It's that time of year again folks! Time for the Florida Bandmasters Association Music Performance Assessment (MPA).  This is our FCAT for band performance.  It will take place at Ft. Walton Beach High School.  Everyone is welcome to come out and support our students for these FREE concerts.  Varsity Band will perform at 1:35pm on Friday, March 7th. Concert Band will perform at 2pm and Symphonic Band will perform at 7pm on Saturday, March 8th.  Below is the full Itinerary for this week.  

Monday, March 3
3:45-6:00 pm      -              Concert Band Rehearsal

Tuesday, March 4
3:45-6:30 pm      -              Symphonic Band Rehearsal

Wednesday, March 5
3:45-5:00 pm      -              Jazz Band Rehearsal

Thursday, March 6
3:45-5:00 pm      -              Varsity Band Rehearsal

Friday, March 7 (Varsity Band)
10:45 am              -              Meet at bandroom / Load Bus
11:00 am              -              Depart for Ft. Walton Beach HS
12:30 pm              -              Arrive @ Ft. Walton Beach HS
1:10 pm                -              Warm-Up
1:35 pm                -              FBA DISTRICT 1 CONCERT MPA PERFORMANCE
2:00 pm                -              Sightreading
2:45 pm                -              Depart for Santa Rosa Mall Food Court (Late Lunch)
3:45 pm                -              Depart for Milton
5:00 pm                -              Arrive back @ Milton HS / Unload

Saturday, March 8 (Concert Band)
10:30 am              -              Concert Band meets for final run-through
11:15 am              -              Load truck & buses
11:30 am              -              Depart for Ft. Walton Beach HS (in uniform bottoms)
12:45 pm              -              Arrive at Ft. Walton Beach HS
1:30 pm                -              Warm-Up
2:00 pm                -              FBA DISTRICT 1 CONCERT MPA PERFORMANCE
2:30 pm                -              Sightreading
3:00 pm                -              Load Truck
3:15 pm                -              Depart for Milton HS
4:30 pm                -              Arrive back at Milton HS

Saturday, March 8 (Symphonic Band)
3:45 pm                -              Symphonic Band meets for final run-through
4:30 pm                -              Load truck & buses
4:45 pm                -              Depart for Ft. Walton Beach HS (in uniform bottoms)
6:00 pm                -              Arrive at Ft. Walton Beach HS
6:30 pm                -              Warm-Up
7:00 pm                -              FBA DISTRICT 1 CONCERT MPA PERFORMANCE

7:30 pm                -              Sightreading

8:00 pm                -              Load truck

8:30 pm                -              Depart for Milton HS

9:45 pm                -              Arrive back @ Milton HS / Unload

The MHS Band will be in performance on Tuesday, February 25th at 6:30pm in the Milton High Auditorium.  This is a completely FREE concert. Everyone is invited to hear these three wonderful groups!.  The Varsity band will be performing first, immediately followed by the Concert band, then concluding with the Symphonic band. Each band will play three pieces.  Mr. Neal McLeod from Gulf Breeze High School and Mr. Joe Hooten, retired band director from Tate High School, will adjudicate each band and give immediate feedback at the end of each performance.  Please come one out and support these students' hard work this years! 

The MHS Band was well represented at this year's solo and ensemble MPA. Our students earned 5 superior ratings and 2 excellent ratings. Very proud of:

Courtney Martin - Superior
Caleb Barlow - Superior
Joseph Herring - Superior
Lauren Schofield - Superior
Seth Barlow - Superior
Tiffany Broome - Excellent x's 2
Wesley Patterson - Excellent

Ahoy Thar Maties! This is just a reminder that the cruise trip meeting is tonight at 6:30 in the band hall.  You will got loads of information at this meeting so please make plans to attend! Thank you very much! 

USM All-South Honor Band

Very proud of our students that participated in the 2014 Southern Miss All-South Honor Band. There were three bands with three wonderful clinicians. This ends the 2013 - 2014 honor band circuit lol!

"Candide - Live on Broadway" Click Here There are 12 parts total. Enjoy!

The tupperware fundraiser will now be due on Friday. Mrs. Rose will be in all day to take orders. These must be turned in by 3:15 on Friday. We will not be able to take any late orders as we will be turning these orders in at the end of the day Friday.

The Troy SEUS trip is still a go! We will meet at 4:30pm at the band room. We should be leaving by 4:45pm for troy. Thursday will be considered a "travel day" according to the folks at the University. We will check in to the hotel, eat dinner, then go to back to the hotel. Auditions for everybody will begin at 8am Friday morning. You can see the rest of the modified schedule on the Troy website.

Troy Honor Band Student: we are waiting for more information from our school district and troy honor band leaders. We have been told that troy is changing the schedule and auditions are currently scheduled for 8 am on Friday morning...Although they have had some schools that have already backed out. We'll give you more information today as it becomes available.  I can definitely tell you that we won't be leaving early tomorrow morning...possibly tomorrow evening...but we will see. safety is our top priority!