Event Schedules & Itineraries

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Maple Leaf Marching Festival-Carthage HS

9:00am Call time to BHS

9:30 Depart for Carthage HS

11:30 Arrive

12:45 Warm up

1:10 At gate ready

1:15 __Prelim Performance

After performance, eat and watch other bands

4:15 Prelim Awards

All bands will be in finals, times are determined

by drawing after prelim awards

Perform finals run

Eat a booster snack or purchase concessions

(concessions on your own)

Watch other bands and enjoy the evening

Depart for home asap after finals awards ceremony

ETA Home is Midnight!!

8th Gr Band @ Parkview HS Festival 4/16/25

1pm Load bus and head to Parkview HS

2pm Arrive and prepare for warm up

2:15 Warm up room

2:45 PERFORMANCE

After performance we will go to the Willard track meet and drop off track students

Return To BMS

*This performance will be jeans and our black Bolivar Bands Shirt. Please wear closed toe shoes! No sandals or crocs or anything like that! If you have any questions, please let me know!

2025 District Solo/Ens Schedule

Time Members Room Accompanist

8:44 AM-8:51 AM

Brass Quartet (Sophia, Brandon, Emily, Abbey

Band Room

8:58 AM-9:05 AM

Brass Sextet (Emma, Ella, Brandon, Lydia, Padma, Kollin)

Band Room

9:45 AM-9:52 AM

Preston George

Room 426

Melinda Jones

9:46 AM-9:53 AM

Michael Wilson

Band Room

9:53 AM-10:00 AM

Jackson O’Neal

Band Room

9:59 AM-10:06 AM

Sofia Smashey: Alto

Room 426

Melinda Jones

10:20 AM-10:27 AM

Aileen Siegfried (Bass Clarinet)

Room 426

Melinda Jones

10:27 AM-10:34 AM

Pyper Rowell

Room 426

Janet Matthews

10:34 AM-10:41 AM

Alexander Stimpson

Room 426

Natalie Wolf

10:48 AM-10:55 AM

Sadie Riesner

Room 422

Natalie Wolf

10:48 AM-10:55 AM

Clarinet Quartet (Tessa, Gloria, Josie, Aileen)

Room 426

10:55 AM-11:02 AM

Keatin Vaughn

Room 422

Natalie Wolf

11:02 AM-11:09 AM

Sax Quartet (Logan, Isaac, Sofia, Preston)

Room 422

11:09 AM-11:16 AM

Gloria Marsch

Room 422

Melinda Jones

11:16 AM-11:23 AM

Charles Fagan

Room 422

Natalie Wolf

11:17 AM-11:24 AM

Aileen Siegfried: Piano

Methodist Sanctuary

11:23 AM-11:30 AM

Dori McRee

Room 426

Sarah Howes

11:24 AM-11:31 AM

Sofia Smashey:Piano

Methodist Sanctuary

11:31 AM-11:38 AM

Maddy Vahle:Piano

Methodist Sanctuary

11:37 AM-11:44 AM

Flute Trio (Sadie, Emma, Elyse)

Room 422

1:08 PM-1:15 PM

Tessa Ludden

Room 422

2:04 PM-2:11 PM

Abbey Austin

Room 455

Maddy Vahle

2:18 PM-2:25 PM

Emma Howes

Room 455

Melinda Jones

2:25 PM-2:32 PM

Kollin Vaughn

Room 455

Steve Matthews

2:32 PM-2:39 PM

Ella Astone

Room 455

Natalie Wolf

2:39 PM-2:46 PM

Dovie Seago

Room 455

Melinda Jones

2:46 PM-2:53 PM

Lydia Tilley

Room 455

Steve Matthews

2:53 PM-3:00 PM

LaShyla Moore

Room 455

Sarah Howes

3:00 PM-3:07 PM

Trombone Trio (Lydia, Micah, Owen)

Room 455

Jazz Contest: Friday, March 7th @ Pitt State

Students will need money for a late lunch/early dinner

7:50 am - Students arrive at BHS like normal

10:45 am - Depart for Pitt State

12:45 - Arrive and prepare for warm up

1:15 pm - Warm up time

1:45 pm - Performance & clinic

2:30ish pm - Load bus and depart for food/home

TBA- Arrive at BHS (will use SportsYou)

BMS Band Concerts, Sunday afternoons (@HS Auditorium)

2 pm All students arrive (each group watches the other performances)

At 2:30pm 6th grade plays first, 7th grade sits together in the audience and trade places with 6th after they perform. 8th sits as well and trades with 7th after they perform. We respectfully ask that all students and parents stay for the whole concert to experience the full spectrum of our BMS band levels. The concert should be finished by 3:30pm.

Wind Ens/Jazz Band Concerts (@HS Auditorium)

If we have a concert on Sunday afternoons, call time is 2pm and performances begin at 2:30pm

If we have to use a week night, call time is 6:30pm and performances begin at 7pm

Valhalla Fest Oct 5, 2024

7:30 am- call time at BHS

8- Leave

9:15- arrive and set up camp

11- eat

12 pm- prepare for contest

12:55- Warm up

1:45 pm PERFORMANCE

Awards Ceremony 5pm

(If we make finals, everyone is expected to perform! We will order pizza!!)

If we do not make finals, we come home.

Band Camp 2024: (activity details tba)

(breaks will occur during the day! Bring needed items like sun screen, water, hats, etc.)

July 29

8-12 Drill and marching basics

1-2:30 Music sectionals

2:30-3 Full group music

July 30

same as monday

senior uniform fitting at 3pm

July 31

Same plan

August 1

Same plan

Junior uniforms at 3pm

August 2

Same Plan

Week two plan tba

2024 Lg Ens Contest @SBU-April 5

Please have all black attire wtih you this day, be in concert attire before loading bus.

12:30 pm Call time, Band room

12:45 pm Depart for SBU

Arrive and prepare for warmup room

1:25 Warm up

1:50 Performance (Pike Aud, family may watch)

2:15 Sightreading

2:40 After sight reading we put away and get picked up

Students will need to be picked up ~2:45 pm

Parkview Jazz Fest 2024-Feb 17

8:30 am Call time to BHS

8:45 am Depart for Jazz Fest

9:45 am Arrive at Parkview Auditorium

10:15 Warm Up

10:45 Back Stage ready

11:00 Performance for judges

Short clinic afterwards

Load up and go eat

Return back home

2 pm ETA arrival at BHS

UCM Jazz Fest 2024-Feb 24

6:45 am Call time BHS

7 am Depart for UCM

8:30 am Arrive

9:00 Jazz 2 Warmup (Union 219)

9:30 am Jazz 2 Perform for Judges (in Union Ballroom U240)

After clinic we load up and go eat

1:30 Jazz 1 Warm up

2 pm Jazz 1 Performance

After clinic, load up and return home

6 pm ETA

SBU Homecoming Parade 2023-Oct 7th

8:30am Call time, parking lot north of the water tower, across from FBC

Get ready and load empty cases and bags on to trailers

9:30 line up in parade block/music warm up

10 am Parade begins. We are entry #15

After parade we put everything away in trailers

Student pick up Est. 10:45am

Black Walnut Parade 2023

11am Arrive in uniform at BHS and Eat food provided by Boosters

12pm load and head to Stockton

1pm Arrive and unload at the middle school

2pm parade starts and we wait for our turn.

315ish Finish parade and put uniforms and instruments away (at Hammonds Products parking lot)

(Parents needing to check students out to prepare for the homecoming dance MUST sign our signout sheet)

4pm Awards ceremony

Eat and enjoy booths after ceremony (students bring money)

5:30 Load up and return home.

Drumline Camp 2023: May 15-19

Time: @3:15pm-5pm Place: BHS Band Room

Home Game Plan (Marching Band)

Arrive at SBU (Behind Pike Auditorium, across from the tennis courts) @ 5:30pm

Dress in uniform and get instrument ready or warmup (first game is new band t-shirt and shorts)

6:15 music warm up

6:40 march over to stadium

6:47 National Anthem/fight song

After pregame we will set instruments down (TBA) and all students will be SuperFans!!

Halftime Show when that time comes

After Halftime we will put instruments away and return to SuperFans

BMS 8th Grade Contest @Parkview 4-16-25

8th Gr Band @ Parkview HS Festival 4/16/25

1pm Load bus and head to Parkview HS

2pm Arrive and prepare for warm up

2:15 Warm up room

2:45 PERFORMANCE

After performance we will go to the Willard track meet and drop off track students

Return To BMS

*This performance will be jeans and our black Bolivar Bands Shirt. Please wear closed toe shoes! No sandals or crocs or anything like that! If you have any questions, please let me know!

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