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!