Category: Weekly Update

Good evening band families!

In N Out

In N Out ticket purchases are due by MONDAY night (October 7th)! You must pre-purchase your tickets for the In N Out meal (Including a ticket for your student) if you and your student would like to eat at Saturday’s showcase. You will NOT be able to purchase meal tickets the day of the event. Tickets are $5 for the meal and $5 for the show. Please fill out the google form below to buy tickets. You can pick tickets up tomorrow evening from 8:20-8:50pm.

In N Out Pre-Sale Form

Showcase Schedule (October 12th)

• 1-3:30pm – Rehearsal
• 4pm – In N Out will begin to serve, if you student has a ticket, they will be served first
• 6 ish – Band performs show, $5 gate fee (kids 12 & under are free, and HHS athletic students free if wearing their jersey)

*Please bring your senior posters, we will hang them up for the showcase

**From 4-6pm, we will have a tailgate party, please bring lawn games, football, etc…  and be ready to hang out with your fellow band families (No alcohol please)

After the band performs, we will need to put props and instruments away, then the students are free to leave.

Band Fees Reminder

Please remember to pay any remaining band fees, all fees should be paid in full. Please go to the band website to check balances. The password to enter the fee area is in your email.

Help us Hawk the Lawn!

As our season is well underway and state is right around the corner, we would like to continue a tradition that was started last year to celebrate our band kiddos! Last year on the day of state, the students were surprised with a “Hawk the Lawn” in their honor. Each band student had a lawn sign with their name on it (that they were able to keep) placed in front of the school beside a giant “Good Luck at State” sign. The kids really appreciated the recognition and we would like to do it again this season. Last year, the signs were paid for by an individual parent, but this year, we are hoping to purchase through donations from our band parents.  We are hoping that each family could donate $5.00 (or more if you would like!) to help purchase the signs. The total cost with everything is $616.00. We would need one week for order and turnaround of the signs, so we are hoping to have the money by 10/`14 (state is the 25th/26th). There are a few options for payment: cash to Mr. Daily, Venmo ($6.00), or you can pay in person at Monday night’s practice from 8:20-8:50. Jessica, Danielle or Nikole will be inside the stadium. Thank you so much for supporting our AMAZING band students as they continue to make us proud every performance!

Weeks events:

• Monday: Rehearsal 5:30-9pm
• Tuesday: Winter percussion interest meeting 5:30-6:30pm
• Wednesday: Wind Ensemble rehearsal 3:30-5:30pm & Chipolte Restaurant night 5-9pm 14452 Orchard Pkwy Unit 300, Westminster, CO (flyer below, please share on your social media and don’t forget to mention you are with the band!)
• Thursday: Percussion 5:30-7:30pm & Guard 6-9pm
• Friday: Football game 5-9:30pm (This is senior night and 8th grade night)
• Saturday: Rehearsal 1-3:30pm & Showcase 4-7pm

Thank you so much for all your help and support so far this season!

Good evening band families!

The marching hawks did a fantastic job this weekend, both at the parade and in their first competition! They took 5th place at the Monarch Festival with a score of 68.8. If you are new to the marching band world, bands are scored in several different categories. They receive judges tapes for each category that they can use to help improve for the next competition. To track how Horizon and other bands do throughout the season, you can go to the Colorado Bandmasters Association Marching website: CBA marching.

This week’s schedule:

• Monday: Marching rehearsal 5:30-9pm
• Thursday: Percussion rehearsal 5:30-7:30pm & Guard rehearsal 6-9pm
• Friday: Football game call time 5pm
• Saturday: Legacy Festival call time 8am, 11:45am performance time

Friday Night Football game

If you have a senior who got a banner, please plan on hanging your student’s banner (or talk with someone that can do it for you) at the same location as last week. Please make sure that you have zip ties or clips to hand them on the chain link fence. You also will be responsible for removing it at the end of the game.

Legacy Festival

Legacy Festival is held at the Adams 12 5 Star Stadium off of Washington. It has prelims and finals – you will be required to purchase a ticket for both prelims AND finals. Horizon’s prelims performance is at 11:45. We will not know if Horizon made finals or what time they would perform in the finals until the prelims awards ceremony at 4:45pm. Finals will begin at 5:45pm and the finals award ceremony is at 9:30pm, so this will be a long day. We will feed the kids a potato bar for lunch, and if they make finals, we will feed them Chick Fil A for dinner. We will food donations and help with feeding the students, if you are able to help out, please sign up on the Meal Train: Legacy Meal Train

For more information about the Legacy Festival, including ticket information and parking, please visit: Legacy Festival Info

We could use a couple more people for our pit crew and chaperones, if you would like to help with that, please sign up here: Pit Crew Sign Up & Chaperone Sign Up

Jackpot Merch

We will be selling Jackpot merch (green poker visor, cards glasses, beaded necklace) at Monday night’s rehearsal for $10. We will be in the school stadium where the band rehearses from 8:20-8:50pm, we would then love to encourage you to watch the end of rehearsal, the band always does a complete run through of the show and they would like an audience. We only have 17 left, but have ordered more, we will also sell them Saturday morning at the drop off right in front of the auditorium.

In N Out Fundraiser

On Saturday October 12, the band will host their annual Showcase fundraiser. This fundraiser has 2 parts:

First, we will have the In N Out food truck come to Horizon for the “tailgate” portion of the night. Starting at 4pm they will serve a meal that includes a hamburger, potato chips and a drink. You MUST purchase a ticket for a meal (if your student wants a meal, they also need to purchase a ticket). Each ticket costs $5 ($5.25 if using Venmo or Paypal). For each ticket that your student sells, $3.75 will go into their student account. We are asking that you use the google form below to pre-purchase tickets. You can start picking up your tickets at Monday night rehearsals from 8:20-8:50pm, you can pay for and pick up your tickets. You must hold onto your tickets until the event, we cannot replace lost tickets.

The second part is the band performance. Once everyone has been fed, the band will perform their field show at 6:30pm. There is a $5 entrance fee to watch the band perform. This money will go into our general fund, money will be taken the day of at the gate.

In N Out Google Form

Lastly, the final payment was due last week, if you haven’t paid yet, please visit the band’s website https://horizonhawks.band/ to make that payment.

The password is in your email.

There’s a lot going on this fall, please encourage your student to get their homework done early, hydrate, and get plenty of rest when they can. It’s a busy season, but will be 100% worth it! Please let us know if you have any questions and thank you for your continued support!

Good evening band families!

This email is going to be a bit long, but please read to the bottom, there is a lot of info to go over.

This week’s schedule:

Monday: Marching rehearsal 5:30-9pm

Wednesday: Wind Ensemble rehearsal 3:30-5:30pm

Thursday: Percussion 5:30-7:30pm; Guard: 6-9pm ALSO The All Heros game at 6pm

Saturday: Broomfield days parade, Monarch festival-stay tuned for schedule from Mr. Dailey

Let’s talk Saturday:

Students will first march in the Broomfield Days Parade in the morning. We will provide them with a snack, then they will go into rehearsal. Around 2pm, we will feed them lunch. We will provide pizza, but are need help with sides and paper products, please use our meal train to sign up to help:

9/21 Meal Train

Buses will leave around 3pm to go to the competition. The band performs at 6:30pm. The band will stay for awards and head home. There will be a concession stand if your student needs a snack, they can purchase food there. If your student has dietary restrictions, please ensure that you send them with a lunch/snacks.

Here is the ticket information:

Tickets:
Adults- $15
Students and Seniors- $10

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

Here is a link to the Monarch Festival’s website for more information, including information on parking:

Monarch Band Festival

We are in need of water. If you are able, please bring a case of water either to Monday night’s rehearsal, or on Saturday, thank you in advance!

Mr. Dailey would like to encourage parents to come into the football field and watch the end of Monday night rehearsals. The band usually does a run-through at the end of rehearsal, we would love for you to come watch!

Next Saturday after the parade and during the rehearsal, we will have this year’s show, Jackpot, party favors available for purchase. For $10 you will receive a green poker visor, card shaped sunglasses and a strand of Las Vegas themed beads to wear to competitions. It is a fun way to show you are supporting Horizon at the competitions!

Let’s talk Showcase:

On Saturday October 12, the band will host their annual Showcase fundraiser. This fundraiser has 2 parts:

First, we will have the In N Out food truck come to Horizon for the “tailgate” portion of the night. Starting at 4pm they will serve a meal that includes a hamburger, potato chips and a drink. You MUST purchase a ticket for a meal (if your student wants a meal, they also need to purchase a ticket). Each ticket costs $5 ($5.25 if using Venmo or Paypal). For each ticket that your student sells, $3.75 will go into their student account. We are asking that you use the google form below to pre-purchase tickets, then starting on Monday September 23rd during the evening rehearsal, you can pay for and pick up your tickets. You must hold onto your tickets until the event, we cannot replace lost tickets.

 In-N-Out Ticket Pre-Sale

The second part is the band performance. Once everyone has been fed, the band will perform their field show at 6:30pm. There is a $5 entrance fee to watch the band perform. This money will go into our general fund, money will be taken the day of at the gate.

Lastly, if you would like to sign up to help with Chaperoning or Pit Crew, please sign up here:

Chaperones

Pit Crew

We know this is a lot of information, and many of you are new to marching band and competition season. If you have questions, please reach out, we will try and get back to you as quickly as we are able to!

Good morning band families and Happy Labor Day! I hope you all are getting some extra rest today, we have a BUSY week ahead.

• Monday – Labor Day/No school
• Tuesday – No School but there is marching rehearsal from 5:30-9pm
• Wednesday – Wind Ensemble rehearsal 3:30 – 5:30pm
• Thursday – Football Game at North Stadium 5 – 9:30pm Please make sure that you student eats dinner before they come to the school.
• Friday – Rehearsal 5AM – Yes, that says 5 in the morning. 9News will be at the school to finish their story on Horizon, the bit that aired a couple weeks ago was not the entire story, they will be at the school at 5am on Friday to complete their filming.
• Saturday – Arvada Harvest Parade – Mr. Dailey will send out the call time this week

The students will need black socks, their marching shoes, their show shirt, and black shorts or leggings to wear under their uniforms. Students with long hair need to pull it all back, so please ensure that your student has plenty of hair ties and bobby pins for the season. Also, for competitions, please remove finger nail polish if they have finger-less gloves, remove any ear or face piercings, the students are all to look uniform and these small details count.

We need more chaperones and pit crew volunteers. If you would like to help out, please use the links below to sign up:

Chaperone Sign Up

Pit Crew Sign Up

Thank you to all who donated snacks, our closet is full and we no longer need snacks or water at this time, thank you!

If you wanted to purchase a senior poster, please remember to pay by tomorrow. It is $75, payment is made to the band parent association, check, cash, zelle, venmo or paypal.

Our next restaurant night is Tuesday September 10th at Raising Cane’s on 136th & I-25 from 5-9pm.

Good evening band families,

Tomorrow the students will have rehearsal from 5:30-9pm. The photographer who is creating the senior banners will be there to take senior photos. The banners are $75, you will be billed by the photographer. If you would like to have a banner of your senior made, and you have not emailed us yet, please send us a quick email with your student’s name so we have an accurate list for the photographer tomorrow evening.

The first football game is Thursday September 5th and the Arvada Harvest parade is Saturday September 7th. We will be sending out Sign Up Genius invites to those who expressed interest in the Hawk Haulers and Chaperones. If you did not place your name on the interest list at the Show N’ Tell, please email me and I will add you to the list. Those individuals will receive the Sign Up’s first, if we need additional help, we will send it out to the rest of the parents.

We still need water and snacks for football games, competitions, and parades. If you are able to help fill our snack/water closet, please bring individually wrapped, shelf stable, snacks or bottled water to the evening rehearsal (your student can take them in when they get there and put them in Mr. Dailey’s office).

Lastly, thank you all who have shared our Snap Raise fundraiser. We have currently raised $13,627! This is a great start! Our goal is $20,000, so if you can, please continue to share this on social media and with family and friends, because it takes a village to run a successful marching program!

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

This week the marching band will have rehearsal after school on Monday from 5:30-9pm. These evening rehearsals are a critical part of bringing their show together, so please plan accordingly so your student is able to attend.

Wednesday, the Wind Ensemble will have rehearsal after school from 3:30-5:30pm. These rehearsals will be every other Wednesday for the first quarter. This is ONLY for students in Wind Ensemble.

Thank you so much for all who helped on Saturday’s Mile of Money and for all the student participation. We raised over $1800! This is a great kick off for our month long campaign to raise money for our general fund.

The Snap Raise portion kicked off yesterday as well. This is our BIGGEST fundraiser for the general fund, and we need your help to make it successful. Last week your student was asked to provide email addresses so Snap Raise could send out our fundraising campaign information. Please continue to share this via email, text, and on your social media sites. Last year we raised over $20,000(!) which is this year’s goal as well. We use this money to pay for busing, equipment, props, music, staff, and so much more (see fundraising for more details). We would love to see this be our most successful year yet. LINK BELOW for the main Snap Raise Campaign. Your students will have sent out the individual portions of their campaigns via text message to their contacts.

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

If you are a senior parent and would like to have a giant poster of your student made, we need to know by next week. We would love to give you the opportunity to have a poster made with your senior’s photo (them in their uniform) to hang up at football games. Currently, the football team and cheer squads do this and we thought we should join in the fun. A photographer would come to the school to take the photos, and the posters would be done within a couple weeks. The cost would be $75 per student. We need at least 15 parents interested in doing this, or we will not be able to have them made. I currently have 9 senior parents interested. Please fill out the interest form below if you are interested (if you already filled it out, you do not need to do it again).

Senior Banner

Band camp is over and the marching season has officially started! The students did such a great job last week, it was great to see their first movement on the field at the Show N’ Tell last week.

This week, the students have rehearsal on Tuesday from 4-7pm. Please remind them to wear a white shirt. 9 News will be there and doing a spotlight piece, it will look really nice to have all the students in white shirts.

We have our first restaurant night this Wednesday at Freddy’s from 4-8pm, see the post below. Make sure to mention that you are with Horizon Band and we will receive 15% of sales. Pass it along to friends, family, co workers, and share it on your social media so we can get a large turn out.

On Saturday August 17th we will have our annual Mile of Money fundraiser at the King Soopers on 136th and Colorado. The students will perform while parents collect donations. We will need a couple volunteers to help collect donations, you can sign up here if you would like to help:

Mile of Money

Along with the performance and money collection at King Soopers, we will run an online Mile of Money through Snap Raise. Your students will be asked to provide email addresses of friends/family and Snap Raise will send out an invite to support the band. This is our biggest fundraiser of the year, we usually collect around $20,000 each year for our general fund, which is amazing! Please help support your student in providing email addresses. This will be kicked off once school begins. Mr. Dailey will go over this in band class, we just wanted to give a heads up that it is coming.

We are also asking for snack donations for performances. If you are able to donate individually wrapped snacks or water, please drop it off at Mr. Dailey’s office on Tuesday after rehearsal.

If you have any questions, please let us know.

Good evening Band Families! We hope everyone is enjoying their summer!

Check the calendar!

We have a couple weeks left before band camp begins! Band camp is Monday July 29th – Friday August 2nd from 8 – 5 each day (more details will be sent out soon). We would like to provide a morning fruit break and an afternoon popsicle break for the students. If you are able to provide fruit, popsicles, or are able to help set up, serve the students, and clean up, please use this link to sign up: Band Camp Snacks

We are also going to be fitting the students in their uniforms and will need parents’ help to get all the kids fit. You do not need any sewing experience, our uniform chair, Anna, will show you everything you need to do. If you are able to help out with uniforms, please sign up here: Uniform Sign Up

Friday August 2nd from 6 – 7:30 pm, we will be having a band parent meeting, and the student’s Show N’ Tell, where you will get to see what your student learned at band camp. You will be able to purchase a hot dog dinner (more details to follow). Please plan on attending both the meeting and the Show N’ Tell.

Lastly, the King Soopers community rewards are in for the quarter. If you are signed up for the King Soopers community rewards, please go to your profile and take a snapshot of this quarter’s earnings and email it to our email ([email protected]) by August 1st.

If you have any questions, feel free to email us. We hope you enjoy the rest of summer!

Good morning band families, and Happy Father’s Day to all our band dads!

Remember to check the calendar!

This week the students have their mini camp. This is a big week for the students to learn marching technique and begin to work on the show, so please don’t miss it! It looks like the weather will be slightly cooler, but please still plan on your student being out in the sun. They need water, sunscreen, a hat, sunglasses, closed toe shoes, their instrument, music and a lunch. The band parents will provide a morning fruit break and an afternoon Popsicle break. Thank you to all those who signed up to help with that, there are just a couple slots left, if you are able to help, sign up here: Fruit/Popsicle sign up.

We will be having our annual car wash on Saturday June 29 at North Metro Church. Your student should have signed up for a time slot to work and have been given tickets to sell. Your student can sell the tickets for $10 a piece, these funds will be put into your students account and can be used for their first band payment. We will need parents to help out with the car wash, if you are able (we especially need some power washers to borrow) please sign up here: Car Wash sign up

The first payment is due on June 20th. To make a payment, go to the payment section and enter the password sent via email. If your student is a returning member, you will be able to check their account by using their school student ID. If they are new, their account will not show yet, however, you can still make a payment, just make sure that you include their first and last name in the notes section. We are charged a credit card fee when using Venmo or PayPal, so please add 2% or $2 to your $100 payment to help cover that fee and meet your student’s fee commitment.

Please make sure that you and your student have filled out the commitment letter sent via email and return it into Mr. Dailey. This will ensure that your student will have a part written in the show.

If you have any questions, please feel free to email us at [email protected].