Build the Band Campaign

It was a lot of fun to perform the show music one last time tonight at the winter band concert, a big thank you to everyone who came out. Check back here in the future, we'll be doing our best to give you Winter Percussion and Winter Guard updates as the season progresses.

On a more serious note, you probably noticed a few students were performing our show music without instruments this evening. This is because our school instruments are older than the students playing them and are constantly in need of repair or no longer work. We are now working towards a solution:

Kamiak is in need of some new instruments. Because of this, the boosters has partnered with the students to create a student-led fundraising campaign we have decided to call "Build the Band." Our goal is to raise $100,000 for instruments over the next several years. Tonight we raised $1,112.30! On the Build the Band Facebook page you can view a brief history, mission statement, donate, find out information about upcoming fundraisers, and track our progress.

Support us by liking our campaign on Facebook

Thank you to everyone who donated tonight, we are very excited to continue with this campaign!

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

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!

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.

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