This Week in DHS Band and Guard

Monday, September 25th

• Color Guard Pictures during 1st period
• Full Band Rehearsal (Band and Color Guard), 5-7:30 pm (Football players attend all of this rehearsal)
• TMF Webstore closes at midnight

Tuesday, September 26th

• No rehearsal - attend tutoring and catch up on any classwork

Wednesday, September 27th

• Homecoming parade and pep rally after school, parent pickup at Paul Davis park @ 7:30 pm

Thursday, September 28th

• Call Time for Pep Rally, 8:30 am (wear jeans and band polo)
• Full Band Rehearsal (Band and Color Guard), 5-7:30 pm

Friday, September 29th

• Comal County Fair Parade and corral performance
• Football v. Devine (Homecoming), Wolf Stadium, 7:30 pm (As perform show at halftime)
  

Students who fail a class on the 6-week progress report will not be eligible to attend football games and marching competitions starting with the Taylor away game on October 6th.

This week is the last week of the 6 week grading period.

Timeline for eligibility

• October 2 - 6 weeks grade check, official district progress reports generated. All students will keep or lose eligibility based on these grades.
• October 6 - Students failing at the 6-week grade check become ineligible at the end of the school day.

Please do not hesitate to ask if you have question about eligibility.

We will be marching in the Homecoming Parade and playing at the Community Pep Rally at Paul Davis Park on Wednesday, September 27th. We will be wearing our summer uniforms.

Students need to stay after school to take a bus to where the parade begins. All students will need to be picked up from Paul Davis Park at 7:30 pm. Wind players will need to be taken back to DHS to put their instrument away.

We will be wearing our summer uniforms for the Comal Country Fair Parade. Students need to wear their summer uniform when they arrive on Friday at 8:30 am. Students may wear a hydration backpack for the parade.

Summer Uniform

• Band - Grey band polo, black dress shorts, black belt, black no show black socks, marching shoes, and band ball cap. No makeup or jewelry.
• Color guard - Black dance capris, CG shirt, black no show socks, and black athletic shoes

Schedule for the day

• 8:30 am Call time in summer uniform @ DHS

• 9:00 am Depart for DMS to pick up 8th grade band students from DMS
  

• 10:10 am Arrive at staging area
  

• 10:40 am Approximate parade step off

• 11:30 am Load busses and depart for DMS

• 12:00 pm Eat pizza in DMS cafeteria

• 1:30 pm Depart DMS for Fair Grounds for Corral Performance

• 2:45 pm Corral performance at fair grounds
  

• 4:00 pm Approximate arrival time at DHS

Parents, please consider signing up to volunteer as a chaperone or lead crew if you have already completed the CISD background check here. The sign up to volunteer is here.

Students may wear one mum to the football game and pep rally on Friday. They must take their mum off for our halftime performance.

Students need to bring these items with them to school on Friday.

-Wear summer uniform for the parade and corral performance

-Hydration backpack

-Grey Wolf Band water bottle filled with ice and water

-Formal Uniform Parts for game

• Band - long black socks, marching shoes, compression shirt and shorts, gloves
• Color guard - show hair and makeup, body tights, long black socks, show undergarments, and guard shoes

-Flip folder with this music inside

Schedule for the day

• 4:00 pm - Run through
  
• 4:45 pm - Move equipment to stadium
• 5:00 pm - Feed the band and change into uniform
• 6:20 pm - Inspection
• 6:35 pm - March to the stadium
• 7:00 pm - Homecoming festivities
• 7:10 pm - Pre-Game ceremonies
• 7:30 pm - Game starts (perform show at halftime)
• 10:45 pm - Parent Pickup

Below are the results for the poll regarding the Lampasas away game on October 20th and the UIL Area Competition on October 21st. The band will not be attending the Lampasas game on October 20th. We will have a rehearsal Friday afternoon, load the truck, then meet at the school early the next morning to travel to Calallen HS for the UIL Area Marching Competition. More details will be released soon.

We have received our performance times for the following contest.

October 7th - Comal Classic Marching Contest, Canyon HS, 12:30 pm performance

October 7th - Rocket Review was unable to schedule around the Comal Classic Marching Contest. We will not be attending this contest.

October 14th - Region 12 UIL Marching Contest, Heroes Stadium, 6:15 pm performance

October 21st - UIL Area Marching Contest, Calallen HS, performance between noon - 2 pm

We will be taking color guard pictures during class on Monday, September 25th in our costumes.

Color Guard students - please wear show make-up and hair down and styled.

If you click on the link it will take you straight to the online gallery for ordering.

https://www.samrobertsphotography.com/graduation/davenport_high_school/2023-24_dhs_galleries/2023-2024_davenport_color_guards/

If you chose to go directly to our web site to find the gallery you would go to

www.samrobertsphotography.com

then choose online ordering
then choose 2023-24 DHS

then choose your SPORT OR GROUP

If you have any questions, please contact our office.

The date has changed for the Comal ISD Marching Festival. The festival will be taking place on Monday, October 2nd, instead of Wednesday, October 4th. This event will still be at Pieper HS. Please mark your calendar.

Here are practice tracks for region band music. Happy practicing!

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/3c9r9a9pe3qp8i2/AACQEN3hC6ZXGk6zyE3P0jDoa?dl=0

Students, please make sure you sign up for the appropriate Google Classroom. Here are the codes.

• Color Guard - hh3vpyu

• Jazz Band - d4ivhhl

• Concert Band/Applied Music - ​​6fzjvcj

Students have been assigned one of the following roles in our 2023 marching production, "UP".

• Primary spot (A) with no shadow
• Primary spot (A) with an alternate (B shadow) they are sharing their spot with
• Alternate or shadow (B) who is shadowing someone who has the primary spot (A)

All students (As and Bs) will play in the stands as well as march on the field at all football games and play for the dance team.

Here is the performance schedule for our students that are sharing spots. Students assigned a primary spot will perform all marching contest and alternates assist with props and other technical aspects of the show. All students are essential to putting on the production and are required to be at all rehearsals and performances. Students sharing a spot take turns performing at football games. I made one adjustment to the schedule that breaks away from taking tuns to allow alternates the opportunity to perform at a home football game on October 13th.

Like all bands, we carry alternates so we have students to fill in holes for eligibility and injuries. Every year multiple alternates or B shadows are asked to fill in primary spots (A) in our show. We also need students to assist with props and other technical aspects of the show at marching contest. Every student is vital to producing an enjoyable and successful marching show at Davenport. One final note - alternates are trained to be completely confident in their ability to perform in a varsity spot when they are ready. Many programs do not have their alternates perform the show, and I am proud that we give all students an opportunity to perform the show multiple times, including at a home football game. We teach all students with the same effort and passion. We appreciate the efforts of our students and the support of our parents more than we can adequately express.

Color guard students, please bring in cash or a check for $55 to Davenort Band Boosters for the capris. You may also pay the $55 here using a credit card.

Seniors, please join the Senior remind group by texting @cea8979 to 81010

School Code: DavenportHSBand

For iPhones

1. Go into the Settings app
2. Touch "Accounts & Passwords"
3. On the Accounts & Passwords screen, touch "Add Account"
4. On the Add Account screen, touch "Other"
5. Under Calendars, touch "Add Subscribed Calendar"
6. For the Server value, enter the URL of the public calendar:
   https://www.charmsoffice.com/charms/calsync.asp?s=DavenportHSBand
7. Touch "Next" in the upper right corner.
8. It will verify the server then show a subscription page. Change the description if you like.
9. Touch "Save" to save the subscription

For Android Phones

To sync with Android devices, you will need to use your Google account and have a Google calendar created.

In your Google calendar on a real computer:

1. Under "Other Calendars" click the Add link.
2. Select "Add by URL"
3. Enter the following URL:
   https://www.charmsoffice.com/charms/calsync.asp?s=DavenportHSBand
4. Click "Add Calendar"
5. Google will begin to sync your calendar, and it will appear on the screen.
6. Click "Settings"
7. Change the long name of the new calendar to something you will remember such as "Charms Calendar"
8. Your phone should automatically be set to sync with your Google calendar.
9. On your phone: Click on "Calendar", then bring up the settings for the calendar. Click on Calendar Sync. You should see your google account listed already. Make sure Auto-Sync is checked.

Parents and students, please take a moment to join the appropriate groups by texting the code including the @ to 81010. You do not need to re-join if you were in the correct group last year.

Directors to Students/Parents

• Woodwinds - @99edfh to 81010
• Brass - @dhswolfb to 81010
• Percussion - @kdb2aa to 81010
• Color Guard - @dhswolfba to 81010

Here is the calendar for next year. Summer band times have been adjusted and a few dates have been added since June.

Please mark your calendars with these dates for marching contest next year.

• September 23- USBands Davenport (hosting), Davenport HS
• October 7 - Comal Classic Marching Festival, Canyon HS
• October 14 - UIL Region Marching Competition, Heroes Stadium, San Antonio
• October 21 - UIL Area Marching Competition, Calallen HS
• November 1 - UIL State Marching Contest, Alamodone
• November 4 - Brandeis Drumline Competition (drumline, drum majors, and soloist only)

Fee payments can be made at any time to Mr Keyes or online.

• Please consider paying with cash or a check to avoid the 4% plus $1 per transaction service charge for using a credit card. You may pay your booster fees online at this link. The instrument usage fee can be paid at this link.
  
• Payment plans are available upon request.
• The fair share fee ($300), marching shoes/color guard uniform items (various cost) will be paid to the booster (Check to Davenport Band Boosters) and the instrument usage fee ($80) will be paid to the school (Check to Davenport High School).

• October 6, Taylor Away Football Game
  
• October 7, Comal Classic Marching Competition
• October 13, Home Game vs. Canyon Lake
• October 14, UIL Region 12 Marching Contest
• October 21, UIL Area Marching Contest
  
• October 27, Home Game vs. Burnet (parent night)
• November 1, UIL State Marching Contest

Jeffrey Keyes

Director of Bands

Davenport HS

jeffrey.keyes@comalisd.org

Tyler McClendon

Associate Band Director

Davenport HS

tyler.mcclendon@comalisd.org

Alexis Dillon

Color Guard Director

Davenport HS

davenportguard@gmail.com

Kelsey Lien

Director of Bands

Danville MS

kelsey.lien@comalisd.org

Nichele Gonzales

Assistant Director of Bands

Danville MS

nichele.gonzales@comalisd.org

Email: jeffrey.keyes@comalisd.org
Website: http://www.davenportband.com/
Location: 23255 FM3009, San Antonio, TX, USA
Phone: (830) 837-7521
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/davenporthsband/
Twitter: @davenporthsband