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CURRENT NEWS CONCERT BAND: Band Schedule for this week (click HERE for the full band calendar): Monday, 5/20, 7:30pm: Select Wind Ensemble Students to Perform at Graduation Thursday, 5/23: Last Day of School!  Graduation Ceremony Performance – Wind Ensemble Our (non-senior) Wind Ensemble students will perform at the 2019 Graduation Ceremony at Ameris Band Amphitheatre on Monday night. Performers will travel from Centennial to the ceremony and back to Centennial by bus. **If parents attending the graduation ceremony would like to transport their children home, please send a signed note with your child at call time that they will not return to Centennial by bus.
Band Booster Board Openings/Shadow Positions Would you like to be more involved in the band program? Please consider serving on the board! New volunteers can shadow the current officer over the next year to learn the ropes. We are specifically looking for a Co-President for the upcoming year. Please reach out to the Directors or any Board member with questions.  Centennial Concert Clothes Closet We are accepting donations of all dresses, tuxedos, and marching band shoes. For tuxedos, any individual parts are fine too – shirts, bowties, jackets, etc. If you have any to donate, please bring them in to Mr. Ehrlich, and we will have them for use by future students. Thanks! Foundation for Fine Arts - Membership There is still time to support the Foundation for Fine Arts! Join at the MAJESTIC level and your membership will include a gold brick to be inscribed with your student's name to hang in the auditorium lobby at Centennial HS. Membership information is available at our website; the link is below. Become a Member – Centennial High School Foundation for the Fine Arts MARCHING BAND: Registration Ended 4/25! – if you are still planning to participate in Marching Band this fall, please contact the Directors asap! Registration Links: Leadership Retreat: July 18-19 Leadership has received an email with details and permission slips; contact the Directors with questions. Marching Band Camp Band Camp will be held during the weeks of July 22nd and July 28th. At our Directors' request, please review the items below to be sure you’re ready for July 22 (new members/guard/percussion/leadership) or July 23 (returning members): 0. Schedule. Remember that all of our two-week band camp is required. The schedule is available on the band website. Be sure to not have any appointments during this window — we use every minute of these rehearsals. Parents: don’t forget about our meeting and show preview on August 2 at 6:45. 1. Payments. Be sure you are logging into your Charms account and submitting your monthly payments. We bring 16 staff members for camp, and student dues are essential to cover this and other band camp costs. 2. 1/2 gallon water bottle (or bigger!) and rehearsal attire. Be sure you’ve got your 1/2 gallon (or bigger!) water bottle for the season, as well as your white rehearsal t-shirts. These are required for band camp and all rehearsals. (Color guard students will follow Jasmyn’s attire policy.) A hat is recommended too. 3. Go Outside! If you’ve spent the summer inside, don’t let July 22 or 23 be the first day you’ll be outside. Six hours outside when you’ve been inside all summer is really tough on your body. Get outside and enjoy the beautiful weather. 4. Pick up your instrument. Just like spending time outside, don’t let July 22 or 23 be the first time you’ve picked up your instrument in three months — your lips or hands will want to fall off! Spend time playing through fundamentals or old music. Be sure you have reeds, valves are not stuck, and your instrument works as intended! Part 1 of our show music will be on the way soon. 5. What to Bring to Camp: (1) 1/2+ gallon water bottle (2) a nutritious and full lunch daily (3) sunscreen/bug spray (4) pencils! (5) reeds/accessories (6) breathing balloons for winds. 6. What to Wear to Camp: (1) shorts (2) white t-shirt (3) athletic shoes (4) hat/visor (5) sunscreen. FUNDRAISING: Maxwell Sponsorship We've partnered with a local real estate agent who is donating money to the Centennial Band on each home sale/purchase. If you know anyone (within the district, area, or country) who is considering buying/selling a home, please have them email Phillip Maxwell: [email protected] and us. We will get a portion of the sale/purchase donated to the band! Please see Mr. Ehrlich’s email sent on 1/11 (Do you know anyone buying/selling a home?) for more details.  The bed linen company that we have used for fundraising for several years has a new program for XL Twin size bed sheets for college dorm rooms. Each set costs $40 and the CHS band will receive $10 for each set sold. No forms are required. Simply visit their website below, place your order and the sheets will be delivered directly to you. These sheet sets make great graduation gifts! www.cozzzycomfycollege.com At checkout, click "Add High School/Group" and enter the following information: CENTENNIAL HS Band AMY KENNEDY 3650 NEW HERITAGE DR JOHNS CREEK, GA 30022  SUMMER COMMUNICATION This is the final band newsletter for the 2018-2019 school year. Please look for our next newsletter at the end of June with information about Band Camp, volunteer opportunities, and more. Have a great summer! PAST NEWS CONCERT BAND: Band Schedule for this week (click HERE for the full band calendar): Monday, 5/13, 3:45pm-4:30pm: United Sound Meeting Tuesday, 5/14, 5pm-9pm: Spirit Night at Panda Express Honors Knight Congratulations to the following students who received awards at Centennial’s Honor Knight!
1st Annual CoffeeHouse Fundraiser a Success, and a Fun Time! Our first CoffeeHouse fundraiser was a resounding success! Our students and private teachers gave wonderful performances, and we are so grateful for the many volunteers and donors that made the evening possible. Amy Kennedy worked tirelessly to create and implement this fantastic event. Thanks to everyone’s generosity, approximately $2500 was raised for the band program. Already excited for next year's CoffeeHouse! A Great End to a Great Band Year! We enjoyed a final night together at our Banquet on May 10th. Click on the link HERE to access the Band Banquet Slideshow. Thank you to Jennifer Willis for creating the slideshow, and for her photography skills over the years! You can also access the Playlist for our Spring Concert videos HERE.  United Sound is a nationwide organization dedicated to sharing the ability to participate in instrumental music with special needs students who don't usually get the opportunity to do so in the traditional setting. These students are taught by peer mentors and in a weekly after school meeting, with the opportunity to perform with the marching band in the fall. We need peer mentors! Students, to participate register on the United Sound website at http://www.unitedsound.org/ . We’ve had a few rehearsals, but you can still join us at rehearsals on the following date:
Band Schedule for this week (click HERE for the full band calendar): Monday, 5/6, 3:45pm-4:30pm: United Sound Meeting Wednesday, 5/8, 6:15pm-9:00pm: CoffeeHouse Fundraiser (doors open at 6:15; music starts at 6:30) Friday, 5/10, 5:30pm-8:30pm: Band Banquet and Awards Ceremony (followed by Student Dance Party from 8:30pm-9:30pm)  Dear Band Families, We still need volunteers for two events this week! You can click HERE to access both sign-ups. Wednesday, May 8: CoffeeHouse Fundraiser: Our first annual CoffeeHouse is quickly approaching! Great music, coffee, desserts, and conversation! But our first CoffeeHouse event can't be a success without YOU! Volunteers are needed to man the admission table, sell raffle tickets, supervise the silent auction table, set up and clean up our coffee and dessert table, and sell coffee, drinks, desserts and candy. Friday, May 10: Band Banquet Our band year culminates in a banquet, awards presentation, and an after-party for the students. Volunteers are needed to man the check-in table, set up, serve, clean up, and chaperone the students at the after-party in the cafeteria.  Band Banquet! The band will celebrate the end of the year with dinner, awards presentation and student after-party on Friday, May 10th.
Spring Concert Congratulations to all our students for a great performance at the Spring Concert! Symphonic Band Chamber Winds Wind Ensemble MARCHING BAND: Introducing Our Color Guard Director For 2019-2020!  We are happy to introduce Jasmyn Haley, our Color Guard Director for the 2019-2010 season! Jasmyn served as a guard tech for the fall/winter season of 2018-19. She has performed in WGI with the Independent group Reverie. She graduated from Centennial in 2017 and participated the marching band for all 4 years of high school, as well as doing winter guard her junior and senior year. Jasmyn is currently a student at Gwinnett Technical college where she is studying to be a Radiologic Technologist. She lives in Alpharetta, Ga where she enjoys studying human anatomy, especially the brain. Jasmyn also enjoys writing choreography and dancing in her free time. She hopes to open a guard recreation center one day. Welcome back, Jasmyn! FUNDRAISING: CoffeeHouse Fundraiser – This Wednesday! Our first ever CoffeeHouse Fundraiser will be held Wednesday May 8th, 6-8pm. The evening will feature performances by many students and teachers. There will be a $5 admission fee and coffee and desserts will be available for purchase. We will also have a 50-50 drawing and a silent auction. All proceeds will go directly to the CHS band program. We need items for our silent auction! Ideas include: gift cards to local businesses (restaurants, movies, shopping centers, beauty salons/spas, etc), theme gift baskets, photography sessions, private lessons, autographed sports items, autographed books, etc. Be creative! Do you own or manage a business that would like to donate? We would love to advertise your business as one of our sponsors! Email Amy Kennedy ([email protected]) with questions or to donate silent auction items.  Join us at Panda Express (2622 Holcomb Bridge Rd) for our last band spirit night of the school year! Stop by Tuesday May 14, 5:00-9:00pm for dine in or take out and Centennial HS band will receive 20% of sales. You must show a paper or digital version of the form below for the band to receive credit for your purchase.  Comments are closed.
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