6th Grade Band Notes
February 1, 2017
Solo/Ensemble Festival- Saturday, February 25th at Wheaton Christian Grammar School
Solo and Ensemble Festival is now less than one month away. The contest will be held on Saturday, February 25th at Wheaton Christian Grammar School (1N350 Taylor Drive, Winfield, IL 60190). We do not provide transportation to and from the school so please begin preparing arrangements for transportation.
Solo Times
Practicing for Contest
If students are interested in practicing after school with me, I would be happy to help. Please let me know and we can schedule a time to make that happen.
Piano Accompanists
If your son or daughter is using Mrs. Leonard as their accompanist, make sure that they sign up to meet with her at least twice after school at the Junior High before the contest. She has e-mailed out a sign-up sheet with times that begin this week. Her e-mail address is aleonard@lisle202.org if you need to get in touch with her.
If your son or daughter is using Mrs. Sutton or Mrs. Boesso as their accompanist, you may have heard from them already. If not, please contact them to set up some rehearsal time.
Mrs. Sutton- phyllisasutton59@gmail.com
Mrs. Boesso- sboesso@yahoo.com
Cabaret Night Raffle Tickets
On Saturday, February 18, the Lisle Junior High Jazz Bands and the Lisle Senior High Jazz Bands will perform an evening of Big Band jazz at our annual Cabaret Night. This is our program’s biggest fundraiser of the year. To help raise funds, the students received a stack of blue raffle tickets in band. These tickets are for the Cabaret Night Grand Raffle and we ask that they do their best to sell the entire stack of tickets. They should not go door to door- simply selling them to family and friends will suffice. There are some very cool prizes to be won in the grand raffle and you do not have to be present at Cabaret Night to win a prize. The big prizes are $300 cash, $400 to spend at Quinlan and Fabish, an overnight stay at the Oakbrook Hills Resort, and a fitbit. These tickets help raise funds for our band program for music, scholarships, clinics, and equipment.
The raffle tickets are $1 each but can also be sold in bulk for discounts- 6 tickets for $5, 12 tickets for $10, for all 25 tickets for $20. When the studentss sell a ticket to someone, that person should write their name, address, and phone number on the blue ticket and return it to the student along with the payment. Students will turn in all sold and unsold tickets with payment by Wednesday, February 15th.