Halfway through the Summer Band Program

Good morning HJH Band Blog Followers! Yesterday at noon we hit the mid-point of the Summer Band Program, and what a summer it's been so far. I've been having a blast working with the incoming seventh graders and continuing working with those of you who are now eighth graders. I'm looking forward to our performances at the conclusion of the 5-week program. We'll be performing at the band shell on the square on Saturday, July 11 as part of the Children's Arts Festival. A schedule will be posted and handed out next week, I need to confirm our performance times. Let's hope that the weather will be cooler than it was this week for those performances!

You Know You've Been At Summer Band Lessons at Howar When...

5. You have enjoyed the air conditioning of the HJH Band Room...
4. You don't think it's odd to see four bass amps, three trap sets, and two pianos set up for jazz band...
3. You got a Lifesaver for participating in the 10 minute silent portion of band rehearsal...
2. You know what a tpt, hn, tbn, and tba are...
1. You haven't been bored for your WHOLE summer...

Photo from the last day of school...

On the last day of school Lynsey W. took a picture with me.... Here it is! Any other band member pictures out there??!? Email them in!

HJH Summer Program Starts off with a BANG!

It's great to have the summer program off to a start! Jazz Band yesterday was excellent, I think we have some winning charts! I think today's Youth Band went fairly well, an especially good job of sight reading, and a couple of pieces that we'll play and I'm going to bring a few new ones next week...

Several eighth grade students are starting to work on honor band audition music and I wish them luck as they start preparing those etudes and scales. It's been great getting to know the incoming seventh grade band students better this summer, too. Seems like we've got a great group in the making!

CONGRATULATIONS!

You have made it to the end of another school year! Don't forget that summer lessons will start up next week (Tuesday June 9)...

2009 Howar Jr. High Drum Majors Announced

Drum Majors for the Howar Junior High Marching Band Fall 2009:
Maddie Lange
Shayla Wolver

Congratulations to these fine young ladies! Thank you to everyone who tried out, there were some tough choices that Mr. Taylor and I had to make this afternoon. The whole band did a grand job of supporting all of the candidates.

(Thanks to Mr. Taylor for serving as our guest judge today.)

Lakeview Concert - A Success!

Congratulations, Howar Band, on a very successful afternoon concert today. You did a great job.

What an adventure today, loading a tight bus as it started to rain (AGAIN), performing in a very hot, humid gym, and then re-loading... Of course, it rained on me as I came back to HJH. You work well under adverse conditions.

Jazz Banders - after about a month of not meeting, you did a fine job of playing Grooved Pavement. Soloists did an outstanding job, and be sure to thank our very own microphone stand, Mr. D! I'm so proud of all of the hard work you have done this year!

Concert Band - a great variety well played. Tubas, trombones, and baritones nice work in your features. Thank you, too, to the eighth graders who voulenteered to speak this afternoon. You did a fine job.

Now looking to the end of the year... tomorrow we will unload the truck and start working on marching music for next fall. Thursday and Friday we will continue working on that music as well as consider seventh graders for drum major. Monday we'll watch our movie. Then it'll be time to start thinking about summer lessons, crazy, huh?

CHS Color Guard/Flag Team

CHS Color Guard/Flag Team
2009 Marching Season

Seniors
Taylor Armington (captain)
Rachel Eddy (captain)

Juniors
Bethany Jackson
Shaniel Smith
Molly Thomas

Sophomores
Hope Hancox
Shelby Kanselaar
Megan Mobley

Freshmen
Patience Clark
Lei Alena Dagat
Ally Logsdon


Thank you to everyone who auditioned!

· Uniforms will be fitted before the end of the year.
· T-shirt/hoodie orders will be organized in June.
· Be sure to fill out an information sheet next week (contact info, etc.). August practice schedule will be available next week, too.

Lakeview Concert Announcement

Our annual Lakeview Recruitment Concert is scheduled for Tuesday, May 26. We will begin around 2:20 p.m. The HJH schedule that day will be slightly altered allowing our students to be in attendance at all academic classes before performing the concert. We will bus to the concert and dismiss for the day from Lakeview. Students needing to ride a bus home will board the bus at Lakeview. Students getting a ride or walking should plan on leaving from Lakeview. If a student needs to walk from Howar or return to Howar for some reason, please ride an afterschool bus from Lakeview to Howar.

Congratulations to our Award Winners

Congratulations to everyone from Howar who received an award at last night's awards assembly. I was proud to see so many of the band students get acknowledged for their outstanding achievements in so many different areas.

I would just like to highlight a few of our 2008/2009 school year band awards...

Most Improved Musician - Concert Band
Lewis B., Alexis J., Chyenne L., Corina M., Shayla W., Neal C., Charlie P., Hannah R., and Lynsey W.

Outstanding Band Member
7th Grade - Maddison L.
8th Grade - Hannah R.

Most Improved Musician - Jazz Band
Marissa H., Maddison L., Eli S., Matthew W., Patience C., Shelby R., Jeremy S., and Jesse S.

Outstanding Jazz Band Member
7th Grade - Eli S. and Marissa H.
8th Grade - Shelby R.

First Point Award (150+ points earned while participating in Howar Band)
Lewis B., Dillon C., Kolton G., Marissa H., Brentyn J., Alexis J., Maddison L., Melanie M., Tiffany M., Corina M., Hunter M., Nikki M., Katie M., Jake O., Erin P., Nicole S., Eli S., Elizabeth S., Kelsey W., Katie W., Matthew W., Shayla W., Jin W., Zach B., Neal C., Lauren C., Jessica D., Alesha D., Brandon J., Charlie P., Makenzie R., and Jessica S.

Second Point Award (300+ points earned while participating in Howar Band)
Megan A., Shawn B., Patience C., Jeff C., Mallory C., Lei Alena D,. Alesha D., Ally L., Hannah R., Shelby R., Jeremy S., Jesse S,. and Annie W.

Third Point Award (450+ points earned while participating in Howar Band)
Lei Alena D., Hannah R., Shelby R., Jeremy S., Jesse S.

Congratulations to everyone involved, it's been a great year!!