Vallivue Bands and Marching Corps

🎶🍜 ONE LAST CHANCE TO SUPPORT VALLIVUE HIGH SCHOOL BAND THIS SCHOOL YEAR! 🍜🎶
Skip the cooking next Wednesday and make dinner count! 🙌
Join us for our FINAL fundraiser of the school year with Panda Express — and help support our amazing Vallivue High School Band students! 🎺🥁🎷
📅 Wednesday, May 13 — ALL DAY
📱 Order online or in the Panda Express app
💻 Use fundraiser code: 9010798
✨ 28% of your order goes directly to the band!
The best part? This fundraiser works ANYWHERE in the United States, so friends, family, alumni, and supporters across the country can participate! ❤️
Every order helps support our students, instruments, travel, performances, and future opportunities. Thank you for always showing up for our band family! 🎶
👉 Please LIKE, SHARE, and TAG your friends to help us make this final fundraiser a huge success! 😁🎉

Our annual Hot Cakes and Cool Jazz fundraiser is just one week away. Come enjoy pancakes and sausage, bid on some great silent auction items, and listen to our middle school and high school jazz bands perform. We are raffling a $600 pit boss smoker - tickets are just $1 each. Admission and raffle tickets can be purchased through the QR code on the flyer. Will we see you there?

🍜 Making meal plans this week? 🍜
Consider supporting the Vallivue High School Band by participating in our Panda Express Virtual Fundraiser!

📅 Wednesday, January 14th (ALL DAY)
📱 Order online or through the Panda Express app
💻 Use code 9010796

✨ 28% of every order placed with the code goes directly to the band!
Even better—this fundraiser works anywhere in the United States, so friends and family near and far can join in and support our students.

Thank you for your support, and please share this post to help spread the word! 😁🎶

We are SO CLOSE TO $4,000! If we hit $4,000 by the end of the day when wraps up, I will raffle off a $100 Visa Gift Card. Anyone who donates at least $20 is eligible.

Help us reach this milestone!

Donate here: https://www.idahogives.org/organizations/vallivue-education-association-5131c180-660f-4c2c-983d-91fbece7f073

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Who's ready for the annual Hot Cakes and Cool Jazz fundraiser?! April 26th 5:00pm-8:30pm. Come enjoy a pancakes and sausage dinner while listening to some fantastic jazz music performed by our Vallivue student jazz bands. We are raffling a smoker grill and have several amazing items to bid on in our silent auction. Come support the Vallivue High School and Middle School band programs and help us raise funds towards the purchase of a new drum line. Tickets are $5 when purchased before the event, and $7 at the door. Scan the QR code on the flyer to purchase online.

There are more than 20,000 high-school band programs in America, some with as many as 400 members. “Over the past 30 years, their shows have evolved into spectacles that John Philip Sousa couldn’t have imagined,” Burkhard Bilger writes. The top bands have dozens of staff, budgets of hundreds of thousands of dollars, and fleets of trucks for their instruments, props, costumes, and sound systems. “They don’t just parade up and down the field playing fight songs. They flow across it in shifting tableaux, with elaborate themes and spandex-clad dancers, playing full symphonic scores.”

Students rehearse intensely, not to play well at football games, but to prepare for a series of fiercely competitive marching-band contests in the fall, culminating in the Grand National Championships, in Indianapolis. The area is “the capital of the new marching-band culture,” Bilger writes, and has two of the country’s most successful marching band programs: the Avon High School Marching Black and Gold and the Carmel High School Marching Greyhounds.

For last year’s nationals, the Carmel marching band performed Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra. “The concerto was hard for any high-school band to tackle, yet the Carmel musicians had to play it from memory, while marching, dancing, and crab-stepping sideways across the field,” Bilger writes. “It’s hard to think of another group activity, past or present, of such complexity.” For our 100th Anniversary Issue, Bilger follows three bands to the national championships and reports on the competitive marching-band circuit. Read more: https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/20Utp5

Come watch the marching corps perform their show for fun and free tonight at 7:30pm in the Vallivue Stadium at the high school. (They haven't had a chance to perform yet since the first home game was cancelled.)

And if you would like to help the band regain some financial loss from the first home game and grill being cancelled, bring your wallet for a fun 50/50 raffle!

100° isn't slowing us down. Putting in the work on the last day of band camp week.