Weekend Reminders!

This Saturday, April 25, Jazz Band II will be performing at the choir's "Night of Entertainment" fundraiser. The call time for this event is 5:50. Attire is nice clothes. We will perform in the cafetorium at Central campus from approximately 6:30-6:45 pm.

Jazz Band I... enjoy a night off!

Also, a reminder that any students participating in the Fox Valley Music Festival should report to the band room at 12:15 pm this Sunday, April 26th to bus to the rehearsal at Bartlett High School.

Fox Valley Honor Band !

The MCHS band program will have 10 representatives participating in the annual Fox Valley Music Festival at Bartlett High School on April 26th & April 27th.  The concert is at 7:30 pm on April 27th in the host's school gymnasium.

Students selected from our school include: Andrea Aguilera, Greg Alexander, Paula Bernhard, John Bond, Kelley Cerovac, Denine Cochran, Lauren Govednik, Alex Halaska, Melissa Hallihan, and Hannah Knorr.

Students for the festival are selected through a nomination system for each of the 23 participating high schools from the Fox Valley region of Illinois.

The guest conductor is Bruce Moss from Bowling Green University in KY.

Jazz Band I to perform at JJC Concert!

Jazz Band I has accepted an invitation to perform at the JJC Jazz Concert on May 1st at 7:30 pm. Our jazz band will perform their 3 contest arrangements that received 1st place ratings at the recent IHSA contest and several other pieces featuring our 20 member ensemble. The MCHS Jazz Band will perform during the first half of the concert and will be followed by JJC Jazz Ensemble directed Mr. Charles Morgan.

The concert is open to the public and the admission is only $2.00 if you mention you are from Minooka at the ticket office!

Congratulations!

Congratulations to everyone for 3 fantastic performances at the IHSA Band Contest at Morris HS!  The performances impressed the judges and the audience. Your directors are very proud of your accomplishment!

Results:

Concert/Symphonic Band :

Judge 1 - 1st place rating

Judge 2 - 1st place rating

Judge 3 - 1st place rating

Sightreading Judge - 2nd place rating (only 1 pt. from a 1st)

Wind Ensemble :

Judge 1 - 1st place rating

Judge 2 - 1st place rating

Judge 3 - 1st place rating (perfect score)

Sightreading Judge - 1st place rating (perfect score)

Jazz Band :

Judge 1 - 1st place rating

Judge 2 - 1st place rating (perfect score)

Judge 2 - 1st place rating

IHSA Band Contest Saturday!

Saturday, April 4th - Jazz Band I, Wind Ensemble and combined Concert and Symphonic Bands will be performing at the IHSA Organizational Contest, held this year at Morris High School. Students will be bussing as a group to this event, but parents are welcome to meet us at the Morris HS Gymnasium to attend the performances. 

The schedule for the day is as follows:

9:00 am - 10:00 am -- Jazz Band I rehearsal 
10:30 am -- Report to MCHS, load busses
11:15 am -- Arrive at Morris High School
12:30 pm -- Concert/Symphonic Band Performance
2:30 pm -- Wind Ensemble Performance
4:00 pm -- Jazz Band Performance

Students are reminded to bring black socks and Drillmaster black shoes to wear with the band uniform for the contest.

Students will need to bring a sack lunch.  There will be no food service offered for this contest. 

Busses will be bringing students home after the final jazz band performance. Thank you for your support!

MCHS Winterguard needs some fuel for the FIRE!

The girls are heading into their last regular season competition to be held at Lincoln-Way East High School in Frankfort on Sunday March 22. We need a SEA of ORANGE shirts in the stands for this performance to help boost our GE score(how the crowd reacts)!!! The girls will go on the floor at 12:45pm and just imagine what it would feel like for them to see all their supporters cheering them on to their championship performance!!!

If you have a free afternoon and would like to see some great guards come by, if you have time to just come for Minooka come by as well and wear some orange!

I hope to see us pack the gym like Marian Catholic and Lincoln Way do!!!

Thanks!

Gayle Mattingly
MCHS Guard Director

Amy Buckbee
Guard Staff

Say cheese!

While Mr. Rinke finished student teaching with us last week, this weekend is his last at MCHS as he performs in the pit for the spring musical. Just look at how upset he is to be leaving!

We thank Mr. Rinke for his help this semester and wish him good luck in his job search.

Impromptu photo courtesy of Rachel Martiniak.