The Merry Wives of Windsor are seeking one awesome woman to come play with us. We play at Renaissance Faires around Southern California and sometimes even venture up North. We usually play 2 to 3 large shows a year outside of the Renaissance Faire circuit. This past year we played The Galaxy, The Orange International Street Faire, The Derby and The Grove. We have released three CDs and we will be recording a fourth sometime in our future.

We currently have nine members in the Wives and we are seeking the magical 10th. We have Bouzouki, Mandolin, Bodhran, Fiddle & Bass as our core instruments. If you can expand on that list, come show us! We rehearse Tuesday evenings from 7:30 to 10:pm in Pasadena. Rehearsals are required. We do take small breaks but we are a year around group.

Here is what we need:

Alto (F2 - D5)
Strong sight reading skills
Instrumentation a plus (please bring the instrument to the audition if you want it to count)
Previous Renaissance Faire experience desired but NOT required
Team player with a love for group action (no - NOT like that)
21 or older

The audition will include the following elements:

One song, acapella, any genre - but tell us a story with your singing
One Mwow song for which we will provide music in advance
You will sight read one or more Mwow songs
You will play any instruments that you wish to be considered as part of your audition
You will sing each Mwow song that we use in the audition with a soprano and mezzo; we will be looking at blend and balance
You will rehearse with us on the evening of the audition to see how we all work together. This also allows you to decide if you like how we work.

The first four steps of the audition will take place with the directors and a bouzouki player only. The rest of the audition will be during rehearsal with all members of the band plus auditionees.

The auditions will take place on:

Tuesday, January 15 starting at 6:30pm in Pasadena. You need to plan on being there until 10:pm though we may break earlier than that.

Thanks so much! We are really looking forward to meeting you.
The Merry Wives of Windsor

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If you are interested contact Heather at heathergreene AT sbcglobal DOT net (Obviously change to normal email format) to set up an audition time and to receive your music.