Songs: Back in Black, Painted Black, Welcome to my Black Parade
Halftime Show 2023 Slide Show

Band Camp, July 31 – August 4
Percussion/Guard Camp, July 24 – 27
Leadership Camp, July 26- 27

Attendance is vital and mandatory!
See you there!!

Hello Everyone,

We had a very fun Atlanta Band trip, and I want to thank everyone that helped!! The band students made great memories and we brought home 2 huge trophies! One 1st place trophy, and an Overall winner trophy!!! I really hope you can make it to our concert it is going to be FANTASTIC!! Here are some details for our final band events of the year.

May 12th – Leadership Auditions after school

May 18th 7:00pm Band Awards Nigh at Hudson High School Gym (semi-formal dress)
Everyone is invited to our huge potluck feast to be followed by awards. We will also announce our leadership for next year, and our halftime show!! To make sure we don’t have too much of something we will divide up who will bring what for our feast. If you have a signature dish you would like to bring, please do!!

Percussion/Guard – Bring salads, and or appetizers.
Brass – Bring entrees, sides and or vegetables.
Woodwinds – Bring desserts and or beverages.

May 22nd 7:00pm Spring Concert @ River Ridge High School
Students will need to be at River Ridge High School at 6pm in their black concert attire or red jazz attire. Arrange to have big instruments picked up from Hudson HS to bring to River Ridge Performing Arts Center. Showtime at 7pm, you won’t want to miss this!!!

April 29th – Our Jazz Band has been invited for the Pasco Blueberry Jamboree! We will meet at 12128 State Road 52, Hudson, FL 34669 at 12 noon. Our performance time is 12:30pm – 1:30pm. Concert attire will be our red dress shirt and black dress pants. Bring some money to enjoy the food truck goodness!!

May 1st – Atlanta Trip Meeting at 7pm
All students and their parents who will be joining us on the Atlanta trip will need to attend this mandatory meeting. We will talk about trip procedures to ensure for an AWESOME band trip experience.

May 1st and 4th – Atlanta Band Rehearsal after school. To make sure we have a great showing at the band competition in Atlanta we will have 2 rehearsals after school from 1:45 – 3:45. Let’s do this!!!

It’s that time of year when the sections battle it out for the Car Wash Cup!! Winning section will get a pizza party on the last day of school!! Bring towels, buckets, and sponges.

April 22 – Car Wash Battle from 9:30am till 12:30pm.

Locations:
Woodwinds – 7/11, Moon Lake Rd and SR 52
Percussion and Guard – 7/11, Hicks SR 52 (need paperwork signed and turned in)
Brass– Advanced Auto Parts, Altoona Ave SR 52

We will also need parent volunteers for each location. We’re using SignUp (the leading online SignUp and reminder tool) to organize our upcoming Car Wash Chaperones.

Here’s how it works in 3 easy steps:

1) Click this link to see our SignUp on SignUp: https://signup.com/go/OWzxbCu
2) Review the options listed and choose the spot(s) you like.
3) Sign up! It’s Easy – you will NOT need to register an account or keep a password on SignUp.

Note: SignUp does not share your email address with anyone. If you prefer not to use your email address, please contact me and I can sign you up manually.

The band looked and sounded fantastic at the Chasco Parade! Thank you, band parents who volunteered! Follow this Facebook link to see the pictures from the Chasco Parade: Hudson High Class Act Band.

We are getting closer and closer to our Atlanta trip and we have some April adventures. Here are the details:

April 12th – Our Jazz Band has been invited to play for the residence at Solaris Healthcare Bayonet Point. We will meet at Solaris Healthcare 7210 Beacon Woods Dr, Hudson Fl 34667 at 2pm and perform at 2:30pm till 3:00pm. Concert attire will be our red dress shirt and black dress pants.

April 22nd – Annual Car Wash Battle from 9:30am till 12:30pm. Brass vs. Woodwinds vs. Percussion/Guard. The winning section will get a pizza party on the last day of school!! Bring towels, buckets, and sponges. Locations will be announced the week of the battle.

April 29th – Our Jazz Band has been invited for the Pasco Blueberry Jamboree! We will meet at 12128 State Road 52, Hudson, FL 34669 at 12 noon. Our performance time is 12:30pm – 1:30pm. Concert attire will be our red dress shirt and black dress pants. Bring some money to enjoy the food truck goodness!!

May 1st – Atlanta Trip Meeting at 7pm
All students and their parents who will be joining us on the Atlanta trip will need to attend this mandatory meeting. We will talk about trip procedures to ensure for an AWESOME band trip experience.

May 1st and 4th – Atlanta Band Rehearsal after school. To make sure we have a great showing at the band competition in Atlanta we will have 2 rehearsals after school from 1:45 – 3:45. Let’s do this!!!

Our mandatory band camp will be at Hudson Academy again. Please be very mindful when making summer vacation plans. Having everyone at band camp is vital to another Superior marching season!

Band Camp 2023 & Hudson Academy

July 18th – 21 Percussion/Guard Camp

July 22nd – Leadership Camp

July 25-29th – Band Camp

Have a great day!

Hello Everyone,

Thank you, chaperones for your time at last week’s MPA!! The band performed well and received an Excellent! Our band room will be renovated over the summer and we will have to move out by April 10h. We will be across the hall in the gym class rooms. Our band camp will at Hudson Academy again. . Please be very mindful when making summer vacation plans. Having everyone at band camp is vital to another Superior marching season.

Band Camp 2023 & Hudson Academy
July 18th – 21 Percussion/Guard Camp
July 22nd – Leadership Camp
July 25-29th – Band Camp

Before we head into our Spring Break I would like to give you a head up for when we get back.

March 17th – Solo/Ensemble State MPA
Mckenna Stephen, one of our guard captains will be performing a flag solo for State Solo/Ensemble in Jacksonville, good luck!!!

March 23rd – Band Booster Board Meeting 6:30pm
Everyone is invited to our booster meeting. Lots of good information is shared and plans are made for the future of our band.

March 23rd – Final Atlanta Trip Payment Due
Students – $250 and Chaperones – $100

March 25th – Chasco Parade in New Port Richey
We will meet at 11am in the band room to get our uniforms on. Students will need shorts, band shirt, and come well hydrated for the parade. We will take busses to Gulf HS (same route as winter parade). Parade starts at 1pm and we should be back at school around 3pm. We will need 10 chaperones. Please use the following link to sign up: Chasco Chaperone

Please take care

Hello Everyone,

Tomorrow is our big MPA day!! Due to this event being on a week day and during business hours we are having a hard time finding chaperones. If you are available and an approved volunteer, please use this link to register as a chaperone: MPA Chaperone. Chaperones will meet in the band room at 11am and we should be back by 6:30pm.

Also, we are collecting money for the Atlanta trip, due March 3rd. You may use the fundraiser money you received for this deposit, minus the 20% the fundraising company will be taking. If you would like to know the exact amount you owe for this deposit, send me an email.
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Hello Everyone,

We had a great start to February with Jazz Band and Percussion receiving a Superior at MPA. For Solo and Ensemble we had 22 students earn superior medals. Also, one of our guard member, McKenna Stephens will be performing at State Solo/Ensemble during Spring Break in Jacksonville!!

Next week is another big week for the band. We have Concert MPA on Thursday. Also we will be collecting the second deposit for the Atlanta trip:

Concert MPA @ River Ridge High School – Thursday, March 2
This concert is open to the public and everyone is invited!! We’ll need 7 chaperones (use link to sign up). All symphonic band students will need to come to school with their black concert attire (black dress shoes, black dress pants and black dress button up long sleeve shirt) We’ll meet in the band room during 3rd period. We’ll take three busses to River Ridge High School and stop for lunch at McDonald’s (bring lunch money). Afterwards we will be listening other bands MPA performances. Our warm-up times is 5:00pm and our performance time is 5:30pm. We should be back at school around 6:30pm. If we receive a Superior at this event we will have a Grand Slam Superior Year!!!

Atlanta Trip – Second Deposit Due March 3rd
We raised $6968 dollars through our Snap Raise Fundraiser and we have one more night to go!! For the next deposit you may use your raised amount, minus the 20% the fundraising company will claim. Due to the great amount of money being collected our band boosters would like to collect all the deposits on the following days:

February 27th after rehearsal
March 2nd after MPA
March 3rd after school

So much exciting events still to look forward to! If you have any questions please let me know: cadams@pasco.k12.fl.us