It's FESTIVAL WEEK! This week ahead will be assuredly filled with some amazing performances- time to make some beautiful sounds and memories! Here are all the details for this week and the week's ahead:
Concert Ensembles (CB, SB, WE) MSBOA Band Festival Performances THIS WEEK! Our official MSBOA performance times have been announced-- this year, MSBOA Band Festival will be held right here at Stoney Creek HS for all bands. The Concert Band will perform immediately after school on Thursday, March 7th. Concert Band will be excused from their 6th hours in order to change and warm-up before taking the stage. he Symphony Band will perform on Saturday, March 9th at 8:50am. The Wind Ensemble will be performing twice- once as a band and again to join with our string orchestra to perform as a full Symphony Orchestra. The Wind Ensemble's first performance will be at 10:55am on Saturday, March 9th. The Symphony Orchestra performance will also be on Saturday, March 9th, at 2pm. Please click here to see further details for all SCHS Bands MSBOA Band Festival Performances. State Solo & Ensemble: Saturday, March 16 We are very excited to be hosting State Solo & Ensemble for the Michigan School Band and Orchestra Association this year! This prestigious event hosts student musicians from over 30 area high schools who earned top ratings at the District S&E events earlier in the year, and who may move on to receive top honors and scholarships from MSBOA. Because of the size and breadth of this event, all SCHS Band and Orchestra parents and students (whether or not they are performing) need to volunteer for this event to be a successful one. This has been a point of pride in our music program for over 20 years, and as a result, many MSBOA judges request to come to SCHS for the wonderful experiences they've had here in the past for this event. We need all-hands-on-deck! Some of our volunteer opportunities for this event include:
To sign-up for your volunteer shifts/donations, please visit the links below: Adults: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/4090A4FABAD29A02-48075975-state#/ Students: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/4090A4FABAD29A02-48075552-2024 Cougar Jazz Band Cougar Jazz Band at Music Hall: April 2, 2024 We are very excited to once again have the opportunity to perform at historic Music Hall in Downtown Detroit along side the Adams Highlander and Rochester Falcon Jazz Bands on April 2nd, 2024. There are NO other jazz bands in the state that get to do an event like this, and it truly is special for them to play the same stage as Dizzy Gillespie, Ella Fitzgerald, Aretha Franklin, and Frank Sinatra. We want to continue this event, and it needs participation for it to happen. Please use this link to RSVP for this special event: https://forms.gle/PZaoMWJqNo7VNa3RA Likewise, please share and distribute this link to any family and friends who may also be interested in attending! The Cougar Jazz Band will head to Hastings, MI on April 26-27th, 2024 to perform at the Thornapple Arts Council Jazz Festival! (https://thornapplearts.org/jazzfest/) This performance was added to our syllabus for this year to take the place of MSBOA Jazz Festival. The festival itself has a remarkable reputation for supporting many different age groups, experience levels, and providing an exceptional educational experience for all those involved. We are in need of chaperones for this event! Chaperones will travel for free for this performance. If you are available and interested, please contact Mrs. Staniszewski ASAP to make sure all overnight chaperone paperwork is completed and cleared. TAC Jazz Festival Permission Slip TAC Jazz Festival Student Packet (Payment, Roommate selection, schedule, etc.) Student Leadership Meetings Our next leadership meeting will be April 8 at 2:30pm. Leadership Meetings dates for the rest of this year will be: May 6th (4:00pm), and June 3rd (2:30pm). Students, please mark your calendars- we'd love to have your voice in the meetings! Our Publicity and Social Committees are working with our SCHS Music Boosters to host our first ever Music Department Bowling Night on Tuesday, March 19th at Avon North Hill Lanes. Cost is $5/person and includes bowling, shoes, and pizza. At least one person per lane needs to be an adult. Registration forms can be seen/printed here. Money and registration forms are due March 8th, 2024 and can be turned in to the black mailbox outside the band or choir office doors. This event is open to ALL Music Department families-- Band, Choir, Orchestra, Color/Winterguard! We hope you will join us! Extra-Curricular Opportunities Michigan Youth Ensembles Applications for the 2024-2025 Michigan Youth Ensemble (MYE) Season are now open! All MYE Programs are open to students who will be in grades 9 through 12 during the 2024-2025 academic year. Audition / application requirements for each ensemble can be found via our website, smtd.umich.edu/mye. Important dates to note:
Social Studies Olympiad: Song Writing Stoney Creek High School will be competing in the Social Studies Olympiad this year, and one of the events is to create an original song! More information can be found here. Please reach out to Mrs. Staniszewski or Mr. Mize with any questions or to sign up! Detroit Summer Jazz Workshop The Detroit Summer Jazz Workshop is currently accepting applications for our July 8-12 2024 instrumental workshop at the MSU Center and vocal camp at Music Hall, both in Midtown Detroit. We offer weeklong jazz instruction in our morning or afternoon workshop to all students of all ages above 10, on any instrument, at any experience level. Spots fill up quickly so save yours with a $50 reservation fee on the 'application' page. Whether you want to have a fun and casual experience or are looking to progress to the next steps of your jazz education, we have the top jazz educator/performers in Metro-Detroit that you'll have the opportunity to work with in the heart of jazz-legacy rich historic Detroit. You'll get to choose your own classes (with our help if you'd like), play and perform with an artist-themed combo, network with jazz friends in your experience group as well as receive wisdom from top guest master-clinicians as well as our pro faculty. See our website for more information and to apply for this year's jazz workshop! Comments are closed.
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