Current Schedule

2024-25 Sumner HS Marching Band & Color Guard

(Updated 4/13/2025)

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I hope you’ve had a great Spring Break and I’m hoping that you’re recharged and ready to go with the final busy quarter of the ‘24-25 school-year. We’ve done many things and have been to many events and the year so far has been really fantastic. We hope that we can end strong with many great rehearsals and performances as we cap off this year. Even though we’ve only got 2 more months left, we’ve got a lot going on in many different ways. Some of the events we’ll be attending just in the next month or so include:

The Orting HS “Battle of the Sound” Drumline Competition Saturday April 22nd
The State Ensemble Contest on Friday April 28th and the State Solo Contest on Saturday April 29th, both at CWU in Ellensburg
The Sumner HS Musical “The Addams Family” performances (6) starting Wednesday April 30th thru Sunday May 4th at the Sumner PAC
The Stafford Suites “Senior Prom” with both of our Jazz Ensembles performing the evening of Friday May 9th
The CWU John Moawad Jazz Festival in Ellensburg with both Jazz Ensembles performing Saturday May 10th
The Port Townsend Rhododendron Festival Parade Saturday May 17th
Music in May Honor Band May 23rd-25th in Forest Grove, OR (we have 10 of our Band students attending this event)

There will be other events as well coming-up, but these are the main dates to remember and make sure if you have any concerns or conflicts please let us know ASAP.
So, welcome back and here we go with our upcoming 2-week schedule:

Schedule for THIS WEEK:

APRIL 14 MONDAY - LATE-START & ADVISORY SCHEDULE

NO BLC MEETING
3:00-4:30PM COLOR GUARD REHEARSAL
7:00-8:30PM SBPA MEETING

APRIL 15 TUESDAY - REGULAR CLASS SCHEDULE

2:30-5:30PM MUSICAL PIT ORCHESTRA WITH CAST
BUTTER BRAIDS DELIVERY AND PICK-UP

REMEMBER THAT THEY ARE DELIVERED FROZEN AND NEED TO BE KEPT FROZEN ONCE YOU GET THEM

APRIL 16 WEDNESDAY - REGULAR CLASS SCHEDULE

2:45-6:00PM MUSICAL PIT ORCHESTRA WITH CAST IN PAC
NO MB-CG PARADE SECTIONALS & REHEARSAL

APRIL 17 THURSDAY - REGULAR CLASS SCHEDULE

3:00-6:00PM CONFERENCES IN PHASE 1 COMMONS
NO MUSICAL PIT ORCHESTRA REHEARSAL DUE TO CONFERENCES
3:00-4:30PM COLOR GUARD REHEARSAL - LOCATION TBD

APRIL 18 FRIDAY - REGULAR CLASS SCHEDULE

2:30-6:00PM MUSICAL PIT ORCHESTRA WITH CAST IN PAC

APRIL 19 SATURDAY DRUMLINE: ORTING BATTLE OF THE SOUND DRUMLINE COMPETITION AT ORTING HS

REPORT AT ORTING HS AT 10:00AM
WILL END BY MID-AFTERNOON (MORE INFORMATION TO COME . . .)

APRIL 20 SUNDAY

NO BAND PROGRAM ACTIVITIES

Highlights for NEXT WEEK:

APRIL 21 MONDAY - LATE-START & ADVISORY SCHEDULE

NO ZERO-PERIOD JAZZ REHEARSALS
NO BLC MEETING
2:30-6:00PM MUSICAL PIT ORCHESTRA TECH REHEARSAL: PAC
3:00-4:30PM COLOR GUARD REHEARSAL

APRIL 22 TUESDAY - REGULAR CLASS SCHEDULE

2:30-6:00PM MUSICAL PIT ORCHESTRA TECH REHEARSAL: PAC

APRIL 23 WEDNESDAY - REGULAR CLASS SCHEDULE

2:30-6:00PM MUSICAL PIT ORCHESTRA TECH REHEARSAL: PAC
NO MB-CG PARADE SECTIONALS & REHEARSAL

APRIL 24 THURSDAY - REGULAR CLASS SCHEDULE

2:30-6:00PM MUSICAL PIT ORCHESTRA TECH REHEARSAL: PAC
3:00-4:30PM COLOR GUARD REHEARSAL

APRIL 25 FRIDAY - REGULAR CLASS SCHEDULE

STATE ENSEMBLE CONTEST AT CWU
NO ZERO-PERIOD JAZZ REHEARSALS
2:30-6:00PM NO MUSICAL PIT ORCHESTRA REHEARSAL(?)

APRIL 26 SATURDAY

STATE SOLO CONTEST AT CWU

APRIL 27 SUNDAY

NO BAND PROGRAM ACTIVITIES

It’s a great time of year coming-up with so many different things to work on. The “light at the end of the tunnel” is starting to get brighter with each day as we start to get things going for the end of the year (notice that we’re sight-reading Graduation music this week and our Spring Concert music next week (by the way it’s really cool as both the 9/10 and 11/12 Bands are playing pieces by the same composer and they are linked together . . .)). With the upcoming musical we’ll be taking a few weeks off from our regular Wednesday MB-CG rehearsals but we’ve still got 2 more of them on Wednesday May 7th and 14th before we perform at the competitive Port Townsend Rhody Festival Parade on Saturday May 17th. Later on in May we’ve got the ‘25-26 Jazz Ensemble tryouts and we start ‘25-26 Drum Major tryouts as well. Once we turn the calendar over to June we’ve got our BIG Spring Collage and Marching Band Concert on Thursday June 5th, our Awards Dinner on Monday June 9th and Graduation for the first time EVER at Kent’s ShoWare Center on Tuesday June 10th (both Jazz Ensembles and the combined 9/10/11 Symphonic Band perform) before we have our ‘25-26 MB-CG Mini-Camp and the start of Summer MB-CG on June 24th. It’ll be a fun and exciting finish to the year and it starts MONDAY, so let’s get right to work and do our best every day from now until we finish!

See you Monday

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Sumner HS Band Program Staff:

This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., Sumner High School Band Director

Ellen Carl, Sumner High School Auxiliary Coordinator

Laurie Selle, Sumner High School Color Guard Assistant Instructor

Sumner High School, 1707 Main Street, Sumner, WA 98390

(253) 891-5565: Band Office
(253) 891-5500: Sumner HS Main Office (7:00AM-3:30PM)
(253) 891-5585: Sumner HS FAX
(360) 889-0080: Carl Home
(253) 307-5705: Mr. Carl‘s Cell
(253) 307-5706: Mrs. Carl‘s Cell