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!
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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 |
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