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Post by Allohak on May 5, 2020 14:33:22 GMT -6
9 competitions is blowing my mind right now.
Does Homestead not have a Homecoming dance to plan around? No weekends off.
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Post by TeamIndiana on May 5, 2020 14:39:35 GMT -6
9 competitions is blowing my mind right now. Does Homestead not have a Homecoming dance to plan around? No weekends off. Minus swapping out their early NE Indiana competitions for Indy ones this season, this is a typical schedule for Homestead. To my knowledge, Homestead High School does not have a typical Homecoming dance like most other schools, so they do not have to plan around it. |
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Post by Allohak on May 5, 2020 17:04:05 GMT -6
9 competitions is blowing my mind right now. Does Homestead not have a Homecoming dance to plan around? No weekends off. Minus swapping out their early NE Indiana competitions for Indy ones this season, this is a typical schedule for Homestead. To my knowledge, Homestead High School does not have a typical Homecoming dance like most other schools, so they do not have to plan around it. How do they get a full show on the field without weekend rehearsals? We thought it was a lot when we went to 5 competitions in a season... |
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Post by TeamIndiana on May 5, 2020 17:25:27 GMT -6
Minus swapping out their early NE Indiana competitions for Indy ones this season, this is a typical schedule for Homestead. To my knowledge, Homestead High School does not have a typical Homecoming dance like most other schools, so they do not have to plan around it. How do they get a full show on the field without weekend rehearsals? We thought it was a lot when we went to 5 competitions in a season... Homestead has been known to roll out their full show by the first weekend of competitions. Of course the show is extremely bare-boned at the beginning and they add content as the season progresses. This year that could all change though with the new director and schedule changes. I would not be surprised if they roll out their shows similar to how Avon or Carmel do. Having the first couple parts of the show completed by the start of the competitive season and adding the others as the season progresses. |
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Post by OldSchoolTrumpet on May 5, 2020 17:36:09 GMT -6
Homestead had their 2020 kickoff (virtual) meeting last Thursday. They are moving forward with the season, with obvious changes to the summer schedule due to the K-12 shutdown that is currently taking placed. They are looking to hold precision/guard auditions the first week everything opens up. Once that date is announced, a revised summer schedule will be released. They also touched on the new Community Night that is being introduced this year (Saturday, September 19th). Think Avon or Carmel community band night.... it will include food, fun and Marching Band. They have also released their September schedule, and it has me excited! You can view their full 2020 season schedule below (as it stands now). - September 12th – Lawrence Central Invitational, Indianapolis, IN - September 19th – Rehearsal/Johnny Appleseed Festival & Community Night, HHS - September 26th – Fishers Invitational, Fishers, IN - October 3rd – Fall Festival of Bands, HHS - October 10th – ISSMA Scholastic Prelims/Open Class Invitational - October 17th – ISSMA Open Class A Regionals, Lafayette, IN - October 26th – BOA Indianapolis Super Regional, Indianapolis, IN - October 31st – ISSMA Open Class A Semi State, Indianapolis, IN - November 7th – ISSMA Open Class A State Finals, Indianapolis, IN - November 12-14th – Bands of America Grand National Championships, Indianapolis, IN Well, no Bluffton, which in my opinion is fine. Bit of a waste though a nice gesture towards Bluffton, as it brought a huge crowd for that school. No Penn. Interesting. Looks like they are seeking out two Indy panels for feedback rather than sort of hiding up North until BOA/SemiState. I'll give this change a thumbs up. Now let's see if it actually happens.  EDIT: I'm sure the trip to LC has something to do with Warfield being an LC alum also. Kind of a nice trip back to the old school. |
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Post by Jake W. on May 6, 2020 0:42:07 GMT -6
9 competitions is blowing my mind right now. Does Homestead not have a Homecoming dance to plan around? No weekends off. As mentioned, this is their usual schedule, just with some contests swapped out. It's worth noting that Avon has had the same nine week schedule forever now as well, occasionally even 10 if they or any of the other big hitters do a "Week 1" contest in the Indiana invitational circuit. Center Grove has also mirrored the same nine week schedule for a number of years now, as well as Ben Davis, other than the couple years they took off from GN recently. Same with Castle, since schools in that part of the state have a deep culture of placing importance on attending early season invitationals. Up until their decline, Lake Central probably had the most rigorous schedule --- the same 9-10 week schedule but with a good half of those including the five hour round trip down to Indy. Carmel is really the only historic Indiana band to take their own under-the-radar path and stay home unless it was a big contest, much more similar to a Mason schedule. Brownsburg of course made a splash in Indiana this year by avoiding all invitationals and sticking to ISSMA & BOA only, waiting a full month between their invitational and their first contest (BOA Orlando). I've always thought Indiana bands ran their kids & parents (and ESPECIALLY directors) sort of like redlining an engine, and could certainly relax the competition schedule a bit, although there literally is nothing else for Hoosier teenagers to do, and I do remember absolutely loving the same rigorous nine weeks of competition in high school. This will never happen, because so many of those invitationals have been running for years and are THE moneymakers for the host programs, but I would love to see a lot of the smaller-participant invitationals in Indiana die off and the big ones turn into a more Texas-like Prelims & Finals string of invitationals --- it certainly makes the ones that exist seem more special, and allows a lot of heavy-hitter bands to take more Saturdays off to relax or practice or both, since the Saturdays they do compete generally consist of two performances. |
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Post by Marching Observer on May 28, 2020 13:49:28 GMT -6
Homestead has taken off all their September contests off the schedule. The first show is their home show followed by hosting the ISSMA Scholastic/Open contest. Probably for the best as of right now.
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Post by OldSchoolTrumpet on May 28, 2020 14:57:16 GMT -6
Homestead has taken off all their September contests off the schedule. The first show is their home show followed by hosting the ISSMA Scholastic/Open contest. Probably for the best as of right now. They must have just done this today as I looked at the schedule only yesterday and the September shows were still there. I'm sure, like everyone, they are having to re-evaluate their summer/fall camp and practice plans. Those Saturdays in September may be more valuable on the practice field, should a competitive season take shape. Of course it also makes one wonder what they know that we don't. |
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Post by TeamIndiana on May 29, 2020 14:38:05 GMT -6
Homestead has taken off all their September contests off the schedule. The first show is their home show followed by hosting the ISSMA Scholastic/Open contest. Probably for the best as of right now. Did they ever publicly post the September schedule dates? I know that they announced them at the 2020 virtual season meeting, but I was not aware that they were posted publicly on the schedule page. I haven't looked at that page in awhile, so they very well could have released that info and then removed it. |
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Post by Marching Observer on May 29, 2020 14:58:55 GMT -6
They had on their website if I remember correctly. And our resident curmudgeon (oldschooltrumpet lol) seems to remember it too. Like I said, I'm fine with these changes. No sense in rushing this season.
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Post by OldSchoolTrumpet on May 29, 2020 15:04:27 GMT -6
They had on their website if I remember correctly. And our resident curmudgeon (oldschooltrumpet lol) seems to remember it too. Like I said, I'm fine with these changes. No sense in rushing this season. It was indeed posted on their website calendar, as late as this week because I was just on their page the day before this thread was updated. It's now removed. Whether that means they're not doing those competitions...or whether it just means they're now uncertain...is anyone's guess. |
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Post by TeamIndiana on Jul 12, 2020 15:51:57 GMT -6
For those who do not know, the Fort Wayne Johnny Appleseed Festival was unsurprisingly canceled this year. It is a huge fundraiser for many local community organizations such as the Homestead Spartan Alliance and Carroll Charger Pride. This is a huge fundraiser for the Spartan Alliance which brings in $60,000+ for the band every year. You can learn more about plans for a potential “Plan B” for fundraising at the link below. www.wane.com/news/local-news/homestead-band-working-to-make-up-funding-lost-in-appleseed-cancellation/Some other interesting tidbits from the story: The band program will start meeting again on July 20th and they look to have around 250 students in the band this year. So those worried about the transition from Wadkins to Warfield, and what that would do to numbers, have no reason to be worried now. |
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Post by TeamIndiana on Jul 15, 2020 20:25:03 GMT -6
With the cancellation of the ISSMA marching season, I have gotten word that Homestead will not be moving on with a competitive season this year.
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Post by OldSchoolTrumpet on Jul 15, 2020 20:37:00 GMT -6
With the cancellation of the ISSMA marching season, I have gotten word that Homestead will not be moving on with a competitive season this year. A shame, but for the best. |
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Post by TeamIndiana on Jul 15, 2020 20:38:35 GMT -6
With the cancellation of the ISSMA marching season, I have gotten word that Homestead will not be moving on with a competitive season this year. A shame, but for the best. Agreed. No other option. BOA will be next along with every band in Indiana. |
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Post by OldSchoolTrumpet on Jul 17, 2020 8:50:28 GMT -6
With the cancellation of the ISSMA marching season, I have gotten word that Homestead will not be moving on with a competitive season this year. Have you heard if they have anything specific planned so far as marching band is concerned? Are they still holding a band camp? Learning some type of show? I'd think that even absent a competitive season they'd want to keep up with skills training, etc. |
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Post by angelee on Jul 17, 2020 12:07:32 GMT -6
With the cancellation of the ISSMA marching season, I have gotten word that Homestead will not be moving on with a competitive season this year. Have you heard if they have anything specific planned so far as marching band is concerned? Are they still holding a band camp? Learning some type of show? I'd think that even absent a competitive season they'd want to keep up with skills training, etc. All us parents know is that our kids are to report to band camp on Monday as normal. Last email said they were working on something but they couldn’t really give us any information yet. I believe that was Wednesday... |
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Post by angelee on Jul 17, 2020 16:34:44 GMT -6
With the cancellation of the ISSMA marching season, I have gotten word that Homestead will not be moving on with a competitive season this year. Have you heard if they have anything specific planned so far as marching band is concerned? Are they still holding a band camp? Learning some type of show? I'd think that even absent a competitive season they'd want to keep up with skills training, etc. Old-school trumpet, the parent email we got today about Homestead was that they were still going to honor the seniors’ desire for closure and give a show they can work on and grow. They are still going to put together a show and rehearse a few days a week. There will be a performance later in September and at football games through the regular season. Also appears as many of the traditions will be done so that the seniors get their chance they’ve waited for. |
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Post by OldSchoolTrumpet on Jul 17, 2020 16:47:23 GMT -6
Have you heard if they have anything specific planned so far as marching band is concerned? Are they still holding a band camp? Learning some type of show? I'd think that even absent a competitive season they'd want to keep up with skills training, etc. Old-school trumpet, the parent email we got today about Homestead was that they were still going to honor the seniors’ desire for closure and give a show they can work on and grow. They are still going to put together a show and rehearse a few days a week. There will be a performance later in September and at football games through the regular season. Also appears as many of the traditions will be done so that the seniors get their chance they’ve waited for. I’m happy to hear this. 😀 |
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Post by marimba11 on Jul 17, 2020 17:02:09 GMT -6
I hope many others bands have the same plans!
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Post by LeanderMomma on Jul 17, 2020 18:52:50 GMT -6
I hope many others bands have the same plans! . it’s sounding like Leander ISD is planning something similar for its bands. I hope so! |
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Post by TeamIndiana on Jul 18, 2020 15:49:58 GMT -6
Have you heard if they have anything specific planned so far as marching band is concerned? Are they still holding a band camp? Learning some type of show? I'd think that even absent a competitive season they'd want to keep up with skills training, etc. Old-school trumpet, the parent email we got today about Homestead was that they were still going to honor the seniors’ desire for closure and give a show they can work on and grow. They are still going to put together a show and rehearse a few days a week. There will be a performance later in September and at football games through the regular season. Also appears as many of the traditions will be done so that the seniors get their chance they’ve waited for. As of now, Homestead is still planning on having their community night at the end of September. That is what the performance will be. |
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Post by Marching Observer on Jul 18, 2020 22:10:31 GMT -6
Per the bands most recent Facebook post:
"Thank you for the outpouring of love for the Spartan Alliance from our families, fans, community and alumni. Your kindness makes such a difference for our current Spartans and families. At this time, we have shifted our season to fit this new landscape. We will hold an abbreviated band camp and create a special show for our HHS BAND COMMUNITY NIGHT performance (and home football games if held). Mark your calendar for Saturday, September 19th for your chance to celebrate the band and honor the senior class of 2021. Details will follow.
We are still exploring plans for our famous chicken and dumplings and our car wash is on track for Saturday, August 1st. Please watch this page for details on any events we are able to have.
The band is holding steadfast to the motto: THERE IS NO FINISH LINE. May this season bring us moments to cherish and may we make it one to remember for our beloved seniors!"
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