Rose Float
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course now what is the you know how long
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have you been doing this how long have
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you been with the Roseland association
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my personally I was actually on the
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float in 2012 and I’ve been on the board
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one year and then the last three years
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I’m a secretary for the float and what’s
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the most exciting part of putting this
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float together I think it’s the
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enthusiasm of our volunteers we have an
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expanded list of volunteers who come
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every year we have two days that we do
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sign ups and it’s it’s people afterwards
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saying oh I always wanted to what we
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have our volunteers set up so be ready
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for next year so now are you still
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taking volunteers no no we don’t need
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any more volunteers but we do have we do
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in volunteers for a hospitality tent ok
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hospitality provides we do provide a
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lunch for volunteers we’ve provide
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coffees and teas and snacks and we need
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people in the tent in order to give out
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and and refresh the foods refresh the
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sacs as well as we do sell some of our
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pins and patches there as well of course
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so now tell me let’s bring you back list
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to talk a little bit about the theme
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power of music so how did you
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incorporate that on the float well this
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year because the theme is melody of life
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we are a concept designer with asahara’s
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high school student
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and that went that design went to Fiesta
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floats they ended up putting it together
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a power of music and if you haven’t seen
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them the rendering on our website
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there’s a keyboard there’s a treble clef
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there are instruments and all kinds of
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flowers and you feel you feel melody
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when you’re looking at it and this year
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of course which was very unique to us is
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we do have a band on our float a live
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band usually it’s Santa it’s music sound
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it’s gonna be real this year how did you
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go in finding that band and what made
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you guys decide to have a band on the
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flow in the first place I think it was
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with the help of our float designer that
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we decided to have the band and with the
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help of her float because of that we had
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to go find a man and how we were going
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to do that so between social media
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conversations with everyone we knew we
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put it out there that we were looking
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for a band so the community outreach was
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great we came back with many many
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entries we had three music teachers
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professional music teachers do the
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initial judging they brought it down to
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three entries and the trance Rose float
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Association Board of Directors got an
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opportunity to listen to all three and
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we chose one and the winning the winning
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band came were former high school
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students they’re now all in college from
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the Torrance area and they’re a band
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called Alinea okay and Alinea members
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have been performing for many years now
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all over the South Bay in Long Beach so
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they call him professionally
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professionally expanded we look forward
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to putting them on to listen to their
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music they’ve already they were at
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Fiesta floats about a month ago so we
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can put them on the float see where they
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all fit within music with their
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instruments and to hear the sound and
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what that was going to be about so we’re
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excited so this is your first year
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having live band on the float yes so
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what were some of the challenges that
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you faced putting this one together
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well when the Fiesta had to figure out
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where to put all of their instruments
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and their instruments have to be hidden
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and all the wires have to be hidden
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because we still have float riders on
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the plane
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on the float a lot of people yes so
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there’s a lot of people there and we
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have a sound person and of course you
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have the the person who’s driving the
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float so we need a spot for him so they
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did a great job well get to see it
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looking forward to seeing that part and
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what can we expect to hear from them
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they actually this year what we decided
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and this was just decided that we’re
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we’re we’re providing they are going to
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be playing their own music so we have a
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special song that they will be playing
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as they come around the mountain come
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around the corner where all the TV
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cameras are but they have their own
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songs that they’ll be singing oh that’s
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so exciting for the bands for the band
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and we’re excited that we can help them
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with the city of torrents of course
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because they are torrent torrent high
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school students and we like the fact and
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that was part of the reason that they
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were chosen is they were from torrents
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so we’re looking for all of our torrents
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community to watch the parade and okay
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and celebrate our float now how long are
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they gonna have to play for like how
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long is the route I believe the route is
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five miles okay
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but we were told yesterday that they’d
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been known to do gig set or two and a
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half hours and they don’t stop so
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they’re ready they are ready now you