Howellpalooza & Home Show $ Opportunity

HOWELLPALOOZA - THURSDAY 3/21 at 7 p.m.

You are cordially invited to the hidden gem of the band year!! Howellpalooza!  It is a wonderful concert full of surprises that you might not see anywhere else during the year!  We have our award winning auxiliary groups (flags, twirlers) jazz band, school of rock, percussion ensemble, flute choir, and many other talented performers! It is free of charge and it’s all happening Thursday night at 7pm in the Rod Bushey Performing Arts Center.  Hope to see you there!

HOME SHOW SIGN UP

The Livingston County Home Show is right around the corner (April 5th - 7th).  We need volunteers to help at the concessions stand to raise money for students and the band boosters.  There are two ways you can help.  (1) Students can sign-up for a shift. (We need 3 students per shift.)   Students can either earn money for the Charms account or get credit for community service for National Honor Society if that is what they need.  (2) We also need parents to supervise.  (1 parent per shift.)

The sign-up sheets are in the band room.

Feel free to call or text Katie LaCommare - 248-756-3985 if you have any questions.   

UPCOMING DATES

Band Booster Meeting - April 3rd at 6:30 p.m. in band room
Band Camp Scholarship Applications Due - April 4th
Guys and Dolls - April 12th to 14th
Collage Concert - April 17th at 7 p.m.
Band Lock-in - May 10th/11th (more details to come)

Band Camp

To all parents who have bandos going to Band Camp. We hope you’ll consider being a chaperone. There is no experience quite like it. Here are some highlights:

 - You get to host a bonfire for the kids

 - You get to host a talent night (and maybe participate)

 - You get to host a movie and game night

 - And on the last night, a dance

In between all of this you get to watch the kids learn “the drill”—how they will march to the show music. And you get to listen to them learn that music from the ground up. Best of all, you get to watch them put it all together. 

The food is good, the sun is hot, and the kids are the best. It's a great way to end the summer and get your game on for “marching band season.”

We have great traditions and…. great branding. You can see yourself in one of these:

             

But don’t take our word for it. Check out the BND DAD playlist on YouTube. Enough said: Chaperone Fun

Band Camp Paperwork, Scrips, and Help Needed

Good Evening!!  As promised all of the paperwork from the band camp meeting, last night, is now here for your use.  Please click on what is needed, print it, fill it out in full and turn it in as soon as possible.  Please do not hesitate to ask questions of the people that are mentioned as helpers in the Marching Band Packet.  There are no silly questions.  Band Camp is AWESOME!!


Marching Band Packet

Additional Payment Vouchers

Charms Withdrawal Request Form

Scholarship Application

Chaperone Packet

8th Grade Information


SCRIP PROGRAM

PAY FOR BAND CAMP AND OTHER BAND EXPENSES BY SHOPPING!

How much money do you spend in a month for regular expenses-  $600 for groceries, $200 for gas, $100 dining out…?  If you paid for those regular expenses using a gift card purchased from the HHS Band Scrip Program, you would get a rebate on each purchase, a rebate that  goes straight into your student's CHARMS account. You could easily pay your entire Band Camp bill just by spending the money you have to spend anyway- for whatever you need wherever you normally shop.

HHS Band Scrip uses the Great Lakes Scrip Center for ordering cards. They have this great YouTube video that explains the basics of the program:

                

                https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwkeGiRuYVY&list=PLB05706667A3B6471

You can sign up right away using enrollment code C436CCB458883 (to get to the Band Account).

Or you can ask questions at the Band Camp meeting, or email me (Nancy Stebbing) questions on howellbandscrip@gmail.com

Once you learn how the ordering system works, this is the easiest money you will ever earn for band expenses. And you earn the rebates on money you have to spend anyway. Put your spending to work for you!

LAST IMPORTANT ITEM!!

Help needed March 13, during the entire school day, or whatever hour you can come to help.  We will be fitting our current marching band one last time in the NEW UNIFORMS!!!!  Mrs. MacDermaid is very excited for this!!  No experience is needed.  Please call or text Christyne MacDermaid if you can help out.  734-476-0312