Good morning MSMS Band! Here’s your info for the week:
Jazz Band
Jazz band will rehearse on Tuesday and Thursday mornings this week @ 7:15 a.m. The jazz band has 2 upcoming performances: May 6 @ the Solo and Ensemble Festival AND May 19 @ the MSHS/MSMS Night of Jazz. They will be judged/adjudicated at the Solo and Ensemble Festival. This will take place at Hamilton High School. We will bus the kids down to Hamilton High School that day for the event, along with all of the other kids who will be participating in the solo and ensemble event. More specific info about that day along with the Night of Jazz on May 19 will be given out closer to those dates.
Muscle Shoals Centennial Parade
The 8th grade band will be participating in the Muscle Shoals Centennial Parade on Monday evening, April 24. It will be similar to the homecoming parade. The band members will be riding on the flatbed of an 18 wheeler. The parade starts at 6:00 p.m. The parade route will run for the Police Dept. all the way up to City Hall. The kids will need to wear their black MSMS Band T Shirts and jeans or shorts. The weather for tomorrow will be a little on the cool side. Kids might want to think about wearing a jacket. It’s looking like it will be right around 60 degrees at the time the parade starts. The kids will need to meet at the middle school band room at 4:30 p.m. tomorrow afternoon. We will load up on the trailer and move down to the parade lineup area. After the parade, kids can be picked up back at the middle school as we will unload the trailer in the middle school parking lot.
All State Band
Our middle school All State Band members will be heading to Huntsville (Von Braun Center) on Thursday, April 27. The All State Festival will run from April 27-29. We had some GREAT chair test results for our All State Band participants:
Samuel Butte: 1st Chair Middle School Red Band
Liam McGuire: 2nd Chair Middle School Red Band
Rico Chen: 3rd Chair Middle School Red Band
Aiden Foster: 4th Chair Middle School White Band
Trinity Carruth: 10th Chair Middle School Red Band
Caroline Seay: 12th Chair Middle School Red Band
Emmie Beth Waters: 14th Chair Middle School Red Band
Lexi Hallman: 7th Chair Middle School White Band
Congratulations to these students!
Spring Concert
Our MSMS Spring Band Concert will be Tuesday, May 2 @ 6:00 p.m. in the high school auditorium. All of our grade level groups will be performing We’ve got some GREAT music picked out for the concert! Parents/friends/family members: you don’t want to miss this one! It’s going to be great!
The order of the concert will be:
(1st) 6th Grade Band, (2nd) 7th Grade Band, and then (3rd) 8th Grade Band
The call time for all students will be 5:30 p.m. 6th grade students will need to be in their seat on stage at 5:30 p.m. The 7th/8th grade band members will need to meet in the high school band room with Mrs. Hood/Mr. O’Bryant at 5:30 p.m. They will then be led out into the audience to go to their specific seating area.
7th and 8th grade band students will need to wear their concert attire. 6th graders will need to dress nicely (no blue jeans, tennis shoes, or t-shirts, please!)
7th Grade Chair test results will be posted tomorrow morning.
All 6th Grade Band members will be meeting for the entire 3rd block in the band room on May1 and May 2 to get ready for the Spring concert.
Summer Enrichment Camp
This is a 4 day morning session set aside for our middle school band members. If any of our band students are interested, please sign up. We will be learning some more music, rhythms, and music theory during this enrichment camp. Mr. Green sent this info out in an email to parents last week. Let me know if you have any questions!
Upcoming Dates to Remember
April 24 – Muscle Shoals Centennial Parade (8th Grade)
April 27-29 – All State Band in Huntsville
May 2 – MSMS Band Spring Concert @ MSHS Auditorium
May 6 – Solo and Ensemble @ Hamilton High School
May 15 – High School Band Banquet (8th Grade Band Students are welcome to attend!)
May 19 – MSMS/MSHS Night of Jazz
May 24 – Last Day of School for ALL Students
We hope you all have a great Sunday!
Seay everyone tomorrow!
