Category: Weekly Update

We are coming to the end of this school year and just about to start up the new marching season, so there is a lot about to happen.

This week we have the final band concert of the year on Thursday at 6:30pm. We will be holding our annual silent auction basket fundraiser to help kick off the marching season, so please come show your support and bid on some fun baskets! Come early to check out and bid on the baskets and take a look at the senior boards (senior parents feel free to decorate a tri fold board full of your seniors best and cutest school moments, we will have tables out to display them).

Graduation is Wednesday May 14th at 7pm. The band does play at graduation and details of the day will be sent out by Mr. Dailey.

We are in need of 3 more parent volunteers to chaperone the band to the Graduation ceremony.Wednesday May 14th – Call Time is 4p.

The expectation is that the chaperones ride on the buses with the band, to Boulder and back to the school (2 chaperones per bus) and sit in the stands behind the band.  Clear Bag Policy applies to this event. Please respond to this email if you are able to chaperone.

We will be kicking of marching season on Thursday May 22. All the students (including incoming freshman) will meet from 5-6:30pm to read through the show and there will be a parent meeting from 6:30-7:30pm in the auditorium. We need all students to attend the read through and all parents to attend the meeting. We will be discussing the 2025/26 budget, discussing fees, meeting the new board members, and seeing where parents can plug in and help out with the band village. We look forward to seeing everyone there!

Lastly, senior parents, please let us know by end of this week what you would like done with any extra funds your senior may have.

-Gift to another student

-Gift to the scholarship fund

-Place in siblings account

**All unspecified funds will go into the general account**

Also, let us know if you have another student in the band, or coming into the band so we can keep you on the email list. June 1st we will delete all senior parents email accounts unless otherwise told!

We hope you all have a fantastic week, please let us know if you need anything!

Good evening band families!

We are getting close to the end of the year and there is a lot going on.

This week, the Wind Ensemble will be heading to the CBA state festival on Monday.

Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday we will be working on getting the uniforms cleaned, and we need your help taking the uniform bags apart and then re-hanging them once they are cleaned. If you are able to help, please sign up on this sign up genius here: Uniform Cleaning

Friday, Jazz 1 will be performing at the UNC Jazz Festival.

If you are signed up with King Soopers Community rewards, please send your screenshot to this email address by May 1st.

If you have a senior, we need to know what you would like us to do with any left over funds that are in their account. We have several options:

• *If you have another band student, or and incoming freshman, we can put the funds into their account.
• You can “gift” the funds into another students account (just let us know what student you want to give it to).
• You can ask for that money to be put into our scholarship fund.
• If you don’t specify where you would like to the funds to be placed, they will automatically go into our general fund.

Please let us know your choice by May 8th.

Also, if you are a parent of a senior, please let us know if you have another student in the program, or an incoming freshman so we can keep you on the email list for next season. We will delete all senior parent emails on June 1st, so please let us know if you would like to continue receiving emails after then.

Lastly for senior parents, you can set up a senior photo board at the last concert (both the last jazz and concert band concert).

Please let us know if you have any questions!

We have the spring concert for the concert, symphonic, and wind ensembles on Tuesday at 6:30pm. We were planning on having our silent auction that night, however, we have chosen to postpone it until the last concert of the year to kick off the marching season. If you were unable to get your student’s basket item, we now have more time! If you need to bring in an item, or if you would like to donate more, please bring it in to Mr. Dailey.

At Tuesday’s concert, the students are encouraged to wear a pop of pink with their concert black. We will be honoring the life of Tierney Denke who passed away on Wednesday. We are all incredibly heartbroken to lose a band student. I would like to invite parents (and others) who come to the concert on Tuesday to also wear pink. We would love to show the Denke family that we are thinking of them through during this difficult time, so please join us and let’s show our love and wear pink. We will take pictures and send them to the family.

If your student is going on the Ireland trip, they will be bringing home their uniform tomorrow, along with their trip shirt, and baseball hat. Please make sure that your student has the following packed:

• Passport
• Uniform pants
• Uniform top
• Marching shoes
• Baseball hat (they are wearing this for the parade)
• Gloves
• Gauntlets
• Black socks
• Their instrument (reed players have an extra reed, brass players have slide/valve oil).

We are NOT taking spare uniform parts, so please triple check they have everything. Have a great week!

Off to Ireland on Thursday!

Greetings band families!

This week, on Tuesday February 25th at 7pm, we will be having an all band parent/student meeting for those who will be in the band program next year. This will be an informative meeting for incoming freshman, new band members, and current band members. Mr. Dailey will be discussing the programs offered, what the schedule will look like and will be revealing the marching show. There will be a short presentation by the BPA and you will have a chance to meet with the different members after the meeting. This meeting will start promptly at 7pm, please plan on attending.

If your student is going on the Ireland trip, rehearsals begin this Tuesday at 3:30pm. The rehearsals prior to the trip are as follows:

• Tuesday 2/25 – 3:30-5pm (First Rehearsal)
• Thursday 2/27 – 3:30-5pm
• Tuesday 3/4 – 3:30-5pm
• Thursday 3/6 – 3:30-5pm
• Monday 3/10 – 3:30-5pm (Final Rehearsal)

Unfortunately, we still have several students who owe band fees. This greatly impacts our budget and ability to provide resources for the band program to be successful. The band parent’s association provides funds for things like transportation, money for new music, drill, instructors, and so much more. Please make sure that your student’s fees are paid in full. If you need to assistance with fees please contact either the HHSBPA or Mr. Dailey.

Have a great week!

Just a few reminders for the week:

Monday (tonight!): Final Ireland trip meeting 6pm in the auditorium

Wednesday: Qdoba restaurant night – 120th & Colorado from 4-8pm, mention you are there for the band and we will receive a portion of the proceeds

Thursday: Mile High Jazz Festival

• 7:00 am: Call Time
• 7:30 am: Depart for the King Center at Metro State University
• 8:15 am: Arrive and Jazz 3 moves to warm ups
• 8:50 am: Jazz 3 Performs
• 10:30 am: Jazz 2 Performs
• 11:30 am: Lunch at Tivoli Student Center (Walking Distance)
• 1:55 pm: Jazz 1 Performs
• 4:30 pm: Depart Metro back to HHS
• 5:15 pm: Arrive at HHS and dismiss!

***We are in need of 2 chaperones for the Mile High Jazz festival, you will need to be at the school at 7am and will return with the students at 5:15pm. Please let us know if you are able to chaperone this event.***

Have a great week!

Good evening band families!

We would like to congratulate the Horizon Wind Ensemble, Mr. Dailey, and Mr. Duran for their fantastic performance at CMEA. The music they performed was extremely difficult and required every member to work hard to achieve the quality performance that they reached.

If your student participated in the Little Caesar’s fundraiser, the products will be delivered on Tuesday. Your student will need to pick up their order after school on Tuesday. The orders need to stay refrigerated so please make sure the order is picked up.

Have a great week!

Good evening band families! We have a quick update for this week:

If you are participating in the King Soopers community rewards, it is time to take a screenshot of your rewards and email it to our HHSBPA email. Please have them in by February 1st.

If you are able to donate breakfast food items for the Wind Ensemble’s CMEA trip, please drop them off to Mr. Dailey either 1/27, 1/28 or 1/29.

We are still looking for sponsors/donations for our Ireland trip shirts and hats, if you know of anyone who would be willing to donate or sponsor the band, please let me know.

If you participated in the Little Caesar’s fundraiser, we will put out an email about the pick up date and time as soon as we receive the information.

Have a great week!

Good evening band families, I hope everyone is staying warm this weekend!

Just a couple quick things for this week:

If you are participating in the King Soopers community rewards, it is time to take a screenshot of your rewards and email it to this email address. Please have them in by February 1st.

The wind ensemble has a rehearsal tomorrow from 9-12pm.

We are still in need of a chaperone chair, a food chair, and a concessions chair for next year’s marching season. Please let us know if you are interested in helping out with any of those positions.

If you are able to donate breakfast food items for the Wind Ensemble’s CMEA trip, please drop them off to Mr. Dailey either 1/27, 1/28 or 1/29.

Thank you for your help with this!

The first basketball pep band game is this Friday. Please check in with your student on which games they will be attending. The students were asked to complete a form to chose which games they would play at. Playing at the basketball games are a part of the lettering requirement, as are attending other concerts that they are not playing in, so if your student is wanting to letter in band, they will need to attend these events!

Our January Restaurant Night is this Wednesday at Panda Express at the Orchard from 10am-9pm. Mention you are will the band and we will get a cut of the proceeds. Here’s a link to all the information and the flyer: Panda Express night

This Saturday, our Winter Color Guard will be hosting a Friends and Family Show. The doors open at 5pm. Tickets are $10, kids 12 and under are free. This is a fantastic opportunity to come watch and support our winter guard. There will be other high school color guards performing too, with Anesidora closing the show.

The Little Caesars fundraiser continues through this week, ALL ORDERS MUST BE TURNED IN BY FRIDAY 01/17. Delivery and pick up of the pizza kits will occur the week of February 3, we will let you know the exact date when Little Caesars gives that to us.

We are beginning to look for corporate sponsors for our bands. We would love to have multiple sponsors to help fund our bands. If your company would like to sponsor the band, or you would be willing to help get our sponsor letter out to companies, please let us know. We currently are in need of a sponsor for some last minute needs for our trip to Ireland, we will be happy to put companies logo on our trip shirt for donations. Please let us know ASAP if you know of a company who would like to help us out.

Lastly, if you student will be continuing with the Horizon band program, I am going to ask you to consider joining our board. We have a couple positions opening up this year and a few that we are adding:

• Chaperone Chair: Helps organize chaperones for all outings such as football games, competitions and festivals. Making sure chaperone bags are stocked.
• Food Chair: Helps organize food for marching competitions and concert festivals as needed
• Concessions Chair: Will organize food and will help staff concessions sold at concerts
• Social Media Person: Will take pictures and maintain social media pages

Members of our board meet (generally) the first Tuesday of every month at 6pm. We do a fantastic job of collaborating and helping each other, so please do not feel you will be on your own to figure things out. It takes a village to support a band program, so we need people to come fill the spots of those parents whose students are graduating. If you are interested in a position, or have questions, please fell free to reach out.

Have a great week!

Good afternoon band families!

We hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving week.

This week we have a restaurant fundraiser night on Wednesday. Here’s the info:

Smashburger @ 14375 Orchard Pkwy

Wednesday, December 4th at 11 am-9 pm

Dine in, take out or pick-up!

More info and link to RSVP:

Horizon High School Band Parent Association’s GroupRaise Meal at Smashburger

Please share this on your social media pages to ensure a good turn out!

Have a great week!