Coming Up This Week:
Thursday 2/23/2023 - JB Rehearsal 7:57-8:40am, WG Rehearsal - 5:30pm-9pm (@ KIS), WP Rehearsal 6pm-9pm
Friday 2/24/2023 - JB San Joaquin Valley Jazz Festival 12:45-5:30pm, Percussion Ensemble w/ Mr. Malatesta 3:30-5:30pm
Saturday 2/25/2023 - WP Rehearsal 9am-noon
Monday 2/27/2023 - WP Rehearsal 3:30pm-5:30pm, JB Rehearsal 5:30pm-7:30pm
Tuesday 2/28/2023 - WG Rehearsal - 5:30pm-9pm, CB/SB/WS/SO/CO Pre Festival Concert 6:30pm
Wednesday 3/1/2023 - JB Rehearsal 7:57-8:40am, WP Rehearsal 3:30pm-6pm
Thursday 3/2/2023 - CB/SB/WS/SO/CO San Joaquin Delta College 7am-9pm
Friday 3/3/2023 - WP/WG SJVCGPR 5:30pm
Saturday 3/4/2023 - “March 4 Music” Fundraiser 6pm Fort Washington Country Club
Next Week(s):
Monday 3/6/2023 - JB Rehearsal 5:30pm-7:30pm
Tuesday 3/7/2023 - WG Rehearsal - 5:30pm-9pm, WP Rehearsal 6pm-9pm
Wednesday 3/8/2023 - Parent Committee Meeting 7pm @CW Band room
Thursday 3/9/2023 - CO/SO CUSD Orchestra Festival - SO: 8:30am - 1:10pm, CO: 11:45am - 5:30pm
Friday 3/10/2023 - Percussion Ensemble w/ Mr. Malatesta 3:30-5:30pm
Saturday 3/11/2023 - WP Rehearsal 9am-5pm
Pre-Festival Concert Tuesday 2/28
Please consider joining our students and special guests this Tuesday 2/28 starting at 6:30pm at the CUSD PAC. We will be joined by a special guest group - The Bulldog Brass from University of Redlands, who will open our concert. After the conclusion of their performance our band and orchestra ensembles will perform the sets of music they have been preparing for the current festival season. This is a great opportunity to hear all of our instrumentalists perform prior to their Delta College trip on Thursday. Please join us!
SJVCGPR Show #3 Volunteers Needed - Friday 3/3
Clovis West Instrumental Music is co-hosting the SJVCGPR (San Joaquin Valley Color Guard and Percussion Review) competition on Friday March 3 at Clovis East High School. As a co-host, we provide volunteers to help the event run smoothly and for this we share in the profits. This is a very profitable fundraiser for our entire instrumental music program.
At this competition, we are in charge of staffing the gym during the percussion portion of the event. Adult and student volunteers are needed. No skills are required, and this is a great way for you to get involved and meet some new people while experiencing another area of our instrumental music program that you might not be familiar with. Bonus - every volunteer receives a free entrance pass to check out the performances.
Volunteer opportunities include ticket and merchandise sales, staffing entrance and exit doors, and assisting with spectator traffic flow. Since the funds raised from hosting these events benefit the entire CW Instrumental Music program, we strongly encourage everyone to participate – band families, orchestra families, jazz band families, and of course, percussion and color guard families.
“March 4 Music” Fundraiser: Saturday March 4, 2023
This special event will be held on Saturday, March 4, 2023 at Fort Washington Country Club for guests ages 21+. This fun evening will include dinner, no-host cocktails, as well as live and silent auctions. All proceeds benefit the Clovis West Instrumental Music Program and our amazing student musicians!
Purchase Tickets, Reserve a Table, or Sign up to Sponsor the Event via the online store, or by returning the form to the band room office.
Online store: http://cloviswest.cwaim.org/store/march-4-music-event-tickets-sponsorships
Parent Ticket or Sponsorship form.
Auction Items Needed for “March 4 Music” Fundraiser
One of the ways we are planning to raise funds at “March 4 Music” is to hold both silent and live auctions at the event. We hope to find 75-100 items valued at $30 or more for the silent auction, and we hope to find 5 or more items valued at $750 or more for the live auction. We hope you can donate items, or approach local businesses to donate items or services to be auctioned off!
If you are able to donate auction items, please fill out the Google Form linked below as soon as possible! We will collect the pledged items a few days before the March 4th event.
Sign up to donate auction items: https://forms.gle/AnFHXHyY2xu6vUus8
See the list of responses: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1FXClO6dU79Bw0R8MFT16hfgtyMLhOzIDoNa-tOfNe4s/edit?usp=sharing
Delta College March 2nd
Trip letters will be distributed Wednesday and Thursday for our Delta College trip 3/2/2023. Please return this form as soon as possible. Unfortunately there is a quick turnaround time on this particular form. You also can download / print the form by visiting this link Delta College Trip Letter 2023.
Buy Clovis West Coffee!
We’ve partnered with the coffee roaster “Devocion” to create a coffee blend called “It’s a Grind,” inspired by the 2023 Clovis West Winter Percussion show of the same name! Each bag sold helps to financially support the Instrumental Music program at CW. Order online and bags of coffee will be shipped directly to your door!
More info: http://cloviswest.cwaim.org/its-a-grind
Order here: https://www.devocion.com/products/its-a-grind-clovis-west-coffee-blend
Chocolate Bar Fundraiser Still Active!
There are still multiple chocolate bar boxes available to check out and sell! Each box can be sold for $60 ($1 per chocolate bar). For each box sold, $15 will be allocated toward trip credit.
June 10th Disneyland Trip
Tomorrow is the final day to register for our Disneyland Trip. If you / your student is interested in attending they must register ASAP. We also still need chaperones for this trip - if you are interested in paying the trip cost and joining us and have not yet been contacted by a director, please let us know of your interest by emailing cloviswestmusic@gmail.com.
We are excited to go to Disneyland on Saturday, June 10, 2023! This trip will be the kickoff to the 2023-2024 school year and is a very magical day for our entire program. Because this is the first trip of the coming school year, only current program students who are officially enrolled in band, orchestra, or color guard at Kastner or Clovis West as 8th-12th graders for the 2023-2023 school year are eligible to attend. Graduating Clovis West Instrumental Music seniors may also attend. If you are not currently signed up, it’s not too late to change your mind! If you do wish to change your schedule for the coming school year, please speak with your counselor/learning director.
Registration for this trip is currently open but being finalized on Friday February 24th at the end of the school day. If you or your student are planning to attend, register NOW to hopefully make it on a full bus. Please register online ASAP and plan to pay the $200 trip fee by April 14th to avoid a processing delay that may prevent you from being on a full bus. We understand this amount is high, and we will be offering fundraising options to help defer this cost, the total of which is due April 14th. Please only register if you plan to make the full payment through one of the means available and described below.
Digital Online Form: bit.ly/CWKISDisney2023
Next Monthly General Parent Meeting - Wednesday 3/8 @ 7pm
We would like to invite all interested parents to our next general parent meeting which will occur every second Wednesday of the month. The next one is on Wednesday 2/1/2023. We will hear from committees on reports of the goings on of the past month, look ahead at upcoming events and opportunities, and have general discussion about ways that we can support the students of the Clovis West Instrumental Music Program. Please join us Wednesday 3/8 at 7pm!
CWAIM Store
You can now purchase T-shirts and other apparel online at http://cloviswest.cwaim.org/store! Show your support for CW Instrumental Music!
CWAIM Handbook
Our 2022-2023 handbook is available online by visiting bit.ly/CWAIMHandbook2022. Please visit this link and read up on our expectations, policies, and procedures.
Amazon Wishlist
Our Wish List is back and we need your help! We will update this list periodically with things that the program needs and can use. If you see an item that you would like to purchase for the program, please do! After the order is placed, it will be automatically shipped to Clovis West and will be put straight to good use improving the music experience for our students! We have recently added many items. We do want to give a big thank you to all the families who have supported us already by purchasing items on our list!
Please view our wish list at http://a.co/0Ydb9Dd
CWAIM Wishlist
In addition to the Amazon wish list above, we have a shared list of other items we intend to purchase in the future. If you would like to support us by purchasing an instrument or other item best not purchased through amazon, please check our list at:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1A_wv1mhzLOeS9KhnGLv-MZQ3lJgsBFuYsEEtlNs0Lvg/edit?usp=sharing
CB: Concert Band • CG: Colorguard • CO: Chamber Orchestra • JB: Jazz Band • MB: Marching Band • WP: Winter Percussion • SO: String Orchestra • SB: Symphonic Band • WS: Wind Symphony