Week at a Glance

• Monday: Leadership Clinic• 3:45pm – 6:00pm
• Tuesday: Leadership Clinic • 3:45pm – 6:00pm
• Wednesday: Leadership Clinic • 3:45pm – 6:00pm
• Thursday: Leadership Clinic • 3:45pm – 6:00pm
• Friday: Brick of Sound by Madison Pate: Book Signing 9:15AM
• Saturday: Trojan Band March 5K and Fun Run (Volunteer Here)

Leadership Auditions

In person leadership audition clinics start today. Drum Majors are already a week in and we look forward to reviewing key leadership lessons with all of our aspiring leaders.

• All Leadership Including Drum Majors: March 29 – April 1 • 3:45pm – 6:00pm
• 2021 Leadership Audition Classroom Code: 5kurlck

Winter Guard

Our Silver and Gold Winter Guards competed on Saturday in SAPA Championships hosted at the Buford City Arena. Both teams had their best performances of the season and were well received by the crowds. The winter season is such an important time for our color guard students as they continue developing skills with equipment and continued focus on movement. Auditions for our fall color guard are scheduled for April 26, 27, 29, and 30.

Brick of Sound 2 by Madison Pate

Madison Pate, one of our Trojan Band members and an accomplished author has just published her second book, Brick of Sound 2. This book is the sequel to her first book, Brick of Sound. The book takes readers on a journey through a world filled with magical powers, villains, monsters, and more, as a group of youth band together to stop a great evil from wreaking havoc and destruction upon their world. This is a fun book for children and adventurous parents alike. Although the book is available in book stores and on Amazon.com we will be celebrating Madison’s success with a book signing ceremony on Friday April 2, 2021 in the Media Center.

The official ceremony will take place at 9:15AM during first block band class in the CHS Media Center. Students should report to class as normal for announcements and attendance. Weather permitting, we will have a 2nd ceremony for our 2nd block band students right outside the media center (due to capacity limitations). Following each ceremony, students will have the opportunity to purchase the book and receive an autograph from Madison if they wish. A display will be available in the media center the week following Spring Break as well.

Copies of both books will be available for the following prices: Brick of Sound, $10 and Brick of Sound 2, $15.

“This book by Madison Pate, (15-years-old), is the sequel to the first book, Brick of Sound. This book will take readers on a journey through a world filled with magical powers, villains, monsters, and more, as a group of youth band together to stop a great evil from wreaking havoc and destruction upon their world. This is a fun book for children and adventurous parents alike.”

Trojan Band March 5K and Fun Run

You can help us to advertise by sharing this information on your social media. Do you mind adding this Facebook frame to your profile picture to help us to advertise: www.facebook.com/profilepicframes/?selected_overlay_id=179724137166906

We need more volunteers. Please sign up to help out: Volunteer for the 5K. Also, it would be a huge help if you would please continue to share the following information on all of your social media accounts:

To sign up for the 5K as a participant or to purchase a shirt: https://runsignup.com/Race/Ga/trojanband5k?remMeAttempt=

Share the QR Code, Share the Link, and Share the Flyer. Thank you so much for helping make sure that our community is aware of this wonderful opportunity to support our students!

Band BBQ • May 6, 2021

BBQ packets will be coming home soon! We ask each student to sell their allotted tickets. This will include BBQ tickets as well as tickets for the raffle this day. Tickets are $8 for a single or $12 for a double. The single ticket is for a BBQ sandwich, chips, dessert and drink. The double includes two sandwiches. Each packet includes 25 single tickets and 5 double tickets.

Each packet will also include 20 raffle tickets. The raffle will be held immediately after the performance at the end of the event. We are asking our booster members if any of you would be interested in donating a grill for one of our main prizes? If so, contact Jennifer Carden at jenn.chsbandbooster@gmail.com. The raffle tickets will be sold for $5 each.

We are also looking for volunteers for this event. Please sign up (Volunteer for the BBQ) as soon as you can.

This year we will host the inaugural CHS Scramble, Golf Tournament at Oak Mountain Golf Course on Friday, June 4th. Our first planning meeting is Tuesday, March 30th, at 6:30 pm in the band room. If you are interested in being involved with the tournament, please come to this meeting. Also, please sign up to Volunteer for the Golf Tournament as soon as possible and someone will contact you with more information.

Upcoming Dates

Below is a list of some upcoming events, please refer to our calendar on chstrojanband.com for a more complete overview of our upcoming rehearsals and events.

• 3.30 CHS Scramble Planning Meeting
• 4.3 Trojan Band March 5K and Fun Run
• 4.5 – 9 Spring Break – No School
• 4.15 CHS Honors Night
• 4.16 Senior Breakfast
• 4.17 Prom
• 4.20 ****DATE CHANGE***** Since Honor’s Night is on 4/15 (when auditions were originally scheduled) we have moved auditions to April 20.
• 4.26 ****DATE CHANGE AGAIN**** I know that we announced a date change, but it has changed back. We have received approval to host the Band Banquet at the MAC with all students present. The event will be an awards ceremony only without food and will start at 7:00PM. Masks are required and we ask that parents socially distance throughout the auditorium.
• 4.26, 4.27, 4.29, 4.30 Fall Color Guard Audition Camp

Do you ever order from Amazon? If you do, you can order the same items on AmazonSmile for the same amount and a percentage of the purchase will be donated to the Carrollton Trojan Band Boosters.

The AmazonSmile program is a give-back program where the online retailer, Amazon, donates 0.5% of the price of eligible purchases to the Carrollton Trojan Band Boosters to support our normal operations and efforts in supporting our band. This really is a effortless way to support our band without it costing you anything extra. If you normally shop online with Amazon, you simply designate the Carrollton High School Band Boosters Club Inc. as the charitable organization that you’d like to support and that’s it… Your account will automatically be linked and then whenever you make your normal eligible purchases the band will benefit. It can’t get much easier than that to help!

To link your account, follow this link: http://smile.amazon.com/ch/58-1572206  and sign in to your Amazon account. That’s all there is to it! Share this link with your family, friends, and co-workers too so they can support us as well. If you want to take your support to the next level, share this opportunity with your Facebook Friends by simply clicking here: https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=http://smile.amazon.com/ch/58-1572206   or on share on your Twitter feed by clicking here: http://bit.ly/1mt64cX

After linking your account, whenever your shopping on Amazon, make sure your shopping at smile.amazon.com and then look for the AmazonSmile logo in the upper left-hand corner of your browser window. That’s your assurance that your purchases will benefit our program! NOTE: AmazonSmile does not work with the Amazon App for mobile devices. If you commonly shop from your smartphone or mobile device you will want to place the items you want in your shopping cart via the app but then complete your checkout in a traditional web browser on your desktop, laptop, smartphone, or mobile device in order for the AmazonSmile donation to be made.

There is no time limit on this program so we encourage you to continue to take advantage of this opportunity year-round.

If you have any specific questions you can contact the Band Boosters at: chstrojanbands@gmail.com.

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