4-5-24 Newsletter

Announcements

Taste and Tunes Spring Concert !!!

It's here!  In only one week, we'll be holding our Taste and Tunes Spring Concert performance!  This is our BIG PERFORMANCE for the Spring Semester, and will give ALL of our groups a chance to perform for you and each other.  We'll have a wide variety of music, including Sakura, Sakura, The Great Locomotive Chase, Safe Harbor, Come Fly With Me, and even Hip Hop She Bop (including some cool stick tricks from our Middle School Percussionists!). There is something for everyone at this year's Taste and Tunes!

Please help to make this event a special one for our students with your presence, and you can make it even more special by contributing in one of the many ways listed on our handy-dandy sign up genius page, conveniently linked here:  Taste and Tunes Sign Up Genius  (Please note that all volunteer positions WILL be able to see and hear your favorite musicians perform :)

As you can tell from that page, this will be an afternoon of great music, wonderful students, and some delicious food!  We invite everyone to come out and join us!

Our Music is FREE, but we suggest a donation if you would like to eat.  Tickets will be sold at the door, priced as follows:  $20 per adult, or $25 per family.  There will also be several ways to donate to our Band program that day, if you would like to do so.

Saturday April 13

2:00 -- set-up

Sunday April 14

12:30 -- doors open

1:00 -- students arrive

2:00 -- Music begins!

3:30 -- tear down and clean up

Thank you to all of our volunteers who have been working behind the scenes to make this event possible.  We'd like to extend a special THANK YOU to Mr. Jeffery Roche for designing this awesome Taste and Tunes poster, which we will be displaying each morning at the front of school!  Please share it with your friends and family, and invite them to join us!  

Special Olympics Performance

Congratulations to our Marching Band for a succesful performance at this year's Special Olympics Track and Field event!  We looked and sounded really good (despite missing our entire Junior class!), and we definitely helped to create a wonderful atmosphere for our fellow students.  Great job to all who participated!

Upcoming Dates

We have added several performance opportunities to our Calendar for the Spring semester: 

Jazz Band at Lakeside Mall 

April 6

9:30 am set up 

10:30 am Music begins

Veterans Skylight (near the Apple Store)

Spend a Day with the LSU Band

April 13, Current high school band students in grades 10 - 12 on eligible instruments can experience the unique opportunity to perform in Tiger Stadium with the LSU Tiger Marching Band during the annual LSU Spring Football Game. 

https://www.lsu.edu/cmda/bands/events/spring-game/index.php

Taste and Tunes 

April 14 in the Haynes Gym (all Band students) -- see above :)

LPO Academy High School Collaboration

As part of our partnership with the LPO, our High School students are eligible to participate in this year's Collaboration with the LPO!  Our students will be able to perform  with the LPO at their City Park concert on Wed. April 24.  Details and music have ben posted to google classroom.  

Graduation 

May 11 9:00 am at the Alario Center (high school Band)

We hope to see you at any or all of these events!

Haynes Band Media Folder

If you have any pictures or video from any of our performances or activities, please share them to the folder linked here.  Thanks!

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/139ORTm-6tqc_vL1GdumZ90XxyRvkqVlY?usp=sharing

Taste and Tunes

We're already working on this year's Taste and Tunes performance, and WE NEED YOU to help make it the best one yet!  

We ask everyone to visit our Taste and Tunes Involvement Form.  Please volunteer for one or more positions, so we can get things moving!

We will hold a brief meeting to discuss Taste and Tunes Wednesday March 20 at 6:00 pm.  We encourage everyone to come out and support our amazing students!

Learn more on our Taste and Tunes web page, and check back often as this page will be continually updated.

Taste and Tunes web page 

Other Information

Band Fee

The Haynes Academy Band charges a $30 annual fee, which covers the purchase of music, transportation, etc.  This fee has been posted to student accounts.  Please contact Mr. Phelan with questions or concerns.

Band Camp 2024

That's not a typo -- we're already looking ahead to Band Camp next July!  In order to help everyone plan their summer vacations (and to hopefully increase our Band Camp participation!) we have tentatively scheduled Band Camp 2024:

July 22-23 (Monday and Tuesday) = Percussion Camp

July 24 (Wednesday) = Drum Corps at USM in Hattiesburg

July 25-26 (Thursday and Friday) and July 29-31 (Monday-Wednesday) = Full Band Camp

We have no other details yet, including location or times, but we ask that you make every effort to have your students at Band Camp on all of those days.  Thanks in advance for your cooperation!

Football Schedule 2024

We've added some TENTATIVE dates to our Calendar for next fall's football season.  Please remember that these are all TENTATIVE and subject to chenge, but at least we have an idea of when and where we'll be playing this fall -- we hope to see everyone there!  Thanks to Coach Powell for getting that information out early!

Band T-shirts and Sweatshirts

Haynes Band T-shirts and Sweatshirts have arrived!   Please send payment ASAP so we can send yours home.  We did order a few extras, so contact Mr. Phelan to get your student the most stylish shirts on campus!

High School Band

After school practices (Tuesday and Thursday)

Spring practices will run until 5:30, so we may be prepared for parades and festivals.  

• We are shifting toward an Attendance Policy for all rehearsals, to further encourage our students to organize their time efficiently.   Please note that COMMUNICATION IS KEY when resolving scheduling conflicts.  Parents, we ask that you help your students to plan ahead, and to address conflicts as soon as they arise.  This is a great skill for "the real world"!!!

Absence Request Form (Updated!)

Jazz Band

Our Jazz Band will not be able to participate in this year's Bill Evans Jazz Festival in Hammond.  We invite everyone to come out to see us at Lakeside Mall!  Saturday April 6 -- music begins at 10:30 at the Veterans Skylight.

Closing

Please visit our Calendar for all the latest updates, and feel free to contact Mr. Phelan at any time with questions or concerns.  We look forward to seeing everyone soon!

Mr. Phelan