MPA

The band will be performing at the Alabama Music Performance Assessment on Wednesday, March 4 at 12:15 at Homewood High School. Parents are invited to stop by and listen. Admission is free. The students will leave school at 9:30 that morning and go to the Brookwood Mall for an early lunch. We plan to leave the mall at 11:00. Our warm-up time is at 11:30. After our stage performance we will move to the sight reading room.  Sight reading will take approximately 20 minutes. We plan to be finished there around 1:00.  We will leave Homewood around 1:15 and be back to Gardendale around 1:45.

Pre-MPA Concert

The band will present their Pre-MPA Concert on Thursday, February 19 at 7:00 p.m. in the auditorium. The Bragg 7th and 8th grade bands will play at 6:30 and the high school will play as soon as they finish. Call time for the high school group is 6:15. We will be wearing uniforms for this concert. Please remember black socks and black band shoes.

Christmas Concert

The band will present their annual Christmas Concert on Tuesday, December 9 at 7:30 p.m. in the high school auditorium. Call time is 6:45. Bragg Middle School will play at 6:30 that evening. We will be wearing uniforms so students need to be sure to bring, or wear, their black shoes and socks that night.

Gardendale Christmas Parade

The Gardendale Christmas Parade is this Thursday at 6:00 pm. Call time for the students is 5:00 pm. We will meet in the band room to get uniforms and line up outside the band room. We should be finished with our part of the parade between 6:45 and 7:00. Please either pick your child up at the band room or have a meeting spot where they can find you.

Gardendale Performance at Hayden Contest

Click the link below to see the performance at the Hayden Contest

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B15UcZMGFUvaUTBaLVEtalNIdTQ/view?usp=sharing

Gardendale vs. Florence

We are moving on to the third round of the state playoffs. This week we will host Florence here at Gardendale. Call time for Friday will be 5:30 p.m. If we win this week, we will move on to the fourth round which will be next Friday, November 28. That game would be an away game at either Clay-Chalkville or Decatur depending on who wins their game this week. Call time and travel information will be listed here on the Blogspot. I will also send information out on Remind. If you have not signed up for this service, you can text the message @3efcf to the number 81010. It should send you a text within 10-15 seconds asking for your name. Type your name and hit send and you should be signed up to receive my messages.

Gardendale vs. Homewood this Friday

Gardendale will play Homewood in the second round of the state playoffs this Friday at Gardendale High School. The game will start at 7:00 p.m. Our call time will be 5:15 because we are the 33/40 Blitz Game of the Week. They will have their live shot set up in the end zone at the stadium and they want the band there. We have to be in place by 6:00 p.m. so that is why we have the earlier call time. Students need to dress in layers underneath their uniform to stay warm. I would suggest getting hot hands and hot feet to help stay warm. We want students to stay warm but we also want to maintain a nice uniform appearance. We also have to be ready to play at any time so we do not need to be huddled under blankets in the stands.