La Vergne High School Music

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Dear Band/Guard Parents:
On behalf of the LaVergne High School Band Booster Officers, I would like to personally welcome each of you to an exciting 2009/2010 band season. We will be having our Band Orientation meeting on June 4th at 6:30 PM in the auditorium at LHS. This is a mandatory meeting. The 2009-2010 LHS Band Handbook, is in the Documents section for you to print or read at your leisure. Please read all of this information thoroughly. These are the rules that you will be expected to follow throughout the year. There is vital information in this booklet. Before this meeting, please go to the Documents section of this site. We are asking that you print the forms for the 2009-2010 school year, complete them, have them notarized, and bring them with you that evening.

I look forward to serving you this year as your President. If at any time you have any concerns or questions, please feel free to contact me or any of the Booster Officers.
Thank you,
Jeff Hunter

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We will not have a notary available that evening. The forms required to be turned in that evening are:
1. Travel Permission/Emergency Medical Forms,
2. Signature Page from the 09/10 Parent/Student Handbook,
3. Parent Information Form, and
4. Financial Contract.
Without these forms, the student will not be permitted to begin band camp. As a reminder, band camp and marching fees are $260.00 (Band camp fees must be paid in full before the first day of band camp, July 13.) The competition Food Fee is $30.00. The fair share balance is $500.00 which can be worked off through fundraisers. The uniform fee will be $100.00. Guard students who do not participate in concert band have a fair share balance of $350.

Band Camp/Marching Season Needs

Students must bring two 12 packs of Coca Cola products, these include Coke, Sprite, Dr. Pepper, etc. The reason we ask for Coca Cola products is because the county has a contract with Coke. Students must also bring two 24 packs of bottled water and 2 containers of powdered Gatorade. These items will be used throughout the marching season to provide liquids for the students. If at any time we run low, we may have to request more. Please make sure that these items are labeled with the child’s name and/or checked off the list by an officer or volunteer.

Forms List

 Parent Information form
  LHS Handbook-The Survial Guide
 Financial Agreement, Guard and Instrumentalists
 Financial Contract for Color Guard, NON Instrumentalists
 Hand Book Agreement Form
 Travel/Medical Permission Form

Please be very complete when filing out the Medical form.

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Local Students Selected For The MACY'S Great American Marching Band
The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade and Music Festivals combine to create select marching ensemble.

Reading, PA / New York, NY - Michael Pagan, Brooks Hunter, Tyler Mingle and Elise Jones, student members of the LaVergne High School Marching Wolverine Band under the direction of Edward Freytag and Chris Crumley, have been selected to participate in the 2008 MACY'S Great American Marching Band as four of the select number of students from Tennessee. At this time, the LaVergne musicians are the only students that have been selected from the state. The Band is celebrating the 82nd anniversary of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade and will lead Santa Claus into Herald Square on November 27, 2008.

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The students were selected based on their musical abilities, past achievements and audition materials.  The opportunity was open to students from over 14,000 high schools across the United States.

Stepping-off from Central Park, the Band will be cheered by 2.5 million live spectators before arriving at Macy's Herald Square for their national performance for more than 50 million TV viewers watching the broadcast live on NBC.

The students will have the chance to participate in this prestigious band with over 200 students representing every state.  The musicians, under the direction of Dr. Richard Good, Auburn University, and Ohio State University's Dr. Jon Woods, will be complemented by approximately 50 flags and dancers choreographed by Greg Lagola of the famed Cadets Drum & Bugle Corps of Pennsylvania.

Dr. Good is the Director of Bands at Auburn University in Auburn, AL. From Columbus, OH, Dr. Woods is a Professor of Music Education as well as the director of the award-winning, "Pride of the Buckeyes" Ohio State University Marching Band.  Lagola is a member of the creative team for the Cadets, who are nine-time World Champions and the oldest and most honored Drum & Bugle Corps in the world.

The LaVergne students will also have the opportunity to attend workshops led by Scott Lang, founder of Scott Lang Leadership Seminars.  The workshops will focus on leadership and encourage students to achieve their maximum potential.

Contact Edward Freytag, Director of Bands and Fine Arts Chair at LaVergne High School for information concerning these students and the Macy's event.

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