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Saturday, June 30, 2007

 

Group Tickets for Spokane Indians Game-Need count by Sunday night!

GROUP TICKETS FOR THE SPOKANE INDIANS GAME ARE $5.00 ... YOU MAY CALL KAY @ 924-0321 OR EMAIL MR. LOUCKS @ jim.loucks@wvsd.com WITH THE NUMBER OF TICKETS YOU NEED ... PAYMENT MUST BE MADE AT MONDAY NIGHT'S MUSIC REHEARSAL (6:00 - 7:30 PM). WE NEED TO HAVE A FINAL COUNT BY SUNDAY NIGHT SO WE CAN HAVE THE TICKETS AT MONDAY'S REHEARSAL ... THANKS!!!

REMINDER ... ALL STUDENTS PERFORMING WITH THE BAND GET ONE FREE TICKET!!!

# posted by Edward @ 9:00 PM
 

Can you read this?


# posted by Edward @ 8:25 PM

Thursday, June 28, 2007

 

The Band is headed to San Francisco!!!

2008 Trip to San Francisco, California – approved by the West Valley School District Board of Directors – it’s a GO!!

The trip will be in the spring of 2008, by charter bus. More details later.

# posted by Edward @ 8:31 PM
 

Raffle will be held December 1st

The date for the Raffle has been set … Saturday, December 1 in the new WVHS Cafeteria and Commons.

If you need more Raffle tickets, please call Kay @ 924-0321 or Kathy @ 922-5296 … keep up the GREAT work!!!

# posted by Edward @ 8:31 PM
 

Car Wash Fund Raisers!

The following dates have been set for Car Washes at the WVSD Administration Building:

Saturday, July 7
Saturday, July 28
Saturday, August 11
Saturday, August 25

Car wash fund raisers are typically a lot of fun too - be there!

This is a great fundraiser toward your student’s trip to San Francisco – call Kay @ 924-0321.

# posted by Edward @ 8:30 PM

Friday, June 22, 2007

 

Special Music Rehearsal on Monday, July 2nd!!!

THE WVHS PEP BAND WILL BE PERFORMING PRE-GAME MUSIC AT THE SPOKANE INDIANS BASEBALL GAME ON TUESDAY, JULY 3.

HERE ARE THE SPECIFIC DETAILS:

1. SPECIAL MUSIC REHEARSAL @ WVHS BAND ROOM - MONDAY, JULY 2 (6:00 - 7:30 PM)
(You must attend this rehearsal in order to participate at the baseball game)

2. ALL RETURNING WVHS BAND STUDENTS AND NEW BAND STUDENTS ARE INVITED TO PERFORM.
(We need as many of you as possible ... this is a HUGE opportunity ... read further)

3. ALL PERFORMING STUDENTS WILL BE GIVEN A COMPLIMENTARY TICKET TO THE GAME.

4. FAMILY MEMBERS MAY ATTEND THE GAME BY PURCHASING A GROUP TICKET. (More info later)

5. THIS IS THE SPOKANE INDIAN'S ANNUAL "FIREWORKS SHOW" WHICH WILL BE A SELL-OUT!

6. THIS IS "GUS JOHNSON NIGHT AT THE PARK" AND, NOT ONLY WILL OUR "GUS JOHNSON" CAR THAT WILL BE RAFFLED OFF IN DECEMBER BE ON DISPLAY, BUT WE WILL BE SELLING RAFFLE TICKETS NEXT TO THE CAR THROUGHOUT THE GAME ...THIS SHOULD BE HUGE!!!

7. STUDENTS ... WE WILL NOT BE WEARING OUR BAND UNIFORMS ... MORE INFO LATER.

8. STUDENTS ... EMAIL ME TO LET ME KNOW IF YOU'LL BE PARTICIPATING ... ASAP!

I HOPE ALL OF YOU STUDENTS AND PARENTS WILL ATTEND THIS GREAT EVENT. THANKS!

JIM LOUCKS, BAND DIRECTOR
jim.loucks@wvsd.com

# posted by Edward @ 1:39 PM

Saturday, June 16, 2007

 

Drum & Bugle Corps practicing at Centennial Middle School

From the CMS Bands web site:
For 2 weeks beginning July 9, the Spokane Thunder will be rehearsing all day long at CMS. Please feel free to stop by and check them out. See what they do in rehearsals to become so good. CMS grad Corey King is playing in the drum line.

On July 27, the Santa Clara Vanguard Cadets will be staying and rehearsing at CMS, followed by the competition at Albi Stadium that evening.
I believe that should say "at Central Valley High School that evening". See the Spokane Thunder web page for details.

# posted by Edward @ 11:19 AM

Friday, June 08, 2007

 

“Sounds of Summer” Marching Percussion Camp

“Attention all percussionists … the Annual “Sounds of Summer” Marching Percussion Camp will be held on July 13 and 14 at Central Washington University in Ellensburg, WA. Hotel rooms have been reserved for 14 students, so get your registration form and $60.00 check (Payable to Ted Brown Music) to Mr. Loucks immediately. First come, first served. The total cost is $120.00 which covers the Camp Registration (Yamaha T-Shirt and sticks) hotel for one night, and meals. Transportation will be provided by the WVSD. Any questions, please email Mr. Loucks at jim.loucks@wvsd.com. Thank you.

# posted by Edward @ 8:51 AM

Thursday, June 07, 2007

 

2007 Summer Band Schedule is now available

Click here for the full schedule.

# posted by Edward @ 5:08 PM

Tuesday, June 05, 2007

 

Coming soon ... Kickin' with Krystal, Diner's Club and more

Some additional videos from the All District Concert will be posted online soon with links here. Watch this space ... I know a few people want to post some of these on their MySpace/LiveJournal/Facebook pages :-)

Click on the links to go to the videos - all can be downloaded in somewhat larger format than will play online:
One or two of the videos display in a slightly "squished" image due to an issue with Veoh video hosting (and that I don't want to go back and re-do them to make Veoh happy!). ALL of the videos will download and play properly in the Veoh Player.

I also encoded a much higher quality version of the Award-winning 2006 Auburn field show competition. I have better hardware and better methods than were available last fall and I thought it would be nice to save a high quality version of this available on the band web site.

# posted by Edward @ 10:30 PM

Monday, June 04, 2007

 

Full screen, high resolution videos of band performances now available

The Spokane Shock performance and the Lilac Parade are both now available in high resolution, full screen video. Links to the full screen videos are provided near those videos on this web page.

Both use the new Veoh Player (free) - See How to Watch Videos in Full Screen for more information on downloading the player, and downloading the full screen videos.

This is how web video is meant to be - full screen - or wide screen.

# posted by Edward @ 1:34 PM

Sunday, June 03, 2007

 

Still photos of WVHS Performance at Spokane Shock

Six Seven photos have been added to the photo gallery. All are 1920 x 1080 pixels, made from high definition video.

3-WVHS Performs at Spokane Shock Halftime

Go here to pick any one from the set of seven Spokane Shock photos. Use the 'All sizes' option for really big images.

If you have still photos or video that you would like to have online here, please email photos to edward 'at' coldstreams.com; if if you have video you would like to share, please email me and we will figure out away for me to get it here (do NOT email video files).


Separately, several "band portraits" are in the Photo Gallery here and can be downloaded in full 8 megapixel resolution for printing. Some of the band photos have been "cropped" for 8x10 printing.

# posted by Edward @ 7:43 PM

Saturday, June 02, 2007

 

Video of WVHS Performance at Spokane Shock

The WVHS Marching Band, Percussion Drum Line, Drill Team, Color Guard and Cheerleaders performed at the Spokane Shock Arena Football Half-time.

New! - High resolution, full screen quality version available (Read How to Watch Videos in Fullscreen").

Here's the ultra-fast conversion - a better quality version might be uploaded later.


Click To Play


Better quality version - can just about play in full screen, but might not work on all computers:

# posted by Edward @ 7:43 PM

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