{"id":4293,"date":"2012-09-12T08:50:26","date_gmt":"2012-09-12T07:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/?p=4293"},"modified":"2012-09-12T15:00:33","modified_gmt":"2012-09-12T14:00:33","slug":"blogging-live-from-open-day-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/2012\/09\/12\/blogging-live-from-open-day-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Blogging live from Open Day today"},"content":{"rendered":"

We’re at the ‘Making Music’ stand at #kentopenday today. In a change to our usual spot, we’re in Eliot Hall throughout the day, greeting visitors to the campus who want to find out more about making music at the University, music scholarships, and the brand-new music building (the hoarding around the outside started to come down yesterday, and it’s looking very<\/em> exciting indeed: pictures to come tomorrow, I hope!).<\/p>\n

\"Cathedral\"<\/a>
In-spiring future students…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We’ll be keeping you posted as to how we’re getting on throughout the day both here and on Twitter<\/a> as well.<\/p>\n

10.15am<\/strong>; just over an hour since we started, and we’ve see about ten people already; the usual prize for the Visitor from the Farthest-Flung Corner is currently held by someone from Nottingham. Quite a few string-players too… and the coffee is going well.<\/p>\n

12pm<\/strong>; halfway through the day now, and over twenty visitors to the stand; the VfFFC award has now gone to a visitor from Colwyn Bay in Wales! Interest in scholarships from drummers, singers and a saxophonist too. Going well, although our voices are starting to tire…more caffeine required, or possibly even lunch…<\/p>\n

2pm<\/strong> and we’re into the last hour; a trickle of visitors over lunch means we’ve now met over thirty people. I popped out earlier to take some photos of the exterior of the building, as all the hoardings have now been taken down (they’re on Twitter<\/a> if you want to view them), which is particularly exciting a milestone to reach: the end is in sight!<\/p>\n

3pm<\/strong> and that’s it for today! Good to meet everyone who came to find out about music at Kent, safe travelling home and we look forward to seeing you this time next year, perhaps! We’re off to recover our lost voices, and to go and leap around outside the newly-revealed exterior of the new building in heady excitement. And no, we won’t be tweeting any photos of that<\/em>…<\/p>\n