​Dear Parents,

I hope this post finds you well. I trust that everyone had a Merry Christmas. We are looking forward to a new year of making music and memories together!

I've included a few dates below as reminders for the beginning of 2020. As always, please let me know if you have any questions.

Monday Jan. 6 - Final Disney payment due ($100.00), or balance of whatever you may owe. Remember, trip total is now $750.00 thanks to our (your) fundraising efforts!!!

Tuesday Jan. 7 - Band Booster meeting @7pm in the HS band room

Friday Jan. 10 - Pep band vs. Massillon...pep band members report at 5:45pm.

Saturday Jan. 11 - We have four students performing as members of  the Kent State University Honor Band. Congrats to Victoria Davis, Kristen Flinner, Bethany Haskell, and Harley Nunez! The concert begins at 7:30pm in Cartwright Hall on KSU's campus. The concert is FREE.

Friday Jan. 17 - No school for students (waiver day, teacher inservice)

Saturday Jan. 18 - Solo and Ensemble @ Glenoak HS. Times will be announced once received from Glenoak.

Monday Jan. 27 - Pep band for the Royal Knights game. Report time TBA

Tuesday Jan. 28 - Pep band vs. Norton. Report time TBA

Tuesday Feb. 4 - Band Booster meeting at 6pm in the HS band room...followed by a MANDATORY Disney meeting at 7pm in the HS cafeteria. At least one parent of each student going on the trip must attend the meeting. It should last approximately 1 hour.

Tuesday Feb. 11-16 - Walt Disney World Trip!

Lastly, congratulations to band parent and Louisville City Schools employee (one of our tech guru's!) Troy Davis on being named our new LHS head football coach. We are looking forward to working together with Coach Davis and his staff to continue to make Friday nights in Louisville the place to be! Well deserved and best of luck to our team next season!

Have a safe and happy new year!
Mr. Bleininger

Please note the updated times for Light Up Louisville on Sunday 12/1

Band room open from 5:45-6:00pm
Band and color guard report to Paradise UCC at 6:15pm
Parade begins at 6:30pm

We will be marching from Paradise to downtown, turning left on Main, left on Gorgas, and then left on Mill where we will end up back on Main Street for the tree lighting. Students will be dismissed from Paradise Church once the lighting is complete.

Upon returning from Thanksgiving break, students will be signing up for roommates for the trip and Main St. Tours will be ordering tickets. As we have been announcing for weeks, Main Street Tours will not be ordering tickets for students who are not current with their payments. We currently have approximately 20 students who are not current and will not be traveling with us as a result. Please take care of this asap.

In other news, our students and band boosters have raised enough funds through the Disney trip raffle and our Dining for Disney events to decrease our last payment (due Jan. 6) by $150.00 per student! In other words, the final payment will only be $100.00 instead of $250.00. That's over $15,000 raised! Thanks to everyone who helped fundraise to make this happen! It's incredible what we can do as a group for the benefit of our kids and our band program!