Our Winter Concert will be on Tuesday, December 5th and the Bake Sale will be back! We need lots of volunteers to donate delicious goodies, and we need several to help serve on the front lines. The sale will take place BEFORE and AFTER the concert, so don’t worry, you won’t have to miss out on anything! Click here to sign up!

Please join us for our last meeting of 2023. Due to the building being closed, we will be meeting at an FOCB board member’s house (1944 SE Mulberry Ave). The meeting will begin at 6:30pm.

Congratulations again to our WIBC Honor Band students who will be traveling to Seattle on Friday 11/17 for a 4-day honor band experience, concluding with a concert on Monday 11/20. As things stand, the itinerary remains the same, but the loading area may change. Keep an eye out for email updates from Mr. Riler.

Sebastian Bernard – Oboe
Alice Bokman – Oboe
Jesse Broderick – Percussion
Camille Burgoine – Flute
Thatcher Burkart – Tuba
Sebastian Elder – Trumpet
Maya Faulhaber – Oboe
Tai Friel – Trombone
Ansel Harris Crowne – Percussion
Luca Haverty – Clarinet
Cooper Headrick – Bass Clarinet
Theodore Hildebrand-Faust – Flute
Avery Hubatch – Clarinet
Sebstian Inouye – Trumpet
Jo Jo Knowles – Flute
Jackson Kohler – Bassoon
Sofia Mauro LeVelle – Flute
Lukas Oliver – Percussion
Ariah Piper – Bassoon
Vince Randol – Bassoon
Annecy Rice – Flute
Anna Rogoway – Flute
Jack Schauer – Horn
Livia Skalberg – Flute
Ben Steckler Heim – Alto Sax
Stella Tinker – Euphonium
Alma Valls – Flute
Remi Vasquez – Horn
Will Walker – Alto Sax
Eden Warmflash – Percussion

In the event that we’re able to hold parent/teacher conferences next week, Mr. Riler will only be available on Tuesday, November 21st.  The band will be finishing up WIBC with a concert in the late morning / early afternoon and then traveling home on that Monday.

Happy Monday,

I certainly miss working with our awesome student musicians.  Hopefully you are hearing music coming from these awesome student musicians’ instruments during our time away.

With grading being delayed, students can still submit recordings for any baseline assessments that they have missed to get all caught up.

We are experiencing “No School November” at another level, but I’m sure we will bounce back quickly once we return.  Being an optimist, I am looking forward to seeing everyone soon.  Until we meet again!

Musically Yours,
Gary Riler

The Willamette Valley pies delivery is today—Monday, October 30th. All orders will be available for pick-up in the cafeteria from 3:30–5:30pm only. Please note that we have no facilities for storing frozen pies after that time. Pies that are not picked up by 5:30pm will be donated to CHS Staff. Please contact Michelle Lee at president@clevelandbandspdx.com with questions or concerns.

Congratulations to our student salespeople. They sold a whopping 312 pies for a profit of $3,458, to be credited to the costs of the individual students’ Disneyland trips.

Thank you to everyone who contributed to the Friends of Cleveland Bands Pie Fundraiser! The pies will be arriving soon, and we will need six volunteers to help receive, sort, and distribute them on Monday, October 30th from 2:30-4:30pm. Sign up here.

• Fill out & sign appropriate areas
• DO NOT MAKE A PAYMENT TO OMEA ONLINE OR OTHERWISE
• Make a payment of $148 to Cleveland HS to cover housing cost.
• The Friend of Cleveland Bands will be paying all of the OMEA fees with one check.

Band grades are kept in CANVAS.  Mr. Riler is still catching up after the Play-a-thon, but things should be pretty accurate by the evening of Wednesday, October 25.

Some students are missing several assignments.  Have them check “GRADES” on the CANVAS page