9/17/22 BMF – Kearney Bands

September 11, 2022
Itineraries

09/17/22 Saturday UNK Parade & BMF Field Competition

A big thank you to everyone helping with the Pit Crew this year. You are appreciated!

For the UNK Band Day Parade, the trailer will not be going to the parade (per the Directors), so students will need to get their own equipment to and from the parade, and we will not need to have anyone at the parade route to load/unload the trailer. This gives us time to be ready for the BMF parking and pit area details.

For the Bearcat Marching Festival, the Band equipment will be in the KHS Band room. The Band is to assemble at 1:45 pm in the Band room, so our Kearney Pit Crew needs to be available by 2:00 pm to help move all the equipment to the South end of the HS parking lot. We begin staging our pit crew outside the fence at 2:30 pm so we need to start moving equipment from the Band room at 2:20 pm so we are at the South end of the field by 2:30 pm. At 2:45 pm we move our Pit on to the track (On Deck). We follow Columbus, so when they are On Deck (their Pit is on the track), our Pit needs to be in the staging area outside the fence. Be sure to stay on the North half of that driveway so that the Columbus band can enter the field and perform. After the Columbus band enters the field, the Hastings Pit will exit the field and then our KHS Pit will enter the track and be On Deck. Stay on the outside four lanes and be in the order we enter the field. Remember that this is in reverse order from what we do at UNK for football halftime shows. The sound system and speakers will always be first, but the rest of the pit will be in reverse order. Once the Pit is set out on the field, we stand back against the front of the stadium while they perform. After their performance, we will move everything to the Band Room. If you can help with getting equipment to the Band room and with cleanup, that would be appreciated.

If you are helping with the BMF event, you need to stay at your position with the volunteers for the BMF event until we assemble at 2:30 pm. At 2:30 pm please join our KHS Pit Crew for moving our gear for the KHS Band performance. Those not helping with BMF will need to help us with moving equipment from the Band room to the South end of the field while the BMF volunteers are finishing their tasks. The Parking workers should be done when Columbus parks, so they should be able to leave their posts and help on schedule. The Pit Area volunteers will need to get Hastings and Columbus on the field and then they can join the KHS Pit to help get KHS on/off the field.

Thank you for your help. We appreciate everyone who is helping. Everyone is needed for this event to happen successfully, both as a BMF volunteer and as a KHS Pit Crew volunteer. Thank you.

Remember to wear BLUE.

Thank you for helping and supporting the KHS Band. Be sure to make our BMF guests feel welcome. Remember, we represent Kearney in all we do.

Kearney Signup Genius (sign up to help with Pit Crew and/or BMF22) link is found on below.

Details for the BMF Parking/PitArea

Guest map for BMF

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When I hear people asking how do we fix the education system, I tell them we need to do the opposite of what is happening, cutting budgets by cutting music programs… Nothing could be stupider than removing the ability for the left and right brains to function. Ask a CEO what they are looking for in an employee and they say they need people who understand teamwork, people who are disciplined, people who understand the big picture. You know what they need? They need musicians.

Mike Huckabee

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

Albert Einstein

It is in Apple’s DNA that technology alone is not enough – it’s technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields us the results that make our hearts sing.

Steve Jobs

In my own philanthropy and business endeavors, I have seen the critical role that the arts play in stimulating creativity and in developing vital communities… the arts have a crucial impact on our economy and are an important catalyst for learning, discovery, and achievement in our country.

Paul G. Allen

The life of the arts, far from being an interruption, a distraction, in the life of the nation, is close to the center of a nation’s purpose – and is a test to the quality of a nation’s civilization.

President John F. Kennedy

In every successful business…there is one budget line that never gets cut. It’s called ‘Product Development’ – and it’s the key to any company’s future growth. Music education is critical to the product development of this nation’s most important resource – our children.

John Sykes

During the Gulf War, the few opportunities I had for relaxation I always listened to music, and it brought me great peace of mind. I have shared my love of music with people throughout this world, while listening to the drums and special instruments of the Far East, Middle East, Africa, the Caribbean, and the Far North, and all of this started with the music appreciation course that I was taught in a third-grade elementary class in Princeton, New Jersey. What a tragedy it would be if we lived in a world where music was not taught to children.

General H. Norman Schwarzkopf

Music is exciting. It is thrilling to be sitting in a group of musicians playing the same piece of music. You are part of a great, powerful, vibrant entity. And nothing beats the feeling you get when you’ve practiced a difficult section over and over and finally get it right. Music is important. It says things your heart can’t say any other way, and in a language everyone speaks. Music crosses borders, turns smiles into frowns, and vice versa. These observations are shared with a hope: that, when schools cut back on music classes, they really think about what they’re doing – and don’t take music for granted.

Dan Rather

The things I learned from my experience in music in school are discipline, perseverance, dependability, composure, courage and pride in results… Not a bad preparation for the workforce!

Gregory Anrig

Music is an essential part of everything we do. Like puppetry, music has an abstract quality which speaks to a worldwide audience in a wonderful way that nourishes the soul.

Jim Henson

Should we not be putting all our emphasis on reading, writing and math? The ‘back-to-basics curricula,’ while it has merit, ignores the most urgent void in our present system – absence of self-discipline. The arts, inspiring – indeed requiring – self-discipline, may be more ‘basic’ to our nation’s survival than traditional credit courses. Presently, we are spending 29 times more on science than on the arts, and the result so far is worldwide intellectual embarrassment.

Paul Harvey

It [music education] is terribly important, extremely important — because when you are a child, you are in a receptive age… In high schools, public schools — that’s where they must have the best influence, the first influence, which will go through their whole life.

Eugene Ormandy

It is our job, as parents, educators, and friends, to see that our young people have the opportunity to attain the thorough education that will prepare them for the future. Much of that education takes place in the classroom. We must encourage our youngsters in such pursuits as music education. In addition to learning the valuable lesson that it takes hard work to achieve success, no matter what the arena, music education can provide students with a strong sense of determination, improved communication skills, and a host of other qualities essential for successful living.

Edward H. Rensi

A grounding in the arts will help our children to see; to bring a uniquely human perspective to science and technology. In short, it will help them as they grow smarter to also grow wiser.

Robert E. Allen

Some people think music education is a privilege, but I think it’s essential to being human.

Jewel

Arts Education aids students in skills needed in the workplace: flexibility, the ability to solve problems and communicate; the ability to learn new skills, to be creative and innovative, and to strive for excellence.

Joseph M. Calahan

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