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DIRECTORS’ REPORT – Bruce & Cammie Carter
The JACKSON INDEPENDENT WINTER GUARD will begin preparing for its season this week. Guard parents, please make a note of the following schedule, as a few times have changed slightly from the original calendar due to facility and student availability.
The Winter Guard rehearsal schedule for this week:
Tuesday, December 1 – 4:00-8:00
Friday, December 4 – 2:00-8:00 (Dinner provided)
Saturday, December 5 – 2:00-8:00 (Dinner provided)
Sunday, December 6 (if needed-this will be announced at the end of Saturday’s practice) – 2:00-5:00
Thank you to Abbi Thomas, Mary Jo Thomas, Samantha Hill, & Annie Campbell for spending several hours today helping to paint drill sets on the winter guard mat.
The Winter Guard rehearsal schedule for this week:
Tuesday, December 1 – 4:00-8:00
Friday, December 4 – 2:00-8:00 (Dinner provided)
Saturday, December 5 – 2:00-8:00 (Dinner provided)
Sunday, December 6 (if needed-this will be announced at the end of Saturday’s practice) – 2:00-5:00
Thank you to Abbi Thomas, Mary Jo Thomas, Samantha Hill, & Annie Campbell for spending several hours today helping to paint drill sets on the winter guard mat.
As previously announced, the JA Band Program Christmas Concert will be on Thursday, December 10, beginning at 7:00 in the JA Library. Band class time in the coming weeks will be devoted to working on the holiday tunes for the concert.
The concert will begin with the 19-member Sixth Grade Band giving its premiere performance with several traditional Folk and Christmas classics. The High School Concert Band will be performing a few "new" Christmas classics from film, radio and TV, including music from Home Alone, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, selections from A Charlie Brown Christmas, a crazy version of the James Brown classic retitled Santa’s Got A Brand New Bag, and the premiere of a modern/ jazzy arrangement Silent Night for Brass and Percussion by JA Alumnus Corey Carter. The program will conclude with the always popular High School Jazz Band, performing fresh arrangements of pop standards such as Santa Baby, Baby, It’s Cold Outside, and a hard swinging version of Jingle Bells.Please join us to get in the holiday spirit.
The concert will begin with the 19-member Sixth Grade Band giving its premiere performance with several traditional Folk and Christmas classics. The High School Concert Band will be performing a few "new" Christmas classics from film, radio and TV, including music from Home Alone, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, selections from A Charlie Brown Christmas, a crazy version of the James Brown classic retitled Santa’s Got A Brand New Bag, and the premiere of a modern/ jazzy arrangement Silent Night for Brass and Percussion by JA Alumnus Corey Carter. The program will conclude with the always popular High School Jazz Band, performing fresh arrangements of pop standards such as Santa Baby, Baby, It’s Cold Outside, and a hard swinging version of Jingle Bells.Please join us to get in the holiday spirit.
Come early – it will be crowded in the Library – and plan to stay late, to enjoy plenty of current and unusual holiday music.
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