Scan the QR Code, or try this link: QRCODENovember is an extremely busy month for the Band!
Here’s a brief schedule of all upcoming events.
November 4th Pitch-in/Carmel Home Football Playoff Game vs. Warren Central
November 5th BOI Indy Regional, Lucas Oil Stadium
November 7th Special Monday Band Practice, AM & PM
November 9th Walled Lake Band Arrives at CHS
November 10th BOA Grand Nat’s Prelim’s, Lucas Oil Stadium
November 11th Walled Lake/Carmel Band Dinner (Freshmen Cafeteria)
November 12th BOA Grand Nats, Lucas Oil Stadium
November 13th Walled Lake Band Departs CHS
November 14th Band Banquet @ Ritz Charles
Nov 21st – 26th Macy’s Trip
November 28th Jazz Band Practice Begins!
REMINDER: We are heading into the final stretch. As such, there will be a MONDAY Practice next week! All practices this week and next are crucial to our success at Nationals. Please respect the directors and the other 208 Marching Greyhounds. No student should miss any rehearsals for the remainder of the season. Illness is the only excused absence. Please e-mail Mr. Kreke if your child is ill, otherwise, your student will be expected to be at each rehearsal for the entire rehearsal. Thank you for your cooperation in this regard.
BOA GRAND NATIONAL FINALS TICKETS ARE IN!
Parents, Grand National Finals Tickets have arrived. Please look for Christy Pawlovich near the trailer at the end of practice Wednesday & Thursday, and Friday at the Pitch-in and Saturday at the send off to pick up your tickets. She drives a red Flex with a white roof. In the event of rain tomorrow, she will be parked in the circle drive near the entrance to the band hall during pick up. If you are unable to pick up your tickets during any of these times, please email Christy and make arrangements to pick up your tickets.
SCRIP UPDATE
SCRIP pickup, this week, will be on Friday 5-6 pm at the Pitch-in. As always, there’ll be a terrific selection of scrip cards in stock and available for immediate purchase as well.
MARCHING BAND UPDATE
Parents…our next performance is Saturday, November 5th, BOA Indy Super-Regional at Lucas Oil Stadium. The current full schedule will always be posted on the website. You will need to enter the password to view the page: CMB#1Carmel Home Football Game • Friday, November 4, 2011 • Carmel HS Stadium
BOA Indy Super Regional Competition • Saturday, November 5, 2011 • Lucas Oil Stadium
Friday Schedule (11-4)
5:30 PM: Pitch-in Dinner (see below for assignments)
7:00 PM: Football Kick-off, Sectional Game #3
Full Half Time Show, Second Half Pep-Band
Saturday Schedule (11-5)
6:15 AM: Guard Reports
7:00 AM: Musicians Report to Band Room
7:25 AM: Load Buses
10:30 AM: Preliminary Performance
12:40 PM: Arrive CHS
Evening Performance is TBD
4:40 PM: Earliest Possible Departure Time, Actual Schedule will be posted
on the website and e-mail sent after 1:00 pm
TBD PM: Load Buses (Take small instruments on the buses in cases)
TBD PM: Depart CHS
TBD PM: Performance Time
TBD PM: Stage in Exit Tunnel for Retreat
1:00 PM: Awards
1:25 AM: Arrive CHS
PITCH-IN THIS FRIDAY, November 4 before the Carmel – Warren Central Game!
Bring whatever you want from your child’s category below! Bring the food you know that the kids and families love! Popular food includes tacos, pizzas, fruit, finger food, chicken, brownies, etc! Come to the Pitch In to cheer on the band as they get ready to support the football team against Warren Central! Look below for what your child’s food category is!
Friday, Nov. 4 – For game versus Warren Central!
Please bring your contribution to the “Whatever you Want” Night at the CHS stadium parking lot by 5:15 p.m.* (food should serve at least 12)
- Saxes, Baritones, Clarinets, Drum Majors - Main Dishes
- Guard, Contras, Trumpets - Side Dishes
- Mello, Flutes – Desserts
- Percussion (Pit and Drum Line) - Drinks*
*(please bring at least 24 individual bottles or cans of water, lemonade
Dinner will be served at 5:30 p.m. for band members and uniform moms!
The rest of us will begin eating at about 5:45. Please be prompt if you plan to eat, the food goes quickly!
Cups, plates, napkins and cutlery will be provided. Even if you are unable to stay for the pitch in, please drop off your contribution by 5:15, we have hungry band members!
PHOTO SLIDE SHOW FOR YOUR ENJOYMENT
Sean Spence, father of Sarah ’11 Saxophone, has put together a photo gallery slide show of some terrific pictures from recent performances. All are high quality pictures, so be please be patient for it to load. All of the photos in the gallery along with those from all of our great band photographers are available on the smugmug site….the SmugMug link is available on the website.
Dream Hands Slideshow
WALLED LAKE UPDATE
Thank you to all the volunteer families. Walled Lake has completed their assignments and their information is being sent out to our host families today. We have one more request. On Friday, the night before finals, The Fresh Market is providing dinner for both bands, chaperones and hosts. We could use donations of cases of soda for the band students. If you are able to donate, please drop off a case or two or several 2 liter bottles of Dr. Pepper, Mt. Dew, Pepsi, 7-up or Diet Coke in the Freshman Cafeteria after 3:00 pm, Friday November 11th. Thank you again for your generosity and support of the bands!
ALUMNI UPDATE
Indy BOA – Carmel Alum’s to Perform with Purdue Band – ‘Proud to report that Carmel Marching alums, Teresa Spall (baritone) and Nick Pfister (trumpet), will be performing with the 340-member Purdue All-American Marching Band this Saturday night at the Indy BOA Super Regional. Purdue will open the finals competition as well as play on the finals bands for retreat. ‘Look for them and cheer!
PLEASE WELCOME NEIGHBORHOOD PIZZA TO THE BAND FAMILY!
Please welcome Neighborhood Pizza as an official Corporate Sponsor of Carmel Bands. Neighborhood Pizza is one of Carmel’s original Food Trucks! For the past nine years, this pizza truck has been making and delivering hot, fresh gourmet Pizzas to homes, schools and businesses on the west side of Carmel. For more information on Neighborhood Pizza, click hereor find them on Twitter @nhpizza
SPIRIT SHOPPING:
2011 GOING VIRAL YEAR-END DVD
The 2011 Going Viral Year-End DVD order forms are now available! Orders are due December 3rd. You may also order last year’s Stop and Smell the Roses DVD. For more information and to download the order form, go to the website: DVD
GOING VIRAL 2011 & CMB COMMEMORATIVE ORNAMENTS
Commemorate this ‘Going Viral’ season with a keepsake ornament. Each ornament has the QR code, the show’s title and year, yellow shimmery ribbon to symbolize the guard’s costume, black and white ribbon to symbolize the QR code, and a royal blue ribbon to symbolize the band’s uniforms. Each ornament is filled with black, white, and yellow glass beads and each ornament also contains a glass red star bead to symbolize the trip to the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. “Carmel Marching Band” ornament is filled with blue, black and silver glass beads and has musical note ribbon, silver, and royal blue ribbon. Price for the ornaments is $10 each and all proceeds go to the band and guard. Ornaments will be delivered at the band banquet on Nov. 14. See the home page of the website for more information. You can pay by check by delivering the order to Kim Ware or you can buy with PayPal or a credit card using the link on the website.
SPIRIT BUTTONS!
If you have already ordered a spirit button, they are now ready for pick up! The following have ordered buttons:Taylor Adams, Austin Berry, Buczek, Alex Godwin, Joelen Harrell, Jessie Meltzer, Emma Morone, Ping Pong, Keshav Ramaswamy, Rodriguez, Rachel Sendrow.
Look for JoAnn Albright after practice Thursday or Friday’s Pitch In. Last pick up for all button orders will by Friday, November 4th after practice. After the Pitch in all unclaimed buttons will be discarded. As a reminder, each button is $3. Exact change is appreciated or make your check payable to Carmel Band Boosters. Questions or need instructions on how to make a custom order? Contact JoAnn Albright.
GRAND NATIONALS FINALS VIDEOS ARE NOW AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER
Every year, Mr. Video offers booster groups the opportunity to pre order Grand Nationals Finals DVD’s. For our new parents, this is a video shot live the night of Grand National Finals of each band’s performance in two formats (up close (field level) and from the press box.) After Grand Nats, if you order from Mr. Video, the video will cost $99. We will be taking orders for the videos beginning today at the reduced cost of $75. Orders must be placed on line on the band’s website and must be paid for using Pay Pal. No cash or personal checks will be accepted. Orders must be placed by next Wednesday, November 9th. NO LATE ORDERS WILL BE ACCEPTED!
Please note, this DVD is NOT to be confused with the band’s End-Of-Season DVD which is being shot by Greg Pergal and will be shown at the Band Banquet. That DVD order is also available for sale and chronicles our band’s entire season.
MACY*S PICTURE OFFER, DEADLINE THANKSGIVING DAY
Group Photos, Inc. is Macy*s official photographer and is offering our band the opportunity to pre-purchase 8×10 high quality photographs at $20 each. With the pre-purchase of three photos, a video DVD and shipping are included free. This offer expires on Thanksgiving Day. We are offering this as a courtesy to our Membership, the Band Boosters have no business relationship with Group Photos, Inc. See the website for more information and the order form: MACY*S PICTURE OFFER
MACY*S TRIP UPDATE
All students, chaperones and fans traveling to New York City with Music Travel Consultants should have received their final invoice from Music Travel for their student’s account at this time. Final payments are due on your Music Travelaccount at this time.
Please check the website often for the most current information regarding the Macy*s Trip. Use this link: MACY*S
Going to Macys on the fan bus or your own transportation and looking for a way to coordinate sight-seeing and other fun activities in the Big Apple with other marching band families? Check out the newly formed group “Carmel Marching to Macys Fan Trip” on Facebook and join up.
Also, if you are traveling by bus to New York, EVERYONE needs a sack dinner on Monday evening. The buses will not be stopping for a dinner break. Our corporate sponsor, Fresh Market is donating meals at no charge for students, staff and chaperones on the buses. Fans have the option of pre-purchasing a meal for $8.00. The meal includes a sandwich of your choice, chips, fruit, cookie and bottled water. Purchase of the meal is optional; however, if you choose not to participate, please note you will be responsible for providing your own sack dinner. If you are traveling by fan bus and want to participate, please submit the menu (Use the MACY*S link above) with choice of Sandwich circled and $8.00 payment to Lisa Harbour or Robin Ridge no later than Friday, November 11, 2011.
BAND PHOTOS – SmugMug – Where are They?
To see the wonderful, inspiring images of our Members and Staff, go to WEBSITE, click “Band Photos”, click “SmugMug Galleries”, click “SmugMug”, enter password “3xc3ll3nc3″. SmugMug is a generous corporate citizen, providing this $160 a year professional photographer’s site for free to us. You can download all images, and even order prints from SmugMug, if you like. They are pros; you won’t be disappointed. Thanks to Shawn Spence Photography for his truly professional contributions from ISSMA State. Questions? Email Joe Pfister.
NEW WEBSITE POSTS:
MEMBER CLASSIFIEDS
NEW FEE REDUCER OPPORTUNITY
PAT GERBER’s BLOG PAGE Updated!
CARMEL MARCHING “C” SECOND CLASS VIDEO
BAND INSTRUMENT LOCKERS:
As a friendly reminder from you Band Directors: If your son or daughter is storing an instrument in one of the instrument cages at school, be sure they are keeping a combination lock on the door at all times!!!
MISSED A RECENT ANNOUNCEMENT EMAIL?
You can always go to our website and find an archive of the Announcements under the LATEST NEWS tab.
UNIFORM UPDATE: Grand Nats is fast approaching!!!
The Carmel uniform is well known across the state of Indiana and the nation. The Carmel “C” is a coveted souvenir at the Bands of America Grand National Championship. Students like to trade the Carmel “C” for other bands uniform items. Please be aware that all uniforms will be inventoried after Grand Nats. Any missing items will be billed to the students marching band account. So everyone is aware ahead of time, the cost of each item is:
• “C” – $15 • Gauntlets – $25 • Rhinestone – $65 • Bib Pants – $60 • Plume – $14 • Jacket – $150 • Shako – $50
Sponsors of Carmel Bands
Champions of Music and Life
Champion of Marching Greyhounds
Platinum Sponsor
Additional Sponsors
Thank you for your support of Carmel High School Band Programs.
Dynamic Marching
Walled Lake Marching Band