SpartanBand
UPDATED EXHIBITION SCHEDULE
12:45p – Rehearsal
2p – Load and change
3:15p – Depart for Franklin High School
3:45p – Arrive and unload
5p – Perform
5:30p – Change, eat, tailgate with other bands
6:30p – Load and depart
7:30p – Arrive at Summit and unload
FLAG FUNDRAISER UPDATE
If your student is interested in getting a list of expired flag subscriptions so they can pursue the renewal and get pledge credit please send your students name and a good email address to summitUSflag@gmail.com by the end of the day FRIDAY, OCTOBER 27th. The lists will be emailed on Sunday the 29th and renewals must be submitted and paid for by November 4th to have service on Veteran’s Day.
SPARTAN BAND eNEWS – October 24
VERY IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT
Obviously we are all bummed over the cancellation of Contest of Champions, but the board is 100% in support of the decision as the safety of our students and their families are the most important thing.
To have a better ending of the marching season, we will be performing in exhibition at Franklin High School on Saturday evening around 5p. We will send out a more detailed schedule once all the arrangements have been made!
COMPETITIVE MARCHING BAND SCHEDULE
Thursday – NO REHEARSAL at MTSU
Friday – Home football game vs Lincoln County
Saturday – Exhibition performance, Franklin High School, Franklin, TN
NON-COMPETITIVE MARCHING BAND SCHEDULE
No practice this week, but home football game Friday, October 27
UNIFORM REMINDERS
REQUIRED: navy uniform Summit Band shirt; black socks; black marching shoes; white gloves; compression shorts, leggings or practice shorts must be worn under bibbers
NO earrings or jewelry and all hair must be up and inside shako
Rain is in the forecast both Friday and Saturday. Temperatures are dropping as well. Please make sure your marcher has warm clothing and a PONCHO.
Volunteers still needed for:
*Chaperones for Friday
*Chaperones for Saturday
*Food Crew for Saturday
FRIDAY HOME FOOTBALL GAME – Lincoln County
3:15p – Run through
4:30p – Dinner (Moe’s tacos, chips and Salsa), change into uniforms, and
4:45p – Senior Dinner in the Cafeteria
6p – March to the field early for Senior Presentation
7p – Game starts
10p – After game, change/clean up – load equipment on trucks, change out of uniforms and dismiss
HAUNTED SENIOR DINNER – FRIDAY, OCTOBER 27 – 4:45p
We need non-senior parents to please volunteer on Charms to assist with decorating, serving food and cleaning up for the event from 3p to approximately 6:30p.
We also need to borrow decorations for this to help us save money but have an Enchanting Haunted evening. If you have the following and can let us borrow it, please text Laurie Kamunen at 615-642-7481: Candlesticks (black, white, silver or acrylic – all shapes and sizes), Battery Operated Candles and Tealights, Lanterns, Black/White or Silver Haunted decorations (see examples on Facebook page)
SATURDAY EXHIBITION
FRANKLIN HIGH SCHOOL
Franklin, TN
Admission: FREE
SATURDAY EXHIBITION SCHEDULE
DETAILED SCHEDULE WILL BE SENT AS FINAL ARRANGEMENTS ARE MADE
5p – Performance
Dinner after performance
Need Desserts for Dinner on Saturday. Please bring donations to Shannon Howard on Friday before/during/after the game or at drop off Saturday morning.
SHOW SHIRTS
Extra shirts are available! $10 for the orange short sleeve and $15 for black long sleeve. Email size and type to spartanbandchairman@gmail.com
BUTTER BRAIDS
Sales go towards your annual pledge and go through October 27. Butter Braids will be delivered November 13.
PLEDGES
We are still $70,000 behind on pledge commitment payments! Please continue to make your pledge donations throughout the year. We need and appreciate your donations to help make the band fiscally responsible.
OTHER IMPORTANT DATES
11/11- Veteran’s day flag install
THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS
Please be sure to let people at these businesses and organizations know how much we appreciate their support and sponsorships:
Hometown Comfort Tennessee Heating and Cooling
McDonald’s of Spring Hill
Stop, Wash and Roll Car Wash
Kona Ice
Have a great week!!
Amy Burst & Matt Stone – spartanbandchairman@gmail.com
Kay Ruleman & Tami Bell – wcsshsbandtreasury@gmail.com
Kristen Kight – spartanbandvolunteer@gmail.com
Laurie Kamunen – spartanbandfundraising@gmail.com
Rebecca Wooldridge – spartanbandsecretary@gmail.com
SPARTAN BAND eNEWS – October 17
This is a little long, but there’s a TON of info this week!
NEXT BAND CLUB PARENT MEETING (competitive and non-competitive)
Thursday, 10/19, 6:30p, Auditorium
COMPETITIVE MARCHING BAND SCHEDULE
Thursday – Rehearsal 3p – 6p
Friday – Home football game vs Centennial
Saturday – MCI Competition, McGavock High School, Nashville, TN
NON-COMPETITIVE MARCHING BAND SCHEDULE
No practice this week, but home football game Friday, October 20
UNIFORM REMINDERS
REQUIRED: navy uniform Summit Band shirt; black socks; black marching shoes; white gloves; compression shorts, leggings or practice shorts must be worn under bibbers
NO earrings or jewelry and all hair must be up and inside shako
FRIDAY HOME FOOTBALL GAME – Centennial
3:15p – Run through
4:30p – Dinner (nacho bar), change into uniforms, and march to field
7p – Game starts
10p – After game, change/clean up and dismiss
SATURDAY COMPETITION
MUSIC CITY INVITATIONAL
McGavock High School
3150 McGavock Pike, Nashville, TN 37214
Admission: Prelim – $12; Finals – $10; Both – $20
SATURDAY COMPETITION SCHEDULE
8a – 9:15a – rehearsal
9:15a – load, change
10:45a – depart for McGavock high school (snack on bus provided by sections)
11:45a – arrive, unload, get ready for warm up
1:25p – warm up
2:15p – prelims performance
2:30p – return to trucks, put equipment away and eat lunch (Firehouse subs, chips, and cookies)
4:20p – prelims awards
The schedule for the rest of the evening will be determined by whether or not we make finals. If we make finals, we will draw for performance order and will give out the schedule when we get back to the trucks. If we do not make finals, we will load the trucks and then eat dinner and go home. Dinner (Bojangles boxes tenders, mac and cheese, and biscuit) should be around 5:00 p.m. regardless.
6:30p – Finals begin
9:35p – Finals Awards
10p – Depart for home
11p – Arrive at Summit, unload, change, clean up and depart
COC PRACTICE – MTSU Oct 26 (Competitive Only)
Again this year, we will be going to MTSU to practice on the turf with the different hash marks.
After school – 4:30p –work on homework
4:30p – dinner (Subway sandwiches, chips, cookie)
5p – load trucks
5:30p – Depart for MTSU
6:30p – Arrive, Unload, Warm up
7:30p – 9:30p – Rehearsal in Stadium
9:30p – Load trucks and buses
10p – depart for Summit
11p – Arrive, leave trucks loaded (will unload during school, 8th graders who need instruments for the next day can keep instruments on the buses)
VOLUNTEERS
We need Pit, Props and Chaperones for this weekend!
HAUNTED SENIOR DINNER – FRIDAY, OCTOBER 27 – 4:45p
We need non-senior parents to please volunteer on Charms to assist with decorating, serving food and cleaning up for the event from 3p to approximately 6:30p.
We also need to borrow decorations for this to help us save money but have an Enchanting Haunted evening. If you have the following and can let us borrow it, please text Laurie Kamunen at 615-642-7481: Candlesticks (black, white, silver or acrylic – all shapes and sizes), Battery Operated Candles and Tealights, Lanterns, Black/White or Silver Haunted decorations (see examples on Facebook page)
SHOW SHIRTS
Extra shirts are available! $10 for the orange short sleeve and $15 for black long sleeve. Email size and type to spartanbandchairman@gmail.com
AMERICAN FLAG UPDATE
We have over 200 flag subscriptions expired or expiring on Veteran’s Day. It’s time to secure renewals. Students who originally signed them up have been emailed contact info and have until October 20 to obtain the renewal.
After October 20, those not contacted for renewal will be put into a general pool open to other students. The info will be divided and distributed the week of October 23 to any students interested. Stay tuned for more info!
Also, volunteer spots for the Veteran’s Day install (Saturday, November 11) will be available this week in Charms. We need 20 drivers and 40 students. Please sign up!
Questions? Email summitusflag@gmail.com.
BUTTER BRAIDS
Sale starts today with details and order forms available starting today. Sales go towards your annual pledge and go through October 27. Butter Braids will be delivered November 13.
PLEDGES
We are $73,000 behind on pledge commitment payments and we ONLY have 2 weeks left in the marching season. That’s $73,000 less than what it costs to put this band on the field! Please continue to make your pledge donations as this is our most expensive and busiest time of the year. We need and appreciate your donations to help make the band fiscally responsible.
OTHER IMPORTANT DATES
10/21 – MCI, McGavock High School, Nashville TN
10/26 – COC Practice @ MTSU
10/28 – COC, MTSU
THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS
Please be sure to let people at these businesses and organizations know how much we appreciate their support and sponsorships:
Hometown Comfort Tennessee Heating and Cooling
McDonald’s of Spring Hill
Stop, Wash and Roll Car Wash
Kona Ice
A special “Shout Out” to John Ellis for updating our website.
If you have seen it lately, we encourage you to check it out at summitspartanband.org. We now have announcements on the home page and have a “Parent Information” tab in the heading for you to find details quickly. John , thank you for all of your hard work to get us updated with current information.
Have a great week!!
Amy Burst & Matt Stone – spartanbandchairman@gmail.com
Kay Ruleman & Tami Bell – wcsshsbandtreasury@gmail.com
Kristen Kight – spartanbandvolunteer@gmail.com
Laurie Kamunen – spartanbandfundraising@gmail.com
Rebecca Wooldridge – spartanbandsecretary@gmail.com
COMPETITIVE MARCHING BAND SCHEDULE
Monday – Guest Speaker 4-7pm (Mandatory), Leadership stays until 8pm
Tuesday – Rehearsal 3p – 6p
Thursday – Rehearsal 3p – 6p
Friday – Home game vs Centennial
Saturday – MCI
(Friday/Saturday schedule details will be in next week’s eNEWS email.)
NON-COMPETITIVE MARCHING BAND SCHEDULE
Monday – Guest Speaker 4-7pm
Friday – home football game
Guest Speaker, Scott Lang, Monday, October 16th :
Scott Lang is a Band/Music Motivational speaker. He has graciously offered to speak to our band on 10/16 from 4p-7p and with the leadership team 7p-8p.
Dinner will be served at 6p. Please sign up in Charms to help serve/clean up.
(More info.. www.Scottlang.net )
COC practice at MTSU Oct 26 (Competitive Only):
Again this year, we will be going to MTSU to practice on the turf with the different hash marks.
Dinner will be provided.
Mandatory practice.
Students will be home late that night.
More details to come
AMERICAN FLAG UPDATE
We have over 200 flag subscriptions expired or expiring on Veteran’s Day. It’s time to secure renewals. Students who originally signed them up have been emailed contact info. You will have until October 20 to obtain the renewal.
After October 20, those not contacted for renewal will be put into a general pool open to other students. The info will be divided and distributed the week of October 23 to any students interested. Stay tuned for more info!
Also, volunteer spots for the Veteran’s Day install (Saturday, November 11) will be available this week in Charms. We need 20 drivers and 40 students. Please sign up!
Questions? Email summitusflag@gmail.com.
SHOW SHIRTS
Extra Show shirts available! $10 orange short sleeve, $15 black long sleeve…email size/type you wish to purchase to spartanbandchairman@gmail.com
PLEDGES
Please continue to make your pledge donations. This is our most expensive and busiest time of the year. We need and appreciate your donations to help make the band fiscally responsible.
FUNDRAISERS
Car Wash Cards – We still have about 10 people who need to turn in their $ or remaining cards. We need to settle this fundraiser – so please turn in your stuff to the black box in the band room ASAP. Please be sure to have YOUR NAME on the envelope when turning it in, so we know who it is from.
Butter Braids – It is time for Butter Braid Sales. Order Forms will be available to pick up this week in the window of Mr. Harris’ office. All order forms and money are DUE BACK no later than Friday, October 27th. For this sale, you MUST be prompt in turning everything in by this date in order for us to get the Butter Braids ordered and delivered on time. If you are late – you may not get them! Butter Braids will be delivered to us on Monday, November 13th!
SENIOR NIGHT
A “Haunted” Senior Dinner – for Seniors and their parents only!
When: Friday, October 27th
Time: TBD
Where: Cafeteria
Need non-senior parents to please volunteer on Charms to assist with decorating, serving food and cleaning up for the event from 3:00p to approximately 6:30p.
We also need to borrow decorations for this to help us save money but have an Enchanting Haunted evening. If you have the following and can let us borrow it, please text Laurie Kamunen at 615-642-7481: Candlesticks (black, white, silver or acrylic – all shapes and sizes), Battery Operated Candles and Tealights, Lanterns, Black/White or Silver Haunted decorations (see examples on facebook page)
THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS
Please be sure to let people at these businesses and organizations know how much we appreciate their support and sponsorships:
Hometown Comfort Tennessee Heating and Cooling
McDonald’s of Spring Hill
Stop, Wash and Roll Car Wash
Kona Ice
Have a great Fall Break!!
Amy Burst & Matt Stone – spartanbandchairman@gmail.com
Kay Ruleman & Tami Bell – wcsshsbandtreasury@gmail.com
Kristen Kight – spartanbandvolunteers@gmail.com
Laurie Kamunen – spartanbandfundraising@gmail.com
Rebecca Wooldridge – spartanbandsecretary@gmail.com
Summit High School Band US Flag Fundraiser
The Summit High School Spartan Band is proud to support our country and community by offering subscriptions to our American Flag Service. SHS band members will place a 3’ x 5’ US flag on an 8 foot pole in your yard from dawn to dusk on each of the following holidays: Memorial Day, Flag Day, Independence Day, Labor Day & Veteran’s Day.
1 Year—5 Installations $50.00 Annual Renewal $40.00
If you have any questions email us at summitUSflag@gmail.com or to sign up online go to the US Flags tab or click here.
2017 Marching Spartan Band!!
Guard and Percussion Camp June 12-16
Visual Camp (full band) July 17-21 8:00 am – 8:00 pm
July 24-28 8:00 am – 8:00 pm
The 2017 Marching Season is HERE!! Our first camp begins Monday June 12th for color guard and percussion. The full band will be in visual camp starting Monday July 17th. Students please remember water and sunscreen! In the event of inclement weather, rehearsal will move inside.
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