News

MES has a new member Mr. Somphan. Mr. Somphan is MES temporary staff  and he is doing administration of MES while the director is away. The director will be gone away from February and will be back after 5 months. However the director will still be in charged and contacts MES.  He is going away for his education and he will probably take a better music lesson abroad if possible to improve MES when he is back. 

MES VISITORS OF THE WEEK

Francisca from Argentina,  Parcal  an Melissa  from Swizerland. Unfortunately we do not have photos of Mike Brooks and Joshla Brooks-Gissel from Germany, Dominique from France, Dito Hartoto from Singapore. ( Apologizing  for the spelling, because some are unclear.)

What an exciting event for the directer and MES staffs!  I would like to thank all of the students for great shows and MES staffs for working hard and being patient. Thank  kind people who donated some valuable money for MES, and thank all the audience for spending their time watching our shows. It was our first concert, but everyone did their jobs well. We were very tired but we also had a lot of fun!!!

Last week, MES was visited by several  volunteers from several countries. Shirly from Chani, Stephen from Canada, Rouillot from France Kwansniar from France too, Becky and Daryl and Becky from England, Micheal from France and Shelley from Canada. Shelley plays piano and last week she gave extra piano lessons and she spends a lot of time preparing more piano lessons for next week. By the way, THANK YOU all for the support comments.

MES is planing to have a mini performance  on the 28 o of December 2013.  So last week MES had handing out some flyers for public school students. Meanwhile we had a small meeting to organize  who is going to do what.  Finally, we ended up a display list:

SONGS                                                                                             Instruments                                 SINGERS

Opening                                                                                                                                                      Director

Souk San Van Pii Mai  (Happy New Year)                            ( Ukulele )                             Ukulele Team

Twinkle Twinkle Little Star                                                        ( Ukulele )                             Ukulele Team

You Are My Sunshine                                                                  ( Ukulele )                             Ukulele Team

Hmong Dance                                                                                                                               Volunteer Students

Na Hak       ( You are lovely)                                                 (acoustic guitar)                           Somchith

Somebody’s  Me                                                                       (acoustic guitar)                       Thongsavath

Sa Van Dane Hak  (Savan My Beloved Place)                (acoustic guitar)                             Khamla

More Than Words                                                                    (acoustic guitar)                             Mor Lee

Games                                                                                                                                         For all MES students to  enjoy!

Nang Fa       ( You are an angle)                                              (MES Band)                             Kithiphong

More Than I Can Say                                                                 (MES Band)                               Dalounee

Ban Gert Hao  (Our Home Land)                                           (MES Band)                               Bounmee

Zombie                                                                                            (MES Band)                                   Tock

Giving Certificates for Graduated Students/ Donation / Closing                                   Director

La Kon Jak  (Goodbye Song)                                                                                                         MES Team

Mr. Jan is from the Netherlands. He came to Luang Prabang as a tourist and has planed to stay for three months. He very enjoy playing the guitar. He registered as MES guitar student. He was a singer and he sang for a band.  He is also  interested in running a singing class for MES so MES advertised if anybody is available and last week he got some students attended the class.

New Internet Browser

MES would like to start thank Mfund very much for a new Internet Browser. MES students now are able to watch Youtube and learn more songs and music lessons buy themselves.

Visitors of the week

Mr. Mannel Humpf and his friend from Gemany.

Hanues Rossles and his girlfrind from Germany.

Joachmin from Australia: Have spent a few days at MES teaching drums and note theory.  And a group from china.

First of all, MES would like to thank a couple  Ula and Tom Rast from Switzerland for some money  donation. MES is deeply grateful with you kindness. 
This is Karine Moneti from France. She was invited by one of the student Mr. Yeng. She told us that she finds guitar everywhere  and she really likes MES, the people are friendly.

David , a computerist helps MES with a computer problem, and he also kindly recommended MES to his friends and added a link on some websites that tourists who come to Luang Prabang might find MES there. David also thinks MES is inspiring and a great place, and  music is international language from the heart. Finally, he wish best luck for the future.   Thanks you very much David!

And thank Mr. Scbstian Mayer from Germany  for visiting MES.

At about 4 pm; things were quite busy at MES. There were many students who came for their class and some came for a practice. They all had their own vehicles, motorbikes and bicycles. Some were entering and some were leaving so the gate of MES was opened wider or as wide as two bikes can travel at the same time. Next to the gate, there was  a sign that said ” NO  CAR” which means cars and truck mustn’t be turned in  the area. Unfortunately, While the staffs were keeping their eyes on the students someone turned their truck through the gate and there was a loud,  noisy crash at the gate. Before everyone realized and stopped stopped, THE BIG POLE ON THE RIGHT OF THE GATE WAS ALREADY DAMAGE. Luckily, the driver took responsibilities of the crash and built a new one for MES.

After handing away flyers for a few weeks, MES has new visitors every week.  Last week, MES had Stephan Orth from Germany. He is a great guy, he has been playing the guitar for twenty years. Unfortunately,  he volunteered at MES for a few days and he had to leave Luang Prabang. Before he left he introduce himself that he is a journalist and he really likes our place and would love to write an article about it. MES Director was happily gave him an interview and thankfully for his time.  Hope MES is well-known in some part of Germany.

  The last photos are also volunteers from last week. Ol  is from England, Adton and Jasmin Ngu ar from Finland.

Last  Tuesday 12th of November, 2013.  MES was visited by a family, Fred, his wife Peggy and his little son Miles. It was very interesting meeting and talking with them. They are both musician; Fred plays trumpet and  Peggy plays an electric instrument which has a body like a guitar but on the Frets are like piano.  They have started their travel for a while, and they first visited India and then Indonesia and have 10 more months to go and they are planning  to visit many different countries in 5 continents. In each country, they try to find a local musician and make video records for their music world tour project. Luckily, they are interested in recording some of MES students and we made three videos.

VIDEOS

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXUwM4Qilr4&feature=youtu.be
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ymhcqhH8fA&feature=youtu.be
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psH37wv9vVU&feature=youtu.be

We hope you enjoy watching our videos, it was our first videos. Please, leave us a comment to help us for the better.

MES recently received more three electric guitars, three bass guitar and six amplifiers from Mfund, Korea.  The students are very happy to see more instruments coming, and they seemed to be extremely excited and looking forwards to pass their lessons and play new instruments.