Good morning band family! Lots of congrats are in order as the band has been very successful over the past few days!
Amazing work to Symphonic Band and Wind Ensemble once again for your stellar performances this past Thursday! Your musicality and focus was incredible, and I truly hope it made for a significant musical experience for you all! Thank you the volunteers that came on the trip to chaperone! Your help always makes for a better day, and I really appreciate it! Good job to our winter guard and indoor percussion for doing well at Melbourne high school yesterday! The percussion got 2nd place and guard 3rd place in their classes! Percussion had an 11 point increase from their first competition last month which is huge! Now it’s time to look forward to the remainder of the year, and of course spring break first! Here’s what’s going on this week! - There will be no official after school practices this week!! We will begin practicing for our next cycle of events after the break. This will include: 1. state concert mpa for wind ensemble (April 22nd or 23rd) 2. Band trip performance (may 3rd-5th) 3. Spectrum concert prep (may 9th) 4. 2024 marching season prep (show reveal??? 🤔) The band calendar will be updated this week to include all after school rehearsals throughout the year and into the summer - Please keep up with your band trip payments! The March payment is due this Thursday. - We are going to do our park day this Thursday after school!! Come on out and celebrate! 2-5pm at Lyn gate park! - Friday is a teacher workday! - Thanks for reading and please reach out if you have any questions!
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Good morning band family! It is a big week for us, as we have the exciting opportunity to perform for Concert Band MPA this Thursday! You all have been doing great work and I can’t wait to perform with you! We have a few other performance opportunities this week, so please read close!
- Tuesday we will be having our Band Family Dinner Concert!! FREE tacos for students and friends and family! Everyone is invited to come out beginning at 6pm to eat, have fun, and enjoy both concert bands as we push towards MPA! This will be in the cafeteria! - Wind ensemble WILL have our final after school rehearsal on Tuesday 2-4pm before the concert. - Color guard will practice Tuesday 2:30-4:30pm. - Thursday is concert MPA. All band students will go to A lunch on Thursday and report to the band room at 11:30am in their full concert black! We will be leaving on buses at 12:00pm to Vero Beach High School! A separate concert MPA post will be made tomorrow with all the details. - Friday we are putting on a “Family and Friends” performance for our Indoor Percussion and Winterguard groups! This will be at 6:00pm in the gym! It will be FREE and a cool and easy chance to see what our guard and percussion students have been up to as they prep for their final competition of the season on Saturday! - Saturday will be the final FFCC competition at Melbourne High School for guard and percussion! A detailed schedule will be sent out tomorrow! Good morning band family! I hope this post finds we doing well. We have a relatively easy week this week without any extra events outside of our normal schedule, and students get a day off on Wednesday! It is my hopes that we can maximize the time we have together to make the most progress possible, because next week is a busy one! Here’s what to expect this week.
- Wind ensemble will have some special guests with us this week! Dr. Southall (band director at IRSC) has graciously volunteered his time to come and work with us TOMORROW (Monday) in class. Also, Mr. Gardner, who was my first band director, will be out for our after school rehearsal on Tuesday from 2-4pm! Let’s make sure to have pencils for each of these rehearsals and be ready to learn! - Color guard will practice Tuesday and Thursday 2:30-5:00pm. - Indoor percussion will practice Tuesday and Friday, 6:30-9:30pm and 3:30-6:30pm. - Symphonic band will practice Thursday 2-4pm. - Don’t forget your band trip payments! They can be paid online on school pay (link sent out in last weeks news), or in person via cash or check. Each student should have paid $300 if keeping up with band trip payments. If you need to know your balance, please ask me! - Students will be off from school on Wednesday. -indoor percussion Saturday 1-8pm - Next week we have multiple events going on! Band family dinner concert on March 5th in our cafeteria 6pm. Concert MPA on March 7th at vero beach high school, students will leave school at 12pm and return at 9pm. Symphonic band performs at 2:30pm and wind ensemble at 7:00pm. We also have a family and friends performance to see our indoor percussion and winterguard students for free on Friday March 8th in our gym! Lastly, our final FFCC performance for guard and percussion will be on March9th at Melbourne high school! If you have any questions please let me know! Hello and good morning band family! I hope you are enjoying your long weekend. I hope you all took a little time to practice your instruments as we have MPA quickly approaching! Remember, superior preparation = superior results! Here’s what we have going on this week!
- Tuesday is pre-concert MPA at centennial high school. Both symphonic and wind ensemble students will be participating in this event. Please report to the band room at the start of 7th period (you will be excused). Wear concert black! Symphonic band performs at 2:30pm and wind ensemble at 5:30pm! - There will be indoor percussion practice on Tuesday when return back to pslhs from pre mpa until 9:30pm. - Thursday we will have symphonic band practice from 2-4pm, and winter guard from 2:30-5:00pm - Friday is indoor percussion from 3:30-6:30pm - In just a few short weeks we have some exciting things coming up! On March 5th we have our band family dinner pre mpa concert! This will be in the cafeteria at 6pm and dinner will be provided to all students and parents before we perform our MPA program one last time in a comfortable environment! - March 7th will be concert band MPA at vero beach high school. Symphonic band will perform at 2:30pm and wind ensemble at 7:00pm. - We will be having a Family and Friends Performance of our indoor percussion and winter guard shows on Friday march 8th for free in the gym! This is to give everyone an opportunity to see the shows before the students perform them for the final time on March 9th at Melbourne High School for their second FFCC competition! - On March 26th, and 27th, the Music In Our Schools Honor Band will be happening! We had a very large number of students show interest in this honor band, and unfortunately we could not select everyone… The final list is being finalized and the roster of selected students and chair order will be posted in the band room tomorrow or Wednesday. If you are curious if you made it, you can ask me! - Please remember to keep up with your band trip payments! A link to pay online was sent out over remind! Good morning! Here is the weekly band news! Please let me know if you have any questions. I appreciate you all for all your hard work!
- Monday: band leadership meeting 2-3pm - Tuesday: Wind ensemble rehearsal with Mr. Daugherty (band director at JBHS) 2-5pm. Color Guard 2:30-5:00pm Indoor percussion 6:00-9:30pm - Wednesday: South Port recruiting concert! Please report to the band room at the start of 4th period with your full marching band uniform! We will be performing the show and stand tunes, color guard should wear their winter guard uniforms! We will be out of school from 4th pd to about 12:30pm! We could use 2 parent volunteers if anyone is available to help out! - Thursday: Symphonic Band 2-4pm Winterguard 2:30-5:00pm - Friday: Band trip Payment #3 ($100 or $175) Indoor Percussion 3:30-6:30pm Southport MPA Rehearsal (leadership members needed to help them out!) 4:00-8:00pm Saturday: First FFCC competition for guard and percussion at Martin County High School! Schedule will be published tomorrow! Congratulations to the students who won a free dinner for working the most shifts at the gift wrap booth in December! Sorry for the delay! Names are listed below! We will plan this dinner this week! Brook King - 8 Kaeleen Urbina - 5 Izzy Fletcher - 6 Kirsten Bremekamp - 5 Matt Roth - 5 Karli Rubin - 5 Alexis Whyms - 6 Cheyanne Hoover - 6 Lina Underwood - 8 Areeza Anda - 7 Emanuel Gomez -6 Kaelyn Principe-6 Good morning band family! Here is what to expect this week! The rehearsal schedule will be different this week so please take note!
- Wind ensemble will rehearse on Tuesday from 2-5pm. - Jazz band will be rehearsing on Thursday 2-4pm. - Color guard will practice Tuesday and Thursday from 2:30-5:00pm! - Indoor percussion will rehearse Tuesday and Friday 6-9:30pm! - Shout out to guard and percussion for having terrific rehearsals on Saturday! Their shows are coming along nicely! - This Saturday is Solo and Ensemble at treasure coast high school! Times are posted in the band room for students participating. - Please remember to keep up with band trip payments! We will be launching a fundraiser very soon where students can directly help pay for their trips! More info coming soon. - Jazz mpa is next Wednesday at Sebastian river high school. Our band performs at 2:30pm. We will be taking a bus! If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to ask! Good morning band family! Congratulations to all our wonderful students who participated in the 4 county honor band this weekend! It was a wonderful two nights of concerts and the progress made in such a short amount of time was amazing! I hope you learned some valuable things that you can bring back to our band this week!
Here is the news! - jazz band Tuesday 2-4pm - symphonic band Thursday 2-4pm -winter guard Tuesday and Thursday 2:30-5:00pm and Saturday 12-8pm in the gym. Dinner provided - indoor percussion Tuesday and Friday 6:00pm-9:30pm and Saturday 12-8pm. Dinner provided - Pre Jazz MPA performance on Wednesday at 3pm at centennial! We will be leaving from pslhs at the final bell! Please wear your Jazz attire to class. Students will be responsible for their own rides at the conclusion of our performance at 4pm. - band trip payment 2 is due tomorrow! - Solo and ensemble is NEXT Saturday! February 3rd! Times will be posted in the band room for students. - Jazz mpa is on February 7th! Time is TBD. We will be taking a bus to this performance! Please let me know if you have any questions! Good morning band family! Here is what to expect this week!
- Tomorrow (Monday) is the MLK Parade! Call time is 8am in the band room in full marching band uniform. The parade will begin at 10am and all students will be riding buses from pslhs to the start of the parade. The parade should be over around 12:30pm and we should be back to pslhs between 1 and 2 pm. - Students that are playing with the piano accompanist for solo and ensemble will have an opportunity to rehearse with him between 2-5 tomorrow when we get back to school. Please have your solo music and piano music ready to go! - Jazz band rehearsal on Tuesday 2-4pm - Indoor Percussion rehearsal 6-9:30pm. - Symphonic band rehearsal on Thursday 2-4pm. - Winter guard rehearsal on Tuesday and Thursday from 2:30-5:00pm. - indoor percussion on Friday 6-9:30pm. - It is Four County Honor Band week!! All exact times are on the band calendar, but I’ll recap them here! Honor jazz band - rehearsal on Tuesday and Thursday 6-9pm. Concert on Friday at 8pm. Honor Concert bands - rehearsal on Thursday 6:00-9pm, Friday 9am-6pm, and Saturday 12:00-3:30pm. Concerts will be on Saturday at 6pm, 7pm, and 8pm depending on your band. All honor band rehearsals and performances will take place on IRSC’s main campus in fort pierce! More specific honor band info will be shared with students participating. All concerts are free and open to the public, come on out to hear some great performances if you can! - Band trip payment #2 is due Friday. $100 for students and $175 for students with chaperones! Thank you! Please let me know if you have any questions! Good morning band family! I hope this post finds you in great spirits and excited to get back to it tomorrow! We have so many awesome things coming up this semester with tons of opportunities to just get better, and I can’t wait! Here is what’s coming up around the corner!
: - Jazz band rehearsal on Tuesday 2-4pm. - Symphonic band rehearsal on Thursday 2-4pm. - Winter guard on Tuesday and Thursday 2:30-5:00pm. Any band students that are interested in trying out winter guard, please plan to go to practice on Tuesday! No experience is necessary. - Indoor percussion rehearsal on Tuesday and Friday 6-9:30pm and 6-10pm. - Saturday will be a winter guard practice from 12pm- 6pm. - Next Monday is the MLK parade! This is required by all band members and we are looking for 3-4 parents that are willing to volunteer at the parade and walk the parade with some waters in back packs! Students will meet at pslhs at 8am for the parade and we will then be bussing to fort pierce for the parade. After we finish the route, we will bus back to pslhs where students will be dismissed around 1pm. - Don’t forget band trip payments if you are planning on going! The commitment payment can still be turned in this week. The next payment of $100 for students or $175 for students and chaperones is due next Friday, January 19th. - Four county honor band is already next week! Please check the calendar for all honor band rehearsals and performances! We have lots of exciting things coming up, please remember to ask questions if you need to and stay up to date by reading the reminds, band calendar, and website announcements regularly! Thanks everyone and here’s to an awesome 2024! Good morning band family and happy Sunday! I hope you’ve had a great weekend. It’s concert week! This band news is going to be a little lengthy, please take your time to read, and don’t hesitate to reach out with any questions. The schedule will be a little different due to the concert!
- Monday - Symphonic Band rehearsal 2-4pm. - Also on Monday, Mr. Cromer is in need of leadership members to help at his dress rehearsal and concert. His rehearsal is Monday from 4:30-6:30pm and his concert is Tuesday at 7pm. Leadership call time will be at 6pm. He is in need of the following instruments: 1-2 clarinets 1-2 trumpets 1 euphonium 1 trombone 1 tuba 3-4 additional leadership members to help with ensemble guiding and stage set up. - Tuesday - Wind Ensemble will rehearse 2:00-4:00pm. Jazz band will rehearse 4:30-5:30pm, and color guard will practice 2-4pm. - Leadership helping with Mr. Cromer’s concert on Tuesday will receive community service hours. Please wear your red band polo and black dress pants. - Wednesday is our final dress rehearsal from 2-5pm. This is for full band! - Thursday is the day of our concert! No rehearsal after school, but the band room will be open. Student call time is 6pm in your concert black attire! Don’t forget your secret Santa gift if you are participating! - Other information about our concert!! Tickets are on sale at the following link! They are only $7 a piece! https://events.ticketspicket.com/agency/8a5cf9af-a458-4fbb-9721-66e5c62214b9/events/0cca45fa-881b-48fd-8b11-5d67327bd187 Also, we are still in need of people to bake some goodies for the winter concert bake sale! If you’d like to show off your skills, while also helping out the program, and bringing joy to the concert, let me know if you will be baking something! - On December 21st, the student leadership is planning a band holiday movie party in the band room! We will have hot chocolate and other treats while we can all come together and have a good time watching a holiday movie! The movie will be decided this week!! We hope you can make it out! BAND TRIP!!! - Finally, after lots of phone calls, emails, and speaking with the band students, we have decided to go back to Universal/islands of adventure for a 3 day band trip from may 3rd-5th! This trip seems to be the most cost effective AND fun for the students compared to other similar trips. This will cost each student $500, and will include the following: 1. Travel cost 2. Two night hotel cost with breakfasts included 3. Two full days at islands of adventure, and universal. 4. A ticket to Medieval Times with dinner included. 5. Participation in the Music USA Concert Band Festival. For students that would like to go, our first payment will be due on Monday December 18th, and it will be $100 per student. This will be our “commitment” payment which will essentially secure your spot on the trip. The remaining balance can be paid in your own time, as long as it is paid in full by the final payment date listed below. I have made a suggested payment schedule for monthly payments… December 18th - $100 January 19th - $100 February 16th - $100 March 15th - $100 April 12th - $100 (final balance due) - We will also be needing between 6-8 parent chaperones willing to attend the trip. The chaperone/student combination will receive a discounted rate of $875 for the package. The suggested payment schedule for chaperones and students is listed below: December 18th: $175 January 19th - $175 February 16th - $175 March 15th - $175 April 12th - $175 Thank you all very much for everything you do! Thanks to those of you who have been helping out at the Gift Wrap Booth and are planning to help! In order to keep the high standard of performance excellence within our program, a certain amount of funds is unfortunately vital. Your help is so appreciated!! |
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