Week of October 27th - 31st Announcements...

 Music Department Announcements:

#1  Buckeye Candy Fundraising forms were distributed to all music students about a week ago and all students "should" have brought one home for their families!  This is our one "MAJOR" fundraiser for the year.  So many students participate and at least sell "a" box to their Mom and Dad, some sell hundreds of boxes and unfortunately some don't participate at all.  Please ask your child about the Buckeye Candy order form, purchase some for your own family and pass the word around.  These things literally sell themselves if someone knows you are selling them!

#2  Congratulations to the Trojan Pride Marching Band for an absolutely "Knockout" season.  It was a pleasure working with all of you this year, and am already looking forward to next season.  It's gonna be a blast!!  The marching band banquet will most likely take place just after the Thanksgiving recess.  We'll keep you posted!

#3  Football Play-off games:  As we've been announcing for the past few weeks...PLEASE don't go making family weekend arrangements just yet...while the season is over, our team sits in the #1 spot for our school size and will be going to play-offs.  I'm waiting to hear from the AD, but I'm pretty sure that since we secured a win over Fredericktown that we will most likely NOT play on Halloween BUT will have a home(?) game on November 7th.  If we win that one then we will play on November 14th....and so on and so on... 

#4  OMEA and Ohio Wesleyan University Honor Band submitted auditions and nominations:  We are currently awaiting the list of our middle and high school band members who have been accepted to this season's OMEA (Ohio Music Educators Association) District X Honor Band.  Along those lines, we recently had students sign-up to be nominated for the 2026 OWU (Ohio Wesleyan University) Honor Band, and have asked them to complete and submit the Google Form that was sent to them.  Those Google Forms are due by lunchtime tomorrow (Monday, Oct. 27th) as I will submit the nominations to the university before 3:00 PM.  Please be sure you submitted yours.  IF, by chance, you need another one shoot me an email and I'll send it out to you!

#5  WGI (Winter Guard International) Indoor Percussion will formally begin in December, but some preliminary meetings are currently taking place on Thursday afternoons from 3:15 - 4:45 PM.  Please don't be concerned if you are still involved in your fall athletic activity and are unable to make the Thursday meetings.  We will formally begin in December.

#6  High School Jazz Band:  Has been put together for this year and will begin rehearsals within the next 2 weeks or so. We are still in need of a piano player so if you know of anyone (grades 8-12) that is "relatively" accomplished please send them our way!  Once the group has their first brief organizational meeting we will all decide on the best day and time to rehearse...so everybody can be there.