HORIZON BANDS

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