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All County Band

All County Solo recordings are now posted for students to listen to while practicing.  All major scales must be tongued and memorized.  The chromatic scale must be slurred and memorized. The solo does not have to be memorized.  Please click the file for your instrument to hear the solo.

Saturday, February 11th, All County Band Auditions @ NRHS

   10:00AM- Students register

   10:45AM- Auditions begin

   1:00PM-   Auditions End

*Students that are taking the ACT on that day will be allowed to audition even if they show up after 1:00PM.

Friday, February 24th and Saturday, February 25th, All County Band at JCHS

Band Booster Meeting

Tuesday, February 7th

Fundraising Ideas:  Chicken Dinner Sale, Drink Sale, Spaghetti Supper, An "Event" to be held on May 12th.

Chicken Dinner Sale:  Proposed date would be on Friday, March 16th.  Pick up times would be from 10:30AM-6:30PM.  Large deliveries would be made by the person that sold the tickets.  April and Kevin Alexander would be the project managers for this event.  Tickets would be sold for $8.00 and we would make $4.00 per ticket.  Pick up would be at the Carson High School Band Room.

Drink Sale:  Looking into having Cheerwine or Sundrop to be our suppliers, or both.  Mrs. Yow will be the project manager for this event.  This is something that could take place in the middle of March, right after the Chicken Dinner Sale, or in April.  We would run it for two weeks and then have delivery that following week. 

Spaghetti Supper:  The idea of a spaghetti dinner fundraiser was entertained and tabled.  This will be a great idea for some time in the beginning of May.  We could do it at the school or at a local church.  The jazz band would provide entertainment.  One suggestion was to make sure there was enough room for people to get up and dance.  Another suggestion was to have two sittings.  One earlier and one later to break up the crowd.  This has been a successful fundraiser in the past and could do well again.

Preview Show:  The tentative date for the Preview Show will be on Saturday, September 22nd.  Mark Shuping will be the project manager for this event.  Committees will be formed once the Committee chairpeople get together to discuss their needs.

WISH LIST:  Trailer (Truck), Storage Building for outside the band room

Upcoming Dates: 

February 11th- All County Band Auditions

February 15th- Jazz Band performance at First United Methodist Church, China Grove.  6:00-7:00PM

February 21st- Jazz Combo performance at the CTE Banquet-Holiday Inn, Salisbury

March 3rd- Jazz Band Performance at First Reformed Church in Landis 6:00-9:00PM.

March 6th- Band Concert at 7:00PM featuring the Concert Band and Jazz Band

March 16th- Chicken Dinner Sale at JCHS Band Room

March 17th- Oyster Roast sponsored by the Athletic Booster Club

March 31st- Jazz Band Performance at Carowinds

April 26th, 27th, 28th and 29th- BEAUTY AND THE BEAST MUSICAL AT JCHS

May 29th- Band Concert at JCHS- 7:00PM

A letter was sent to those that still owe band fees.  We would like to get this cleared up as soon as possible so that we can finish paying off our transportation bills.  We still have $4,785.00 in outstanding band fees.

Band Camp Dates for 2012 are:

Saturday, July 28th- All Day

Monday, July 30th- All Day

Tuesday, July 31st- All Day

Wednesday, August 1st- All Day

Thursday, August 2nd- All Day

Friday, August 3rd-  All Day

Tuesday, August 7th- 9AM-Noon

Thursday, August 9th- 9AM-Noon

Tuesday, August 14th- 9AM-Noon

Thursday, August 16th- 9AM-Noon

Tuesday, August 21st- 9AM-Noon

Thursday, August 23rd- 5:30-8:30PM

First Day of School is August 27th

Beauty and the Beast

The orchestra schedule can be found in the downloads section for you to download.  Rehearsals for Beauty and the Beast are mandatory for all those that auditioned and that have committed to being in the orchestra.