Sunday, November 29, 2015

Announcements 11/29/15

1)  After-school Rehearsal this Thursday from 3:30 to 5 pm.

2)  Booster meeting this Thursday at 6:30.  We will be finalizing details about the Breakfast with Santa on December 12th among other things.

3)  Any Baritone or Tuba players who wants to participate in Jackson's Tuba Christmas will be able to since it is Saturday morning.  Information is available in the Band Room.

4)  Parade this Saturday.  We will not be taking a bus this year!  We will pack instruments and uniforms in the Band trailer on Friday and take the trailer to the Elementary School on Saturday afternoon. If you want to take your uniform home with you on Friday so that you can just wear it to the parade, you can.  Meet at the parking lot behind the Elementary school at 3 pm to get your instrument and uniform.  Then go straight to the Lighthouse Church.  We will warm up at 3:30 and the Parade will start at 4 pm.  Wear a Santa Hat with your uniform.

Sunday, November 15, 2015

Announcements 11/15/15

1)  We are assigned to work concessions at next Tuesday's Basketball game.  The date is November 24.  Report time would be 5 pm and we would be done around 9 pm.  These concessions are much easier than the Football games and we only have to work three of them.  I need two more parents and will be asking a couple of students to join me in working next Tuesday.  Let me know if you can help out.

2)  We will be having memorization tests over the parade music this week.  Measures 1-24 will be due on Tuesday and Measures 25-44 will be due on Friday.  

3)  Jazz Band will meet tomorrow (Monday) from 3:30 to 4:30 after school.

Sunday, November 8, 2015

Announcements 11/8/15

1)  We will begin the transition to Christmas music this week.  Chair Tryouts will be at the end of this week, and parade music will be passed out at the beginning of the week.  

2)  We will be performing at the Veteran's Day program in the high school gym at 1 pm.  We will be playing the Star Spangled Banner and Procession of the Chosen.  Please invite any Veterans that you know!

3)  Jazz Band will start next Monday.  It is open to anyone who wants to try it out.  It meets every Monday after school from 3:30 to 4:30.  We will work up one song for the Christmas Concert and go ahead and start looking at music for next year.

4)  I need all Fruit and Yankee Candle orders by Friday.  This is especially important for Yankee Candle as the representative explained at the Booster meeting that we are on the very edge of getting the items in before Christmas Break.

5)  Parents, I want to thank you for all the wonderful support you have given the band this season.  It is beyond words trying to explain the appreciation that the band has for all the work of the pit crew, the cheering crew in the stands, the parents who help fix uniforms and make sure we are all taken care of as we prepare for performances, the drivers, the loaders, and everyone in between.  Thank you for being there for your kids.  It means the world to them and to their directors!

Sunday, November 1, 2015

Announcements 11/1/15

1)  Make sure you get your $10 in for the charter bus to state.  We still have plenty of seats available to family members who want to travel with us.

2)  Our Annual Fruit sale will begin this week.  50% of profits will go toward individual Disney accounts.  Even if you are not going on the trip, we need you to sell fruit for the Band Account.  We are looking at getting a new trailer for next year to help with carrying our growing amounts of equipment.  

3)  We will also be starting an optional Yankee Candle fundraiser this week.  100% of profits will go toward individual Disney accounts.  You will have 2 weeks to sell for each fundraiser.

4)  Booster meeting this Thursday night at 6:30.  We will be discussing Breakfast with Santa, the pros and cons of either a new trailer or a semi-truck for carrying equipment, and many other things.

5)  Mr. Laster has graciously agreed to let us use his semi for this State competition this weekend.  Plan to stay a little later this Thursday after practice in order to load all of the props and other equipment on the Semi.  If staying a little later on Thursday doesn't sound good to you, then we can move to plan B which is to load the semi Friday night...

6)  I just wanted to say again how proud I was of the band this past weekend!  Through last second schedule changes, to performing in a downpour, to loading up the trailers in the same downpour, these students stayed professional and did their job without complaint.  And did it well!  I was already proud of them when it was announced that they got 2nd overall, and it was just icing on the cake when we found out that they had actually won the Grand Champion award!