• Reminder to All Parents!
• FREMONT WEDNESDAY NIGHT PRACTICE, 6-9 pm
• SCHEDULE FOR FRIDAY GAME, Sept 25th
• Football Game Concession Food Pre-order Deadline - Sept.
• Saturday Practice, September 26th
• Concessions Help Needed for District Expo – Oct 3
• Volunteer Opportunities
• Field Show shirts
• Winter Percussion Meeting Saturday
• New Music Booster website on School Loop
• Band Room Availability
• Schedule of Events

Reminder to All Parents!

All practices and performances are mandatory. Parents must email Mr. Burn at john_burn@fuhsd.org explaining why your student will be absent as far in advance as possible.


Things you need to know for WEDNESDAY, FRIDAY, SATURDAY

FREMONT WEDNESDAY NIGHT PRACTICE, 6-9 pm

You are responsible for getting your instrument and yourself to the Fremont High School football field by 6 pm. For newcomers, we meet in the area labeled “A” on the attached map.

The Homestead band room will be open until 5:45 pm for you to pick up your instruments. Take a jacket to practice; it can get chilly in the evening.

Pit, be at Homestead by 4:30 to load trailers with your equipment. Once loaded, you are responsible for getting yourself to Fremont HS. All percussion students MUST return to Homestead AFTER practice, to unload the trailer because parents have no idea where equipment goes.

Battery, you are responsible for getting your instrument and harness to Fremont, so you either show up to load them on the trailer, or take them with you.



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PLEASE NOTE, ALL INSTRUMENT CASES MUST BE STORED ON THE BLEACHERS DURING PRACTICE…. NO STUDENT PARKING NEAR THE BLEACHERS OR FIELD!!!! KEEP DRIVEWAY CLEAR FOR TRAILERS.

PARK IN THE STUDENT PARKING LOT AND WALK TO THE FIELD. The driveway MUST be kept clear for the trailers.



Wanted – Help loading percussion equipment to haul to Fremont Practice

Parents, we will need help hauling equipment to Fremont and hauling it back to Homestead after practice.

We will be using the horse trailer and the black trailer. We also have to get the stage over to Fremont. George Edmonds is gone this week, so we are down one driver.

Please contact Vicki Feltman at vfeltman@pacbell.net if you can help haul equipment.

SCHEDULE FOR FRIDAY GAME, Sept 25th

Wear your green band shirts to school!!

3:00 p.m. Tuba players and percussion, load truck at Homestead

The band room will be open until 5:15 p.m. to allow you to pick up your instruments. The band room will be locked at 5:15 pm with no further access until after the game. If you do not pick up your instrument before then, you will need to explain to Mr. Burn at 5:30 pm, why you aren’t prepared.

5:30 p.m. Full Band meets at Fremont HS in our "staging area" near the small gym. In addition to your instrument and pep music, please bring your gloves, shoebag with your pep shirt, shoes and black socks. Please remember to wear a shirt with short sleeves (NO TANK TOPS). Also, remember to wear your boxer shorts. The uniform carts with your hats and garment bags will be out and ready when you arrive.
Your hair cannot be so long that it touches your collar. Bring hair nets, hair pins, hair ties, etc. to put your hair up. If you do not bring the right materials to keep your hair up, Mrs. Edmonds and Mrs. Ishizaki have these items for sale for $2.

Get in uniform; uniform carts will be set up outside, where everyone will change. We will not have access to the gym facilities for this game. Take care of any uniform issues before warm-ups!! Look for Mrs. Ishizaki and other uniform moms to help you.

6:00 p.m. Warm up/Pep band music rehearsal

7:00 p.m. March into stadium -- Pre-game concert on the track

7:25 p.m. Traditional pre-game show

7:30 p.m. (approximately) - game begins.
During the game, the band sits in their sections in full uniform, and plays pep band music.
No eating or drinking, except water, while in uniform.
The entire band stands up when we play.
Four minutes before half-time the band prepares for the half-time show.
Half time: the band performs our first half time field show!
After the half-time show, you will go back to the uniform carts and change into pep band shirt and jeans. Return your hat to its box, your marching shoes to the shoe bag, and your uniform jacket and pants (NEATLY HUNG) to the garment bag. Hang the uniforms on the carts.
After changing into pep band uniform, you may buy BBQ food. Pre-order is the way to go!
You must be back in the stands ready to play at the conclusion of the third quarter.
At the conclusion of the game, the band plays one or two more songs and is then dismissed. This will be sometime between 9pm and 10:30pm.
TAKE ALL YOUR STUFF HOME WITH YOU, leaving no personal property or garbage behind! (Uniforms and hats stay on the carts.)

Reminders:
Show up prepared and on time.
When the band is playing, everyone needs to be playing (not eating or talking).
You must be with your section (flutes, clarinets, altos, etc.) when in the stands.
Your uniform jacket needs to be on and zipped up during the first half of the game.


Football Game Concession Food Pre-order Deadline - Sept. 23

Hurry, get your forms in! The deadline to pre-order your food for the Friday, Sept. 25, football game is this Wednesday, Sept. 23 (at the END of practice). Order forms received after the end of practice will not be fill, since once the total number of pre-order items is transmitted to the concession heads the numbers cannot be changed.

Forms: Grab a Concessions Pre-Order Form in the Band Room or go to the HHSMB website and then just go to the Forms page. Complete the form and turn it in to Mrs. Winnie Lo at the end of Wednesday night practice (I will be in the stands at Fremont High School), or drop it in the box labeled Mrs. Feltman's File Box located in Mr. Burn's office.

Tickets: Tickets will be found inside of your hat boxes (after you change out of your uniforms). For Colorguard members, a parent in the Colorguard area will have your ticket. For tuba and front ensemble members, tickets will be on your uniform cart.
See details on the form or contact Winnie Lo at leolo9@yahoo.com or 408-733-4878 if you have any questions.


Saturday Practice, September 26th

Full Marching Band means EVERYONE including percussion and colorguard. Bring EQUIPMENT/INSTRUMENTS, LANYARDS WITH COORDINATE SHEETS, WATER BOTTLES FULL OF WATER, SUNSCREEN, AND HAT. This means members of percussion PIT, too.

Saturday , September 26th - Homestead field, Practice 8:30-4 pm (percussion, from 9-9)


Concessions Help Needed for District Expo – Oct 3

Homestead Music Boosters are responsible for hosting the concessions at this year’s District Marching Band Expo. It will be held next Sat, Oct 3, at Fremont High School. We did not have this event on our original volunteer form. We will need assistance in the morning to bake potatoes and in the evening to set up canopies etc, to man the snack shack as well as to sell food.

We will send out a sign up in the next day or so. Please look for it and hope to see you there. If you have any questions, feel free to contact me, edmondsbarb@yahoo.com.

Thanks, Barbara Edmonds


Volunteer Opportunities

Please contact Rene Watkins (randersonwatkins@mac.com) if you can help or have any questions about the following:

We still have a need for the following for the upcoming football game on Friday, September 25th:

· 5 more people needed for potato baking at Mountain View Buddhist Temple (10:00 a.m.—1:00 p.m.)
· 4 more people needed for Potato Serving (7:30-10:00 p.m.)
· 2 more person needed for Tickets/Drinks (7:30-10:00 p.m.)
· 1 person needed for Jamba Juice (7:30-10:00 p.m.)
· 3 more people needed for Snack Shack (7:30-10:00 p.m.)
· 1 person for Recycling (7:30-10:00 p.m.)
· 1 person to be the On Call Runner—This is a job you can do without even having to attend any of the football games! We cannot always anticipate exactly what our needs will be with each game, although we do our best. We have found that occasionally we need someone to run to a nearby store and pick up necessary items, such as extra ice, for example, if the weather turns out to be very hot like it was at the last game. You will most certainly be reimbursed for any purchases we ask you to make.


Concession Worker Family Pass Still Available!!

Just a reminder to all Music Booster volunteers; everyone must pay to get into the football games, volunteering or not. Once again, Assistant Principal Tara Grande and the Athletic Boosters are offering Music Booster volunteers a chance to buy a special season pass to allow volunteers entry to the games at a discounted rate. You must be a volunteer at concession, bbq, espresso bar, bleachers, etc., at some time during the game. In other words, this is not available to families who only come to watch the game (or come just to watch the BAND).

The cost of the pass is $45.00. It will admit 2 adults and school age children (younger than high school age) into all Homestead “Home” games, as long as the cardholder is volunteering during the game. The regular admission price to a home game is $6 per adult per game and there are 5 home games in the season.

Another option is to buy an Athletics Family Pass for $70, which will allow 2 adults and their children into all Homestead “Home” sports activities, so, if you have students in band who also compete in cross country or swim team or volleyball, the athletics pass might be your best bet. Contact the ASB office to purchase a Sports pass.
The Concession Worker Family Pass will be available for purchase until Friday, October 9th. Please contact Vicki Feltman at vfeltman@pacbell.net if you would like to buy one.

Field Show shirts

This Saturday (9/26) is your last chance to pick up your field show t-shirt/sweatshirt at the band room. We will be distributing them at the end of band practice (4pm) in front of the band room. If you are unable to pick up your order at that time, please contact Cathy Lu at 650 968 1403 to arrange a pick up from her house.

We have a few extra items in stock available for anyone who hasn't ordered a shirt but would like to own one. The following t-shirt sizes are available (we only have one of each size): XS, S, M, L and XL, for $15. We also have one XL pullover hoodie sweatshirt to sell for $25. Please contact Cathy Lu at 650-968-1403 or email mail@cathylu.com if you would like to buy a shirt.


Winter Percussion Meeting Saturday

We need a Winter Percussion meeting this Saturday at 4:30- 5 in the Choir Room. The Percussion Section is having a 9 - 9 rehearsal this Saturday Sept 26. This will be a great time to have the meeting.

Thank you,

David Sankus


New Music Booster website on School Loop

The Music Booster website has been moved from it's old location (hosted by fuhsd.org) to a new location as part of the main Homestead High School website, which is now hosted by School Loop. You can either access it by going to the main HHS site, http://homestead.schoolloop.com, and then clicking on Music Boosters from the Parents Community menu, or simply go to this URL:

http://homestead.schoolloop.com/mbmain

NOTE: You should delete any bookmarks you have to the old site. If you find anything missing or incorrect on the new site, or if you have ideas or suggestions for it, please email the Music Boosters Webmaster, Scott Cressler, at longdogz@gmail.com .



Band Room Availability

Contact Vicki Feltman at vfeltman@pacbell.net for band room availability.

The band room will be open after school until 6 pm on the following days:

Mon-Thu Sept 21-24
Mon/Tue/Thu/Fri Sept 28-Oct 2nd



Schedule of Events

Below is a list of performances and activities for the coming school year. Performances are shown in bold. The dates and times listed below were accurate at the time of printing, but things can change! Please be sure to read your e-mail to keep up with any last minute changes.