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Monday, August 8, 2016

August Performance Update

The start of school is inching ever closer. First football game is less than 2 weeks away! Lots of things going on with the GDale Band.

Fundraiser

Our Dreamland and Poinsettia fundraisers are still going on. Make sure your students are asking around as a portion of the sales goes to their account to help pay for dues and spring trip. You can find the order forms by clicking the links below.

Poinsettia Order Form

Dreamland Order Form

Remember that order forms and money are due Friday, August 19th.

Rehearsal Schedule this week

Monday 8/8/2016: 3:15PM - 4:45PM
Tuesday 8/9/2016: 3:15PM - 4:45PM
Thursday 8/11/2016 (FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL!!!): 3:15PM - 4:45PM

Note: More than likely, we will move our rehearsals after school back to start at 3:30 and end at 5:00 once school starts. It is tough to ask the students to change, get to the field, apply sunscreen, get their music and drill together, AND be out where ever we are starting in 9 minutes. I would rather the students to not have to rush around and stressed before rehearsal even begins.

Update to the performance schedule

  • DATE CHANGE: Christmas Concert changed to Monday, December 5th
  • Additional Event: HS Football Preview Show - Monday, August 15th - Leeds High School (Bus to event after rehearsal)
  • Additional Event: Pep Rally - Monday, August 22nd - Buffalo Wild Wings (Student/Parent Responsibility)

The Christmas Concert is being moved to Monday, Decemeber 5th. There were some last minute changes to the school calendar with events involving other schools and it was easiest for us to move up a little bit. Bragg will start at 6:30PM and the High School Band will start after that around 7PM.

We have been asked to participate in a High School Football Preview Show at Leeds High School this coming Monday, August 15th. This event will be recorded and shown on ABC 33/40 during the week! We will shorten our regularly scheduled rehearsal that day, load buses and head to Leeds. The taping will be from 7-8:15PM. We plan on being back home by 9:30PM at the latest. We will need chaperones for this trip. If you are interested, please email me. Parents and fans are encouraged to join us at Leeds to be a part of this event. 

Uniform for this will be Maroon Band Jersey and Khakis for instrumentalist and Pep Outfits for Auxiliaries.

The following Monday, August 22nd we have been asked to perform at a pep rally style event in front of Buffalo Wild Wings in Gardendale. We will end rehearsal at 4:45PM.  We will meet at BWWs at 5:15PM to warm up. The pep rally will start at 6:00PM. Our performance should be over by 7PM at the latest.

Unifrom for this event TBA.

One other change from the first released performance schedule: the Spring Trip will be April 19th - April 23rd. More info on the Spring Trip in a future update.

You can find an updated performance schedule for the year here. The updated events are in Bold.

Thank you to parents, staff, and students for your flexibility on Saturday with getting here early to get some final things tuned up for Meet the Rockets. I hate we didn't get to perform but given the continued delays, I didn't want to keep the students at the high school past 9. The was not a waste! We got great work done and even got a (loud) run through in the lobby. Shout out to the parents that were able to catch the lobby run. 

Even though we didn't perform at Meet the Rockets officially, these additional events give us more opportunities to show off before the first football game on the 19th.

As always, my door is open. Feel free to email me with any questions or comments (jetaylor@jefcoed.com). Thank you for all you do for our students and our band here at Gardendale!

Go Rockets. #HailtheDale,
Mr. Taylor


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