West Valley High School Bands-Spokane Valley, WA

Reminder: Band Booster Meeting Tuesday Jan. 24th at 7:00pm

2012-01-23T21:22:00.001-08:00

Band Booster Meeting Tuesday Jan. 24th at 7:00pm in the Commons Area.

All Band Parents are welcomed and appreciated.

West Valley District Officials will be speaking on behalf of upcoming Replacement Levy/ Bond

Dr. Polly Crowley (Superintendent)
Doug Matsom (Deputy Superintendent)

Discussion will include upcoming events for Feb thru April.

Brief Senior Trip Meeting after Band Meeting

Jan 17th Bandbooster meeting CHANGED to Jan 24th

2012-01-15T19:16:00.001-08:00

Happy New Year West Valley Band Parents.

We are rescheduling the Band Booster Meeting due to Basketball game on Tuesday Jan 17th to Tuesday Jan 24th at 7:00p

Topics of discussion on Tuesday Jan 24th preparing for Annual Auction in March & 2nd Annual Marchathon in April .

Everyone is welcome and your attendance is greatly appreciated.

Washington State band performs in the Tournament of Roses

2012-01-01T19:55:00.000-08:00

Mercer Island HS Marching Band performs in a field show competition on Dec 30th in Pasadena, CA, prior to marching in the Tournament of Roses Parade on Sunday, January 1st. Impressive!

Watch at 8:30 when they leave the field - heh heh.

Corrected: WVHS Band Christmas Concert - MONDAY, Dec 12th

2011-12-11T11:18:00.000-08:00

West Valley Band Christmas Concert

Monday Dec. 12th at 7:00pm in the Theater

Dessert and punch social following the concert

Happy Holidays

Bandbooster Meeting, Awards and Potluck - Tuesday, Nov 15th

2011-11-12T20:25:00.000-08:00

Awards and Potluck night is Tuesday Nov. 15th and Band Booster Meeting and Senior Trip Meeting.

This begins at 5:30. Look forward to seeing everyone there.

Reminder: Saturday, Oct 29th - 2011 West Valley Band and Color Guard Craft Fair

2011-10-27T17:13:00.001-07:00

2011 West Valley Band and Color Guard Craft Fair
Saturday October 29th 9 - 4
West Valley High School
8301 E Buckeye Rd
Spokane, WA 99212

There will be around 60 crafters, a Bake Sale, Raffle, and activities for kids.
Please come and support the Band and the local Crafters.
You may even get a jump on your Christmas Shopping.

Help needed for upcoming Craft Fair - set up Oct 28th, Craft Fair on the 29th

2011-10-24T11:46:00.000-07:00

The Craft is Oct. 29th. We need help from parents on Fri. Oct. 28th to help tape off the gyms and to assist the crafters in bringing their items into the gyms. Normally the band students help but they will be performing at the half time for the Football game. We will take a break to watch this last and final performance. Also we need items for the Bake Sale - suggested items:

Fall type Breads (banana, zucchini,pumpkin etc.)
Pumpkin Rolls
Puppy Chow
Spice or Pumpkin anything
Pies (apple, pumpkin, berry, pecan, etc.)
Specialty Cakes (preferable homemade)
Breads such as sourdough, braided etc.
Cookies(specialty/fancy decorated etc)
Candy (fudge, peanut brittle etc.)
Caramel corn
Caramel apples (decorated preferably but not necessary)
Trail Mix
Scones
Biscotti
Lemon Bars
Muffins
Donuts

We need your baked item brought to school on Fri. Oct. 29th or early Sat 29th before 8:00.
If you have any question please contact Heidi Weston 499-6183

If your baked item has any type of nuts as an ingredient it must be label as containing nuts.

Thank you for all your help this year West Valley Marching Band and Colorguard would not be able to do these events without everyone helping and cheering us on.

West Valley HS Band & Color Guard Performance Video

2011-10-23T17:56:00.000-07:00

This is from the 2011 Puget Sound Festival of Bands in Everett, Wa. Click on the "360p" in the viewer, then choose 720pHD for best quality and then click on the full screen icon.

Puget Sound Festival of Bands Preliminary Awards

2011-10-22T16:25:00.000-07:00

29 bands performed.

AA Class

High Percussion AA Class caption award goes to West Valley-Spokane.
West Valley competed in the AA Division with a score of 64.35, which is 5th place AA.
1st place in the AA Class went to Sultan High School.

A Class Top 3

University HS - Spokane Valley, and caption awards for high visual effect, high music and high percussion.
Ingraham 64.68
Tumwater 60.58

AAA Class Top 3

Wenatchee 84.93
Black Hills 70.08
West Valley-Yakima 69.08

OPEN Class Top 4

Kamiak 85.23
Mead 82.68
Hanford 82.68
Mt Spokane 75.05

Oct 25th Awards Banquet rescheduled to Nov 15th

2011-10-20T14:59:00.000-07:00

The Awards Banquet originally scheduled for Oct 25 has been moved to coincide with the Booster Meeting on November 15th.

Slight travel change to/from Everett; Revised Trip Handout available

2011-10-20T14:55:00.000-07:00

Due to construction at Snoqualmie Pass, the district has recommended that we travel via Stevens Pass. So, on Sunday, we will be stopping in Leavenworth instead of Pike’s Market. The revised schedule is attached and the changes are marked in red. Leavenworth is always great, especially at this time of year!

Download: REVISED FINAL TRIP HANDOUT (PDF)

Puget Sound Festival of Bands - Competition Schedule

2011-10-19T22:10:00.000-07:00

If you are going to the PSFOB and wonder what schools will be performing, and when, the Festival has published a preliminary competition schedule on their web site (PDF) for all 29 bands.

West Valley, Mead, Mt Spokane and University High Schools will be performing as well as 25 others.

Puget Sound Festival of Band/Everett trip handout

2011-10-19T20:25:00.001-07:00

You can download a PDF of the trip handout here.

Also, I (Ed) will be going to the the band festival and will be video taping their performance. In past years, I have often uploaded the performance video during the day. Since my band competition videos have become popular on YouTube, I have had special requests to be sure and tape various bands and I will not likely be able to do the upload on Saturday. Hopefully the performance video will be online late Sunday! ... Ed M.

Everett Schedule, Last MB performance on Oct 28th, Craft Fair and more

2011-10-19T20:22:00.001-07:00

EVERETT SCHEDULE
Just in case your “wonderful” child has not brought home the “orange-colored” schedule that I handed out this morning, you may want to ask them about it AND ground them for the rest of their lives if they forgot it at school. Also, for your convenience, I’ve attached it as a PDF file on our website.

OUR LAST MARCHING BAND PERFORMANCE OF THE YEAR
Your “Eagle” Marching Band will be performing their “KA” show at the football game on Friday, October 28. We will march at halftime and you will want to be here and see the amazing results of our students hard work! They have made all of us really proud!!!

CRAFT FAIR
Our annual Craft Fair will be held at WVHS on Saturday, October 29, from 9:00 AM until 4:00 PM. For more information, contact Shelley Cloy at shelleyc@slstart.com
Set up will be on Friday, October 28. (More information later)

MARCHING BAND AWARDS NIGHT HAS BEEN CHANGED
The 2011 Marching Band Awards Night has been changed to Tuesday, November 15, at 6:00 PM. The evening will begin with a potluck supper, be followed by a “live” performance, and conclude with the annual awards presentation. You will not want to miss this event! (More information later)

WV Band and Color Guard Craft Fair - Sat October 29th

2011-10-14T21:35:00.000-07:00

The West Valley Band and Color Guard would like to invite you to the 2011 West Valley Band and Color Guard Craft Fair. The Craft Fair will be on Saturday October 29th and will be open from 9-4. We have about 60 crafters right now and there is still room for more. The document explains the Craft Fair and there is a contract to fill out and return. If you have any questions about being a Crafter please call 509-928-6516.

Important Documents:

Saturday's band competition and news photo

2011-10-09T09:17:00.001-07:00

Spokesman-Review story on Saturday's band competition and a snapshot of the web site main page.

More photos.

WV Takes 1st place AA division, plus 5 "Best" caption awards

2011-10-02T10:23:00.000-07:00

WVHS took the following awards at the 2011 Cavalcade of Bands in Kennewick on October 1:

1st Place (AA)
Best Brass and Woodwinds (AA)
Best Percussion (AA)
Best Color Guard (AA)
Best Marching (AA)
Best General Effect (AA)

WVHS Band will arrive back from the Tri-Cities around 11 pm

2011-10-01T22:22:00.001-07:00

WVHS Band will arrive back from the Tri-Cities around 11 pm Saturday.

UPDATED Cavalcade of Bands Schedule

2011-09-29T19:58:00.000-07:00

UPDATED PDF of schedule and information: Cavalcade of Bands Schedule (PDF)
Cavalcade of Bands – What to Bring, Ticket Information, etc.

Important change from previous schedule -staying at Southridge High School! Some times change too!

Updates for the Cavalcade of Band Schedule

2011-09-29T15:32:00.000-07:00

I will try to get the updated schedule posted here later.

Important Change - WV will be staying at Southridge High School and not at Kennewick High School. This changes some times.

Parent Volunteers Needed

We need a volunteer to take lots of photos of the band
We need a volunteer to video tape the band performance in both the preliminary and the final competition! Yes, the finals!!!

Here's the video of the 2009 performance - we do not have one for 2010:

Video recording suggestions

use a tripod
stay mostly wide angle so that most of the band and the formations can be seen at all times
When recording in the evening under stadium lights, if you have a manual exposure control use it to decrease the exposure a little bit. Other wise the uniforms end up as indistinct bright white.

If you post the video to YouTube or Facebook, please let us know so that we post a link to it here on the band web site and Facebook page.

FYI All District Band Parent's Meeting

2011-09-28T17:23:00.000-07:00

ALL-DISTRICT BAND PARENT’S MEETING (first-ever!)
Tuesday, October 4 at 6:30 PM in the WVHS Theater Demonstration of Smart Music
(Immediately following the Instrument Rental Night) Overview of the WVSD Band Program

2nd Instrument Rental Night: Tuesday, October 4, 5:00 – 6:30 PM
WHERE: West Valley High School (Band Room)
(Enter through the NW Gym entrance on Vista)
WHAT: Local Band Instrument Dealers will be here with rental instruments - they will also have accessories like reeds and valve oil.
(They have very affordable rent-to-own plans… check other local dealers, too)

QUESTIONS
If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact me. Thank you.

Kyle Bosch

kyle.bosch@wvsd.org

CAVALCADE OF BANDS INFORMATION AVAILABLE

2011-09-26T19:50:00.000-07:00

PDF of schedule and information: Cavalcade of Bands Schedule (PDF)
Cavalcade of Bands – What to Bring, Ticket Information, etc.

WV Band Performance at the Spokane Symphony

2011-09-21T20:34:00.000-07:00

Photos from Tamara CochoranLaPlante: Facebook page with lots of WV Band photos

Sharing a thank you note regarding the WV Band's performance at the Spokane Symphony

2011-09-19T21:38:00.000-07:00

Dear Jim!

What a fantastic surprise to see your students perform at the Symphony yesterday! Many folks might not know how very difficult it is in the first few weeks of school to get kids to play well...together...spread throughout the Fox. .... I watched the kids' faces as they focused intently on you from every corner of the theater, and I could tell they were proud ....! .... West Valley was beautifully represented yesterday and I bet those students will never forget the experience.

THANK YOU...AND GO EAGLES!

Katy Karschney,
(WV fan, friend, instructional coach and symphony wife!)

Reminder: Band Booster Meeting on Tuesday @ 7 pm

2011-09-19T20:15:00.000-07:00

Band Booster Meeting
Tuesday Sept. 20th
7:00pm In Band Room

All Parents please attend discussion on updated schedule and upcoming events and performances

Order forms for Band Shirt due on Tues. Sept 20th