December 2025
We will have our annual Beacock Step Up night this school year in December. Intermediate and Semi-Pro instruments will be made available for students to try from December 1 – December 15.  Beacock Music Representatives will then come on Monday, December 15 from 5pm – 8pm to answer questions and provide purchasing options for any interested families.

March 2026
Please note that some dates have been changed on the Cleveland Bands calendar in March of 2026.
The most important date change for the majority of families is that our Festival Band Concert has been moved to Wednesday, March 11.
Wind Ensemble dates have also been altered.  The OSU Band Contest is on Tuesday, March 10, and we will also be performing at the Mt Hood Band Contest on Friday, March 13.  Both of these events occur during the day.  Students will miss one A day and one B day.

Thank you to Kimberly LeVelle, Tayler Kim, Kelly Nguyen, Debbie Conrad, Sue Ledgerwood, David Bleckmann and Khamille Neumann for helping organize and distribute pies and bringing coolers to help keep them cool.

Mr. Riler will only be available on Tuesday, November 25th.  He and the WIBC honor band students will be finishing up WIBC with a concert in the late morning / early afternoon and then traveling home on Monday the 24th.

Many thanks to Chenoa Knight, Lexine Pishue, Gennie Keller, Katy Ruhoff, Debbie Conrad and Drew Rice for all their help in feeding the current and future band students last Friday night! Pizza was consumed, music was played and a fun night was had all around.

A huge thank-you to everyone who came out for our annual Band Boo-Fest! From the spooky decorations to the delicious potluck dishes and the brave souls who rocked the karaoke mic, it was a frightfully fun night for all. We’re so grateful for our amazing band families, students, and volunteers who keep the music — and the spirit — alive. Here’s to more treats, no tricks, and a fantastic fall season ahead!

We’re thrilled to welcome our future CHS band students for 8th Grade Band Night! Students from our feeder schools will join the us for an evening of music, food, and fun.

The night kicks off with pizza at 5:15 PM, followed by section breakouts where 8th graders and CHS band members will get to know each other, play together, and experience what it’s like to be part of the Cleveland Band family.

The evening wraps up with a high-energy Pep Band concert at 7:15 PM in the auditorium — an event guaranteed to raise the roof! Families, friends, and community members are invited to come cheer on our young musicians.

Bring your earplugs — it’s going to be LOUD, proud, and full of Warrior spirit!

👉Please sign-up here.

Come help organize and hand out pies for the fall band pie fundraiser. Students will be picking up their orders on Nov. 12th, and your help will make the process run smoothly and efficiently. Thank you for supporting our band kids!

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The music was great, the students had a great time, the adults hopefully had a great time too!

I want to first thank all of the adults that stepped up to assist with this huge lift of an event!
This event was first created to build community both for the students and parents in the program.
Hopefully, we achieved that.

Secondly, I want to thank everyone that donated to our program. It is alway humbling to see such tremendous support from so many.
Our program is fully funded for this year, and we will be able to provide excellent opportunities for ALL of the students in our program.

Finally, a big thank you to our Friends of Cleveland board who helped make all of this happen. Without FOCB, this event just could not happen. There are too many moving parts between the chaperoning, the dinner for the students, the GoFundMe page, and the live streaming of the event. The list is long and it all happened!!

We are off to a great start! Thank you again to all that were involved in this event, whether you were here helping, or donating, or both!

Musically Yours,
Gary Riler

And with that, we hope you enjoy the video! (big thanks to Dave Bleckman for editing!)

A HUGE Thank you to the many, many hands that helped make Play-a-thon a success. We truly could not pull off such a large, joyful, community fundraiser without all your support in both hours and supplies.

As you can see, we had a lot of help: Kasey Jakien, Moana Rogerson, Joe Rogerson, Caroline Bleckmann, Kristen Drashner, Carrie Cowan, Alexander Ross, Jake Thomas, Emily Swanson, Pinn Crawford, Joren Lyons, Sian Howells, TK Conrad, Michael McDonnell, Peter Harmon, Kari Matthews, Krista Harmon, Phil Mass, Megan Steffek, Sue Ledgerwood, Oren Eshel, Debbie Conrad, Harley Cowan, Fernando Amaro, Drew Rice, Chenoa Knight, Gennie Keller, Kris Carlson, Matt Carlson, Anja Stadler, Colleen Gibson, Allison Eshel, Anthony Laudato, Beth Schaller, Juliann Squires, Isaac Rudiger, Petra Callin, Alyssa McKillip, Cathy Hilburg, Katy Ruhoff, Erik Isaacman, Jenny Hoffman, Robyn Tynan, Dawn Payne, Sarah Warren, Kimberly LeVelle, Laurel Walker, McKay Mott, Ariana Lyriotakis-Macdonald, Grant Macdonald, Bree Ramage, Heidi Schroeder Hill, Emily Berry, Tayler Kim, Jennifer Meyer, Benjamin Balmer, Erica Keeley, Sarah Centerwall, Helen Hulskamp, Jessica Numanoglu, Laura Carim Todd, Kelly Nguyen, Alexis Abrams, Khamille Neumann, Mary Tyler, Dave Bleckmann, Lexine Pishue and Kristi Riler.

And thank you, as well, to all those who donated before, during and after the event!!!!