Muscle Shoals High School Band

Thank you to all parents, students, and boosters for a fantastic first game and halftime performance. We need your help to make this all possible! We have our first away game this Thursday at Florence and are looking to clean and add to Parts 1 and 2 this week.

Monday, August 25th: 4th Block Rehearsal

Tuesday, August 26th: 4th Block Rehearsal, Tuesday Night Rehearsal 5:30-8

Wednesday, August 27th: 4th Block Rehearsal, Majorette Sectional

Thursday, August 28th: 4th Block Rehearsal, @ Florence (schedule below)

Friday, August 29th: 4th Block Rehearsal

We are so close to $20k with 18 days left in our SnapRaise campaign! The last $10k is always the hardest. We need to reach our $30,000 goal in order to completely finance our school year, and we need YOUR help! Please share our campaign page on your social media accounts, and ask others to share, even if they can't donate. After buying new uniforms, and having the unexpected event of our band shed getting destroyed by the tornadoes, we truly need all the help we can get. Please share! https://raise.snap.app/donate/muscle-shoals-band-program-2025

Our Band Apparel Shop is live. Gear up, and support the band! https://theprintingcoshoals.com/collections/mshsband

This is the 60th Anniversary of the Muscle Shoals High School Band! You can order a beautiful commemorative ornament by clicking this link or scanning the QR code. Thank you for supporting the Muscle Shoals High School Band Program. https://www.myschoolbucks.com/ver2/stores/catalog/getproduct?clientKey=ZZQE2740XV6VW7D&productKey=ZZ68239HU1CJNZ8&isStorePreview=false&fbclid=IwY2xjawMXPc5leHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFZZE9pQzU2SGFISVZZdUQ1AR5Bden7nnTEBwyjIPuRUM-eqkLIy9xNbE73WAhgqYdDj0iTI4G3ggak2zDVyA_aem_ngmW2lTH0Yy26d886cPTJQ

Parents, please help to get out volunteer spots filled. Every family is responsible for volunteering 3 times in the year, with at least one being int he concession stand. We need to get our concessions spots filled. No experience needed to sling some nachos. WE NEED YOU. Click the buttons below to sign up and view relevant details.

Band Fees are PAST DUE (auxiliaries have a payment plan schedule)! If you need longer, please let me know. It is important that we get these fees in at the beginning of the school year, as we are already paying our drill writers, music arrangers, designers, band shoes, etc.

Marching Band Fees: $375
Concert Band Fees: $175 (second semester-due in January)

Band Shoes: $60

School-Owned Instrument Rental Fee: $50

*Auxiliary fees differ from person-to-person depending on apparel items ordered.

Our bookkeeping software is CutTime. You will receive a message on the 1st of every month with your account balance. NO PAYMENTS CAN BE MADE ON CUTTIME. All payments must be made on MySchoolBucks (links below).

Band Fees will not show up in your MySchoolBucks, like the rest of your school fees. The only place you can view your balance is on CutTime. If another parent needs to be added to a student's CutTime account please let me know.

I can't stress how important it is that we go ahead and get our fees in. We do not get any financial assistance and our budget is based around our fees and fundraisers only. Please help us by getting your fees paid as soon as possible.

MySchoolBucks Links:
Band Fees Paid in Full (itemized)

Band Fees Paid in Payments/Miscellaneous/Auxiliary Payments

Dress: TBD: Depending on weather, we will either wear our new show shirts with black shorts, or we will wear our new uniforms. I will announce later this week what we will wear, so please be prepared for either option.

4:45 Load Truck/Trailer

5:30 Call Time (Please eat dinner before you arrive)
5:45 Load Buses/Depart for Braly Stadium
6:00 Arrive at Braly/Unload

7:00 Kick off

~8:15 Halftime performance

~9:30 Game Ends

~9:45 Load Trucks/Buses

~10:00 Depart for MSHS

~10:15 Arrive at MSHS/Unload

Students are allowed to have a Parent/Guardian sign them out at the buses after the game. Students must be signed out by a parent with a director before they leave. Students are expected to still unload their instruments and properly store their uniforms, even if they check out.

Joining the MSHS Band on the Band App is the best way to communicate and get info about everything happening in the MSHS Band. All students are required to be a member of the band app. Additionally, please turn on the notifications for the Band App. Click the green band logo to join!

If any rehearsal will be missed during the school year, including during the school day. You should always fill out the absence form. Click the icon to complete an absence form.

The Muscle Shoals Band lives by the phrase, "If you're on time, you're late. If you're early, you're on time." Because the nature of what we do involves moving locations and getting equipment ready, it is necessary for all students to arrive or be dropped by no later than 10-15 minutes before rehearsal is set to begin. That means if rehearsal begins at 5, students will have to go to the band room, get out their instruments, dot books, music, music stands, etc. and move to wherever we are rehearsing before we begin. If they arrive at 4:58, they will not be prepared to begin on time. Parents, please keep this in mind when thinking about drop off times.

Once school begins, we will rehearse the following times during the week.

Every day 4th Block (1:35-3:15)

Tuesday Evenings 5:30-8

Wednesdays Afterschool (auxiliary sectionals) 3:30-4:30

Thursday Afterschool 3:30-4:30