music and your own music stand.
If you have any other questions, please email Paul! We are very serious (and very excited!) about this! What are you waiting for?!? Print out that music and start practicing!!
See you soon!
paul and joe
November 13, 2008
4th
Annual YULE BALL!
Sunday, December 21, 2008
Middle East Downstairs
5pm | ALL AGES | $15 (with $3 from each ticket going to the HP Alliance)
480 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA
This is pretty much always our favorite show of the year! We hope
you’ll join us once again for our 4th Annual YULE BALL! For the
fourth year running, we’ll be celebrating the holidays at the Middle
East downstairs. We’ll be joined by Draco
and the Malfoys, the
Whomping Willows, Jason
Anderson and the Best, the
LeeVees (featuring members of Guster and the Zambonis), and the legendary
Dumbledore! Formal-wear is encouraged! $3 from each ticket will go to
the Harry Potter Alliance!
Buy tickets through Ticketmaster
or service charge-free at the Middle East box office. Be sure and
get advanced tickets. THIS WILL SELL OUT!!!
August 13, 2008
WOW!
What a summer! The Unlimited Enthusiasm Expo was truly incredible! Thank you to each and ever person who attended one of our 40 shows! Thank you to all of the volunteers who made each show so special and unique - far beyond what any normal rock show could ever be. Thank you to all the Harry Potter Alliance Volunteers - together we registered over 300 new voters at Unlimited Enthusiasm shows this summer! Thank you to Jason Anderson, Fishboy, Iji, Good Luck, Atom Goren, Whompy, Remus, and JFF - all of whom joined us onstage at one time or another. Thank you to Math the Band and Uncle Monsterface who were there with us every night to share in our enthusiasm and to continually inspire us. And thank yhou to John "Big Daddy" Clardy, who stepped into some Weasley-sized drumming shoes and ruled the kit and took our show to new levels, despite only a modicrum of magical training.
We miss you all already!
xoxo,
Paul and Joe
June 23, 2008
Oh man! We are SO PUMPED for this summer tour!
Yesterday we celebrated our 6th BANDIVERSARY! That's right, 6 years of Harry and the Potters! Wow! I can't really even belive that, but I'm just gonna roll with it. As always, thank you so much for your continued support. Being in this band has been a truly special and unbelievable experience for us. As we prepare to embark on our 5th straight summer of touring, we do hope that you'll find an evening to join us. We don't tour much anymore, so this is really your only chance to see us in 2008. If you've seen us before, come see us again! If you've never seen us, DON'T MISS IT! This summer's show is gonna be INCREDIBLE!!! We've got all sorts of awesome stuff lined up and even a new song or two!
I'm also really happy to announce our participation in something I've been working on for the past few months. The Harry Potter Alliance and Wizard Rock community have together organized Wizard Rock the Vote. We are looking for two volunteers (of any age...it's okay if you're under eighteen to volunteer) at every Wizard Rock concert across the country to help register audience members to vote. You'll get to work with the bands and help talk to awesome people at the concert and register them to vote!
As a volunteer, the bands will provide you with a clipboard and registration forms before the concert to sign people up to vote for the November election.
If you are interested in being one of these awesome volunteers, check out concerts near you and fill out the form or send an email directly to samantha@thehpalliance.org - and check out the participating bands we have so far (more coming), and participate in a lively forum discussion around who's volunteering. I've posted a list of all our summer tour dates below, and there are dates from many other bands listed on the HPA website. Our tour starts next week so volunteer NOW!
You can also help support this campaign by putting up these Wizard Rock the Vote banner ads on your myspace and facebook profiles:
Joe and I also made this awesome promo video for the campaign! OMG!
Also, this is an awesome sand castle we built after practice one day last week. We have Unlimited Enthusiasm for sand castles!
Yours in the revolution,
Paul DeGeorge
Harry and the Potters/the HP Alliance
June 13, 2008
ALL OUR SUMMER DATES ARE CONFIRMED!!!! COME SEE US THIS SUMMER!
We also wanted to let you know that we made a promo video for the Unlimited Enthusiasm Expo. The video features a NEW SONG from their upcoming submission to the Wizard Rock EP of the Month Club which will be released towards the end of summer.
Harry and the Potters Promo for Unlimited Enthusiasm
See you soon!
paul
May 9, 2008
We are pumped to announce our 2008 Summer Tour!
We've organized the Unlimited Enthusiasm Expo '08 and we're hitting the road with some of our best pals. We fully expect that this tour will change the paradigm of what a rock and roll show can and should be. But to accomplish that, we'll need your help! Please go to www.unlimitedenthusiasm.com to find out more!
June 25 | Cambridge,
MA | Middle East Downstairs
June 26 | Portland, ME | the Space
June 27 | NYC, NY | Bowery Ballroom
June 28 | Brooklyn, NY | Southpaw (matinee)
June 29 | Philadelphia, PA | First Unitarian Church
June 30 | Washington, D.C. | Black Cat
July 1 | Carrboro, NC | Cat's Cradle
July 2 | Athens, GA | 40 Watt
July 3 | Gainesville, FL | Common Grounds
July 4 | Tampa, FL | Crowbar
July 5 | Orlando, FL | the Social
July 6 | Atlanta, GA | Eyedrum
July 8 | Houston, TX | Walter's on Washington
July 9 | Dallas, TX | Granada Theater
July 10 | Austin, TX | Mohawk
July 11 | El Paso, TX | El Paso Museum of Art
July 12 | Tucson, AZ | Club Congress
July 13 | Phoenix, AZ | Modified Arts
July 14 | San Diego, CA | Epicentre
July 16 | Pomona, CA | the Glass House
July 17 | Los Angeles, CA | the Troubador
July 18 | San Francisco, CA | Bottom of the Hill
July 19 | San Francisco, CA | Bottom of the Hill (matinee/BBQ)
July 21 | Portland, OR | Wonder Ballroom
July 22 | Olympia, WA | Capitol Theatre
July 23 | Seattle, WA | Neumo's
July 24 | Vancouver, BC | Ukraine Hall
July 26 | Salt Lake City, UT | Kilby Court
July 27 | Boulder, CO | Fox Theatre
July 28 | Denver, CO | Hi-Dive
July 29 | Lawrece, KS | the Granada
July 30 | Omaha, NE | the Slowdown
July 31 | Minneapolis, MN | the Triple Rock Social Club
August 1 | Chicago, IL | Stas Mansion
August 2 | St. Louis, MO | the Bluebird
August 3 | Bloomington, IN | Rhino's
August 4 | Cleveland, OH | the Grog Shop
August 5 | Ann Arbor, MI | the Blind Pig