The next FOCB board meeting will be tonight, Monday, February 3rd at 6:30 pm.

If you’re interested in getting involved with us and help support our band program, this meeting is the perfect opportunity to get plugged in! Someone will be at the back entrance gate on SE 28th just before 6:30 pm to let you in. Email info@clevelandbandspdx.com for more information.

PEP Band will be playing twice this week. Gold PEP Band is playing Tuesday, February 4th, and Green PEP band is playing Friday, February 7th. Arrive in at the band room at 6:00 pm. Games should finish near 8:45 pm. Feel free to join both night, but be sure to be there the night your band plays.

Go Warriors!

Jazz Lab will perform at 9:30am in the gymnasium.
Jazz Ensemble will perform at 2pm in the auditorium.

Chaperones will have free admittance. Public is welcome to attend, but there is a ticketing process.

If you would like to make the drive and hear these fine groups perform, here is our letter and itinerary that will give you address and schedule.

Here is a link to the online ticketing system.  You can also pay cash for tickets on site.

If there are any questions about how to forecast, have students check in with Mr. Riler. Parents and students can also email to get the conversations started. There is very rarely an issue that cannot be resolved.

Our Wind Ensemble retreat later this month on January 28th is a non-school day.  The entire ensemble is expected to attend, as we are paying a clinician to come work with us for an extended period of time.  We will also have section coaches coming for the first hour.  Our clinician is a retired band director from Pacific Lutheran University – Ed Powell.  He is a fabulous musician and educator, and I am excited to have him share his expertise and passion with all of us.

Congratulations to these students who will be participating in the 2025 All-City Band which will be hosted at Cleveland HS.
Sebastian Bernard
Sammy Bernstein-Sheehan
Ian Graham
Jesse Lindley Sanchez
Vince Randol
Annecy Rice
Jack Schauer
Alex Vennebush
Elijah Vennebush
Eden Warmflash
Avery Wiesler
Remi Vasquez

They will be performing a concert with the 2025 Middle School All City Band on Saturday, February 1st that begins at 2:30pm in the Cleveland HS Auditorium.

Admission is free.

Thank you to all who helped shuttle and chaperone Wind Ensemble members to their OMEA Performance down in Eugene. It was a very special performance that couldn’t have happened without several volunteers including Michelle Lee, Martin Heim, Kelli Keyser, Cate Wilcox, Liem Friel, Julianne Squires and Drew Rice.

The next FOCB board meeting will be Monday, February 3rd at 6:30 pm.

If you’re interested in getting involved with us and help support our band program, this meeting is the perfect opportunity to get plugged in! Someone will be at the back entrance gate on SE 28th just before 6:30 pm to let you in. Email info@clevelandbandspdx.com for more information.

The Cleveland Wind Ensemble performed a concert hour at the Oregon Music Educators State Conference on Saturday, January 18. They earned the opportunity to perform at this event through an audition process. We submitted a recording of our 2023-24 Wind Ensemble last June and were notified of acceptance in August.

The performance on Saturday went incredibly well. The rest of the weekend, I was told how wonderful the Cleveland Wind Ensemble sounded. It truly was an expressive and emotional performance that this ensemble shared with the educators in the audience.

This was not a contest, it was an opportunity to perform for a special audience. The Cleveland Band program is considered in high regard across the state. Many more in the state just witnessed why first hand. I could not be more proud of this wonderful group of young musicians.

Gary Riler
Director of Bands
Cleveland High School

Color Guard rehearsals will begin on January 21 after school for our Disney Trip.

These students know who they are, and are very excited to get started.

Their rehearsal dates and times are on the band calendar.