Bandtober Updates Oct 2, 2023

This Week (Homecoming)

• Monday, 10/2: LISD Festival of Bands (see below for details)
• Tuesday, 10/3: Rehearsal 4:00-7:00 PM
  
• Wednesday, 10/4: Rehearsal 4:00-6:00 PM
  
• Thursday, 10/5: Stadium Rehearsal @ Gupton, 5:00-8:00 PM
  
• Friday, 10/6: Football Game vs. East View (Away Game @ Birkelbach Field in Georgetown)
  
• Saturday, 10/7: Vista Ridge Marching Contest (see below for details)
  

Next Week

• Monday, 10/9: Staff Development Day (no school)
  
• Tuesday, 10/10: Rehearsal 4:00-7:00 PM
  
• Wednesday, 10/11: UIL Region 32 Marching Contest (details below)
  
• Thursday, 10/12: Rehearsal 4:00-7:00 PM
  
• Friday, 10/13: Football Game @ Bible: Middle School Night & Pre-Game performance
  
• Saturday, 10/14: Texas Marching Classic (see below for details)
  

We hope you can join us for the annual Leander ISD Festival of Bands on October 2 at 6:30 PM at Gupton Stadium! This event will feature marching band shows from ALL SIX Award-Winning Leander ISD High Schools as well as a Grand Finale from all 15 Middle School and High School Bands. You won’t want to miss it!

Ticket Purchases and Donations are appreciated as we work to create fine arts opportunities for all Leander ISD students. All proceeds from this event go towards funding the Fine Arts Extracurricular Assistance program.

Tickets can only be purchased ONLINE, along with pre-ordered bottled water sales at the following link:

Leander ISD Festival of Bands

We hope to see you there!

#ilovelisdfinearts

Click Here for the 2023 Festival of Bands Schedule

As included in the email shared on Friday, here are our performance schedules for the remainder of the season. Next week we begin our October season, which we *lovingly* call "Bandtober". It's a very busy time for all of the band students and families, with multiple performances and competitions. This is an important time to support our band kids and encourage them to push through challenges and to strive to improve their performance; your words will mean a lot to your kids this month!

Looking towards the LISD Festival of Bands on Monday and a busy few weeks, here are the itineraries for a large stretch of the rest of the season.

*Some of these details may be slightly different than the fridge calendar - these itineraries are correct; the fridge calendar will be updated.

**Middle School Night and BOA San Antonio will be shared once we have all of the details completed.

Itinerary Links:

• Monday, 10/2: Festival of Bands
  
• Friday, 10/6: Football @ Birkelbach ("normal game itinerary" - same for Bible/Gupton/Birkelbach games)
• Saturday, 10/7: Vista Ridge Marching Festival
• Wednesday, 10/11: UIL Region 32 Marching Contest
• Friday, 10/13: Middle School Night Football (Pregame show performance - final details will be shared soon)
• Saturday, 10/14: Texas Marching Classic
• Friday, 10/20: Football @ Gupton
• Friday, 10/27: Football @ Birkelbach
• Saturday, 10/28: UIL Area H Marching Contest @ Rutledge Stadium (Details TBD)
• Friday & Saturday, 11/3 & 11/4: BOA San Antonio (performance Friday all day, Saturday all-day trip to San Antonio to watch Finals)
• Monday & Tuesday, 11/6 & 11/7: UIL 5A State Marching Contest (Details TBD)

Please reach out to jeremiah.figlewicz@leanderisd.org with any questions that you may have.

Our Prelims performance time is 10:45 AM. Specific details can be found in the link above.

Click the button below to go to the VRMF homepage for more information.

VRMF Website & Info

Since we'll be having rehearsal on October 31st this year, we thought it would be fun to offer up a "Truck or Treat" for our Grizzly Band students after rehearsal from 7:00-7:50pm!

Setup will be from 6:00-7:00pm during rehearsal in the student parking lot directly across from the band pad.

All parents are invited to come by and hand out some candy to our favorite trick-or-treaters as they finish up rehearsal - we would love to get a big crowd of Grizzly Band families there to hand out some treats to our hard-working and candy-deserving kiddos.

The Grizzly Band is beach-bound in Port Aransas/Corpus Christi!!!

We're excited to announce our optional but highly encouraged Spring Trip to Port Aransas! This is going to be a relaxing and fun time to unwind and spend time together after our UIL performances. We'll be spending 4 days and 3 nights at the El Constante beachside condominiums and enjoying the beach!

Seniors will also be getting a special senior excursion/experience with the band directors!

You won't want to miss this trip - we will be traveling with our travel company "Perform America" - they are an exceptional local company and we are very excited to have them with us again!

Details & registration info can be found below. Registration is now open!

Online Registration Info - Spring Trip 2024 - Glenn HS Band

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Fridge Calendar: Click Here

Glenn Band Calendar

Glenn Band Booster Website

Band Website (Classroom Documents & Student/Parent Info)