UPDATE....Raw cut of the DVD will be done this week...thanks Teddy.  We will be working on edits/Additions on March 1st as well as planning the "Hollywood Premiere".   Once we give Teddy our edits he will make the edits and render the DVD i.e. menu building etc..  I would guess we would be ready to start delivery around the end of March or Beginning of April.  I also would say we would be looking at April/May for the "Hollywood Premiere".  Thank you for your patience and Please pass along the word to anyone who might not see this, Thank you

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Please come join us to celebrate Ron "Mo" Molina at a Concert in his honor

Update/Reminder...........................................

Tuesday Dec 10th Rehearsal Information

We will most likely be running practice later than 9pm on that night.  We will be in Beede for this Rehearsal.

Couple reasons:
--We will be working on the entrances
--Need to polish up as much of the songs as possible
--Sound and light checks will be happening
--Teddy will be there scoping out the Video stuff as well

David and I were thinking if everyone could bring a snack that would be great, nothing major like a bag of chips or something.  Also make you bring plenty of water for yourselves as well.  We will see you then 6 days and counting.

Final Set List in this order...........................

Current Music Masters
--In This Place
--From Here
--Have Yourself a Very Merry Christmas

Music Master Alumni
Coming in to We Wish
--Chattanooga
--I Hear a Voice
--Tenebrae
--Lullay
--El Grillo
--In This Very Room
--Ding Dong(Guys)
--E' Hawaii
--Not to say Goodbye
--Medley Christmas
--I Feel a Song

Break for Gift and Dedication

All Alumni
--Joy To The World
--Angels
--Deck the Halls
--Hark
--Noel
--What Child
--O Come
--Carol The Bells
--Silent Night(with audience like we use to)
--Witness
--Ave Maria
--Kokomo
--Hallelujah
--Lord Bless with Mo Directing

Updates for 12/6/13

Banquet/Potluck.........Darcy does not think Mo would last the Concert and a Banquet so we are dialing the banquet back.  We still have food/drinks, but most is going to be a pot luck now, in the cafeteria.  We are asking everyone to bring something.  We are dividing out stuff by FIRST NAME as follows;
A-E-----------Drinks----Water and sodas
F-I------------Paper Products--------Plates, napkins, plastic silverware, etc..
J-R------------Food------Veggie platters, chips and dip, finger sandwich's, etc.
S-Z------------Deserts----Cakes, cupcakes, Fruit, etc...

We Will Still have some pizza provided by Sal at Straw Hat.

Donations/Gift...........In talking with Darcy they have a trip planned in July that they have received an extra week free with their timeshare because of a problem.  So all they have is the Villa(room) so we will be buying the Plane Tickets, Car Rental, and all extra we will give them as a American Express Gift Card for food etc..  That being said we are going to keep the fundraiser going until that point so we can collect a lot more money.  We have also had many people ask about donating at the concert so we are going to have a donation box with a sign letting people know exactly what it is for.  This is important because most of the money we have now is being allocated to parts of the event.  So donate when you can or more if you desire later.  I will most likely add more after Christmas myself.

Video of event....................We have hired Teddy Gyi to shoot the concert.  He cut us a very fair and reasonable price.  He will be using multiple camera, capturing people arriving, maybe some interviews and a behind the scenes spot as well.  He will Edited the whole thing, sync sound, etc... to give us a very professional product.  DVD will be available to purchase for around $15-20.  Still have some details to work on such as distribution and ordering of the DVD's  More to come on this.

Pictures of the event...................We will have 2 or 3 people taking stills of the event.  We will burn CD's and have them available for people as well.  As of right now I don't really see it being a cost for people as we will do this ourselves.   Maybe we will also try a online Google drive or something to pass them around too.

In the News.......The Contra Costa Times is doing a story on the event.  The article should be in the paper on Friday 13, 2013, but check all week.  We are also asking them if they can get one of the local News Stations to come by as well, fingers crossed.

Dedication.....................So the Choir room will be now shared by Jill Joseph and Mo.  We are making new plaques for the outside doors as well as two plaques for Mo, one for the room and one for him.  So on Jill's Plaque now It says She was the Heart of AHS, so we came up with this .  We will make Mo's plaque say the same as hers expect change the years and change Heart to Soul.  The outside Plaques will read "Jill Joseph and Ron Molina Choir Room"  and below that will read " The Heart and Soul of AHS"...you can cry now we just about did.

Odds and ends
---Jeremy Newberry has donated a limo to pick up and drop Mo and Darcy
---We and purchased Mo and Darcy Real Flower Lei's
---I have ordered about 200 Lei's for the Singers and 400 for guests(will be here Monday)
---I have ordered a Guestbook for people to Sign(will be here Monday)
---We will be decorating the Cafeteria and Beede with Photos, trophies and Christmas decorations and will can use help, cleanup too.  We will likely start at 8-9am on the concert day.


I am sure I missed something but here is what I have for now.

UPDATE...... DONATIONS ........We have started to take off, Thank you all.  Let's keep them coming and let me tell you why.  We have a great opportunity right now.  I had a meeting with Teddy Gyi, for those who do not know him you will one day.  Teddy is a Director and an AHS Alum.  His movie "Refuge" will be coming out soon, he has directed commercials, music videos and comedy shows. He is the Real Deal.  Anyway he and his business partner came out to scope the job and are hopefully going to shot the whole event for us.  I am not talking a video camera for Best Buy on a tripod.  They are talking multiple cameras and angles, sound sync, professional editing and creating of DVD's.  We would give Mo and his Family a free copy as well as Sell them to everyone for about $15-20 for his time.  This will be buy at the store quality work for what I hear them talking.  This is an excellent chance for us as this will be the Biggest and maybe Last Reunion we will have and this will be a great way to keep this memory. Many of you who have moved may not see Mo again or be able to make it to the event at all I will setup a poll to see how many people would want copies, unfortunately we can't base Teddy's Time, Rental equipment and help on sells of the DVD alone since we don't know how much it would make, so we will need to pay him from our donation fund.  He is going to give us the very best price possible once he checks on some rentals.  We will do the sound recording so that saves us and we have some video production students to help which also lowers our costs.  So let's keep the money coming and make this happen.  Please vote on the polls.  More Updates to come tonight and tomorrow.