I am sending a letter home with your students about rehearsal this week and band festival next week.  Please ask your student for this letter and mark your calendar with call times for your students to be at school.  As always they will have points taken off their grade for tardiness to an after school performance or event and for not having the correct clothing or equipment. 

  Students will not be able to stay after school on Friday March 19.  All students must go home and report back for 5:00 pm.   Also for next week, we will not be stopping to buy food before or after band festival so if your student does not bring his/her dinner they won’t be able to eat until they get back to your home. 

Musically yours,

JessicaLizana

 Due to the great success and efforts of the band, rehearsal after school on Tuesday has been cancelled.  We will pick up with after school rehearsals on Tuesdays after Mardi Gras break!

Special people make an organization great! Our band is lucky to have dedicated musicians, parents, and faculty to help create the resources and opportunities we need to have a special organization. 

I want to thank all of you for the outstanding job at the Krewe of Eve Parade Friday night.  I have heard from people across the Parish how great our band sounded and looked!  This could not have been done without the hard work of the band students in and out of rehearsal.  Their positive attitudes and hard work has instilled a great sense of pride for me and this organization.

A big thank you to all of the parents who volunteered to help make this parade run as smoothly as it did.  Your continued commitment to the band will ensure that our students continue to excel in music!  Thank you again so much for your time and energy!

Musically yours,

Jessica Lizana

Director of Bands Lakeshore High School

I hope everyone had a great holiday break, but its back to business as usual starting January 4, 2010.  Please remember to check the website for any updates and/or changes that may happen in the Spring Semester. Your students will be given two copies of the calendars on the first day we return to school.  This way they can keep a copy in their band binder and you can have one for the fridge at home.

I am very excited about the upcoming band events for the Spring Semester.  We are scheduled to participate in the Eve Parade, Honor Bands, Band Festival, Spring Concert, and Band Awards Night!  Then after all of those events pass its time to prep for the 2010 Football season and half time show.

As always we will need volunteers to help plan and work at all of these events and help fit the students in uniforms for the parades.  If you have any sewing experience or free time to help put the students in their uniforms that would be greatly appreciated.  Please contact me via email at jessica.lizana@stpsb.org and let me know when you are free so we can put it on the calendar.  Thank you so much for your support!

Musically yours,

Jessica Lizana