Current Schedule

We had another great week (and weekend) last week that included:

• The SBPA Parents Meeting on Monday
• Restaurant-Night at the Windmill Bistro on Tuesday night
• A return to marching and our first 2-mile marching rehearsal as we start preparing for the Bremerton and Poulsbo Parades on May 18th
• Both Jazz A and Jazz B had great performances at the Stafford Suites Senior Prom on Friday night - it was great to share the experience with the residents, and we promised them we’d be back next year to do it again
• Aiden Hatcher did a fantastic job representing our Band Program at the WIAA State Solo Contest at Central Washington University. He received I’s from all 3 of the adjudicators and was very impressive in his performance
• A special thanks to the Band & Color Guard students who hung in there despite on-and-off rain showers to wash a lot of cars on Sunday and earn money for the San Diego Holiday Bowl Trip in December (and thanks also to the parents who helped organize and work with them) at the Les Schwab in Bonney Lake. That is the definition of dedication and spirit!
• We also started work on our Spring Concert and Graduation pieces with Symphonic Band as well as working on perfecting our Parade pieces with the MB & CG

So, we’ll roll on with our Symphonic Bands, our Marching Band & Color Guard, and especially this week with our Jazz Ensembles, as they prepare for their final Jazz Competition of the year at the Mt. Hood Jazz Festival in Gresham, OR. We’ll leave on Friday afternoon after school and perform & compete on Saturday. It’ll be a fun way to see how we’ve improved since our last competition at Newport HS in March.

Other things that are still coming-up in the near-future:

• The initial 2024-25 Sumner HS Band Program Student and Parent Information Meeting will be coming-up on Tuesday May 7th, where we’ll be talking about lots of important things:
• the latest update on the December 2024 San Diego Holiday Bowl Trip
• the 2024-25 Sumner HS Jazz Ensemble Tryouts
• the 2024-25 Sumner HS Drumline Tryouts
• the 2024-25 Sumner HS Drum Major Tryouts
• the 2024 Summer Marching Band
• and lots of information on the Sumner HS Band Program for the 2024-25 school-year. While we’ll be missing our excellent 2024 Seniors, we’ve got Juniors who will be prepared and ready to carry-on
• We’ve already got our 2024 Fall Field Show music available to download and even practice from our BandApp site - while we haven’t yet assigned parts it’s still OK to look and work on things
• Don’t forget about the Butter-Braids Fund-Raiser going until THIS FRIDAY MAY 3. Remember the sale is all online. Help us to raise money for many things we’ll need to keep going at a high level (especially travel expenses). The goal is to raise $5000 and for each Band Program student to sell 10 Butter-Braids

So lots going on and coming-up. Here’s our updated 2-week Sumner HS Band Program schedule, day-by-day. Every day is important, but for the Jazz students, every part of every day’s rehearsal will be critical, so make sure you set your alarms and stay healthy. For the MB-CG rehearsal on Wednesday afternoon, we’ve only got 3 rehearsals left where we’ll be marching and working together, so each of those is very important too.