Homecoming Parade

Today was the annual Kamiak Homecoming Parade! The parade is very short, and usually lasts around twenty minutes, travelling throughout the neighborhoods across from the school. Band kids love this parade because it is a chance for us to go all out in purple spirit gear. I think this year we had more spirit gear than ever. KAMIAK PRIDE! For more photos see the Gallery page.

Photo by Cynthia Davis.

Tango Tuesday

We returned today from a weekend full of Lighthouse Festival activities to our regular rehearsals. As always, we started off with basics which were led by one of our visual technicians, Ila. We rehearsed music in sectionals after basics until 7:30.
At seven thirty we put the drill from our new music on the field for the first time. The new drill calls for us to tango. We are so excited to see where this drill will take us over the next week!

The trumpets during brass warm-ups and sectional.

The entire brass line at music rehearsal led by our wonderful brass technicians.

Be sure to check out the Show Band Gallery by clicking the link at the top of the page or by visiting www.khsshowbandgallery.blogspot.com

 

Lighthouse Festival Parade

We marched our first parade of the year today. As one of the last groups in the parade, the crowd was excited when they heard us play "You Can Call Me Al" when we marched down Harbour Pointe Boulevard. It was fun to put on our uniforms for the first time, but it was hot and by the end of the parade we were relieved to be able to take them off.

 

Tonight is one of the Show Band's biggest fundraisers, The Battle of the Bands at Rosehill Community Center. The doors open at 6:30PM. Many Kamiak students will be performing including quite a few students from the show band. Tickets are $10 at the door, hope to see you there!

First Thursday Practice

It is great to get back into the rhythm of school and the normal rehearsal schedule. Tonight's rehearsal was the first of many great weekday rehearsals. We started to pull drill off the metronome, and practiced our new music. Looking forward to an awesome season!

End of Week Deux

What a week! We accomplished so much, the most I have ever seen accomplished in one week in my four years!

We were able to memorize all of the music we have up to this point, put drill to almost all of it and meet all of the goals for the week. Friday's goal was "Push to the End" and that we did (the football pep performance was great everyone)!

Last night right before rehearsal ended we did two full runs of the La Vie en Rose (Intro) and the Intro the the Ravel on the field, and the staff were very pleased with the way that it looked and sounded!

Overall, we had a great week of rehearsals, got so much done and made some great memories. Calvin singing during morning block, anyone?

Hope everyone has a very restful weekend and comes back ready to work hard for 4 (deux squared) more days on Monday!

Emma

P.S. Nick posted next weeks schedule, check it out please!

https://sites.google.com/site/khsshowband/updates/week3schedule

A few things...

Hope everyone is ready for camp to begin once again tomorrow!

And I hope that everyone will come prepared with binders filled with music, instruments and lots of water and sunscreen (we're hoping for nice weather!)

If you happen to have a moment throughout these next couple days of music and visual rehearsal, drill learning and registration for school, take a look at the skit night video that our wonderful band president, Alex, uploaded. It brings lots of laughs, I promise!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ok1Q09Wofc8&list=UUKgrpt6a6q9Anf04XtHB95Q&feature=plcp

You could also check out a video of our run through at Fort Flager on Friday, it's sounding great already!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdiT9w8IDaU&feature=youtu.be&hd=1

See you all in the morning!

Emma

Band Camp Wrap Up

The past week has been incredible. We have come so far as individuals and as a band. The days were hot, but we worked hard, and it definitely paid off. After our final run-through at Fort Flagler this morning, the staff said that they were excited for the season and to see how far we will go. Next week will be an exciting one, as we will start to put our first drill onto the field.

Highlights from Fort Flagler
Monday: Rookies met more staff members and the first visual rehearsal of the season.

Tuesday: New music! Start of the Cat-and-Mouse game

Wednesday: Band camp dance! Made excellent progress and reached 180 beats per minute at visual rehearsal.

Thursday: Worked on backwards marching during visual block. Skit night and other evening activities.

Friday: Ending the week right with a great run-through. Group lunch before boarding the ferry.

Enjoying the sunshine at a delicious chicken-wrap lunch cooked by our wonderful chaperones and parent volunteers before the Edmonds-Kingston ferry. The drum majors also gave out band camp awards.

Ferry ride!

On our way home!

After a week at Fort Flagler we are ready to get on with the show! We have bonded a lot this week and it is clear that we will go far this season if we continue to progress at this rate. So much effort and hard work has gone into this show already and I cannot wait to see where we end up. Special thanks to all of the chaperones, staff, volunteers, and parents who work so hard to support us!

Thursday at Band Camp!

Today's menu
Lunch: Tacos
Dinner: Burgers

Breakfast at eight this morning, followed by a morning visual rehearsal until lunch time.
We have made massive improvements this camp and it is great to see everyone stoked for the season. After lunch we had sectional time. Later we got together as an entire ensemble for the first time. It was exciting for everyone to see how the show will come together.
Skits tonight were awesome! We'll be home soon!

Day 3!

Sorry we didn't post yesterday but everyone is having a blast! We are improving very quickly. We have almost mastered forward and backwards marching and have moved on to slides! We even got up to 180 BPM.
We are working hard on our music in sectionals and ensemble rehearsals. Yesterday we received new music and have been working in sectionals on everything from fundamentals to memorization. Later this evening we will be gathering into sectionals again to improve the music. tov

The food is fantastic and the evening activities have been a blast. On the first night we did section cheers and goals. Yesterday we did unity games which included (among others) band pictionary, the animal noise game, and spoons. Tonight is the annual dance, and tomorrow night will be skit night.

I am already amazed at what we have accomplished and I can't wait to see where this season takes us!

Band Camp Day One

9:28AM THE BUSES HAVE LEFT KAMIAK FOR A WEEK AT FORT FLAGLER!

10:30AM Ahoy! We are on the ferry! Hopefully the other passengers don't mind the massive amount of band kids.

12:50 We have arrived at Fort Flagler! Everyone is excited, especially Emma.

Today we had visual rehearsal and checked into our dorms

Because the internet signal at Flagler is unreliable, we will do our best to make updates to this post today and other posts throughout the week.

The season has started!

It was great to see everyone at Pre-Band Camp on Friday! I know that all of the sectional leaders had a great time getting to know the rookies again and reconnecting with fellow vets.

Members showed great marching, everyone is looking awesome already! Nick Benson will be excited to see the progress have we made in such a short amount of time.

The music also sounded great! I can't wait to receive more music and start putting this whole show together!

I hope everyone is getting pumped for band camp tomorrow. It's going to be so much fun! Remember to be at school by 8:45 so that we can leave on time and get the season started off on the right foot (or the left, ha ha) And, don't forget to bring a sack lunch to eat on our trip over.

If you still haven't packed, or thought about it, take a look at this list to make sure you don't forget the essentials (towel, deodorant, clothes, instrument...)

http://www.kamiakarts.org/PDF/Band%20Camp%20Packing%20List.pdf

Excited to see you all tomorrow!
Emma

It has arrived!!!

New show music has been posted on the show band website!

It looks great, hope everyone is excited to start learning!

Also, the schedule for the first week of band camp has been posted, take a look and get a glimpse of what is going to be the start to an awesome season!

And, don't forget that we have one day of Pre-Band Camp on Friday, August 10th from 9-4, at school, can't wait to see you all there!

Check out the music here...

https://sites.google.com/site/khsshowband/home/students

See you all soon!
Emma

Spring Camp: Final Day

We started off today with about twenty minutes of sectional time so that we could bond before the season. It seemed like every section was having a blast. After sectional time we gathered in the band room for a quick pow-wow and then split up (winds, percussion, and guard) to work on pre-season exercises. The winds went with Nick Benson, our program coordinator, to learn more stretches and posture exercises, which came with a lot of French words. Before being dismissed we broke up into sections one last time and received a wrap-up speech from our head drum major, Jack.

Spring camp has been very successful, and we have already improved tremendously as a band. I am looking forward to summer sectionals followed by band camp at Fort Flagler in August. Hopefully you all enjoy the summer and are pumped up for the season. Don't forget to be practicing your instruments so we can arrive at band camp ready for success!

Lianne

Flutes playing games during sectional time.

Dates to remember:

June 30th - Drum Corps International comes to Seattle! Well, Renton. DCI corps will be performing starting at 7PM. Here's the website:
http://www.dci.org/schedule/detail.cfm?event=7ef52ef0-84bf-4bfc-99fd-71c732347647
http://www.nwmusicgames.org/index.htm

August 8th - DCI World Championship Pre-lims will be in theaters! It's as close as you can get to the event without flying to Indianapolis!

http://www.dci.org/cinema/

August 10th - Kamiak pre-camp rehearsal!

August 13th-17th - Kamiak Band Camp @ Fort Flagler!!

Spring Camp Day #1

We are having a blast on the first day of spring camp!! So great to see so many new faces and so much excitement for the upcoming season. We are just breaking into our sections now. Looking forward to a great season!

The trumpets say KMFT :)

We wrapped up the first day of spring camp with our first posture exercises. Everyone is looking taller already! Can't wait for tomorrow!

Don't forget the forms students received today need to be returned tomorrow or Thursday at camp!

Lianne

3 DAYS!!!

Hey all!

We're 3 days away from Spring Band Camp so hopefully everyone is excited! We'll be learning music and marching as well as a couple of other things!

Everyone should be at school, in the band room, at 4 pm on Tuesday ready to rock!
You'll need your instrument and comfy shoes (and clothes). And, if we're lucky, maybe some sunscreen!

See you soon!
Emma

ONE WEEK!!!

ONE WEEK UNTIL SPRING CAMP Y'ALL!!!
I hope everyone is getting super pumped up for the season kick-off! It's going to be a great season and it all starts next week. Those of you at Kamiak should have already started playing the first part of the Opener and I am hoping you're liking it, because it happens to be pretty awesome. The music should be posted on the website soon, and we should get some more music in the coming weeks as well And rookies, don't worry, you'll get to see the music next week.
Also, rookies, don't forget to remind your parents that the parent meeting is next Tuesday at 6 in the band room!
If you still haven't taken a look at the show concept check out this link:
https://sites.google.com/site/khsshowband/home/about/past-shows/deux
Can't wait to see everyone next week!
Emma

DCI

Hopefully, rookies are reading this!

Show band is something that has come from an organization called DCI, Drum Corps International. They are professional brass-only marching bands from all around the country that compete for the summer. A lot of our kids at Kamiak actually march in the Oregon Crusaders, or OC, over the summer before our season kicks off!

Watching a couple of DCI shows can give you an idea of what to kind of expect. Or you could even watch a couple of our shows, the link to our YouTube page is:
http://www.youtube.com/user/kamiakshowband?feature=results_main
Check it out!

But...there's a great opportunity for you to see some DCI shows over the summer...lucky you!

The first is on June 18th, the day before Spring Band Camp starts. Perfect timing right?!
That day the DCI Movie is going to be playing at theaters all over, and hopefully one nearby will be playing it, so you can check it out! A bunch of the bands will be revealing their shows. It will be at 6:30. Visit the DCI web page below to get some more info:
http://www.dci.org/cinema/

Another chance is on June 30th when DCI comes to Seattle! Well, Renton. DCI bands will be performing starting at 7 pm. Here's the website to check out:
http://www.dci.org/schedule/detail.cfm?event=7ef52ef0-84bf-4bfc-99fd-71c732347647
http://www.nwmusicgames.org/index.htm

AND THEN, this is the most exciting one yet, on AUGUST 8th, just before the start of band camp (!) DCI World Championship Pre-lims will be in theaters!!! It's as close as you can get to being a part of the action without actually being there. You should definitely check it out. The website is the same as the other movie above.

Anyway...hope you can check out at least one of these events. Just know that all the other band members will be trying their hardest to make it there too!

Excited for band camp,
Emma

Get Excited!!!

Hey all!!!
Only 3 weeks and 1 day until the first day of Spring Camp!
Hope everyone is ready for an awesome season to start, especially with the release of our show theme, DeuX!

Can't wait to see you all soon!
Emma