Hey, Annapolis Fam!!
Our Fall season is right around the corner, and we have an amazing show line-up that we are excited to share with you all! Please read through the entire email to stay up to date on the latest School of Rock Annapolis information. We place students in the show that will be educational for the students' musical and social growth. Not every student will get their first-choice show. Bands will be cast not only based on first-come, first-served responses but by instrumentation as well.
*Remember that students in Rock 101, Performance, House Band, and Adult programs are not automatically added to the same rehearsal time that they are currently enrolled in.
Seasonal Timeline:
Season starts the week of October 6th
Production Fees - November 15th
MidSeason Showcase: December 14th
End Of Season Show: January 25th
ROCK 101 PROGRAM
Rock 101 is one of School of Rock’s major programs for kids and beginners ages 8-12 years. Students have one weekly group rehearsal where they learn classic rock songs. These rehearsals get young musicians to learn the fundamentals of their instrument while playing with a band in a positive and fun atmosphere. Students also have a weekly private music lesson with an instructor who will help them rehearse performance songs while teaching them foundational music skills and concepts.
Weekly Rock 101 rehearsals are tentatively:
Monday - Rock 101 - 4:30-6:00 pm
Wednesday - Rock 101 - 4:30-6:00 pm
Thursday - Rock 101 - 4:30-6:00 pm
Saturday - Rock 101 - 10:00 am- 11:30 am
PERFORMANCE PROGRAM
The Performance Program is School of Rock's hallmark music program, where tens of thousands of students enroll each year for ages 11-18yrs old. Read more about our performance program HERE.
Best of the 2000s: Tuesday 6:00-8:00 PM
The 2000s Show offers a huge variety of music that is sure to satiate any student’s musical appetite. The 2000s has produced more and more artists whose music blends and defies genres, and draws from a greater variety of influences than was available at any previous point in history. At the same time, more traditional bands and artists, including some who started making music in the twentieth century, have adapted to the changing times and continued to thrive. Though it is impossible to place the varied music of the 2000s into one definable style or category, certain themes emerge: 1) an interest in and revival of ‘retro’ sounds using modern technology and sensibilities, and 2) songwriting that draws from a huge diversity of genres and styles, making 21st-century ‘rock’ bands even harder to pin down to one style alone. Examples of blockbuster artists that might be in the setlist include Foo Fighters, RHCP, Evanescence, Fall Out Boy, The Killers, Arctic Monkeys, Paramore, White Stripes, Adele, The Strokes, Jet, System of a Down, The Darkness, Tool, and many others. This is a perfect show for students of all ages and experience levels and will offer many opportunities to perform across all genres!
CLASSIC METAL: Thursday 6:00-8:00 pm
Classic Metal is widely regarded as ranging from the late 1960s Proto-Metal sound of Deep Purple and Led Zeppelin up until the mid-1980s, when Thrash Metal reigned supreme with bands like the ‘big four’ (Metallica, Anthrax, Megadeth, and Slayer) and Hair Metal was still a blip on the horizon. Full of guitar wizardry and riffs galore, Classic Metal’s explosion in the 1970s and early '80s would set the tone for a generation of Metal bands to come and leave an indelible impression on the music industry. This show will trace the roots of metal, from the late '70s hard rock, Ronnie James Dio fronted bands like Black Sabbath and Rainbow, and to metal’s big break in the '80s with bands like Metallica and Megadeth. If you’re looking to sharpen your shredding skills on guitar and bass, speed up your chops on the drums, or hone your high range vocals, the Classic Metal show is for you!
ADULT PROGRAM
BEST OF THE 90S: Mondays 7:30-9:00 PM
The 90s were one of music’s most important decades as grunge and alternative music took over the airwaves and popular culture. Come celebrate bands like Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Green Day, Weezer, and many more in our Adult '90s show!