Next Year's Schedule is Finalized - Our Attendance Rules

As of March 30th, we finalized our 2011 Marching Band Schedule.  Please realize that all rehearsals from Band Camp on are absolutely mandatory to be in the Roslyn Marching Band.  Due to the academic nature of our high school, our entire schedule is one third to one fourth the amount of practice hours of all our competitors.  Check their websites and you will see.  We can be competitive due to the fact that we have 100% attendance, rehearse efficiently, and focus incredibly well at each and every rehearsal and event. We also do about half of the shows other bands due.  We leave several weekends open for college visitations while our competition goes every single weekend.  It works for us but you must understand, for this reason, we need everyone at everything on the schedule. All information, forms, directions, the band camp packet, absolutely everything, is on the roslynband.com website. As always, if you have any questions just e-mail me.

Now on to the schedule.  Band Camp will be Monday, August 15th through Sunday, August 22nd at our new Camp Taconic. Our first performance will be at the home game on Saturday, September 10th.  We will be doing one more show this year, the Brentwood Show on Sunday, September 18th, the "Friday Night Lights" Soccer game, which is the only date we do not know yet, and the Homecoming on Saturday, October 1st.  Since the Homecoming is on the same day as SAT's it will be in the late afternoon, with the Parade and game scheduled so that it does not conflict with the tests.  There is a home game on October 6th, a Thursday afternoon, due to the holiday being that weekend.  Our regular Columbus Day weekend is off with nothing scheduled, the Huntington Show is on Sunday, October 16th, Newsday on Thursday, October 20th, the Mineola Show on October 22nd and the Phoenix and Championship on the 29th and 30th of October as we always do.  We will be staying for the finals this year and coming home on Monday, October 31st by 2pm.   Remember, with our marching band having so few rehearsals and so few shows, attendance is mandatory for every single day on the schedule. Any absences will result in immediate removal from the group.  Our show is a "Broadway type show" designed for every single person in the group! I start writing the drill after July 5th, so anyone can be added or get a full refund for marching band through that date. If you have any questions just e-mail me. The schedule can be downloaded by hitting the schedule link on the roslynband.com website.

Big Changes in the Field Band Classes!

Wow, there was a reclassification of the bands in the New York State Field Band Conference this week.  Click this link to view http://patpat15.com/2011nysfbcclasses.  They moved Leroy, Mohonassen, and Mineola up a class to Small School 1, which leaves us to be top ranked in our class.  In addition, they moved the three bottom bands in SS1 down to our class, Johnson City, Corning East, and Jordan Elbridge.  This is really good news for us because it pretty much means that everything will be more open.  Copiague is now out of National and in LS2, Huntington has been moved down to LS3 and a whole bunch of other bands have been moved around.  Malverne has been moved into our class SS2 due to their win last year in SS3.  We will still be on in the middle to late part of the Long Island Shows, with only Mineola, Huntington, Brentwood and Copiague in higher classes than us while the other 6 bands are in the lower class LS3.  This will be an exciting year!