Current Schedule

2024-25 Sumner HS Marching Band & Color Guard

(Updated 11/3/2024)

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Well, we’ve made it to Auburn Week, the culmination of our fall season and our final Marching Competition - it’s a BIG one this coming Saturday, with the Auburn Veterans Day Parade starting at 11:00AM in Downtown Auburn and our performance at the Field Show Championships at 5:15PM at Auburn HS Stadium. We’ve built our whole fall season to be at our best at this event, so we’re hoping that students feel the same way - everything coming into place with our music, our marching and our routines. While we’re going to clean things up in our final 2 full-group rehearsals on Monday and Wednesday nights and our District Football Playoff Game on Friday night (against Auburn HS of all things) as a warm-up of our Saturday performances, we hope that you’ll be confident and ready for an excellent day in a couple of impressive events. Thanks for your months of hard work (remember, this all started way back in the middle of August) and we’re expecting that it’ll pay-off on Saturday in a BIG way. Let’s have a great week of classes, great rehearsals on Monday and Wednesday nights, a great performance on Friday night, and a fantastic finish on Saturday!

Here’s our schedule for the busy week this week and a changed schedule for things next week. Remember that we’ve got a special performance at DVE Friday afternoon and we’ll be wearing our dri-fits uniforms (see uniform-specifics below). We’ve got a few things to clean-up and make the best we can, but other than those few things we are ready to go. Our performance on Friday night at the Playoff FB Game will be a great final-prep for Saturday, but keep learning and fixing all through the week. It’s fun to finally get to this point - let’s enjoy it.

Schedule for THIS WEEK:

November 4 Monday - Late-Start Schedule

NO Zero-Period Jazz Rehearsals
2:45PM - BLC MEETING
6:00-9:00PM MB-CG EVENING REHEARSAL - BRING RIGHT GAUNTLETS!

November 5 Tuesday - Regular Class Schedule
REMEMBER TO VOTE BY TODAY

4:30-6:30PM CG Rehearsal
7:00-8:30PM SBPA MEETING - BAND ROOM

November 6 Wednesday - Regular Class Schedule

6:00-9:00PM MB-CG MUST ATTEND STADIUM REHEARSAL

November 7 Thursday - Regular Class Schedule

ALL AUBURN PERMISSION FORMS DUE
3:00-5:00PM CG MUST ATTEND Rehearsal

November 8 Friday - Regular Class Schedule/HOME FB GAME DAY

BRING MB-CG UNIFORMS TO SCHOOL - GB RACKS IN BAND ROOM
NO ZERO-PERIOD JE REHEARSALS
2:15PM PERFORMANCE AT DVE VETERANS DAY ASSEMBLY

BLACK DRI-FITS (WITH LONG SLEEVE BLACK UA COLD-GEAR OR BLACK LONG-SLEEVE T-SHIRT)/BLACK PANTS/BLACK BAND SHOES/LONG BLACK SOCKS

4:15PM PRE-PERFORMANCE PG & HT RUN-THRUS: FULL FIELD SHOW
5:00PM DINNER-BREAK
6:00PM MB-CG IN CY FOR WARM-UPS
6:30PM SHS PLAYOFF FOOTBALL GAME PERFORMANCE
10:00PM CLEAN-UP STANDS AND BAND ROOM - TAKE UNIFORMS HOME

NOVEMBER 9 SATURDAY - AUBURN PARADE & FS CHAMPIONSHIP

8:00AM MB-CG REPORT TO BAND ROOM IN PARADE UNIFORMS
8:15AM MB-CG FS & PARADE RUN-THRUS AT SUNSET STADIUM
9:15AM LOAD BUSES AND TRAILER AND LEAVE FOR AUBURN
10:45AM PRE-PARADE LINE-UP FOR AUBURN PARADE
11:15AM STEP-OFF IN THE AUBURN VETERANS DAY PARADE
AFTER PARADE - PICTURES AT AUBURN HS GYM
1:00PM LUNCH BREAK (TBD)
4:40PM PRE-PERFORMANCE WARM-UP AT AUBURN HS
5:15PM FIELD SHOW PERFORMANCE - WE ARE THE FINAL BAND TO PERFORM
5:45PM RETREAT AND AWARDS-CEREMONY
6:30PM LOAD-UP AND LEAVE FOR SHS
7:15PM RETURN TO SHS - UNLOAD AND PUT THINGS AWAY

NOVEMBER 10 SUNDAY

NO BAND PROGRAM ACTIVITIES

Highlights for NEXT WEEK:

NOVEMBER 11 MONDAY

NO CLASSES - VETERANS DAY HOLIDAY

November 12 Tuesday - Regular Class Schedule

4:30-6:30PM CG Rehearsal

November 13 Wednesday - Regular Class Schedule

CG Camp Day #1 - 4:30-6:00PM
NO EVENING MB-CG STADIUM REHEARSAL

November 14 Thursday - Conferences-Schedule - EARLY-DISMISSAL

NO CG Rehearsal

November 15 Friday - Regular Class Schedule/HOME FB GAME DAY

BRING MB-CG UNIFORMS TO SCHOOL - GB RACKS IN BAND ROOM
NO ZERO-PERIOD JE REHEARSALS
4:15PM PRE-PERFORMANCE PG & HT RUN-THRUS: FULL FIELD SHOW
5:00PM DINNER-BREAK
6:00PM MB-CG IN CY FOR WARM-UPS
6:30PM SHS PLAYOFF FOOTBALL GAME PERFORMANCE
10:00PM CLEAN-UP STANDS AND BAND ROOM - TAKE UNIFORMS HOME

NOVEMBER 16 SATURDAY

NO BAND PROGRAM ACTIVITIES

NOVEMBER 17 SUNDAY

NO BAND PROGRAM ACTIVITIES

It’s been a great fall (we’ve been so lucky with the weather) and we’ve done many different things over the weeks and months, but we can say without a doubt that this Saturday is the peak of our fall season in terms of both our parade and our field show marching. Think of it - each of you has learned literally thousands of notes, routine-moves, marching starts, stops, and GE enhancements that when put together and done together on the field produces a truly beautiful musical and visual work of art. It’s fun to see things take shape over time but it’s also fun to see it completed and polished - we are almost there and by a week from now we will have reached our peak. As you perform on the streets of Auburn and the field at Auburn HS we hope you feel confident and excited for the chance to really do well - LET’S PUT EVERYTHING TOGETHER AND GIVE YOUR VERY BEST POSSIBLE EFFORT - and that starts with great efforts all week long at every class and rehearsal.

Thanks again to EVERYONE for their great support!
What a GREAT WEEK we have coming-up! See you Monday!