Hi band family! We’ve got lots of exciting things to share: Videos: We had the opportunity to video our spring concert – featuring Arion Award winner Aslyn Keith, playing Mozart’s Flute Concerto in G Major. She ROCKED it, and we’re so proud to show her off. At the end of the video, Mr. Jarden, Ms. […]
Hi!Welcome to the first update for the 2020-21 school year! If you have another email you’d like on this list, or if someone mentions that they didn’t get the email, please just have them touch base with us. We will have a couple of band updates this week: this one about turning stuff in, then […]
Hi! I hope you saw the Mother’s Day text yesterday – THANK YOU band moms for all you do for all the band kids (and their directors too 🙂 ). You are SO appreciated! There’s actually quite a bit going on as we finish up the year – here’s what we’ve got: Marching 100 Season […]
Happy Monday! We do have a couple of things coming up with the school year finishing: With the turn in dates coming up for Alton High:Seniors 5/15Juniors 5/18Sophomores 5/19Freshmen 5/20 We will be at school! We’d love to see familiar faces and we’ll need some things:1. School instrument if you are not continuing with band […]
Hello! I know the news that both Ms. Edwards and I are leaving at the end of the year brings a flood of emotions: sadness, anger, worry, fear… Trust me, the feelings are the same on this side too! This has been HARD for all of us. I can reassure you of a couple of […]
Happy Monday! Hope you all are doing well and can get outside a bit – the weather has been beautiful!!! I’ve been getting lots of questions about our events: concert, graduation, Memorial Day parade, M100 starting up, etc. The short answer is nothing is happening right now. We don’t have many answers – sorry we […]
Happy Monday! Hope you all are doing well and had a fun, though different, Easter weekend. The video chats last week were so fun! We were able to chat with sections in each band throughout the week. It was SO GOOD to see some friendly faces and check in with them. We won’t video chat […]
Welcome to the 2020 Marching 100 season! This information is in place of the annual kickoff meeting – we’re trying to keep moving forward as much as we can. Please continue to be flexible – we are taking everything day by day, and we will officially get started when we get the okay to do so! […]
Alton H.S. has received the SupportMusic Merit Award from The NAMM (National Assoc. of Music Merchants) Foundation! 148 schools nationwide received this award which recognizes schools that work hard to ensure all students have an opportunity to learn and grow with music. Thanks to ABOB and our awesome parents who help us out throughout the […]
Happy Monday! Hope you all are doing well! If Ms. Edwards or I can help in any way – please let us know! We have scheduled video chats with all band students throughout this week – we posted the schedule on Google Classroom. The chat this week is just to see their faces – check […]