Category: Director Update

Hello Band Families! 

Thank you all for your incredible support over the past few weeks at football games, the parade, and during rehearsals! The props look AMAZING, and our students have been working incredibly hard. They’ve now completed their show on the field! We’ll continue refining and perfecting the show to ensure it’s performance-ready for Saturday’s Monarch Marching Festival competition. Here are the important details for the upcoming weeks:

WINDS ONLY- CMEA Rehearsal 9/18

3:30-5:30 pm- We have sectional coaches coming in to really dig into the music and help the students, so this is an important rehearsal to be at! 

Reminder: Our CMEA performance is scheduled for February 1st at 11:00 am. We will be staying at the Broadmoor Hotel on January 31st! I will have more information once we solidify the plan for the meals, rehearsal spaces, and what all will be included on the trip.

Reschedules All Heroes Game 9/19

The game starts at 6:00 pm. The students call is 5:30 pm, we’ll walk over to the game, play some pep band songs, play the star spangled banner, and then we will be done. This is just a volunteer commitment but we’re hoping to have a large group to show our support of the SPED department teaming up with the football team! Students are welcome to stay for the rest of the game, but we will only play at the beginning.

Broomfield Days Parade 9/21:

The Parade route is approximately 1.5 miles in length. It will start at the corner of Midway Blvd and Spader Way and proceed west on Midway to Laurel Street. Extra trailers, cars, etc. can be parked in the west end of the Garden Center parking lot. All participants will be directed to the west end of the Garden Center through the east entrance of the center. All high school buses should park in the outlying parking spaces in the At Home parking lot or an alternative would be at the west end of the Garden Center parking lot.

7:45 am- Call Time

8:15 am- Depart for Midway and Sheridan for staging area

8:45 am- Arrive at the staging area and get into warm up. Horizon is number 63 in the parade order!

9:30 am- parade starts! 

11-11:30 am- Horizon finishes the parade, gets a snack, and heads back to HHS

11:30 am-12:00 pm- Arrive back at HHS and heads to the field for a visual rehearsal.

Monarch Marching Festival (also 9/21):

12:00-2:00 pm- Visual rehearsal at HHS

2:00 pm- Load trailer and eat lunch at HHS

3:00 pm- Depart for Centaurus High School (location of Monarch’s festival 10300 W South Boulder Road, Lafayette, CO 80026)

5:00 pm- Go to warm ups

6:30 pm- Performance time!! 

8:00 pm- Awards

8:30 pm- Depart back for HHS

Tickets:

Adults- $15

Students and Seniors- $10

Purchase tickets here:

https://gofan.co/event/1668293?schoolId=CO67973_1

Horizon Band Showcase 10/12

To kick off the night, we will have the In-N-Out food truck at Horizon for the “tailgate” event. Starting at 4 p.m., they will serve a meal that includes a hamburger, potato chips, and a drink. To get a meal, you MUST purchase a ticket. If your student wants a meal, they also need to purchase a ticket.

Each ticket costs $5 ($5.25 if paying via Venmo or PayPal). For every ticket your student sells, $3.75 will be credited to their student account.

Please use the Google form below to pre-purchase your tickets. Starting on Monday, September 23rd, during the evening rehearsal, you can pay for and pick up your tickets. Be sure to keep your tickets safe until the event, as we cannot replace lost tickets.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfyK-_uTEhMD7p38t0cQcsxqJiJ5aFHFVvBTTwd7cBut9MP5A/viewform

Snap Raise:

We did it!!! A massive thank you to everyone who donated, spread the word, and supported our program! We’ve raised an incredible $20,948 through Snap Raise, and this will be absolutely crucial for our students’ success this season! Your generosity is making a real difference-thank you for helping us achieve this amazing milestone!

Tumbler Fundraiser: 

We are currently running an online fundraiser featuring high-quality tumblers and gourmet coffee. With 8 custom designs and over 200 other designs, there is something for everyone! This is a great way to enjoy some delicious coffee and stylish tumblers & drinkware while helping our music students raise funds for their upcoming events and needs.

Here’s how you can participate:

1. Visit Our Fundraiser Store: Check out the selection of tumblers and coffee at our online store .
2. Place Your Order: Choose the items you like and place your order directly on the site.
3. Share our store! Share our online store on social media, with friends, and family!
4. Enjoy and Support: Enjoy your purchases knowing that all proceeds will directly benefit our music programs.

This general music department fundraiser will help the band raise funds for our CMEA Trip, as well as transportation costs for music festivals throughout the year!

Upcoming events:

Football Game 9/27 call at 5 pm

Legacy Marching Festival 9/28 call at 8:00 am Performance at 11:45 am

Orchestra and Concert Band Performance 10/3 at 7:00 pm

Big Cat Marching Festival 10/5 Tentative call at 8:00 am Performance at 2:30 pm

Please let me know if you have any questions,

Tim Dailey

Hello Band Families!

I hope you had a fantastic long weekend and got plenty of rest and relaxation! We’re diving into an action-packed week ahead, with rehearsals, our first performance, a game, and a parade lined up! This is going to be our busiest week yet, but things will settle down a bit before homecoming and our first competition the week after. Check out the daily schedule and a few important reminders below to stay on top of everything!

Rehearsal tonight 9/3

5:30-9:00 pm- We are going to learn our entire third movement and review a lot of the great work we did last week! We will be starting on the parking lot and then moving to the turf field at 6:00 pm.

WINDS ONLY- CMEA Rehearsal 9/4

3:30-5:30 pm- We have two new pieces to learn and we will continue to dig into our rep! We have about 37 minutes of total music so these rehearsals are important to get a head start during marching season!

Our CMEA performance is scheduled for February 1st at 11:00 am. I’m working out the details of this trip, but we will probably need to stay down in the Springs that Friday night to prepare. I will update you all when I know more!

Football Game 9/5:

5:00 pm- Call time at HHS

5:30 pm- Depart for North Stadium 12500 Delaware St, Westminster, CO 80234

5:45 pm- Arrive at North and unload, get ready for warm up and pre-show

6:45 pm- Step off for pre-show and Star Spangled Banner

7:00 pm- Kick off

7:50ish pm- Halftime Show

UPDATE- Because of the early morning News Cast, we will be leaving AFTER 3rd quarter. After Halftime, students will go back to the stands, play for one more quarter while we pack up and then we will head back to HHS.

9News Telecast:

I understand the call time is early and the timing is less than ideal with the game the night before. However, this year’s exposure for our program is a fantastic opportunity to showcase our incredible students. This is a unique chance, as they select different groups each year, so we want to make the most of it and maximize the potential of this opportunity.

5:00-5:15 am call time (sorry!), no earlier please as the building will be unarmed right at 5 am and we will not be let in before that.

5:30 am- Stage in the auditorium for the telecast, we will go through 4 segments, interviews, and other things that will play alongside our story on 9News that morning!

The students will be excused 1st and 2nd hour, however if we get done earlier they will return to class after we’re done.

Arvada Harvest Festival Parade 9/7:

7:30 am- Call Time

8:00 am- Depart for Stenger Soccer parking lot at Oak St, from Kipling Parkway and W 56th Pl. (Staging Area)

8:45 am- Arrive at the staging area and get into warm up. Horizon is number 51 in the parade order, and the 6th band in the parade!

9:00 am- parade starts!

10:30- 11:00 am- Horizon finishes the parade, gets a snack, and heads back to HHS

11:30 am-12:00 pm- Arrive back at HHS and dismiss!

More parade information about the route and spectator parking can be found here: https://arvadaharvestfestivalparade.com/parade/

Show Shirts:

Last chance for show shirts! Closes TONIGHT:

https://www.customink.com/fundraising/horizon-show-shirt-fundraiser?utm_campaign=desktop-campaign-page-share-v3&utm_content=horizon-show-shirt-fundraiser&utm_medium=social&utm_source=copy-link

Snap Raise:

We’re just over $2,000 away from hitting our goal of $20,000!!! Thank you all so much for donating, spreading the word, and helping support our program! Here is the link again just in case to help us get over that last gap to our goal:

https://raise.snap.app/donate/horizon-high-school-band-2024

Please let me know if you have any questions,

Tim Dailey

Hello Band Families!

Now that the seniors last day has passed, I’d like to let you all know the final schedule for the Graduation Event on Wednesday, May 15th for Band.

We will have school that day and are trying to depart HHS by 4:30 pm to get through traffic and to the event in time to set up and be ready. Here is the schedule:

• 4:15 pm- Call time in HHS Band Room (Auditorium Doors no. 15 will be unlocked for students to get back in)
• 4:30 pm- Depart for CU Events Center
• 5:15-30 pm- Arrive and unload trailer, set up band arrangement for ceremony.
• 6:15 pm- Band starts warm ups
• 6:40 pm- Band plays “pre-show” set
• 7:00 pm- Graduation Ceremony starts with band playing “Pomp and Circumstance”
• Senior Song “Parkour”
• 9:00 pm- Ceremony ends, Band plays HHS Fight Song
• We will then load the trailer and depart back to HHS with a projected arrival time around 10:30 pm

Students who will be leaving with families that have graduating siblings: Please let me know by Monday, May 13th if your student will be leaving with you from the ceremony in Boulder via email [email protected] so I can get a list together. Students should check out with myself or Mr. Duran and parents should be present so we can confirm they are leaving with you. 

Please let me know if you have any questions!