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Join us in the band room at 6:30 pm tonight, Monday, October 7th. Hear the Director’s Report from Mr. Riler and a recap of our successful Play-A-Thon.
If you’re interested in getting involved with us and help support our band program, this meeting is the perfect opportunity to get plugged in! The back entrance to the school near the band room will be open just before 6:30 pm.
WIBC auditions are due by Friday, October 11. Students and parents are responsible for uploading auditions and paying the audition fee.
Here is the link to the REGISTRATION PAGE
Thank you to the following generous people who helped out serving Pizza to a hungry group of musicians for our Pep Band on Friday October 4. We hosted the incoming 8th grader musicians at this event.
Andrew Rice, Bree Rampage, Carolyn Choi, Debbie Conrad, Emily Swanson, Jim Schaller, and Tayler Kim.
Friends of Cleveland Bands is still looking to fill the following positions on the board this year – Volunteer Coordinator and Fundraising/Sponsorship Coordinator. The jobs are fully templated and will only take a few minutes of your time each month. It’s pretty easy and is also an opportunity to get to know more band parents. Many hands make light work and these roles are vital for supporting our bands. Please join us!
I do not believe I will ever stop being blown away by the amount of support we receive financially with this event. This will be the most we have ever made with this fundraiser event since we started it in 2015. More importantly, I believe this event has helped in building a strong community among the students and the parents.
I am very thankful to all of the parents who gave of their time and effort to make this event go so smoothly. Our student leadership team did a fantastic job with the stage and tech crews making our transitions so seamless. I feel like the event itself gets better every year as we learn and tweak different things.
And what could we do without the tremendous leadership of the Friends of Cleveland Bands. The Playathon would NEVER work without this fantastic parent organization!!
I am truly humbled by the kind words I received throughout the evening and want to thank all of our band family for your tremendous support of my vision for this program.
As we continue into this new school year, I look forward to your help in continuing to build this program into a shining example of collaboration among parents and students. If you ask any HS band director in the state, they know that there is something special happening at Cleveland HS.
Musically Yours,
Gary Riler
We are so grateful to everyone who helped with the Play-A-Thon. Without you it would not have been such a success.
Heather Austin, Benjamina Balmer, Emily Berry, Nadine Block, Rachel Boone, Derek Boonstra, Jen Burkart, Mike Burkart, Laura Carim Todd, Rima Chamie, Marnie Childers, Carolyn Choi, Elizabeth Coleman, Debbie Conrad, TK Conrad, Selma Craft, Karen Doersam, Chris Dolan, Chloe Fennell, Colleen and Neil Gibson, Rosanna Gill, Megan Greenauer, Krista Harmon, Peter Harmon, Martin Heim, Sue Heintz, Kirsten Isaacson, Brett Jensen, Pam Johnson, Tim Jorgensen, Erica Keeley, Kelli Keysar, Pam Kiessling, Tayler Kim, Renee Laney, Sue Ledgerwood, Michelle Lee, Kimberly LeVelle, Karen Liao, Katie Mangle, Phil Mass, Alyssa McKillip, McKay Mott, Dona Norlander, Bree Ramage, Heather Randol, Andrew Rice, Jim Schaller, Juliann Squires, Anja Stadler, Becky Steckler, Linh Vu, Laurel Walker, Jeff Wallin, Mark Friel, Josh Piper, Kelly Schauer, Alexis Abrams, David Bleckmann, Kristi Riler.
The GoFundMe link will continue to be live and will accept donations until this Friday October 4th. Continue to send your friends and family to https://gofund.me/9f3f6bf9 to support our bands!
.The PEP Band will be playing at the following times:
Just in case you missed the mail from Mr. Riler with the schedule information, here it is again:
Band A,B,C are sight reading bands comprising a mixture of students from each band.
4:00 Band A
4:45 Band B
5:30 Band C
6:15 Jam Session
6:30 COMBO(s)
6:55 Jazz Lab
7:20 Jazz Ensemble
7:45 Concert Band
8:05 Symphonic Band
8:30 Wind Ensemble
8:55 Percussion Ensemble?
9:05 Jam Session
9:20 Pep Band
Don’t forget to share the link to the Play-A-Thon Go Fund Me far and wide.
See you in the CHS auditorium or online!
