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10-03 HHSMB Blast Oct 3

HOMESTEAD HIGH SCHOOL MUSIC BOOSTER BLAST!

October 3, 2012

Parents, please contact Mr. Burn immediately by email if your student is missing any practice, football game, or performance, regardless of the reason. Your student’s grade can be affected by absences.

NEW NEWS:

- Schedule for Friday’s football game, October 5^th

- FUHSD Expo is October 6^th

o Schedule

o Parking

- PARENT VOLUNTEERS ARE ONCE AGAIN CRITICALLY NEEDED BOTH FRIDAY AND SATURDAY

- Request for water donation

- HHS Marching Band and Color Guard Home Show is November 3^rd

REMINDERS:

- Concession Pre-Order form for 10/5 game due October 3^rd

- Scrip news

- Band Room availability

- 2012/2013 Music Department Calendar

THIS WEEK’S SCHEDULE:

Wednesday, October 3^rd

Concession Pre-Order Forms are due by 8:30pm

5:30 – 8:30 – Full Band practice, including Percussion and Color Guard**

8:15-8:45pm – Scrip sales next to staff parking lot

Friday, October 5^th

2:15-3:15pm – Scrip sales in front of band room

5:30pm – Marchers to meet in band quad to change into uniform

7:30pm – HHS v Palo Alto. Band will perform Poseidon’s Dream at half-time,

and must stay through 4^th quarter.

Saturday, October 6^th

8:30am-3:30pm – Woodwind and Brass rehearsal

8:30am-3:30pm - Color Guard rehearsal**

9:00am-3:30pm – Percussion rehearsal**

3:30 – 5:30pm – Expo performances for students only

5:30 – 6:30pm – Student dinner in Main Quad

6:30pm – Change into uniform/costume

7:00pm – Expo performances for Public

Monday, October 8^th

5:30 – 8:30pm – Percussion rehearsal**

5:30 – 8:30pm - Color Guard rehearsal**

Wednesday, October 10^th

5:30 – 8:30 – Full Band practice, including Percussion and Color Guard**

8:15-8:45pm – Scrip sales next to staff parking lot

** Practice times subject to change. Please check your emails.

NEW NEWS:

SCHEDULE FOR FRIDAY OCT 5^TH

(Vicki Feltman)

5:30 p.m. Full Band meets in band quad with instruments, gloves, shoe bag with CLEAN shoes and CLEAN black socks. Take everything you need out to the band quad. BanBand room will be locked), Please remember to wear a shirt with short sleeves (NO TANK TOPS). Also, remember to wear your boxer shorts. The uniform carts with your hats and garment bags will be out and ready when you arrive. Hair must be under control. If your hair is long enough to touch your collar, be prepared to wear hair nets, hair pins, and hair ties. If you do not bring the right materials to keep your hair up, Mrs. Edmonds and Mrs. Richards have these items for sale for $3.

Get in uniform; uniform carts will be set up outside, where everyone will change. Take care of any uniform issues before warm-ups!! Look for Mrs. Richards and other uniform moms to help you.

Leave your instrument cases between the uniform carts in the center of the band quad. Tubas and percussion leave cases against art building.

6:00 p.m. Warm up/Pep band music rehearsal – SMS band students will be joining us!

6:55 p.m. March into stadium -- Pre-game concert on the track

7:25 p.m. Traditional pre-game show

7:30 p.m. (approximately) - game begins.

During the game, the band sits in their sections in full uniform, and plays pep band music.
No eating or drinking, except water, while in uniform.
The entire band stands up when we play.
Four minutes before half-time the band prepares for the half-time show.
Half time: the band performs Poseidon’s Dream!
After the half-time show, you will go back to the uniform carts and change out of your uniforms, and put on pep band shirt, jacket and jeans. Return your hat to its box, your marching shoes to the shoe bag, and your uniform jacket and pants (NEATLY HUNG) to the garment bag. Hang the uniforms on the carts.
3^rd quarter: return to stadium, get some food, and bring your food to the band area of the bleachers. 4^th quarter: ALL band members must attend 4^th quarter. When the band is playing, everyone needs to be playing (not eating or talking). You must be with your section (flutes, clarinets, altos, etc.) when in the stands. We will play one or two songs after the game ends, and then you’re dismissed. (sometime between 9:30 and 10:30 pm)
TAKE ALL YOUR STUFF HOME WITH YOU, leaving no personal property or garbage behind! (Uniforms and hats stay on the carts.)

Pre-order tickets – you will find them in your hat boxes after half-time. Tuba tickets will be taped to their instrument cases. Pit will find their tickets taped on the side of their uniform cart. Color Guard pre-order tickets will be distributed by a colorguard parent. If you cannot find your pre-order tickets, check with Mrs. Hartlage at the pre-ordered food area under the bleachers. She has the master list.

FREMONT UNION HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT MARCHING BAND EXPOSITION – OCTOBER 6^th

(Vicki Feltman)

The FUHSD Marching Band Exposition is an annual event showcasing the talents of district high schools in a non-competitive venue. Each band performs twice- once for the other bands in the afternoon, and once for the audience in the evening. It’s an awe-inspiring sight when 5 marching bands with color guard fill up the bleachers.

Admission is $5 per person, with all proceeds split evenly. Since this show benefits all the schools, even volunteers pay the entry fee.

The show starts at 7 pm. If you’d like to come and get a good spot to sit, chill with some yummy concession foods before the crowds get there, find a parking space, show up around 6.

AND, in case you hadn’t noticed, there are a WHOLE BUNCH of volunteer opportunities that have popped up. Because Homestead is hosting the event this year. we expect big crowds. Lend a hand where you can, to show the other schools how it’s done. J

STUDENT SCHEDULE

8:30 – 11:30 Morning rehearsal

11:30-12:30 Lunch break

12:30-3:30 Afternoon rehearsal block.

Marchers – wear your green band shirt. This is your uniform

for the afternoon performance.

Guard – wear your white shirts

[Students taking SAT’s in the morning should plan ahead and

prepare a sack lunch. You will not have time to stop anywhere

to grab lunch. Go directly to practice after your test is

done. Please make sure you email Mr. Burn ASAP so he

knows you are taking SAT’s]

3:30 Head for Stadium to sit and watch Santa Teresa.

4:00-5:15 pm Watch other bands, perform and watch more bands

5:30 -6:30 pm Boosters serve dinner

All bands eat dinner together in Quad

Homestead is the Host School – Mingle and make our

guests feel welcome!

6:30 pm Quickly get into uniform

7pm Show begins

PERFORMANCE SCHEUDLE

Afternoon Evening

4:00pm Santa Teresa 7:00pm Santa Teresa

4:15pm Fremont 7:15pm Fremont

4:30pm Homestead 7:30pm Homestead

4:45pm Lynbrook 7:45pm Lynbrook

5:00pm Cupertino 8:00pm Cupertino

PARKING –

Please consider walking to Homestead for the field show expo. That’s one of the advantages of having the show at our school. No hassles with non-existent parking, no waiting in lines to make a turn into a filled parking lot.

The faculty parking lot will be closed to all parking and reserved for trucks and buses supporting the other bands in the district. The Building F parking lot will be reserved for Handicapped parking. This means the only available parking will be the Student Parking lot and surface streets.

If you need to drive, we recommend you park on Mary Ave on the other side of 280 and walk over on the pedestrian bridge.

STUDENTS – We need all cars moved out of the faculty parking lot at lunch time. We need to keep it clear of all cars to allow buses and trucks to park. We have 5 school’s support vehicles and uniform carts and pit equipment to lay out.

ATTENTION PARENTS: YOUR HELP IS DESPERATELY NEEDED THIS FRIDAY AND SATURDAY!

(Eileen Chun)

Please make this Friday’s football game and this is Saturday’s FUHSD Expo a success by signing up to help out at http://bit.ly/M28Ymz.

FOOTBALL GAME : Friday, October 05
Potato Baking 10:00 am - 12:00 pm needs 9
BBQ Cook 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm needs 1
Snack Shack 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm needs 2
BBQ Cook 5:00 pm - 7:30 pm needs 2
BBQ Meat Slicer 5:00 pm - 7:30 pm needs 1
BBQ Serve 5:00 pm - 7:30 pm needs 1
Gate Monitor 5:00 pm - 7:30 pm needs 1
Nachos Serve 5:00 pm - 7:30 pm needs 2
Potato Serve 5:00 pm - 7:30 pm needs 2
Snack Shack 5:00 pm - 7:30 pm needs 7
BBQ Cook 6-8 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm needs 1
OnCall Supply Runner 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm needs 1
Bleachers 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm needs 1
BBQ Cook 7:30 pm - 10:00 pm needs 2
BBQ Meat Slicer 7:30 pm - 10:00 pm needs 1
BBQ Serve 7:30 pm - 10:00 pm needs 1
Gate Monitor 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm needs 1
Nachos Serve 7:30 pm - 10:00 pm needs 1
Potatoes Serve 7:30 pm - 10:00 pm needs 7
Snack Shack 7:30 pm - 10:00 pm needs 11

BAND EXPO Saturday, October 06
Traffic/Parking 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm needs 4
Tickets 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm needs 2
BBQ Cook 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm needs 4
Nachos 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm needs 1
On-Call Supply Runner 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm needs 1
Snack Shack 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm needs 6
Tickets 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm needs 1
Traffic/Parking 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm needs 2
BBQ Cook 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm needs 5
Nachos 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm needs 1
Snack Shack 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm needs 6
Gate Monitor 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm needs 1
Pit 7:00 pm needs 3
Tickets 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm needs 3
Traffic/Parking 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm needs 2

WATER NEEDED PLEASE!

(DeeDee Wong)

With this hot weather and many competitions coming up, we're in need of cases of water donations. We will be feeding our Marchers and Guards this Saturday in the quad at the Expo at 5:00pm at Homestead. Please bring your donation of water to the quad this Saturday.

Thank you, thank you!

HHS MARCHING BAND AND COLOR GUARD HOME SHOW & GOURMET FOOD TRUCK FESTIVAL - SATURDAY, NOV 3, 3:00-7:00 PM

(Connie Viveros)

This year’s Marching Band and Color Guard Home Show is on Saturday November 3rd, starting at 3 PM at the Mustang Field! Along with the fabulous show planned for the day, we will also be featuring several gourmet food trucks serving a variety of fabulous items such as tacos, steak, chicken and desserts! Come out and enjoy this hottest new craze sweeping the Bay Area--GOURMET FOOD TRUCKS!

Invite your friends, family and neighbors out for an afternoon of performing arts and fabulous food!

For those of you who are new to HHSMB, this is a wonderful opportunity to invite families, friends, and supporters to come and watch our wonderful 'award-winning' Mighty Mustang Marching Band show! The show will feature a special Senior Recognition presentation, so parents of seniors be sure to attend!

REMINDERS:

We have many parent volunteers this season who are taking pictures at all of our practices, football games and competitions. These photos can be accessed for viewing at: https://sites.google.com/site/homesteadvideo/photos.

CONCESSION PRE-ORDER FORM

(Leissa Hartlage)

The next home football game is coming up soon - Friday, October 5th. The deadline for the concession pre-order form is Wednesday, October 3rd at 8:30PM.

If you would like to order food from concession stand to eat after the half-time performance, please visit the HHSMB website at http://www.hhs.fuhsd.org/mbmain, go to the Forms page and download the Concession Pre-Order Form.

Please return the completed Concession Pre-Order Form, along with a check, to

Ms. Vicki Feltman’s box. You may place an order for one or more football games at any time.

As a reminder, pre-order food tickets will be found in the marchers' hat boxes AFTER they have performed their half time show. PIT and TUBAS will have their tickets taped to the side of their uniform cart. If a marcher's hat box is not in it's proper cubby their tickets will also be taped to the side of the cart. Guard will have tickets distributed to them. If there are any problems with tickets on game night, please see an adult at the pre-order table (beneath the home bleachers).

Questions can be directed to Leissa Hartlage at lhartlage@comcast.net.

SCRIP

(Carrie Adelman)

Buy scrip gift cards from Music Boosters and use them like cash at the stores. The great news is that you get 2.5% scrip credit for your purchases! Keep buying scrip and build up your scrip credit. At the end of the year, you can ask for a reimbursement of your band fees or simply apply the credit for next year!

Order forms can be found at https://homestead.schoolloop.com/mbfund#SCRIP.

Send your advance order or questions to the following new email: scrip@homestead-music.org.

BAND ROOM AVAILABILITY

(Vicki Feltman)

The band room will be open from 3-6 pm daily during days school is in session.

SCHOOL-YEAR CALENDAR:

(Changes are marked in red)

HOMESTEAD MUSIC DEPARTMENT

CALENDAR 2012-2013

MARCHING BAND

Weekly Fall Marching Band Rehearsals


Percussion and	Mondays 8/20 – 11/12	5:30 – 8:30pm
Color Guard
Full Band, including Percussion and Color Guard	Wednesdays 8/22 – 11/14	5:30 – 8:30pm
Brass and Woodwinds	Saturdays 8/25 – 11/17	8:30am – 4:00pm
Percussion	Saturdays 8/25 – 11/17	9:00am – 5:00pm	8:30am – 4:00pm
Color Guard	Saturdays 8/25 – 11/17	8:30am – 4:00pm	8:30am – 4:00pm

Fall marching band –performances

10/5 Football home game v. Palo Alto

10/6 District Expo at Homestead HS

10/13 Cupertino Tournament of Bands @ Cupertino HS

10/18 49er v. Seahawks half-time performance

10/19 Homecoming

10/20 WBA competition in Dublin

10/26-10/29 Bands of America West Regional Championship and performance in

Disneyland

11/2 Football home game v. Wilcox

11/3 Home Show

11/10 WBA show at James Logan HS

11/17-11/18 WBA Championships in Fresno

11/25 Los Altos Festival of Lights Parade

MUSIC DEPARTMENT PERFORMANCES

12/6 Winter Choir Concert, Homestead Auditorium

12/12 Winter Pops Concert, Homestead Auditorium

12/13 Winter Jazz Concert, Homestead Auditorium

1/11 – 1/13 County Honor Band, Saratoga High School

1/26 Winter Guard Show, Homestead Gym

2/7 Concert Band Exchange Festival, Homestead Auditorium

2/8 Homestead Orchestra Festival, Homestead Auditorium

3/8-3/9 Wind Ensemble, Sonoma State

3/15 Santa Cruz Jazz Festival

3/22-3/23 CMEA Band and Orchestra Festivals, Saratoga High School

4/26-4/27 Reno Jazz Festival

5/8 Concert Band and Symphonic Band performances, Homestead

Auditorium

5/9 Wind Ensemble and Orchestra performances, Homestead