The South Brunswick High School Bands serve our school and community through various local performances, and strive to set the standard yearly through superior performances for its ensembles.
The bands are under the direction of Mr. Michael Palmer.
Welcome to South!!!
This site is designed to inform you about the band program at South Brunswick HS and is always under construction!
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Join Our ClassDojo!!
Per BCS, this will be our primary method of communicating w/ students and parents for this coming year (2025-2026) aside from email and our monthly parent meetings.
Click this to join... SBHS Band Class Dojo
Notes for parents!
Just dropping everyone a quick update as we move past the contest season....
Congrats to the wins the band had this season! Despite the weird rainy season, the PSC performed well and brought back the following awards....
Mustang Classic (Middle Creek HS)
2nd in Class 4A
1st Place-Color Guard
2nd Place- Music Performance, Visual Performance, General Effect, and Percussion
Our parents also "set the standard" by winning the best overall pit crew among the 17 schools competing!
Brick Capital Classic (Lee County HS)
3rd place in Class 3A
2nd place- Color Guard
Raider Round-Up (Midway HS)
1st place in Class 4A
1st place- Music, Marching, and Percussion
2nd place- Effect, Color Guard, Drum Major
"Jackson Barefoot Spirit Award" for band demonstrating best school spirit, respect for others, and camaraderie
Other notes....
1) Practices are not optional for students. We've had a little bit more absenteeism off and on this early semester and that's caused our progress to slow a bit. Per our band handbook, students with an unexcused absence of practice during the week of a performance may be held out of a performance and have their grade reduced accordingly for those performances. Please make sure your student adheres to the schedule of rehearsals. Also please be a little patient and give students a couple of minutes once practice is dismissed to put away equipment and come to you- we often end rehearsal outside and it takes a couple of min.
2) Please help your student take care of themselves. They should be drinking A LOT of water, eating meals, and getting ample rest. Not doing this combined with the changing season and the proximity of students to each other on a daily basis can wear them down very quickly.
3) We still need parent volunteers! A few spots are still empty on the signup genius as of this posting. Please sign up here.... SBHS Band Fall 25 Signup Genius
4) Thank you to everyone that has helped out so far- concession stand, uniform fittings, feeding the students, attending parent meetings, etc.... we are almost to the fun part following a rigorous August and September. :-) October is for certain one of the band's busiest months! We need parents to help out in many ways- from loading, chaperoning, working concessions, and much more. If you can, please help out.
5) Please feel free to join the Facebook Page for our Band Boosters- look for Pride of South Brunswick Band Boosters on Facebook. Hopefully this info will be posted on there as well. :-) Also signup for our class dojo so that I can send out quick remind announcements, etc. Join the dojo here.... SBHS Band Class Dojo This is especially important for events as weather can cause issues with scheduling.
6) INVITE EVERYONE YOU KNOW TO SHOWCASE! We want to have a big crowd for what should be a great night displaying the bands of North Brunswick, West Brunswick, and our own PSC here at South Brunswick! It's free and the gates will open at 6:30.
7) Friday Night's playoff game will be a "normal game" in terms of the schedule including pregame and a halftime performance.
8) Please look at the google calendar to see our November rehearsal schedule. We will continue Tuesday/Thursday practices through 12/9 from 3-5:30. Exceptions are no practice on 11/11 or the week of Thanksgiving. Practice on 12/4 will also end at 5 PM instead of 5:30. Color Guard will only attend practices on 12/2 and 12/4 after this week.
