Festival Season is among us, as the students prepare for their Festival Concert and their Festival in March.
The Festival Concert is this Thursday, February 26th at 7pm in the HHS Auditorium (Now renamed as "The Rod Bushey Performing Arts Center").
The Concert will have the following groups perform their festival pieces:
- Percussion Ensemble
- Concert Band
- Symphonic Band
- Wind Ensemble
Students are to report in their respective ensemble's uniform at 6:30pm - to warm up, tune, etc.
Festival Info:
Concert Band, Symphonic Band, and Wind Ensemble goes to their MSBOA Festival on Saturday, March 14th. They will be performing at Walled Lake Northern High School.
Each band will report at the Howell High School at separate times. Once attendance is taken, the students will driven via school bus to WLNHS. After their performance and judging, the students will be taken back to HHS via school bus.
It is important that the students arrive at HHS on time and in their respective ensemble's uniform to prevent any tardiness. Students will need to make sure they have their instrument (including any extra needs like reeds, oil, etc.) and sheet music.
Students who are in multiple bands - please talk to Mr. Smigell.
Students are to eat before they arrive - the festival trip for each ensemble is fairly short. There will be snacks / drinks on sale at the festival, in the cafeteria that all of the ensembles wait in for their festival scores. This is totally up to the student whether or not they want to bring money to get something (whether to calm nerves or crave any munchies/thrust after their performance).
Here is the following report / performance times for Festival for each ensemble:
Concert Band:
Report Time: 8:15am
Buses Leave: 8:45am*
Performance Time: 10:30am
Return at HHS: ~12:30pm
Symphonic Band:
Report Time: 11:25am
Buses Leave: 11:55am
Performance Time: 1:40pm
Return at HHS: ~3:35pm
Wind Ensemble:
Report Time: 2:00pm
Buses Leave: 2:30pm
Performance Time: 4:15pm
Return at HHS: ~5:45pm*
* - Equipment truck leaves with the Concert Band and returns with Wind Ensemble. Percussionists and large / shared instrument users will load/unload the truck (anyone else willing to help in those ensembles ^.^)
Band Camp 2015 Forms:
The Band Camp Info meeting was last week and the forms have been passed out in class. Anyone who needs a copy of the forms - here is the pdf of the forms to be printed out.
Band Camp 2015 Forms
Band Camp is:
Thursday August 6: Squad Leader Day @HHS
Friday August 7: New Member Day @HHS
Sunday August 9 - Thursday August 13: Everyone @Eagle Village
A friendly reminder that all of the forms and either the initial payment (or the FULL discounted payment) is due Friday April 17th, 2015.
~ Jade
