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This is your weekly MUSIC DEPARTMENT update! Hello Folks! Go Jags! DID YOU SEE THAT WIN TODAY?!?! HOLY MOLY! It's Homecoming Week! Please enjoy all the festivities, but also be sure to read the info below carefully as it pertains to this week. You'll need to follow the directions for this week carefully. Uniforms will be getting Dry Cleaned after this week. This week, we have a HOME game vs Fort White HS (Homecoming)! We will NOT be performing our halftime show at the footb

This is your weekly MUSIC DEPARTMENT update! Hello Folks! Congratulations on 3rd Place! That's a huge accomplishment! HERE ARE THE JUDGE TAPES. I highly recommend that Winds listen to Ensemble Music, Individual Music, Music Effect, Ensemble Visual, and Individual Visual. Percussion should listen to those tapes as well AND Percussion. Auxiliary members (if you're reading 👀) should listen to all the visual tapes and Colorguard. NFHB Postponed? Your face when you saw that NFH

This is your weekly MUSIC DEPARTMENT update! Hello Folks! It's our first Competition Week of the year! Also, NFHB Auditions are NEXT WEEK! Your face when you realized that NFHB Auditions are still coming! I know we've been talking a lot about Solo and Ensemble... you need to make sure you prioritize NFHB first! I highly recommend recording yourself! It's a great way to confront the reality of your performance and to begin to isolate the things that need improvement. I'm als

This is your weekly MUSIC DEPARTMENT update! Hello Folks! I'm so proud of the All State Students for going and doing their best at the All State Auditions! And now NFHB Auditions are in less than THREE short weeks! Your face when you realized that NFHB Auditions for HS are on 10/8 Have you been practicing? Last year, BCHS had the most students in the ensemble! Let's all try our best to do it again! I want us all to succeed, so this means everyone auditioning needs to be rea

This is your weekly MUSIC DEPARTMENT update! Hello Folks! Go Jags! I wish we could stop getting wet, but I'm glad we're learning to have fun regardless!! This week is All State Auditions. More info on that below. As a goal, I'd like to get moving on cleaning up slides during fundies and I would like to put down Movement 2. Of course, weather needs to be on our side. 🥲 Weekly Walkthrough 🧩 Monday, there are no events scheduled. Tuesday, we have a Woodwind Sectional (studen

This is your weekly MUSIC DEPARTMENT update! Hello Folks! It's a Four Day Week! The Baldwin Game was a lot of fun! I heard that the rookies enjoyed themselves! Kudos to you! This week should be easy! Let's get it! Weekly Walkthrough 🧩 Monday, there are no events scheduled. Happy Labor Day! Tuesday, we have a Brass Sectional (student led) from 2:45pm to 3:30pm. We also have After School Rehearsal from 4pm to 7pm. Wednesday, there is a Band Booster Meeting that starts at 6:3

This is your weekly MUSIC DEPARTMENT update! Hello Folks! It's September!!! (Basically) I'm really proud of everyone's flexibility at the Bradford Game! Really, you guys played ALL DAY starting from first thing in the morning. We received plenty of praise, including commentary about how we could be heard all across town! You should be proud! If you'd like to see our morning performance from Friday, that's HERE. And if you'd like to see our halftime performance from the Brad

This is your weekly MUSIC DEPARTMENT update! Hello Folks! It's Rivalry Week! The HOME vs. Bradford HS Game is this Friday. Just a couple things about it: This is more of a global thing rather than an adjustment for this game, but Band, Colorguard, and Majorette Parents not working the concession stand are being asked to sit in a new location (if you are facing the band, it's the area of seating right next to the Majorettes and Colorguard on the RIGHT.. where the teams' bags

This is your weekly MUSIC DEPARTMENT update! Hello Folks! Go Jags!!!!! 🐆 I'm very proud of our showing at the football game last friday! By all accounts our performance was a win. I think this performance was also very important to show you (especially our newer members) WHY we things need to happen a certain way. As excited as it makes me for this season, I'm REALLY excited for teaching you all this week. I think we're now on the same page. 😁 I know that we are waiting f

This is your weekly MUSIC DEPARTMENT update! Hello Folks! WELCOME BACK!!!!! ❤️🎶 It’s wild that I’m into my 11th year teaching music at Baker County! And what an amazing group of students I get to share this year with! Right out the gate we have our first football game at HOME vs. Dunnellon. We need more time, so we will not perform our show, but we WILL premiere pregame and we'll be sure to have plenty of fun in the stands! This Marching Season is going to be a journey fil

This is your weekly MUSIC DEPARTMENT update! Hello Folks! This is the LAST Weekly Update of the school year!! There are still things to do, but the end is in sight!! Don’t forget about Rookie Camp starting on 6/3 at 8am! Everyone is welcome to attend but it’s only required for New Marchers, Colorguard, Majorettes, and Leadership. Before you get it in your brain that you’re putting your horn away for the summer, READ THIS! Summer is THE WORST time to put away your instrument

This is your weekly MUSIC DEPARTMENT update! Hello Folks! Wow! It's the seniors' last week as high school students! As you go through this week, be sure to give some love to the seniors around you! They deserve it! Where has the time gone? 🥺 Also, kudos to all the fantastic Student Staff Interviews, Drum Major Auditions, and Colorguard Auditions! This week is Pass the Torch Week, so we get to celebrate our Senior Class and welcome our upcoming Freshman Class. I also want y

This is your weekly MUSIC DEPARTMENT update! Hello Folks! It's Audition Week!!! CONGRATULATIONS, BAND!!! The BCHS Wind Ensemble went to State Concert MPA to push the band through it's last requirement to qualify for the Otto J. Kraushaar Award last Thursday! This is a prestigious award given only to bands who recieve superior ratings from all judges at the District Marching, District Concert, and State Concert Music Performance Assessments. I want to celebrate.... but I'm n

This is your weekly MUSIC DEPARTMENT update! Hello Folks! It's State Week!!! I've nothing to say about it. Just stay focued and let's rock it this week folks! Weekly Walkthrough 🧩 Monday, we have Leadership Tuesday from 3pm to 5pm. Tuesday, we have Wind Ensemble Rehearsal from 4pm to 6pm with Mrs. Mara Rose- Bruce (Ret. from Fleming Island). Wednesday, we have Face Pie rewards during 5th Period this day! Students will need to get a pass signed by their 5th period teacher t

This is your weekly MUSIC DEPARTMENT update! Hello Folks! Welcome Back!!!! It's State Prep Time!!! I'm so excited to see you all again! While it has been SO restful, I'm ready to push to the finish line with all of you! And PUSH we will. Right out the gate, we have quite a bit going on with Percussion Clinics and Auditions this week, Wind Ensemble State Rehearsals (with three HEAVY HITTERS for guest clinicians, might I add), Student Staff Interviews looming, Music Ensemble

This is your weekly MUSIC DEPARTMENT update! Hello Folks! It's Prism Week!! We have our first Prism Concert Rehearsal on Monday in the Band Room. This is known as a Timing Rehearsal. We will run the Thursday Night Format and the Friday Morning Format. On the Tuesday and Wednesday rehearsals, we'll have runs of the concert with the staging included. It will be crucial that all performers stay focused, stay in the rehearsal area, and are ready for their set(s) because we need

This is your weekly MUSIC DEPARTMENT update! Hello Folks! Commitment Night is this week! Don't forget to make sure you and your parents come to Commitment Night this Friday, 3/27 from 6:30pm to 8:00pm. Students will start with me and then head off to a rehearsal. Parents will stay in a meeting with me where we'll talk about band camp, band dues, and all kinds of neat things! Commitment Night is important because I use attendance and Band Dues collected on this night to dete

This is your weekly MUSIC DEPARTMENT update! Hello Folks! It’s State Jazz and S&E Week!! Please stay on top of your Prism Music. This week Wind Ensemble and Percussion will need to split attention between Incantation and Eighties. Symphonic will need to split attention between Hello and Espresso. Jazz will need to be all in for State on Monday and Tuesday, then all in for Prism starting Wednesday. We have a short Window to make Prism delightful! Speaking of things that are

This is your weekly MUSIC DEPARTMENT update! Hello Folks! It's Disney Week! The Band EOY Trip to Disney World is coming up this weekend! If you're involved with that, make sure you've reviewed the itinerary ! BUT WE CANNOT SLOW DOWN! Congratulations to the Baker County Wind Ensemble and Symphonic Band for their performance at MPA! I'm very proud of everyone's hard work leading up to and during that day! You were a great example for our community and our Middle Schoolers! No

This is your weekly MUSIC DEPARTMENT update! Hello Folks! It's MPA Week! I'm depending on everyone to stay mentally sharp for me. Please note that we had to make some scheduling adjustments so Jazz Band has time to prepare for State Jazz MPA: There is an added rehearsal on 3/10 from 1:40pm to 4pm. Leadership on this day will now start at 4pm. The Wind Ensemble Rehearsal on 3/12 is CANCELLED. Jazz will rehearse this day from 1:40pm to 4:30pm. Jazz Ensemble will rehearse on 3