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December Update:

End of the Year Update...  Through Dec. 20th    Holiday Concerts : Choir Concert (Middle & High School) -   7:00 PM on Monday, December 16th Band Concert (Middle & High School)  7:00 PM on Wednesday, December 18th NOTE:   Performance at concerts is mandatory and worth a grade of 100 pts.  Students absent from a concert (unless ill) will be graded accordingly!  Students are asked to please remain for the entirety of the concert.  If a student needs to leave early a communication from home well prior to the event is requested! Concert Performance Attire :   ðŸ”½ HS = Black and white with black shoes - Men wear ties ! MS = Red Music Department polo shirt (or marching band shirt), black slacks or skirt and black shoes ! 😎 Marching Band Instruments :  ALL marching band instruments ( mellophones, marching baritones, etc... must be turned-in to the band office this week !  ( BY FRI. NOV. 22nd ) 🦃 Happy Thanksgiving!

Weekly Update... Nov. 18th - 22nd

Thank you!!!  To all Buckeye Makers and Helpers!   You ( Students, friends, parents, grandparents, etc...) all pitched in and gave of your time and we all appreciate it!! A very special thanks goes out to our Music Booster Executive Board , who was here at school until 3 AM last Saturday night and all day and night this past weekend because they think music education is "worth it" . Brava!!! 😂 Jazz Band:  Will meet Monday night at 7 PM on the stage! Indoor Percussion: Will meet from 6:00 - 7:00 PM in the band and choir rooms! Concerts:   Choir Holiday Concert:  Monday, Dec. 16th @ 7 PM                             Band Holiday Concert:  Wednesday, Dec. 18th @ 7 PM                             * Middle School students please remember to wear your red music department polos and either black slacks or skirt with SHOES!  

Weekly Update...11/11-15

Announcements...   Indoor Percussion:   CANCELLED for Monday evening. HS Jazz Band:   CANCELLED for Monday evening. Upperclassmen Leadership Trip :   REMINDER:  THIS FRIDAY! Please bring your over-night bag to the band room at 8 AM and keep in the first practice room. Please bring along $5 for our Friday night pizza at the hotel - Give to Mr. D! Bring some warm clothes!  The Lucas Oil Stadium is either an indoors or outdoors facility because the roof retracts.  Hopefully it will be closed! Middle School Band Students :  Parents - PLEASE be sure your child is practicing their concert music at home!  Ask them to play for you!  Test them on it ! Music Polo shirts will be worn with either black slacks or skirt for the holiday / winter concerts.   "IF" your child has not received theirs it means they have not paid for it. Wearing the music polo is mandatory and students will be graded on their following protocol. Concerts :  The Choir Concert is s

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Weekly Update: 11/4 - 11/8, 2019

Happy Monday! Marching Band:  Hope you all kept warm on Friday night!   It was actually a good show!  Congrats! *  There are no more marching band practices this fall.  Thanks for a super season! *  I'm waiting to hear from the athletic director about any play-off games we "might" need to attend.  "IF" we do, we'll only serve as a pep band - NO HALFTIME PERFORMANCES! Last Marching Band Grade:   Band members... flip folios and DOTS are be turned-in to Mr. D by this Friday, Nov. 8th .  You MUST write your name on the back of your flip book on masking tape!  This is a 10 point grade for the flip book and a 5 point grade for the DOTS.  DOTS must be in a plastic bag with your name on the front on masking tape ! Jazz Band :  Will continue to practice on Monday evenings from 7:00 - 8:30 PM! Indoor Percussion :    Are doing more and more each week, getting ready to put-on some indoor percussion performances after the new year, as well attend (not p