Weekly Announcement

Jazz Band Gig at the Pines.pdf

Rock Canyon Band Family,

Happy Monday!

Thank you for a productive and fun “band week” last week! I had a great time at the outdoor concert, and it was great to celebrate our year and our outgoing seniors at the band banquet. We also had a successful fundraiser on Saturday watching the Kentucky Derby. As I said at the band banquet, thank you for all of the support for the program and your students; no band program is successful without a strong community behind it, and that is exactly what we have here.

Combined Band/Orchestra/Choir: This Tuesday evening (May 7th) at 7:00 PM in the RCHS Gymnasium is our annual combined concert with Band, Orchestra, and Choir. Our Symphonic, Concert, and Jazz bands will all be playing, as well as playing one massive piece with every musician in our department at the end! Students are to wear normal concert black, and call time is 6:00 PM. To faciliate this, we have a rehearsal right after school today (3:00-4:15PM).

One last Jazz Band gig! The Jazz Band is performing at The Pines (formerly BergHaus) restaurant in Castle Pines this Thursday, May 9th from 5:30-7:30 PM. Please see the attached trip sheet for information. This will also serve as a percent night fundraiser for our program, so please come support our outstanding students one more time this year!

Graduation Band: All non-senior Concert and Symphonic Band students have one final performance this year: we will play at Graduation at 5:00 PM on May 24th. Please plan to have your students at the school earlier in the day on May 24th for a rehearsal before they are bussed over to the arena. If a student is unable to attend, please communicate with me ASAP.

2024 Marching Band: Preparations for next year’s marching band season have been going on for a while!  Some important things:

May 14th: Spring Marching Camp 3:30-5:00 PM

July 15th: Percussion and Color Guard Camp

July 16-18: Rookie Camp

July 22-26: Band Camp Week 1

July 29-August 2: Band Camp Week 2

If you missed the deadline to register for the 2024 RCHS Marching Band, please visit this website to complete this process ASAP.

• https://www.rockcanyonbands.org/joinmarchingband

A brief look at the semester ahead:

May 6th: Combined Performing Arts Rehearsal, 3:00 PM

May 7th: Combined Performing Arts Concert, 7:00 PM, RCHS Gym

May 9th: Drumline Auditions

May 9th: Jazz Band Performance, 5:30-7:00 PM, The Pines

TBD: Senior Dinner

May 24th: Graduation, 5:00 PM

Please don’t hesitate to contact me at tmclaine@dcsdk12.org if you have any questions. 

Let’s go Jags!

Best,

Trevor McLaine

Rock Canyon High School

Director of Bands

Hello Band and Color Guard Families,

We have a HUGE BAND WEEK at the end of April full of music, recognition, and fundraising! This is a long email, but please read through and make sure you don’t miss any of the information on the fun events coming up the week of April 29. 

Help us out by RSVPing to the Black and Gold Banquet and the Kentucky Derby Fundraiser ASAP so we can get accurate headcounts. 

We have such a great community with our RCHS program, and you step up when we need you. Right now, we especially need your help with our Kentucky Derby fundraiser with both donations for our baskets and ticket sales. Invite your friends and family!

April 30 | 6 p.m. - Spring Concert

Pre-order a charcuterie picnic dinner by MONDAY, APRIL 22. Who doesn’t love a picnic, AND you’re helping our band program without having to pack your own food. 

Pre-order charcuterie picnics here.

May 3 | 6 p.m. - Black and Gold Banquet

Let’s celebrate all the hard work, accomplishments, and fun of these fantastic kids as well as the dedication of our incredible staff! There’s so much to celebrate from marching band making it to state to Winter Guard WINNING state (!!) to jazz band scoring superior and symphonic band scoring excellent. 

RSVP for this year’s end of year banquet by April 26.

Want to thank Mr. McLaine the the RCHS Bands staff? Donate to their gift fund.

May 4 | 3 - 6 p.m. - Kentucky Derby Fundraiser

Join us for our first ever Kentucky Derby party! A band family is generously hosting this fundraiser at their home. It’s a chance to be social and raise money for the bands in the process. Enjoy southern themed food and drinks as we watch the Derby together.

Event includes a silent auction, a wine pull, and a whiskey pull, with proceeds going to the RCHS Bands. We could still use a few items for the auction baskets, sign up for an item or two!

Purchase your ticket by April 27. All ticket proceeds will go directly to the RCHS Bands! 

Invite your friends, family, and neighbors to join in on the fun!

Our bands and color guard have such an amazing, positive impact on our kids, but it really does take a village to create such a wonderful program. All of our fundraising efforts make so many things possible like buses for events, band clinics, pay for additional instructors, support at off-site events, instruments, and instrument repairs. So thank you, thank you, thank you for all of your support over this past year! We’re so grateful for our band and color guard community! We truly could not do this without you.

Band Boosters