Category: HHSBPA Update

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 hhsbands.photos@gmail.com 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!

Good evening band families, we are on our final push with marching band! This email contains a lot of information, please read until the end.

Tomorrow Monday October 13th

Students rehearse 12-3pm

Lunch 3:30pm (it will be lasagna)

Performance 8pm

The Regional competition will be held at Centaurus High School (same place as Monarch Competition yesterday). Here is a link that has ALL the information, including the schedule, ticket purchase and parking: Regionals Information

What’s Next?

If you’re new to marching band, you may be wondering what happens after tomorrow nights show. This week, there will be multiple regional competitions throughout Colorado, with the last competitions on Thursday. Thursday night (or Friday morning if you don’t want to wait up) you can check out the CBA Marching website: https://www.coloradomarching.org/

If you go to “contests” then to “state championships” you will see where Horizon will be seated going into state. The top 6 5A bands from all the regional competitions will bypass state quarterfinals which is held on Friday October 24th. Horizon has not yet been able to bypass quarterfinals, so plan on them performing on Friday (but keep your fingers crossed that they make top 6!) Semi finals and finals are held on Saturday October 25th. The past 2 years, Horizon has made it to finals, so we are hoping to make it 3 years in a row!

The State Championships are held at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs. We will bus the students to and from the competitions both Friday and Saturday. IF you are planning on staying in the Springs Friday night you MUST let Mr. Dailey or Mr. Duran know in advance, please email them. If you are planning on going to the competition, you will only be allowed on base if you have pre-registered. Persons 18 years and older who do not have a DOD ID will be required to pre-register in order to clear security at the Air Force Academy.  Complete the easy form at the link below.  Save the text message that you will receive and show that with your driver’s license at the North Gate each of the days that you plan to attend.

EVENT NAME: High School Marching Band Championships (20 Oct – 27 Oct)

FOLLOW THIS LINK TO PRE REGISTER: Pre Registration

If you are a NON US citizen or international guest, click here for information on pre registering:

International guest/non US citizen info

Leading up to state, the students will have rehearsal nightly the week of 10/20-10/23, please check the calendar for more information.

The band parents will get together to decorate the band room on Thursday October 23 after the students are done with their Special Moments. We will need parents to come and help and bring supplies like balloons, streamers, poster boards, ribbons, etc. Everyone is invited to join, we just ask that you don’t come empty handed, bring some fun decorations! 

Friday October 24th, we will ask as many parents that will be available to come to the school to make a tunnel for our students to pass through as they get on the bus, we want to show them as much love and support as possible. I will send out a more specific time as we get closer.

After state is over, we like to celebrate the marching season with a banquet. This year’s Marching Banquet will be held on Tuesday November 4th at 6pm in the student center. We would like to decorate and are asking for help. If you would like to help with decorations, please visit our Amazon Wish List, we are hoping to decorate in this year’s theme.

We would like to show our Seniors some special love at the banquet this year. We would like to incorporate a baby picture of each of our senior into the slide show this year. If you have a senior, please email a baby photo ASAP to the following email: hhsbands.photos@gmail.com

We are about to kick off our next fundraiser and its going to be a fun one! Here is a word from our fundraiser chair, Melissa:

Greetings, band families!

We have an exciting new fundraiser starting, and this one will be an individual fundraiser, which means students can earn money for their band accounts! We are hosting a private event at Lizzie’s Axe Throwing, and we are asking that students/families sell tickets to the event. The event is Wednesday, November 5th at the Northglenn Lizzie’s Axe Throwing location (104th & Huron). There will be 2 sessions that ticket buyers can choose from: 5-7 pm and 7-9 pm. Tickets are $25 each, and $14 from each ticket will go into the student’s band account.Tickets are limited–only 60 available per session–so make sure to get the word out to friends and family to buy their tickets early! 

Please note that Lizzie’s will have their full menu available, but the food & drink revenue is not shared with HHSBPA.

Click here to buy tickets to the Lizzie’s Axe Throwing fundraiser, or to share the link with others! Please contact hhsbpafundraiser@gmail.com with any questions.

Thank you!

If you haven’t  paid all your band fees, please get those in. Accounts are currently updated with payments made by 09/30 and will be current by 10/19. We thank you for your patience, managing our finances is a huge undertaking, it takes time to get everything current, especially when you have a full time job.

Thank you all for making this a great marching season! If you have any questions please don’t hesitate to ask!

Good evening band families,

Thank you all for your continued support through this season, whether you have chaperoned, hauled equipment, provided food/water, or just made sure your student was on time with their black socks, we appreciate you!

This week, we have a need for snacks. If you are able to bring in individually wrapped snacks, our chaperones are in need of them for the next two competitions. If you would like to donate snacks, please bring them to Monday night’s rehearsal (your student can put them in Mr. Dailey’s office) or you can bring them to student drop off Saturday morning and leave them in the auditorium lobby (to the very far right, right as you enter the doors). Thank you!

We have two competitions in the next two weeks. We have Monarch on Saturday and a big one…Regionals on the following Monday.

Monarch Competition Saturday October 11

12pm – Student rehearsal

3:30pm – Student’s are fed lunch at the school (will be sub sandwiches)

7:30pm – Band Performance

**We will feed the student’s lunch on Saturday. They will be fed sub sandwiches, but we are asking for help with sides and dessert. If you can help with food on Saturday, please sign up here: Monarch Festival Meal Train Sign Up

Here is a link to the Monarch Festival website. You will find information on tickets, parking, and the festival schedule: Monarch Marching Festival

CBA Northern Regionals Monday October 13th

12pm – Student rehearsal

3:30pm – Student’s are fed lunch at the school (we will have lasagna)

8pm – Band Performance

**We will feed the student’s lunch on Monday. They will be fed lasagna at the school. If you are able to bring lasagna, sides, or dessert, please sign up here: CBA Regionals Meal Train Sign UP

Regionals is held at the same field that Monarch is at. Here is the link to the CBA marching website where you can find more information about regionals, state, past competitions and more. I suggest you check it out if you are new to the marching world: CBA Marching Band

We have a lot going on this week, check out this weeks schedule:

Monday: Rehearsal 6-9pm

Tuesday: Jazz Concert 6:30-7:30pm

Wednesday: Raising Cane’s restaurant night (136th & Grant, mention your with HHS Band!) 4-8pm

Thursday: Orchestra Concert 6:30-7:30pm

We have a few openings left for chaperones and hawk haulers for the remaining events, if you can help our with either, sign up here:

Chaperone Sign Up

Hawk Hauler Sign Up

If you haven’t ordered your #pink4t sweatshirt and would like one you have until Friday, October 10th to get your order in. This is NOT a fundraiser, this is a way for us to show our love and support to the Denke family and all Tierney’s friends. Order your sweatshirt here: #pink4t sweatshirt order form

Lastly, we are going to put in an order for yard signs that say Horizon High School Marching Band (kind of like the Senior signs you will see in the spring). Each sign is $10 (this is not a fundraiser, just a way to show some Hawk Pride). You will need to have your order placed through Zeffy by this Friday, October 10th. We thought this could be a fun way for you to show your Hawk pride leading up to the State Marching Competition. Here is the link to order a sign:

Zeffy sign order link

(the picture on the link is a reference, the actual sign may be slightly different)

We know this is a lot of information, if you have any questions about the next couple weeks, including the State competition, please don’t hesitate to ask. We will be sharing more information about state next week. 

Have a great week!

Good afternoon band families,

The band had a great show performance at the Legacy Festival! If you missed it, they will be performing at the football game on Friday and at the Big Cat Marching Festival on Saturday.

A HUGE shout out and thank you to all of you who helped out yesterday, it is much appreciated! 

We have some asks as we go into this week…

First and foremost, we are in need of water. We blew through most of our water supply at the Legacy Competition. We are asking for help to fill our chaperone closet with water. If you are able, please drop off bottled water to Mr. Dailey’s office at tomorrow night’s rehearsal OR at Saturday morning’s rehearsal.

Next, this past Thursday we learned that the rental company we use to rent the semi to pull our trailer changed their policies resulting in us being unable to rent from them. If you know of anyone, or have any connections with a trucking company who may be able to help us out, please let me know ASAP. We are trying to get something put together to enable us to use our semi trailer this weekend. Our props and instruments required us to rent 2 large U-Hauls and a flatbed trailer, alongside our existing small trailer. Our semi trailer makes it much easier and safer to transport everything. So if anyone could pass along some info or names, that would be AMAZING!

We are in need of chaperones AND hawk haulers for both Friday’s football game AND Saturday’s competition. If you can help, sign up here:

Chaperone Sign Up

Hawk Haulers Sign Up

We will be feeding the students twice on Saturday. We will have a pasta bar lunch at the school before they leave, and pizza at the competition for dinner. Please sign up here to bring food:

Big Cat Meal Train

This weeks schedule:

Monday 09/29: Rehearsal 6-9pm

Friday 10/03: Football game 5:30-10:30pm

Saturday 10/04: Big Cat Marching Festival

9-11am: Rehearsal

11am: Lunch, load trailer, get dressed 

12:15pm: Depart for NAAC

1:35pm: Warm up

3pm: Performance

4:15pm: Prelims awards

5:30-8:30pm: finals performances

9pm: Finals Awards

Big Cat Marching Festival Information

Here is the link to the Big Cat Marching festival. You will find information about ticketing, parking, and the schedule: Big Cat Marching Invitational

A couple of our marching students have designed a sweatshirt to honor their friend Tierny Denke that passed away last March. This is not a fundraiser! This is a memorial to honor Tierny, so if you would like to order one for your student or yourself, here is the order link, the printing run will be closed October 10th: #pink4T sweatshirt order form

Good morning band families, 

We hope everyone is getting some much needed rest from a busy Homecoming weekend. The band had a great performance at both the football and parade, they are always a fan favorite!

This email is long, but has all the information you need for the festival, please read this message in its entirety.

We have our first competition on Saturday, September 27th. This is the Legacy Marching Festival held at the Adams 12 Five Star Stadium at 9351 Washington St., Thornton, CO 80229. We need A LOT of help for festivals, please read through this and see if you are able to assist. Each type of volunteer is only a commitment for this specific event, and we will put out a call for volunteers for each following event, festival, or parade. Intrepid parents can try all sorts of different things during the Marching Band season leading up to State Finals. 

– We are in need of 2 more chaperones, please know that there is a lot of walking at festivals. If you can chaperone, sign up here: Chaperone Sign Up

– We are in need of 2 more people to help out with the Hawk Haulers, if you would like to help out with pit crew, sign up here: Hawk Hauler Sign Up

– We will be feeding the students lunch and dinner (if they make finals, which I’m guessing they will, they are doing great!) We need people to provide food, help serve, and help tear down. Please sign up to help with food: Legacy Meal Train

**IMPORTANT NOTE***: Please ensure your student has sunscreen, a hat, sunglasses, a water bottle, and layers. After they perform, they will watch other bands. It can get hot during the day sitting in the bleachers. We are outside all day, and they will need to refill water bottles multiple times throughout the day. 

Saturday Schedule:

8:00am – Rehearsal

11:00am – Band departs for stadium

1:30pm – Horizon’s Performance

4:30pm – Prelims awards

5:30pm – Finals begins

9:15pm – Finals awards

FYI: We will find out if the band makes Finals and what time their final performance will be at the Prelims awards. We will post the Finals information on our social media once we know their performance time.

Important Festival Information

Adams12 School District has implemented a CLEAR BAG policy for all stadiums
including Five Star Stadium. Similar to other stadium and sporting events each entrant
will be allowed only one 12”x12”x6” clear bag. Backpacks, coolers, duffle bags, camera
bags, etc. will not be allowed. Refillable water bottles will be permitted as will re-entry to
the venue. Details of this policy can be found at: Adams 12 Stadium Information

Spectator vehicles must park in one of the spectator parking lots west of Washington Street. Please only park in the designated spectator lots, not the surrounding neighborhoods as we had several calls from irate neighbors about their driveways being blocked. Legacy is recommending you arrive at least 1 hour prior to the band’s performance.

The Concessions stand will be open all day and is located on the southwest side of the stadium. Please see the price list below for further details and payment options. The festival will also have spirit wear, programs, and patches available for purchase directly behind the press box (via cash or credit card, no ATM on site).

The information below comes from the Festival organizers.

<Festival Details Start>

2025 Legacy Marching Festival Concessions Stand Menu*
ENTREES

BBQ Pulled Pork – $5.00
Hot Dog – $3.00
Nachos w/ Cheese – $3.00

ADD-ONS

Hot Cheese – $2.00
Chili – $2.00

SIDES

Chips – $1.00
Pickle (2) – $1.00
Doughnuts – $2.00 (Morning Only)

DESSERTS

Cookies – $2.00
Candy – $3.00

DRINKS

Soda $3.00
Gatorade – $3.00
Energy Drinks – $5.00
Bottled Water – $2.00
Coffee / Hot Chocolate / Hot Tea – $2.00

• WE PLAN TO ACCEPT CASH or CREDIT CARDS for CONCESSIONS.
• There will be NO ATM onsite
• *Prices and availability subject to change.
• Concessions hours are tentatively 9:00 AM until 8:30 PM.
• Concessions will close at 3:45 PM and re-open at the beginning of Finals.

TICKET PRICES
ALL DAY TICKETS

Adults $21.00
Children/Students/Seniors* $12.00

PRELIMINARY COMPETITION ONLY

Adults $14.00
Children/Students/Seniors* $8.00

FINALS COMPETITION

Adults $14.00
Children/Students/Seniors* $8.00

• *Children 5 and under are FREE for Prelims and Finals
• *Children/Students are considered 18 years of age or younger.
• *Seniors are 65 years of age or older.
• WE WILL ACCEPT CASH OR CREDIT CARDS ONLY
• Tickets can be purchased in advance/online via GoFan at: Legacy Festival Tickets

<Festival Details End>

We want to thank everyone for your support and willingness to provide your time, hard work, and food for these students. It takes a village to support a band program, and we’re thankful that we have a strong village for these incredibly talented students.

GO HAWKS!

Please let us know if you have any questions!

Good afternoon band families,

Thank you for coming out to our Showcase yesterday, it was so much fun to see what the students have been working on, we can’t wait to see how the show evolves through the season, but the Marching Hawks are off to a fantastic start!

Our first marching competition is two weeks away, and we are busy preparing. If your student has food allergies, please shoot us an email and let us know what it is. If they have severe allergies, we would suggest that your student pack their own meals for competition days. We try to accommodate the best we can, however, we would hate for anyone to have a bad reaction to meals that are provided. Next Sunday, we will be attaching the Meal Train for the Legacy Competition, keep a lookout for that.

We have a busy week ahead:

Monday: Rehearsal 6-9pm 

Friday: Homecoming football game (Details to be given by Mr. Dailey)

Saturday: Broomfield Day’s Parade (Details to be given by Mr. Dailey)

**If you ordered a button and did not pick it up, we will have them at rehearsal tomorrow evening from 8-8:50pm, we will be sitting in the stadium**

If you didn’t order a button, but would like one, we have opened up the order form one more time, please fill out this form AND pay by Wednesday 09/17. Button Order Form

We are still in need of volunteers to man the concession stands for the Homecoming Football game this Friday evening, if you would like to help us out with this, sign up here: Homecoming Concessions Sign Up

Our students will be marching in the Broomfield Day’s Parade next Saturday 09/20. Here is a link to the Broomfield Day’s website: Broomfield Day’s Information

Please let us know if you have any questions! Have a great week!

Good afternoon band families! 

We have a lot of information to share so please read the entire email.

First off, we would like to thank everyone who participated in our online fundraising campaign, it has been a huge success. Not only were we able to purchase new field mics, a new sound board and cart, but we were able to purchase new wireless solo mics and new speakers. This is a huge, much needed upgrade for the band. We are grateful for everyone’s generosity and help with this. As we always say, it takes a village to run a music program, and we have a truly amazing village…thank you!

We have a lot happening this week, including our kick off to competition season, our Showcase event.

Monday: Rehearsal from 6-9pm

Tuesday: Volleyball pep band at 6:30pm 

AND

Freddy’s Restaurant night between 4-8pm

Location: 14255 Lincoln St, Thornton

Please Note: Horizon High School Band Parent Association will receive 20% of fundraiser sales during this fundraiser (excluding DoorDash, Uber Eats, GrubHub and Google orders, gift card sales and delivery fees.)  Participate on Sep 9, 2025 from 4:00pm to 8:00pm by ordering digitally or at the physical Freddy’s restaurant. To participate digitally, order on the Freddy’s mobile app or website using the code GIVEBACK. To participate at the restaurant, tell the cashier of your participation (before payment) or show the fundraiser flyer below to the cashier (before payment). 

Wednesday: DEADLINE to purchase the Showcase meal of Chick-Fi-La meal on Zeffy at 4pm

Please remember to order all meals by Wednesday at 4pm, we will NOT be able to provide any meals the day of. We are asking that all orders be placed through Zeffy, this will give you a ticket on your phone that you will show at the Showcase to get your meal. Here is the link to order: Showcase Ticket Order Form

**IF YOUR STUDENT WANTS A MEAL, YOU MUST PURCHASE THEIR MEAL ON ZEFFY BY WEDNESDAY AT 4PM**

Saturday: Showcase!!

The Showcase will take place at Horizon High School. We will set up our tailgate party, dunk tank, merch table, and meal pick up, in the senior parking lot. Please park in the front parking lot, or the junior lot. Feel free to bring chairs, canopy tents, yard games, and cash for the dunk tank. For $5 cash, you can purchase 3 throws to dunk Mr. Dailey or Mr. Duran. You can purchase show tickets on the above Zeffy link, or cash at the gate. This is such a fun event, come out to see the show before the competition season begins!

If you have a senior band member, and they have a senior banner, feel free to bring it on Saturday and hang on the fence.

• 2pm – Marching Rehearsal
• 4-5:30pm – Food, games, tailgate, and DUNK TANK!!!
• 5:30-6pm – Students change
• 6pm – Showcase performance

The HHSBPA has the opportunity to run the concessions stand during the Homecoming football game on Friday, September 19th at the North Stadium. We need 10 parents to volunteer to work the concessions. You would need to be at the stadium at 5:30pm. Unfortunately, you will not be able to watch the halftime show, however, the band will not be performing their entire show. This will help raise money for the band. If you would like to work the concessions, please sign up here: Concessions Sign Up

We are also in need of chaperones for upcoming events, including the Homecoming game. If you would like to chaperone, please sign up here: Chaperone Sign Up

Lastly, the student account’s should all be up to date as of last Tuesday, 9/2. Our HHSBPA Treasurer will make sure that she has updated all the accounts again before the last payment is due on September 26th. After that, she will have the accounts updated by the first of every month. Please be kind and remember that with all the students’ accounts to manage, plus the general fund, we are unable to update every account weekly, as we are entirely a volunteer-based organization and have our own full time employment to provide for our own families. We do our best to run the band’s accounts and greatly appreciate your patience and understanding when things are not updated immediately. If you have questions regarding your account, feel free to email us, if we are unable to answer your question, we will pass your question onto our treasurer. 

If you have any questions, please reach out. We look forward to seeing everyone next Saturday at the Showcase!

Good evening band families,

We have had an amazing first week of our online campaign! Because of your help with getting this campaign out to others, and the work of our students, we have raised almost $30,000 in less than 1 week! We have been able to purchase new field mics, solo mics, a sound board, and a new sound cart. We would still love to hit our goal of $50,000, which would help us fund our transportation for the year, and purchase other new musical equipment that is desperately needed. Please continue to share our campaign with your family, friends, neighbors, co workers, and your social media accounts. Every bit counts! Online Fundraising Campaign

This week we have our first football game. The game is on Thursday at North Stadium. We are still in need of chaperones and help with the Hawk Haulers. If you would like to help, sign up here: 

Chaperone Sign Up

Hawk Haulers Sign Up

If you sign up to chaperone, please be sure to go through the school’s Raptor Check. You need to go to the front office of the school and give them you driver’s license, it takes all of a couple minutes. If you have questions about helping with either of these, please email me, I would be happy to answer any questions.

We are also needing more snacks and water for football games and competitions. If you are able to donate water or individually wrapped snacks (gold fish, cheese its, granola bars, fruit snacks, etc…) please drop it off in the band room before or after Monday night rehearsals. 

If you purchased a senior banner, please find us at the stadium and hang their banner on the fence to celebrate our seniors! Please make sure that either you grab their banner after the game, or you arrange for another parent to grab it. Also, the photographer still has all the images from the photo shoot and has made those available for purchase, if you are interested follow this link: Senior Banner Photos

If you would like to order a button with your students picture in their uniform, please fill out this form AND make the $10 payment by Tuesday night. We will be taking photos on Thursday (make sure you let your student know they need to get their photo taken if you ordered buttons, we will have the list, but we want to make sure everyone gets their picture taken). 

Button Form

If you haven’t ordered your swag bag for this year’s show (cowboy hat, badge, bandana) place your order here (please ensure payment is made ASAP):

Swag Bag Order Form

Good afternoon band families!

We have to give a huge shout out to all of our students, directors, and parent volunteers that helped with yesterday’s Mile of Money event, it was a HUGE success! We were able to raise $3,741.96! In comparison, last year we only performed at King Soopers and raised around $1800. So thank you so much for everyone’s participation!

Tomorrow, we will kick off our online fundraising campaign. Last week, your student was given a sheet to collect contact information from 25 people. Please check with your student to see if they were able to get all the information they need. The campaign will kick off tomorrow, we are hoping to raise $60,000. We can only achieve that goal with your help. This is a great way for any family or friends that are near or far to support the band. This year, our goal is to purchase a new sound system, ours is in DESPERATE need of replacement, and this campaign will help us achieve that goal. Please remember that our budget this year is $153,270.00. The band fees that you pay only cover 44% of that number, we have to raise the remaining amount. If every student has 25 contacts that can give $17, we can reach our goal of $60,000, so please help us find those contacts.

If you pre ordered a swag bag at the Show N’ Tell, they will be ready on Friday. We will label them if your student would like to grab it after rehearsal on Friday. 

If you didn’t pre order a swag bag, but would like one (includes cowboy hat, bandana, and badge), they are $10 each. Please fill out this form and we will get them ordered: Swag Bag Order Form

If you would like to order a button with your student’s picture they are $10 each,  please fill out this form and pay by Monday August 25th: Button Order Form

Monday night rehearsal’s start tomorrow for the students. They will rehearse from 6-9pm. Please make sure that your student hydrates after school, and eats something before evening rehearsal.

Please let us know if you have any questions!