State Contest Itinerary

Itinerary for Division II State Championship

Stewart’s Creek High School, Smyrna, TN

Saturday, November 4^th, 2017

 

7:30 am                Band report to band room.  Go to the restroom before we leave!

8:00 am                Depart SGCHS.  Make sure you have your hat box, gloves, long black socks and shoes.

10:30 am             Arrive at Stewart’s Creek High School.  Equipment will need to be unloaded.  Pit trailers and props will be put together.  Snacks will be provided.  You may go watch some bands.  Use this time also to go ahead and start focusing on your musical and visual aspects of the performance.  We must be at our best to make finals!

11:50 am             Group stretch, Breathing exercises, and Fundamentals.

12:10 pm             Start putting on uniforms and getting instruments.

12:35 pm             Line-up and travel to warm-up.   

12:45 pm             Warm- up.  During this time there is to be no talking. 

1:15 pm               Travel to Stadium.  Keep your chin up and shoulders back the entire time.  Do not talk.  Focus on the upcoming performance. 

1:30 pm               Perform.  Don’t try to do anything special, simply perform what you know.

1:50 pm               Arrive back at bus.  Change out of uniforms, put instruments in cases.   At 4:00, the seniors will meet with the directors at the buses to go to the field.

4:15 pm               Recognition of Judges, Announcements of Scholarship participants and Finalists. 

4:45 pm                Gather at the buses where you will be given the itinerary for the evening performance. Finals performances are based on random draw.  We will not know the order until 4:45.

7:00 pm               Finals performances start. 

10:00 pm             Awards and Final placements.  We will load the buses as soon as these are over.

11:30 pm             Depart Stewart’s Creek High School.

2:00 am                Arrive SGCHS.  After everything is put up properly, we will be dismissed together.