Important information for 7th grade through high school

This message contains a lot of information for many students in our entire band program to read. Please glance at everything.

MUSIC PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT FOR MIDDLE AND HIGH SCHOOL

This year, our band’s performances will be professionally recorded and sent to the Alabama Bandmasters Association to be assessed by a panel of judges. During these recordings, family and friends of these groups will be invited to the auditorium for LIVE viewing of these recordings.

Here are the dates and time for each band:

Monday, March 15th Muscle Shoals Grace Life Church

8th grade band 6:00pm

7th grade 7:30pm

Tuesday, March 16th Muscle Shoals STRATFORD AUDITROIUM

High School Symphonic Band 6:00pm

High School Wind Ensemble 7:30pm

All state band members and All state festival weekend

If you auditioned and were selected for the all state band, this information is for you.

All state this year is in Mobile, Al. we will be travelling by bus departing Thursday, April 14th at 7am. We will departing Mobile Saturday, April 17th after the last concert arriving home very late Saturday night.

Hotel rooming situation will be two students per room for two nights at the Battle House Renaissance Hotel in Mobile. This is at the location of the convention center where all state band takes place. We know the ABA is working diligently on the safety protocols of the event and we will share that with you ASAP. Should have by this week.

Parents of all state students, you are HIGHLY encouraged to go to the event and you and your child room together 🙂 Don’t worry, if you do not that is fine we have the situation covered, but in times of COVID we would certainly appreciate your attendance. We have reserved rooms for the students but not the parents. Room reservations for parents would need be done by the parents themselves.

Once a final schedule of the event is available, we will share with you.

DISTRICT HONOR BAND WEEKEND

Students who auditioned and were selected for the district honor band will get to enjoy a LIVE weekend event April 9-10. Students will miss Friday school to attend the event at Russellville High School. We will travel by bus to and from. The honor band concerts will be broadcast live through social media and it will NOT be a live event for an audience.

Percussion Ensemble and Winterguard students:

We have two contest days remaining, and that is Saturday March 6th and Saturday March 20th. The last one is Championships! Please keep in mind the 20th is the first Saturday of our school’s Spring Break!

WINTERGUARD AND PERCUSSIN RECORDINGS!!!!!

Tuesday, March 30th will be our professional recordings for both of these groups. They will take place in the High School gym. Winterguard has the gym reserved from 5:00-7:00 and the percussion has it from 7:00-9:00. These events will be open to friends and family to watch as well. We look forward to having these groups captured on video!

HIGH SCHOOL MARCHING BAND

It will be here before you know it, and to be honest I am more excited about this year than I have been in quite some time. I am ready for contests, football game full band travel, and hosting our very own TVIMC again!

DO NOT PLAN VACATIONS THE LAST TWO WEEKS OF JULY!!! HIGH SCHOOL BAND CAMP!

The middle school lost their colorguard this fall, but we are adding a two week long FREE colorguard clinic for all 6th-8th grade student interested to learn. This would be a great opportunity for 8th grade students to get two weeks of free instruction an entire MONTH before high school auditions!. Remember, students do not have to have previous color guard experience to audition!

I hope you enjoyed the snow event! I enjoyed about 5 hours of it, then it was time to go!

Have a great week!

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