HORIZON BANDS

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.