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!

Please sign-up here

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!!!!

It’s finally here, Play-A-Thon will start at 4pm this Friday, October 3rd!

Thank you to all of you who have already donated, and thank you in advance to all of you who plan to donate during our performances on Friday. Please let everyone you know who supports your student and anyone who supports music programs as part of our high schools that they can support us at our GoFundMe site. This is our biggest fundraiser of the year, help us make it count!

DONATE HERE AT OUR GOFUNDME

It’s time to play the music, it’s time to light the lights!

Doors will be open at 4pm for everyone to come watch our band play live. The bands love to perform for a live audience, and the best way to experience live music is in person. If you cannot make it in person the event will be streaming on the Cleveland Bands Website or our GoFundMe page

There will be door prizes

Generous businesses have donated items to support our band. There will be an entry box for you to provide your name and email address to be entered into a drawing for one of several door prizes. One entry per person please. No purchase necessary, but there will be a donation box to drop off a check or scan a QR code near the door prize entry box if you are so inclined.

All donors who contribute through the GoFundMe site before Monday October 6th will automatically be entered into the door prize drawing.

Prizes will randomly be awarded to GoFundMe donors and physical entries collected at the Play-A-Thon on Monday October 6th. Recipients will be contacted by email.

Thank you to the following businesses for supporting our bands by donating door prizes – you’re helping make this sensational, inspirational, celebrational, and Muppetational:

• Hopscotch
• From True West/Aladdin Theater
• KingPins
• Birdie Time
• Bhakti Yoga Movement Center

The show must go on – and it starts THIS FRIDAY! Yaaaaay!

We have less than a week until Play-a-Thon!!  Come support our musicians during our largest fundraiser of the year! Stay and supervise students or drop off supplies and goodies and go – whatever you have the time for, we need your help! Click here to sign-up.

Questions? Please contact our Volunteer Coordinator at volunteer.coordinator@clevelandbandspdx.com