It's Band Festival Week!!!

 Weekly Update:

#1... Great show Friday night! You are to be commended for how you handled the uniforms.  It was hot!  But you dealt with it, and kept things together!  Congrats!

#1A:  We'll be starting the senior show this week so please be sure to have your dots, 3-ring binders and flip books  ready.  YOU MAY USE YOUR FLIP BOOK FOR THIS SHOW AND IT DOESN'T NEED TO BE MEMORIZED!

#1B: This coming Wednesday Dr. Richard Edwards from Ohio Wesleyan University will be joining the period 9 High School Band.  He'll be presenting his program as well as working with the band on a selection we'll be performing with all the other bands this coming Saturday (Salvation is Created).  8th Graders will be excused from their 9th period class to join us on the stage!  Yes... your teachers already know!

#2. This week practices:  Monday evening from 6:30 - 8:30 PM. DRUM LINE will be holding clinics from 5:30 - 6:15 PM  (before the 6:30 practice) for the remainder of the season. Please be on time!  We'll also practice Wednesday from 3:15 - 5:00 PM and Friday from 3:15 - 4:15 PM.

#3  This week is an away game at Cardington (FULL UNIFORM).  Dinner will be handled the same way that it has for the past 3 weeks!

#4. Band shoes... PLEASE keep your band shoes in your lockers or in your garment bags.

#5. This Saturday 9/25 is the Ohio Wesleyan Marching Band Clinic and Show.   Our clinic is scheduled for 11:35 AM and will be followed immediately by our performance.  Parents and family members may attend.  Admission is $5 pp. and food stands are available.  Schedule is below:

8:00 AM - Report to the band room - Polish instruments and shoes, load trailer, put on pants and shoes, be sure uniform coat is on it's hanger! PUT GLOVES IN INSTRUMENT CASES.

8:45 AM - Band Meeting in auditorium

9:15 AM - Load buses. (Brief student leaders meeting in auditorium)

9:30 AM - Leave for Ohio Wesleyan University

10:30 AM - Check-in and unload, warm-up/tune ( go with your section leaders/instructors!)

11:35 AM - Various band clinics led by the OWU staff

12:15 PM - CHS Trojan Pride Band takes the field

4:00 PM - Awards and massed band performance of Salvation is Created

#6. A big "Thank You" goes out to everyone for putting aside their other important activities to be there for the band this coming Saturday morning!  Our athletes have put their games and meets on the backburner for just one day to be with the band.  That shows dedication!!!    AND... it does not go unnoticed!

Finally,  The marching band staff would like to express a bit of gratitude for our new and returning music booster volunteers.   Things are really shaping-up, and we absolutely would be lost without your help each and every week! 

Great job so far guys!   Keep up the good work!

GO TROJAN PRIDE!