Four Hours In!

It's been four hours since the piano marathon started and Chris is doing so well. Lovely people in Evesham and he even got a job offer!

Bit chilly here, but there is hot coffee and lots of nice people being very generous, so...all is well!

Back in a while...

Diana

Diana here... It was all working so well. The nice man at T-Mobile sold me a mobile broadband dongle and checked and said that there was no limit on uploads. Evidently not. Oh well, we got an hour's worth before fair usage kicked in. So, I will be updating here and on my Facebook page. I will attempt to take photos and upload them to the blog and will post every hour or so.

Thanks for your support!!

Chris (with Alun and Diana - the roadies).

Piano Marathon Livestream

The Live Streaming widget for the Piano Marathon is located at the bottom of the page

One Day To Go!

Just a quick reminder of all the times, rules etc. for the 24 Hour Piano Marathon:

Venue: Evesham Tesco, and streamed live to this blog!

Start:  12 Noon, Tuesday 5th June

Finish: 12 Noon, Wednesday 6th June 

Breaks: 2.5 minutes per hour = 1/24 hours in total, to be used for toilet breaks and the occasional rest. Bites to eat and sips to drink will be taken in as short a time as possible between pieces.

Now all that needs to be done is practice, wish me luck!!

24 Hour Piano Marathon Update

     Only 3 days to go! Today I went to Vale Pianos to finalise the arrangements for Tuesday, you can see a photo of me playing one of their pianos below, unfortunately space requires a smaller electric piano to be the one I play at Tesco...

    

 In the last few days there has been a steady trickle of publicity, first was the Coventry Telegraph last Tuesday, which was followed by the Evesham Journal on Thursday, and most recently was the Leamington Courier yesterday (photo, right). Hopefully there will be more to come!

     Now all that need to be done is to make signs and prepare all the other little things such as nibbles. If everything goes to plan the marathon should be streamed straight to the blog, watch this space!

24 Hour Piano Marathon Progress

     Things  are definitely moving on, I have started fundraising and have already got over £300 worth of pledges, many thanks to everyone who has sponsored me so far! Now with under just over a week left I'd better get practising...

     The piano marathon also marks a significant time regarding the trip as 5th June is exactly one month until the group departs and also is the day after the Queen's Diamond Jubilee I hope you'll keep in mind my comparatively modest feat of endurance. The plan is to stream the piano marathon online (probably just audio) but unfortunately the only way that seems to work is through my desktop, so hopefully between now and then we will have got it working, fingers crossed! Either way I'm sure it's going to be exciting and memorable, for te right reasons hopefully....More updates soon!

24 Hour Piano Marathon

      As you may remember last April I successfully completed my 12 hour piano marathon from my home through a web cam link to this blog. I would just like to thank everyone again who helped me then for making it such a success! It was a really challenge and I was glad to have finished it. But this year from 12:00 on 5th June to 12:00 on 6th June I will be attempting to not only keep my concentration for 24 hours (something we teenagers are not particularity well known for) whilst also staying awake (something perhaps teenagers are more infamous for). That is...a 24 hour piano marathon! The location this time will be at Tesco in Evesham, hopefully it will be streamed online again but I'm not sure how logistics would work at the moment. Arrangements have changed so much in the last two months and with just under two months to go I'm hoping that they won't change much from now but if they do, I'll keep you posted!
      Things are moving very quickly at the moment with exams, preparations for the trip and other time consuming things life no doubt will bring up. This doesn't leave me with much time between now and the Piano Marathon so wish me luck!.........