Gardendale vs. Clay-Chalkville

Call time for Friday's game at Clay-Chalkville is 5:00 pm. We will leave by 5:30. Students should eat dinner before they come to the school at 5:00. As the weather gets colder, students should plan to wear layers underneath their uniform to stay warm. They will not be able to wear other coats over their uniform as we want to maintain a uniform look while we are in the stands.

All State Band Podcasts

The All-State Band audition etudes are available for students to listen to as podcasts on the University of South Alabama website. The link below will take you to those podcasts. We will be using the first, or HST (technical), exercise for our chair placement auditions which will take place before students are out for the Thanksgiving holidays. That will also be the same exercise that will be used for auditions for students who were selected to participate in the U.A.B. Honor Band.

http://www.southalabama.edu/colleges/music/allstate/highschool.html

Poinsettia Fundraiser

The poinsettia fundraiser ends this Friday, October 23. Please send order forms and money that day in an envelope with the student's name on it. Make checks payable to Gardendale Band Boosters. If you need additional order forms they are here on the blogspot in a previous post.

All-County Band Roster 2015

Congratulations to the following students for being selected as members of the 2015 All-County Band!

Click the link below to see the list.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B15UcZMGFUvaQkRWdWRqbGNSUGc/view?usp=sharing

Ft. Payne Game Friday

We will be leaving for the game at 2:30pm on Friday. We will stop in Ft. Payne for dinner. Students will need to bring money for that. Where we stop they will have a choice between Western Sizzlin', Captain D's, Zaxby's, or Dairy Queen. We will stop at exit 218 on I-59. The restaurants will be to the right just as you exit the interstate. We plan to be home between 11:00-11:30pm.

Contest Schedule Revised

Call time for Saturday will be 12:30. Percussion will meet at 11:00am.  Students should eat lunch before they arrive here at school. Our performance time will be at 4:40pm. Students need to bring money for dinner which they can buy at the concession stand at Hayden. They will have typical concession stand food. Awards begin at 7:40pm and should be finished around 8:15pm. We should be home between 9:00-9:30pm.

Senior Night

Senior night is scheduled for Friday, October 30. We ask that all parents with a senior be lined up down the hill on the track toward the visitor's side by 6:00 pm. We will have an alphabetical listing to help everyone get in the correct order to be recognized. We will start around 6:30.

Fundraiser Forms

We are in the process of starting several fundraisers. The links below will take you to the order forms for each. The due dates are listed on each form. The Tervis Tumbler fundraiser is continuous until all tumblers are sold. You can turn in the money for this fundraiser as you sell and we will get the tumblers to you to deliver. We have the tumblers already. A portion of the profit from each tumbler sold will go to the student's account. The profit from the Poinsettia fundraiser goes to the band banquet cost. Each student is asked to sell five poinsettias. Since we did not host the band jamboree this year, we lost a huge fundraiser for the band program. That money helped to pay for the band banquet each spring. We are trying to avoid charging the students to go to the banquet which is why we are doing the poinsettia fundraiser. If students do not sell, they're is a very good possibility that they will have to pay or use money from their student accounts to pay for the banquet. All profit from the HoneyBaked Ham fundraiser will go to the student's account to help them pay for their spring trip and/or fees.

HoneyBaked Ham
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B15UcZMGFUvaQkRyVkZYWHV1cFk/view?usp=sharing


Poinsettias
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B15UcZMGFUvaSktfWU9NMlZFcjg/view?usp=sharing


Tervis Tumblers
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B15UcZMGFUvaREN2N2JMSF9LZ28/view?usp=sharing


In addition to these fundraisers, we will have a Chick-fil-a Spirit night on Tuesday, November 3. If you go by for breakfast, lunch, or dinner, be sure to mention that you want to help the Gardendale High School Band when you order and a portion of the profit goes to the band. If you forget to mention when you order, you can ask that your receipt be put in the bucket so that the band will get their portion of the profit.

Schedule for next week October 12-17

After-school practices next week will be on Monday and Thursday. Next week will be our last week of after-school marching band rehearsals. We will still go out during class as needed. All-County band auditions will be Tuesday, October 13 after school at Minor High School. Students are responsible for their own transportation if they plan to audition.

Next week's game is at Fort Payne High School. We are planning for that trip now. More details will be here on the blog as soon as they are finalized.

Our band contest will be on Saturday, October 17 at Hayden High School. It is very important that we have every student here and on time that day. I will post the schedule for that day as soon as I get the contest schedule which should be later today or tomorrow.

Gardendale vs. Woodlawn

This week's game vs. Woodlawn is a home game. Call time is 5:30 pm.