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Thank you to the following generous people who helped out serving Pizza to a hungry group of musicians for our Pep Band on Friday October 4. We hosted the incoming 8th grader musicians at this event.
Andrew Rice, Bree Rampage, Carolyn Choi, Debbie Conrad, Emily Swanson, Jim Schaller, and Tayler Kim.
Friends of Cleveland Bands is still looking to fill the following positions on the board this year – Volunteer Coordinator and Fundraising/Sponsorship Coordinator. The jobs are fully templated and will only take a few minutes of your time each month. It’s pretty easy and is also an opportunity to get to know more band parents. Many hands make light work and these roles are vital for supporting our bands. Please join us!
I do not believe I will ever stop being blown away by the amount of support we receive financially with this event. This will be the most we have ever made with this fundraiser event since we started it in 2015. More importantly, I believe this event has helped in building a strong community among the students and the parents.
I am very thankful to all of the parents who gave of their time and effort to make this event go so smoothly. Our student leadership team did a fantastic job with the stage and tech crews making our transitions so seamless. I feel like the event itself gets better every year as we learn and tweak different things.
And what could we do without the tremendous leadership of the Friends of Cleveland Bands. The Playathon would NEVER work without this fantastic parent organization!!
I am truly humbled by the kind words I received throughout the evening and want to thank all of our band family for your tremendous support of my vision for this program.
As we continue into this new school year, I look forward to your help in continuing to build this program into a shining example of collaboration among parents and students. If you ask any HS band director in the state, they know that there is something special happening at Cleveland HS.
Musically Yours,
Gary Riler
We are so grateful to everyone who helped with the Play-A-Thon. Without you it would not have been such a success.
Heather Austin, Benjamina Balmer, Emily Berry, Nadine Block, Rachel Boone, Derek Boonstra, Jen Burkart, Mike Burkart, Laura Carim Todd, Rima Chamie, Marnie Childers, Carolyn Choi, Elizabeth Coleman, Debbie Conrad, TK Conrad, Selma Craft, Karen Doersam, Chris Dolan, Chloe Fennell, Colleen and Neil Gibson, Rosanna Gill, Megan Greenauer, Krista Harmon, Peter Harmon, Martin Heim, Sue Heintz, Kirsten Isaacson, Brett Jensen, Pam Johnson, Tim Jorgensen, Erica Keeley, Kelli Keysar, Pam Kiessling, Tayler Kim, Renee Laney, Sue Ledgerwood, Michelle Lee, Kimberly LeVelle, Karen Liao, Katie Mangle, Phil Mass, Alyssa McKillip, McKay Mott, Dona Norlander, Bree Ramage, Heather Randol, Andrew Rice, Jim Schaller, Juliann Squires, Anja Stadler, Becky Steckler, Linh Vu, Laurel Walker, Jeff Wallin, Mark Friel, Josh Piper, Kelly Schauer, Alexis Abrams, David Bleckmann, Kristi Riler.
The GoFundMe link will continue to be live and will accept donations until this Friday October 4th. Continue to send your friends and family to https://gofund.me/9f3f6bf9 to support our bands!
.The PEP Band will be playing at the following times:
Just in case you missed the mail from Mr. Riler with the schedule information, here it is again:
Band A,B,C are sight reading bands comprising a mixture of students from each band.
4:00 Band A
4:45 Band B
5:30 Band C
6:15 Jam Session
6:30 COMBO(s)
6:55 Jazz Lab
7:20 Jazz Ensemble
7:45 Concert Band
8:05 Symphonic Band
8:30 Wind Ensemble
8:55 Percussion Ensemble?
9:05 Jam Session
9:20 Pep Band
Don’t forget to share the link to the Play-A-Thon Go Fund Me far and wide.
See you in the CHS auditorium or online!
Come watch the Play-A-Thon live in the Cleveland High School Auditorium on Friday, September 27th from 4pm to 10pm. For those who cannot make it to be in the audience the event will also be streamed live on our website clevelandbandspdx.com.
Let’s get the fundraising out of the way now so we can focus on the music! Please share our GoFundMe link far and wide.
Money raised via the Play-a-thon supports all aspects of the program and covers a variety of costs such as purchasing sheet music, reducing or eliminating contest entry fees, bringing in specialists to work with sectionals and small groups and much more!
Rather than charge a mandatory fee for band, Mr. Riler and the Friends of Cleveland Bands feel strongly that access should be available to all. This is why we ask friends, family and the community to support the program with tax-deductible donations that are meaningful and appropriate to them.
We have less than half our our volunteer slots filled for the Play-A-Thon. This is our largest fundraiser and the funds raised support the band activities for the entire year. Please review the sign up page and see if there is anything you can help with this coming Friday.
Questions? Please contact the Volunteer Coordinator at volunteer.coordinator@
From fundraising to transportation to event setup and cleanup, volunteers are critical to the success of Cleveland High School Bands. Let us know if you are interested by filling out our volunteer form, or by emailing at volunteer.coordinator@clevelandbandspdx.com.
