Current Schedule

2025 Sumner Summer Marching Band & Color Guard

(Updated 9/1/2025)

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I hope all of you are having a great Labor Day long weekend and I hope that you don’t mind that I sent out this BLAST on Monday - it seems more correct to send it out as we start September, certainly one of the busiest months of our ‘25-26 year coming-up. Before we move on, I’d like to thank everyone who attended the excellent Convocation Performance last Monday morning at Sunset Stadium - you did a great job in your first performance and just about everything went well (I’m not officially counting the shaky rendition of Crazy Train, which was indeed crazy . . .). Thanks for 2 very productive rehearsals both inside and outside on Wednesday and Thursday nights as we worked hard on our parade marching and our pregame performance for Friday’s Scrimmage, which also looked and sounded excellent. Hopefully you can now see why we need to get started early so we’ll be ready for things as we get going for real this week - thanks again for all that you did to make things go so well.

Now we start the year - FOR REAL - with school classes and a VERY IMPORTANT MB-CG rehearsal on Wednesday night from 6:00-9:00PM. On Friday, you will be missing ALL DAY of classes as we perform at the Washington State Fair Rodeo Parade (see the attached time-line and information form in addition to 2 permission forms: one being the “regular” form we have for all of our trips and the other to get your teacher’s initials and OK for Friday’s event). It’s an early start to our parade performing but a great chance to work on things and to look great in our uniforms. Read the attached information carefully and let me know if you have any questions. As I mentioned last week, we won’t be attending the away FB Game at Lake Stevens HS on Friday (their AD told us that their grandstands were too small to accommodate us . . .) but on a positive note, when you enter the Fairgrounds on Friday for lunch, get a hand-stamp and you can return after school for FREE!). To finish off the week, our Color Guard will once again be attending the University of Washington Husky Band Day in Seattle to be the teaching-group for the other Color Guards from the various other schools that will be there (by the way, we attend Husky Band Day as an entire group once every 4 years, and next year is our year to take everyone (MB-CG-CH-DT). That's our first-week schedule that has us seen and heard by thousands and thousands of people, but that’s kind-of a normal week for us. On these school-year BLASTS I’ll always give you 2 weeks of information so you know what’s coming - the next week’s schedule has a Wednesday night full-group 6:00-9:00PM MB-CG rehearsal and a Home FB Game performance in what will likely be the biggest HS Football Game in the State when we host Kennedy Catholic HS at Sunset Stadium (we saw their Band at the Pre-Torchlight Band Jam and I invited them to come to the game and perform but I haven’t heard back from them yet . . .). Also, we’ll be going to South Sound Speedway in Rochester on Saturday September 13th to support our favorite driver (Bob Fulmer). So, here we go:

Schedule for THIS WEEK:

SEPTEMBER 1 MONDAY - NO CLASSES - LABOR DAY HOLIDAY

SEPTEMBER 2 TUESDAY - SPECIAL FIRST-DAY SCHEDULE (SEE ATTACHED)

NO ZERO-PERIOD JAZZ REHEARSALS
NO INSTRUMENTS OR EQUIPMENT

SEPTEMBER 3 WEDNESDAY - SPECIAL ADVISORY SCHEDULE (SEE ATTACHED)

NO ZERO-PERIOD JAZZ REHEARSALS
MB-CG MUST ATTEND EVENING REHEARSAL - 6:00-9:00PM

SEPTEMBER 4 THURSDAY - SPECIAL ADVISORY SCHEDULE (SEE ATTACHED)

6:30AM ZERO-PERIOD JAZZ MEETING BOTH GROUPS/NO INSTRUMENTS
2:15-4:15PM - COLOR GUARD REHEARSAL

SEPTEMBER 5 FRIDAY - MB-CG NOT ATTENDING ANY CLASSES

NO ZERO-PERIOD JAZZ REHEARSALS
BRING UNIFORMS TO SCHOOL AND HANG ON RACKS
7:25AM MB-CG REPORT TO BAND ROOM - NOT IN UNIF
7:45AM MB-CG CHANGE INTO UNIFORMS AND PUT CHANGE OF CLOTHES INTO GARMENT BAGS
HANG ON RACKS AND LOAD INTO TRAILER
8:25AM MB-CG LOAD BUSES (3) AND TRAILER
9:15AM PRE-PARADE STAGING IN PUYALLUP
10:00AM STATE FAIR RODEO PARADE BEGINS
AFTER PARADE - CHANGE OUT OF UNIFORMS/LUNCH
1:00PM RETURN TO BUSES AND RETURN TO SHS
2:00PM SCHOOL DISMISSED - TAKE UNIFORMS HOME

SEPTEMBER 6 SATURDAY - HUSKY BAND DAY

11:00AM COLOR GUARD REPORTS TO SHS BAND ROOM

PPS UNIFORM - BRING UNIFS IN GB
TAKE VANS TO ANGLE LAKE AND TAKE LIGHT RAIL TO HUSKY STADIUM (BRING EQUIPMENT)

PRE-EVENT TEACHING AND REHEARSAL WITH THE OTHER COLOR GUARDS AND THE UW BAND
DINNER BREAK (HUSKY STADIUM CONCESSIONS)
8:00PM UW FB GAME STARTS (CG PERF AT HALFTIME)
11:15PM GAME ENDS - TAKE LIGHT RAIL AND VANS
BACK TO SHS - RETURN APPROX 1:00AM

SEPTEMBER 7 SUNDAY

NO BAND PROGRAM ACTIVITIES
WATCH FOR WEEKLY BLAST SUNDAY AFTERNOON

Again, make sure you get BOTH permission forms (3 for Color Guard including for Saturday’s UW Husky Band Day) signed by both teachers and parents before Friday and turned into the Forms Box in the Band Room - they are attached to this BLAST.

Highlights for NEXT WEEK:

SEPTEMBER 8 MONDAY - LATE-START & ADVISORY SCHEDULE

NO ZERO-PERIOD JAZZ REHEARSALS
2:15-4:15PM - COLOR GUARD REHEARSAL
NO MONDAY NIGHT 6:00-9:00PM MB-CG REHEARSAL

SEPTEMBER 9 TUESDAY

7:00PM - SBPA MONTHLY MEETING

SEPTEMBER 10 WEDNESDAY

MB-CG MUST ATTEND EVENING REHEARSAL - 6:00-9:00PM

SEPTEMBER 11 THURSDAY

2:45-4:45PM COLOR GUARD REHEARSAL

SEPTEMBER 12 FRIDAY

NO ZERO-PERIOD JAZZ REHEARSALS
ASSEMBLY SCHEDULE - MB-CG WILL PERFORM
BRING MB-CG UNIFORMS TO SCHOOL AND HANG ON GARMENT RACKS IN BAND ROOM
4:25PM MB-CG HATS-ON REHEARSAL AT STADIUM
5:00-5:55PM DINNER & CHANGE INTO UNIFORMS
6:00PM PRE-PERF WARM-UPS IN COURTYARD
6:30PM MARCH TO STADIUM AND FB GAME
10:00PM FB GAME ENDS - TAKE UNIFORMS HOME

SEPTEMBER 13 SATURDAY - SOUTH SOUND SPEEDWAY PERFORMANCE

2:25PM MB-CG REPORT TO SUMNER HS IN UNIFORM
2:45PM LOAD BUSES AND TRAILER AND LEAVE ASAP
4:00PM ARRIVE AND UNLOAD
5:15PM PERFORMANCE STARTS (SSB/PEP PIECES)
9:15PM LOAD BUSES AND TRAILER AND LEAVE ASAP
10:30PM RETURN TO SUMNER HS - CLEAN BUSES AND BAND ROOM AND TAKE UNIFORMS HOME

SEPTEMBER 14 SUNDAY

NO BAND PROGRAM ACTIVITIES
WATCH FOR WEEKLY BLAST SUNDAY AFTERNOON

So, welcome to the OUTSTANDING (and busy) Sumner HS Band Program. Every week will be a new challenge and new experience for all of you. Upperclassmen do a great job of leading and being great examples and new students soak it all in and do a great job as well. We’ve got fantastic things planned for this year - ALL YEAR LONG - so make sure you are planning, organizing, and staying on top of your schedule. Remember - we are counting on ALL OF YOU and so is everyone else! We’re going to have a lot of fun this year and you’ll see many different places and do your best in all that we do - that is our standard of excellence. Let’s have a great start to a fantastic year - see you Tuesday!

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Sumner HS Band Program Staff:

This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., Sumner High School Band Director

Ellen Carl, Sumner High School Auxiliary Coordinator

Laurie Selle, Sumner High School Color Guard Assistant Instructor

Sumner High School, 1707 Main Street, Sumner, WA 98390

(253) 891-5565: Band Office
(253) 891-5500: Sumner HS Main Office (7:00AM-3:30PM)
(253) 891-5585: Sumner HS FAX
(360) 889-0080: Carl Home
(253) 307-5705: Mr. Carl‘s Cell
(253) 307-5706: Mrs. Carl‘s Cell