Events Galore!

Dear Parents,

This is an update on all the upcoming events.  With everything going on seemingly at once, read through this closely and let me know if there are any questions about any specific events.

Chili Bingo Night - March 27

Thank you for getting the students off to a great start with selling raffle tickets.  So far, I have had about 300 tickets returned to  me after just one day of being back.  I'm encouraging students to grab as many tickets as they think they can sell. I'm also reminding them to let you, the parents, take some to sell at work.  I'll be attaching a flyer to an email shortly that you can also print and display prominently at work and show to friends, family, and neighbors.

Chili Bingo Night is a required event for jazz band, and optional for everybody else and their families.  As the people running it and hosting it, attendance is definitely encouraged.  If you have never attended this event, it's a great evening of fun for the whole family.

Speaking of Chili Bingo, we're still in need of some help with a few things, such as entering chili, and helping out at the event.  Does anybody have experience running a Bingo game?  Let me know if you can help in any way.  We'll have a planning/organizing meeting on Tuesday, March 24, at 6 PM. and you're all invited.  If you'd like to help run this wonderful event, please attend and we will get all the final preparations underway.

Jazz Band Festival - March 30

The NZNMEA Jazz Festival is on March 30 at 6 PM in the Community Center.  Call time for jazz band students will be 5:30 PM in full concert attire.  The concert should be done around 8 PM.  The Jazz Band will be performing for students from Carson High School, Douglas High School, and Churchill County Middle School.

NZNMEA Band Festival - April 1

The band festival is on April 1, all day, in the Community Center.  With a total of 26 performing groups, students will have a large audience, and they'll be able to hear other groups in the area.  In order to minimize lost class time, here's the information for each group:

Concert Band/Advanced Strings: 7:30 AM Call Time at the Community Center.  Advanced Strings performs at 8:20 AM.  Concert Band performs at 9:20 AM.  They will ride the bus back to school at 9:45 AM for the rest of their classes.

Intermediate Band/Advanced Band: 9:45 AM Call Time in the Band Room (after attending first 3 class periods of the day).  Students will ride the bus to the Community Center where they will remain for the rest of the day.  Intermediate Band performs at 10:30 AM.  Advanced Band performs at 1:25 PM.  They will be picked up by parents any time after 2:30 PM (festival finishes around 5 PM).

Other Events and Special Guests

We will be having a few guests coming in to work with the students over the next couple weeks.  This will help them prepare for festival and grow as musicians even more.

March 18: Amber Vedova, trumpet player and music education major from UNR, will work with all classes.  She might be my student teacher next fall, so she's volunteering to help out.
March 23: Advanced Band workshop with Dr. Reed Chamberlin and the UNR Wind Ensemble.
March 25: Mr. Sadler, our principal, will rehearse periods 1 and 3.
March 27: Walt Lovell, retired band director from Elko High School, will conduct a clinic with all classes.


Practicing

I have also given students (period 1-4) specific spots to look at each evening.  Ask them what I wanted them to work on and they should know.  I have some specific items that, if worked on at home, will really help us polish the music for our festival performances.

Thank you!

-Mr. Jacques-