Our rehearsal fees cover venue hire, music, directors fees, admin, insurance, advertising costs and a lot more.
There are NO other hidden costs or requirements. You can choose to buy a Soul Song shirt or other merch at some stage if you want but it's never compulsory and the only other things we charge for are occasional optional workshops with external directors and weekends away or other special activities.
MEMBERSHIP INCLUSIONS
Soul Song members get:
- Access to several rehearsals per week - Brisbane (Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays) and Cairns (Tuesdays) which all cover the same repertoire. Monday and Wednesday are hybrid rehearsals with the live choir in the room and numerous singers on Zoom;
- Access to sectional rehearsals once per term (weekend) in person or online;
- Access to recordings of all hybrid rehearsals and sectional workshops;
- Opportunity to submit up to 22 recordings for regular virtual choir videos;
- Opportunity to be part of live rehearsal recordings every couple of weeks;
- Sectional tutorial videos for all songs to watch in your own time;
- Learning tracks for all songs on USB, on website for download and on App for streaming;
- Lyric book;
- App with playlists, documents, notices and more
- Access to sheet music in Song library and on USB;
- Monthly technical tutorial videos;
- Access to active Facebook social member groups for each choir as well as a separate group for formal announcements;
- Weekly member emails with notices and reminders;
- Access to member website with calendar, reference documents and learning resources;
- Opportunity to perform at major, professional annual productions in Brisbane and Cairns;
- Opportunity to join a Choir Camp weekend in Brisbane and/or Cairns (once a year);
- Opportunity to join a Regional Tour weekend in Brisbane and/or Cairns (once a year);
- Opportunity to perform in and view regular online Member Showcase concerts'
- Discounted access to Singing Sesh/Jukebox singalong events.
FEES:
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Your first rehearsal is free so you can come along and check us out without obligation!
- Once your fees are paid, you can attend as many rehearsals a week online or in person as you want
- Fees can be paid by the term or on a weekly basis, via an automated recurring subscription
- Term fees are $205 standard or $133 concession
- Weekly fees are $18 standard or $12 concession
- Concession rates apply to students, concession card holders, pensioners etc
Please note:
- Term payments -
- Refunds will not be given for missed rehearsals during a term
- If you're not able to attend your regular rehearsal in person on any given week, you are able to attend an alternate rehearsal in person or online, watch a rehearsal recording or watch a video tutorial - so you don't need to miss out
- If you cancel part way through the term, we will refund you the amount of unused fees less $25 cancellation admin fee
- Should rehearsal be cancelled by Soul Song, we will either give you a week’s credit of the next term or refund the weekly amount if the cancellation happens in term 4
- You will receive a reminder at the start of each term to renew your term membership or switch to weekly payments
- Weekly payments -
- This is an automated weekly payment, that will be charged on the same day each week.
- Weekly payments are paid regardless of whether you attend rehearsal that week
- If you're not able to attend your regular rehearsal in person on any given week, you are able to attend an alternate rehearsal in person or online, watch a rehearsal recording or watch a video tutorial - so you don't need to miss out
- If you know you are going to be away for more than two weeks at a time, and will not be able to use the alternate resources you can pause your weekly subscription until you return.
- Your subscription can also be cancelled at any time if you don't want to continue your membership.
- Please note that the subscription payments can't be turned on and off on a weekly basis depending on whether or not you'll be attending. It's like any subscription membership to a gym or fitness classes etc.
- It's possible to switch between memberships at the start of each term as required
TERM DATES:
We rehearse almost every week of the year, starting from w/c 16 January 2024. This year's term dates are:
- Term 3: 1 July - 22 September (12 weeks)
- No break in rehearsals in September due to upcoming concerts
- Term 4: 23 September - 12 December (12 weeks)
