Arrive/Doors Open - 7:30 a.m.

Practice Begin on Football Field - 8:00 a.m.

• Please be prompt. Be ready for practice on the football field.

Load Up Trailers/Lunch - 10:20 a.m.

Attendance in Band Room - 11:40 a.m.

Depart Garrett - 11:45 a.m.

Arrive, Unload Trailer - 12:30 p.m.

• We don’t have as much cushion time as usual. We’ll need lots of help unloading!

Change into Uniforms - 12:40 p.m.

Line Up in Block - 1:40 p.m.

Transit - 1:45 p.m.

Physical Warm-Up - 1:50 - 2:05 p.m.

Transit - 2:05 p.m.

Music Warm-Up - 2:10 - 2:40 p.m.

Transit - 2:40 p.m.

Stage - 2:57 p.m.

Performance - 3:00 p.m.

• Afterwards, change and load equipment.

• Watch other bands - awards will be after Class A and Homestead’s Exhibition. You’ll be able to find schedule on INbands.com when its been posted.

Awards - 6:00 p.m.

Depart Homestead HS - 6:30 p.m.

Arrive at GHS, Unload Trailers - 7:30 p.m.

• Practice - 3:30 - 4:40

• 5:00 - Tailgating in the Band Room

• 6:20 - Uniform/Attendance Check

• 6:30 - Head to Track, Pre-game

• Halftime performance, dismissal afterwards

Rehearsal times are subject to change - and likely to shorten.

• Change into Uniforms - 3:30

  • Immediately after changing, head to track for photos by caboose. Full group photo in stands.

• 5:50 - Line Up for Parade

• 6:00 - Parade

• 6:30 - Head to Track, Pre-game

• Halftime performance, dismissal afterwards

7:40 - Doors Open

8:00 - 12:30 - Practice

12:30 - 1:00 - Lunch

• Pack a Lunch, please. No leaving school grounds.

1:00 - Load-Up Trailer with Instruments & Equipment

2:35 - Attendance in Band Room & Load Bus

• Instrument cases go under the bus and uniforms go on the bus with you in your seat.

2:45 - Depart GHS

3:10 - Arrive at Carroll High School

3:30 - Change into Uniforms

4:30 - Line Up in Transit Block

4:36 - Report

4:39 - Transit

4:45 - 5:00 - Physical Warm-Up

5:00 - Transit

5:05 - 5:35 - Music Warm-Up

5:35 - Transit

5:55 - Performance

6:10 - Back to Buses - change

• Afterwards, go to the student section to watch other groups perform. Concessions are available, too. The student section is located in the visitor section of the stands. Sit as a band and cheer together!

10:15 - Awards

• Drum Majors report for awards at 9:30

• The WHOLE BAND must be present together for awards. You must all sit together as a group.

~10:45 - Depart Carroll High School

• Students will meet with Mr. Hettinger briefly post-awards and head back to GHS directly afterwards. Equipment should be put away in the band room upon arrival. Students are dismissed after their things are packed up.

11:00 - Arrive at GHS

7:40 a.m. - Doors Open

8:00 - 11:00 - Practice on Football Field

11:30 - Lunch & Load

1:00 - Attendance in Band Room

• You’ll be taking uniforms and instruments onto the bus!

1:05 - Depart GHS

1:20 - Arrive at Dekalb High School

1:50 - Change into Uniforms

2:50 - Line Up in Transit Block

2:55 - Transit

3:00 - 3:15 - Physical Warm-Up

3:15 - Transit

3:20 - 3:50 - Music Warm-Up

3:50 - Transit

3:55 - Stage

4:00 - Performance

4:15 - Awards

• After our performance, we will immediately head to the fence and watch awards next to the visitor’s stands. We will pack up and change after awards.

~5:00 - Depart Dekalb High School

• Students will meet with Mr. Hettinger briefly post-awards and head back to GHS directly afterwards. Equipment should be put away in the band room upon arrival. Students are dismissed after their things are packed up.

5:20 - Arrive at GHS

8:00 - Doors Open/Arrival Needed

8:30 - 1:30 - Rehearsal Time in Football Stadium

• We’ll have a 30-40 minute lunch break, with at least one other 10 minute break in this chunk

  • Pack a Lunch, please. No leaving school grounds. It can be brought to you if needed

1:30 - Load Trailers, Rest, Get Ready for Contest

• Wind instruments and flags will go under the bus. Uniforms will go on the bus with you.

3:00 - Attendance in Band Room

3:10 - Depart GHS

4:25 - Arrive at Bluffton High School

4:55 - Change into Uniforms

5:55 - Line Up in Transit Block

6:02 - Transit

6:07 - 6:22 - Physical Warm-Up

6:22 - Transit

6:27 - 6:57 - Music Warm-Up

6:57 - Transit

7:12 - Stage

7:15 - Performance

7:30 - Back to Buses - change

• Afterwards, go to the student section to watch other groups perform. You will be able to watch Class B and Class A.

10:00 - Awards

• The WHOLE BAND must be present together for awards. You must all sit together as a group!

~10:30 - Depart Bluffton High School

• Mr. H will talk with students right after awards and send them on the bus as quickly as possible.

~11:30 - Arrive at GHS

• Watch the BAND app for arrival times posted by parents.

• Practice - 3:30 - 4:40

• 5:00 - Tailgating in the Band Room

• 6:20 - Uniform/Attendance Check

• 6:30 - Head to Track, Pre-game

• Halftime performance, dismissal afterwards

• Practice - 3:30 - 4:40

• 5:00 - Tailgating in the Band Room

• 6:20 - Uniform/Attendance Check

• 6:30 - Head to Track, Pre-game

• Halftime performance, dismissal afterwards

We will present our annual parent preview performance at the practice lot!

You are welcome to come onto the field and watch students perform. We will do 2 run-throughs, and let the students go. This is the demonstration of everything they have learned from June through band camp! Please park outside the PAC, near Door 10.