Author: Shawn Harrel

Good morning,

We’ve got a couple of events scheduled in the next couple of weeks that we need your help with. You might not see my name on the volunteer slots for the events below but I’ll be at them the entire time. I know that we’ve all got very busy lives but please take a few hours and volunteer to help not only our students but also other students in our school district.

Taste of Lee’s Summit – March 4th 4:30pm-10:00pm

We need at least 10 adult volunteers for this event; the dress code is: a white shirt, black pants and black shoes. You’ll be able to sample food from various vendors, make bids on fantastic donations from the community and interact with a diverse group of people. There are positions for standing, sitting and walking around. LSWMP typically receives $2500 from this partnership that helps pay for various things including awards. Attached is a bit more information as well. I can attest to this being an awesome night and an experience that I’ve done for the past four years and look forward to doing this again.

Here’s a little information about the event – This event is an adult only event and all money raised is for the student programs across the district (Great beginnings thru 12th grade). Our goal this year is to raise $100,000! In years past we were able to provide the chrome books to LS R-7 students thru the generous donations and auction money raised.

District Festival– March 10th and 11th

This is for solo and small ensembles for the entire music program. We’ve got many open slots for parents and students to volunteer and listen to some wonderful performances.

Performance times will probably come out the end of this week or the very beginning of next week. If you happen to volunteer during the time your student performs, we will assign you to their room or arrange for someone to take your place so that you will hear them perform. Please don’t let the lack of performance times stop you from volunteering.

Charms instructions – use this to sign up for volunteering for adults and students
Go to www.charmsoffice.com
– Select Enter in the upper right-hand corner and select Parents/Students/Members
– Enter school code: lswhsmusic
– Click on the Public Calendar icon
– Go to the day that you wish to volunteer and click on the hand (if you know your students number please enter it)

Upcoming events:

March 4 – Taste of Lee’s Summit

March 7 – LSWMP Meeting (LSW Band room)

March 10 – District Festival (Choir)

March 11 – District Festival (Instrumental)

March 12 – Kauffman Center performance

Thank you and go Titans!

Brent Grigsby

LSWMP President

Music Parents and Students:

All order forms are due in the lock box in the instrumal or choir rooms by the end of the school day, Monday February 27th. I would like to thank the parents that made me aware that the ‘Men’s Choir’ patch was not included on the previous order form. I have added it to the form.

Patches will probably be distributed in April, the orders are taking about 8 weeks.

Attention Music Students/Parents:

All 2017 Music Patch orders are due by February 27th, we have only received a few orders in the music department and we are 8 days away from the deadline. The Attached order form includes all patches for the following:

Marching Band

Drumline

Symphonic Band

Concert Band

Orchestra

Percussion Ensemble

Jazz

Wind Ensemble

Color Guard

Choir

Musical

Please Print the attached form and submit your orders to the locked drop boxes in the music department.

Good morning,

We’ve got a busy next few months coming in the music program.  It’ll take all of our parents to assist in making this a success.  There is the Chicago trip that many are going on, a Kauffman Center performance for most of the music students, a large number of students performing solo or small ensembles, virtually all students in the music program will be performing at the state festival and this doesn’t count our year end performances.

Putting this together takes a great deal of work from your music teachers and many key volunteers to coordinate these activities.  We however can’t make any of it successful without a large assist from our parents to volunteer.  Please see the end of this email to sign up via charms.

Taste of Lee’s Summit – This is held in the evening of March 4^th at John Knox Pavilion from 4:30pm-10:00pm

Taste of Lee’s Summit is an evening of fundraising for the Lee’s Summit Educational Foundation to help all students across the LS school district.  You’ll be able to sample food from various vendors, make bids on fantastic donations from the community and interact with a diverse group of people.  We need at least 10 volunteers for this event and there are positions for standing, sitting and walking around – please let me know if you have a preference of what you would like to do.

District Festival – Held at LSW on March 10^th from 2:30pm – 9:00pm and March 11^th from 8:00am – 4:00pm. Continue reading “February Music Parents Notes”