Congratulations to Brian Hubbard and the Santa Clara County Honor Band for an outstanding performance Sunday at Gunn HS. If you attended, be sure to get your live review turned in this week! Brian will perform again with the All-State bands on Sunday, February 19 in Fresno. He represented Pioneer well!
All music families and friends are invited to Amato's Tuesday night for our monthly dinner fundraiser. Last month we raised $230 at Chevy's, so let's see if we can top it this time around! Amato's will donate 15% of your purchase and you don't need to bring a flier- just mention Pioneer Performing Arts! Hope to see a packed house there tomorrow night.
Jazz Band- Recruitment night performance this Thursday. We will set up after school in the gym and our call time for the show is 6:10. (If we can't set up after school, our call time will be 5:45.) Students should be finished with their performing commitment and clean up by about 7:15. After this, we have CMEA Jazz Festival at Santa Teresa HS on Saturday, February 4. We will meet at ST (not at Pioneer) at 1:00 pm. We should finish pictures at about 3:00. Finally, we have our Joint Venture gig downtown at the convention center on Friday morning, February 10. We will depart PHS at 7:00 and return to PHS at about 10:30. If you can drive- please let me know ASAP.
Thanks to the parents who came to the Big Band Dance meeting this past week! We now have enough parents to manage and assist with each area of the event from food to auction to tickets, decorations and more. Make sure you get your ticket orders in so that your student can earn credit for the sale. Be sure to invite friends and family as this is always a wonderful event! You can get a ticket order form here. Note that you can also order audio and video recordings, as well as indicate how you would like to volunteer to help that weekend.
Our Disneyland trip is coming up quickly! As per the tour contract, there is no refund of any kind granted to students who cancel after 12-16- all students must pay the full balance due. This week, all confirmed students must sign up into rooms of 4! All final details will depend on this travel roster. I would still like to see 2 more parent chaperones. We have 2 Orchestra and 4 Wind Ensemble parents, but no Jazz Band parents yet. I have reduced the chaperone price to $325 from $425 to help make this possible. If you are interested in joining us- please contact me ASAP so that I can confirm our rooming lists accordingly. We will have our mandatory student/ parent meeting at the end of this month.
This spring, we will host 2 carwashes (by overwhelming student demand) and a music festival through Music In The Parks. The carwashes are TBD, but the festival is Saturday, April 28 with some set-up on Friday after school. I will need parent volunteers and student leaders to help make this a successful event. Not only will we be able to earn money from hosting, we will also be able to earn money through concessions. This will not be possible without both parent and student help. If you would like to be involved in any of these events, please contact me so that I can plan accordingly.
