BAND.us Update

Update from BAND: Tue November 18, 2025 8:53pm

Horizon Jazz Festival – Tomorrow & Thursday!

We’re excited to kick off the Horizon Jazz Festival this week! Here are a few important reminders for all students and families:

All Music Students – Wednesday & Thursday
-All music classes will meet in the auditorium to watch the Jazz Ensemble performances.
-Bring something to write with for your listening reflections.
-Attendance will be taken in the auditorium, so please be on time!

Jazz Ensemble Performers – Thursday
Call Times:
Jazz 3: 7:30 AM
Jazz 2 & Jazz 1: 8:00 AM
(Arrive earlier if you have a morning volunteer shift.)

We still need many volunteers for Wednesday and Thursday!

Please sign up to help—there are still several open spots for:
Hosts/Guides
Stage Crew
Judge Runners
Camera Operators

Your support helps make this festival run smoothly AND counts from Tri-M or NHS hours, and lettering points!

Thursday Performance Times
Jazz Band 3: 8:30 AM
Jazz Band 1: 1:15 PM
Jazz Band 2: 4:45 PM

Lunch will be provided for all jazz ensemble members at 11:00 AM on Thursday.

Festival Details for Families & Community
-Concessions will be available all day in the auditorium lobby on both days.
-All performances are free and open to the public.
-Parents and families are encouraged to attend and support our amazing students!

Behavior & Expectations

Let’s represent Horizon with pride! Whether you're performing, working the festival, or supporting as an audience member:

-Be respectful, responsible, and supportive.
-Phones must remain in bags while watching performances—our phone policy remains in place.
-Show the visiting schools what it means to be a Horizon Hawk!

I'm looking forward to two incredible days of music and teamwork!

Let’s make this festival one an awesome experience for all of the schools involved!!

– Mr. Dailey

BAND.us Update

Update from BAND: Mon November 17, 2025 8:13am

Hello!

Winter Percussion is still looking for a handful of students to fill up our remaining spots!! You don’t need to have any percussion experience to join. Our rehearsals are Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday (mostly just this semester don’t worry). Our competition season is mid February through the first weekend of April. If you’re interested and have questions, please reach out to me through the Band app!

Spots open:
3 marching cymbals
1 timpani
1 bells
1 auxiliary percussion

Thank you.

– Liv (they/them)

BAND.us Update

Update from BAND: Wed November 5, 2025 1:34pm

Hey all, Here are the videos from last night! Make sure to turn in ButterBraid forms today!!

Semi Finals:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/16R6GhdxH84TlvrMFjeVqorrNISyoRnQ-/view?usp=sharing
Senior Slide Show
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1va9LobJ0AOaSXeM6zGDCltFF3aYFE5-V/view?usp=sharing

– Mr. Dailey

BAND.us Update

Update from BAND: Mon November 3, 2025 11:57am

Band Families,

The Band banquet is tomorrow at 6 pm in the student center!

Dress up or wear your best cowboy gear! Here are the assignments for the dessert potluck (general guidelines, if you have another killer dessert you’d like to bring, feel free! We’re just going for a variety)

Flutes- Cheesecake, dessert squares
Clarinets- Cupcakes
Altos- Brownies
Tenors- Drinks
Baris- Drinks
Trumpets- Doughnuts
Mellos- Drinks
Trombones- Pie
Euphoniums- Water
Tubas- Cookies
Percussion- Plates/Napkins/ Utensils
Guard- Cookies

See you all tomorrow for our end of season celebration!

– Mr. Dailey

BAND.us Update

Update from BAND: Sat November 1, 2025 8:55am

Mattress Fundraiser is TODAY from 10a-5p in the HHS Student Center! Please continue to spread the word on social media or remind your people to come check it out! https://facebook.com/events/s/horizon-hs-mattress-sale-up-to/777742261628022/

If everyone gets just ONE person to show up to the sale, the music program could potentially make $20,000 or more today!!! We also are competing with Fort Collins HS: if our department sells more mattresses and other qualifying items that could be another $1500-2000 toward our music program! (Also, bragging rights for me at home vs. my wife, the FC director)

STUDENTS: First shift is coming up at 9:30 am, make sure to be here and meet in the front Lobby to go over locations, rules, and get into teams! Sign ups are attached:

See you all soon!

– Mr. Dailey

BAND.us Update

Update from BAND: Thu October 30, 2025 8:05am

Hey all!

Football game for tomorrow has changed times to 6:00 pm start time! Students are encouraged to wear their Halloween costumes and add to the spirit! Here's the new schedule:

4:30 pm- Call @ HHS
4:45-5:00 pm- Buses arrive and we depart for North Stadium
5:15 pm- Arrive and set up for pre-game show
5:45 pm- Begin Pre-game show
6:00 pm- Game Start
We will play all four quarters and students will have halftime off!
8:00-8:30 pm- Game ends, load trailer and depart
9:00 pm- Dismiss from HHS

– Mr. Dailey

HHSBPA Update

Weekly Update October 26th

Good evening band families!

The students did such a wonderful job at State this weekend, We are so proud of all their hard work! We also want to give a HUGE thank you to all the parents who helped make this season successful, we appreciate everything you did for our students!

We will be celebrating our marching season on Tuesday November 4th at 6pm in the student center. We will have our annual Marching Band Banquet, parents are welcome to come and celebrate. We celebrate with a dessert buffet. Mr. Dailey will assign a dessert category to each section and we ask that you bring something to share within that category. The banquet typically lasts around two hours. We would like to showcase our seniors in our slide show, if you would like to send in a senior photo, along with a baby photo to [email protected] ASAP, we will get them into the slide show.

Our mattress fundraiser will be held at the school on Saturday November 1st from 10am-5pm. Mr. Dailey will have sign up times for the students this week.

We have kicked off our annual Butter Braids sale. This is an individual fundraiser, meaning funds from sales that your student makes will go into their student account. You can use the paper order forms, however, they prefer and encourage the use of the online forms. Here is the link to the online form:  https://store.myfundraisingplace.com/RegisterSeller/13c71e38-9b9b-48a0-9e22-c88928178b3e

Our next restaurant night will be on Monday November 10 at Chipotle at the Orchard from 5-9pm, mention you are with the band and will get a portion of that night’s sales. 

This Friday, the students will play at the last football game. They will not be performing their show, however, it is a graded performance, so please make sure your student attends the game. They are encouraged to wear school appropriate costumes to the game.

We are asking for help with uniforms on Friday. A bunch of  band parents will be meeting at the school on Friday at 5pm to gather the students’ uniform pants to clean them. If you are able to help, please meet us at the uniform closet at 5pm. 

If you haven’t yet sent us a screenshot of your King Soopers Rewards, please do that by Tuesday November 4th.

Please let us know if you have any questions!

BAND.us Update

Update from BAND: Fri October 24, 2025 6:55pm

Nice job today all, we have one shot tomorrow to improve and show what we’re made of, so let’s make sure to take advantage of our opportunity! 8 bands were eliminated from competition today and we weren’t one of them, and we’re within 1-2 points of the next three groups up! Honestly, it will all come down to execution of details.

Here’s the recording of today’s show (the video may still be processing but will be ready soon): https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cMbZUwVZdFysFoJqxa0aRMTC0V7f_6p-/view?usp=drivesdk

Going into tomorrow… control, control, control. The energy has to come from the whole band the way we’ve built our moments, not individuals which we can hear on the recording. Again, the key is consistency across the board. We do well individually score wise, but overall we don’t put out a congealed effort that all worked. Let’s tighten up the time, tighten up the focus, and play tomorrow show at 1:15 pm like it’s our last!

Call time for those of you staying in the springs is 10 am, and the rest of the band will be back at the school at 7:30 am to load up and depart by 8 am. Make sure to set those alarms!

– Mr. Dailey