Marching Tiger Families,

First off, thank you for your patience waiting for this FYI.  The larger company that owns weebly and other sites had technical issues yesterday and shutdown all access to their products, preventing me from posting the FYI. 

Friday's Football Game
Our game this Friday is an away game at the Historic Crew Stadium.  Tickets are available through the OHSAA website.  I'd just be sure to make a note that we are at the "Old" Crew Stadium.  We are not the home team, which means we play in the stands and do a brief halftime show.  

Timeline
4:15 - Band Room Opens
5:15 - Load buses
6:15 - Arrive at Historic Crew Stadium
7:08 - Kick-off
TBD - Arrive at PHSC 


Uniform Update
We will wear our purple uniforms and maintain the same expectations for uniforms inspection.  As a quick reminder, face paint is not allowed in uniform as it can stain the white portions of our uniform jackets.  If we the rain holds in the forecast we will issue raincoats for this game.  The raincoats are limited and we ask students to wear the smallest jacket they can fit in while still being able to button up the jacket.  This typically ensures the large sizes are available for those who need them.  Do not use the raincoat pockets.  Inevitably students will leave personal items in the coat pockets.  This makes for a frustrating evening once you realize you now have to check every raincoat pocket for your phone...  Just don't use the raincoat pockets and your evening will be fine! 


****TONIGHT*** November 19 London Parent meeting
If you are traveling to London we will have our Final Parent Meeting virtually at 7pm on November 19th.  Please plan to come to the meeting as we will cover the travel plans, explain flight groups and protocols and more.  The final Chaperone Meeting is December 3rd at 7pm.  This is an organizational meeting for directors and chaperones.  Students and followers do not need to attend.  

Solo and Ensemble
Solo and Ensemble is early this year.  Every 3 years the Districts in OMEA rotate though a 3 weekend cycle, There is an early, middle and late weekend which ensures that there are enough judges to go around the state.  As luck would have it, we are the first weekend this year on January 17th at PHSN. In the next few days I'll be sharing forms with students to enter their plans for Solo and Ensemble.  Students in Wind Ensemble are required to participate in this event, Symphonic band and concert band are not required but encouraged to participate as Solo and Ensemble promotes the most individual growth for student musicianship.  Please start making those final selections for S&E so that I can start finding accompanists and selecting music for everyone. 

Breakfast with Santa
This is a fundraiser and community service project on December 6th, 7:30am-12pm.  The Jazz Band is the only band ensemble that performs at this event, however we ask the rest of the band students and parents to volunteer in various capacities throughout the morning. In addition to the obvious breakfast with Santa we host a themed basket raffle, craft table, hot chocolate bar and donation station for the Ronald McDonald House. 

The Section leaders for each section of the band are responsible for putting together themed baskets for the raffle.  These range from baskets for young children with crayons and coloring books to portable fire pits and and s'more kits for the adults.  As long as there is a theme and all the items in the baskets are school appropriate we are fine! 

Because BWS is the week after Thanksgiving break I know kids are going to be scrambling when we come back to get their baskets started.  As parents, if you work in retail or have the ability through your line of work to offer something to "kick-start" your child's basket please let them know!  This could be the starter they need to get rolling on the project. 

Parent Volunteers 11/21
Nurse: 
Julie Ketcham

Bus/Chaperone/Field Help:
Chris Mirakian
Emily Haverfield
Hope Hill
Heather Edwards
Lisa Winters
Lauryn Winters
Melissa Wyatt

Guard:
Anne Shreffler

Marching Tiger Families,

This week's FYI​ is going to cover a wide-range of topics, I do apologize in advance for the jumping around various upcoming events.  

UA at Home this Friday
We are hosting our final Home football game of the season on Friday.  If we win this week then all additional football games in the playoffs will be held at neutral sites.  Fortunately the weather looks like it is working out in our favor and will warm-up for Friday's game.  So lets enjoy our last night with a "home" game.  

Halftime this Friday will look vary familiar.  With a large portion of our leadership participating in Capital University's Honor Band Weekend we will do another simple halftime performance.  

Winter Concert
There has been some issues surrounding the scheduling of our winter concert, the logistics schedule for London and our students who are involved in both Christmas Chorale and Band.  Without getting too deep I will simply say, we can't have a concert with instruments that are in a shipping container headed to London...  (The previous solution was a concert date swap with Ridgeview)

The finalized plan for the winter concert was decided by prioritizing the student opportunities to perform, both in band and chorale.  I realize the changes made might inconvenience some families but we felt it is necessary for students to meet the expectations of their previously made commitments vs convenience to families and friends.    

We will use the following Schedule for our Winter Concert. And I do apologize for all the confusion caused by my quick solutions without taking an additional step back and seeing the complete picture before communicating home to you.  The PHSC High School Winter Band Concert will be held on December 10th at 5:00pm.  The Ridgeview Junior High Concert will also be held on December 10th but at 7:00pm.  

Solo and Ensemble
Solo and Ensemble is early this year.  Every 3 years the Districts in OMEA rotate though a 3 weekend cycle, There is an early, middle and late weekend which ensures that there are enough judges to go around the state.  As luck would have it, we are the first weekend this year on January 17th at PHSN. In the next few days I'll be sharing forms with students to enter their plans for Solo and Ensemble.  Students in Wind Ensemble are required to participate in this event, Symphonic band and concert band are not required but encouraged to participate as Solo and Ensemble promotes the most individual growth for student musicianship.  Please start making those final selections for S&E so that I can start finding accompanists and selecting music for everyone. 

Uniform update for the UA game
We will wear our purple uniforms and maintain the same expectations for uniforms inspection.  As a quick reminder, face paint is not allowed in uniform as it can stain the white portions of our uniform jackets.  

The weather looks good for Friday but as the weather gets colder, we are still required to be in proper uniform.  No winter hats when on the field and no hoodies popping out the back of your uniform jackets.  Any blankets need to be pre-placed in the band stand for the home games in advance as we will not get to the bleachers until after we march pregame.  This 

November 19 London Parent meeting
If you are traveling to London we will have our Final Parent Meeting virtually at 7pm on November 19th.  Please plan to come to the meeting as we will cover the travel plans, explain flight groups and protocols and more.  The final Chaperone Meeting is December 3rd at 7pm.  This is an organizational meeting for directors and chaperones.  Students and followers do not need to attend.  

Friday Timeline
5:00 - Band room opens
6:00 - Meet at Flagpoles in uniform 
6:40 - March to stadium
6:45 - enter stadium
6:50 - Begin Pregame 
7:00 - Kick-off 

Parent Volunteers
Nurse:
Julie Ketcham

Guard Help:
Anne Shreffler

Field Help:
Chris Mirakian
Emily Haverfield
Lisa Mezquita
Hope Hill
Heather Edwards
Jennifer Dryer

Good Morning Marching Tiger Families, 

We are into week 2 of the playoffs!  After a successful competition season we are also in full swing converting to concert band.  You could call this portion of the fall "limbo" between marching and concert seasons.  This essentially means we are switching our focus from 100% marching band to 20% marching 80% concert band.   This will outwardly look like less involved halftime shows on Friday night.  


Uniform update
We will wear our purple uniforms and maintain the same expectations for uniforms inspection.  As a quick reminder, face paint is not allowed in uniform as it can stain the white portions of our uniform jackets.  Uniforms for week 3 as with any additional playoff game will be determined based upon the weather forecast in the weekly FYI.  

Additionally as the weather gets colder, we are still required to be in proper uniform.  No winter hats when on the field and no hoodies popping out the back of your uniform jackets.  Any blankets need to be preplaced in the band stand for the home games in advance as we will not get to the bleachers until after we march pregame. 

November 19 London Parent meeting
If you are traveling to London we will have our Final Parent Meeting virtually at 7pm on November 19th.  Please plan to come to the meeting as we will cover the travel plans, explain flight groups and protocols and more.  The final Chaperone Meeting is December 3rd at 7pm.  This is an organizational meeting for directors and chaperones.  Students and followers do not need to attend.  

Friday Timeline
3:10-4:10 Dress rehearsal in Tiger stadium
5:15 - Band room opens
5:45 - Meet at Flagpoles in uniform 
6:20 - March to stadium
6:30 - enter stadium
6:45 - Begin Pregame 
7:00 - Kick-off 

Parent volunteers
​Nurse
Julie Ketcham
Field Help
Chris Mirakian
Lisa Mezquita
Emily Haverfield
Hope Hill
Anne Shreffler
Miranda LeMaster
Tony Gerardi
Tracy Gerardi