Announcements 4/4/21

1)  I hope everyone had a refreshing Spring Break!  April is shaping up to be a busy month, so I will be sending out more reminders and mid-week announcements than usual.  The good thing is that right now everything is good to go as scheduled!

2)  The Color Guard auditions are going to be tomorrow (Monday) right after school.  The audition times will be the same as the original audition date.  

3)  Current Color Guard members who want to be in the Spring Parades will begin afterschool rehearsals this Tuesday and rehearse every Tuesday and Thursday in April from 3:30 to 5 pm.  More information will be given this week about an event on April 17 for color guard members to learn the routine for the Mass Band song with the other Guard members of the Mass Band.\

4)  We will have an afterschool rehearsal this Tuesday and Friday for Percussion members wishing to try out for the 2021 Marching Percussion.  Times are 4:00 to 6:30 to help accommodate the Percussion Instructor's schedule. You may stay in the Band room if you wish from 3-4 to hang out, warm up, and practice.  

5)  After the Percussion rehearsal on Tuesday, we will have a meeting for Percussion parents in the Cafeteria at 6:30 to introduce the Percussion instructor and go over our plans for the upcoming year for the Percussion line!  It will last about 30 minutes and we ask that you sit with your family in groups 6 feet apart from other families.  You may come in through the Chorus Room in the back of the school while the percussion finish their rehearsal - we will have that door open for you starting at 6 pm.

6) We will have a Band Booster meeting this Tuesday night at 7:30 over Zoom since we were unable to meet last Thursday.  We will be going over Rose Parade information, Band Banquet, Concert updates, parade updates, and more!

7)  Jazz Band will rehearse this Thursday after school.  

Announcement 3/21/21

1)  The Color Guard Clinic and Auditions are this week!  The Clinic will be on Monday - Wednesday from 3:30 to 5:30 where they will go over the fundamentals and a routine that they will do at the audition on Thursday.  The students will find out their individual audition times on Wednesday.

2)  Jazz Band will meet on Tuesday this week from 3:30 to 4:30.

3)  We are starting the process of preparing for the Spring Parades, which means students need to be ready to go outside during class any day.  I recommend you have a pair of shoes ready every day that are fit for marching, and you can keep them by your seat in the Band Room during the day if they are not the shoes you normally wear.  Also, have extra water ready to use for those days we go outside.  Again, you can keep these by your seat during the school day. 

Announcements 3/14/21

1)  Happy Pi Day!  I hope everyone remembered to Spring Forward last night, and I hope you enjoy the extra hour of sunlight in the evenings!

2)  Jazz Band this Thursday after school.

3)  For Rose Parade participants, we are starting a new fundraiser this week - Candles.  It's not Yankee Candle this time since they have suspended fundraising until Covid is over, but these candles sell for $10 with $5 of that going directly into each student's Rose Parade account.  You will have until April 7 to sell these candles.  

Announcements 3/7/21

1)  Jazz Band will meet this Thursday from 3:30 to 4:30.

2)  The chamber ensemble videos are done and are being put together into a concert video now.  We are proud of how the students put so much work into this project.  We already challenge them enough with this ensemble concert by having them pick their own music and rehearse their groups without a director.  But the added challenge of making their own video for a virtual performance brought out even more creativity!  A lot of them learned about video editing, uploading files, and online storage during this process, not to mention the process of organizing a video shoot.  Great job on this project, SGC Band!  Now for the concert video date and time....

3)  Set your calendar for this Thursday at 7 pm to watch the premiere of the 2021 SGC Band Chamber Ensemble Concert on YouTube.  The link will be posted Thursday and will go live at 7 pm.  After that, it will be available any time for viewing on YouTube.  

Announcements 2/28/21

1)  Jazz Band will rehearse after school on Thursday.

2) We will have a Zoom booster meeting this Thursday at 6:30 pm.  The link to the meeting will be sent out Thursday afternoon.

3)  Looking ahead, the Color Guard clinic and auditions for the 2021 Fall Color Guard will be March 22-25.  The clinic will be that Monday – Wednesday from 3:30 to 5:30 with the auditions on Thursday.  As far as current Color Guard members, we will begin rehearsing after Spring Break every Tuesday and Thursday from 3:30 to 5 pm to get ready for the Spring Parades. 

4)  As of right now, the Butter Braids are still on schedule to arrive this Tuesday, March 2 at 1 pm.  They will be available that afternoon for pickup.  They do need to be either delivered or put in a freezer that evening to avoid thawing out.  If anything changes with the delivery, we will let you know.

Announcements 2/21/21

1)  Butter Braid forms will be due back by Tuesday of this week.

2)  Jazz Band will meet on Thursday.

3)  Ensemble Videos will need to be done and uploaded to the Schoology assignment by Thursday night.  

4)  The Field Commander clinic and auditions were originally planned for this week, but due to being out of school for a week and a half we have pushed them to next Monday and Tuesday after school.  More info can be found in the Band Room. 

Announcements 2/15/21

1)  Butter Braid forms will now be due whenever we get back into school.  The bright side is this gives you more time to sell!

2)  The Ensemble Concert videos were due this week, but we will adjust that timeline due to the weather.  Most likely they will be due next Thursday, the 25th, instead of this Thursday.  

3)  Students who auditioned for All West - results will be available at the beginning of next week.  The judges have all of this week to score the videos.  

4)  Enjoy the snow and stay safe!