We regretted having to announce the cancellation of the MAIS Concert Band Clinic last week, but weather conditions in the northern part of the state prevented a significant percentage of the participants from traveling. There were 110 student musicians from around the state signed up to attend, including 16 JA Band members. Hopefully most of our students will plan to attend the event in 2011.
CHRISTMAS CONCERT RECORDINGS
Donald Thomas has created CDs of the Christmas Concert, which are available for purchase. There is one CD for the Sixth Grade Band and another CD for the Concert and Jazz Band performances. Each CD is $5. If you are interested, please send me an email at jaband@aol.com indicating which CD(s) you would like, and send payment with your student to the band hall.
JA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER NEWS
The Jazz Band brass will perform at the PAC Ribbon Cutting on Tuesday. Here is the information about the event from the JA website:
"The Jackson Academy Board of Trustees is pleased to announce a ribbon-cutting for the school’s newly constructed Performing Arts Center on Tuesday, January 12, at 4:00 p.m. Following the ceremony, an open house will be held for the public. A brief program will follow with Jackson Academy faculty and staff presenting key features of the new center that will enhance students’ opportunities in the performing arts. Please join us as we celebrate the grand opening of this new addition to JA. For additional information, the official press release is viewable at the link below."
Performing Arts Center Press Release
Jazz Band brass members should bring concert black attire to change into after school on Tuesday. We will announce any further details in class on Monday. Please join us for this milestone event on the JA campus.
SECTIONALS - BEGINNING THIS WEEK
Concert Band sectionals begin this week. All sectionals will be 3:00 - 4:00, and will be held until the MAIS Concert Band Festival. The students decided on the following schedule:
MONDAYS - tenor saxes and clarinets
TUESDAYS - alto saxes and flutes
WEDNESDAYS - percussion
THURSDAYS - trumpets
FRIDAYS - low brass
JACKSON INDEPENDENT WINTERGUARD
The JI Winterguard will have rehearsal this week on Tuesday, January 12, from 4:00 - 7:00. Any guard members who have not yet paid the fee need to do so this week.
The group's first performance event will be the MIA Field Day on Saturday, January 30. Further details will be announced when they are available.
PRESIDENT'S CORNER - Jim Lowery
My remarks are tending to be musings since I am on the last leg of an amazing 10 year journey with my children and the JA Band. I was fortunate enough to attend the opening of the Performing Arts Center this afternoon, and believe me when I say you have much to look forward to in the future. We will amaze the other members of MAIS when we host the concert band festival. We will need to showcase the band concert in May to promote how much talent is in the band. Any ideas on this will be heard. This venue will be amazing compared to anywhere the band has performed. The JA Administration and the Artistic and Technical Director for the center, Lee Farrar Bailey, have a great vision for the building and the arts at JA. Lee Bailey was in productions with my son Jonathan and is extremely talented in his own right. For those of you returning next year...I'm jealous.
I just received my DVD for the BOA event in San Antonio. If you have not heard the crowd reaction to our performance at finals, you need to find a finals DVD. The fact that 21 of 29 members of the band was off by a little when the announcer shared with the audience that over half of the band was in the 7th and 8th grades. Regardless...it was amazing to view it again, even if it did not come close to the feel in the dome.
UPCOMING EVENTS
Please mark the following dates on your calendars:
Tuesday, March 23 - Full Band evening rehearsal, 7:00 - 8:30
Tuesday, March 30 - Full Band evening rehearsal, 7:00 - 8:30
Thursday, April 1 - MAIS Concert Band Festival, JA Performing Arts Center, all day
Spring Concert and Band Banquet - TBA
BAND CAMP - July 26-30 and August 2-6
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