10/20/18 - NSBA in Kearney

The Final Saturday is upon us.  Thank you for being part of the Pit Crew this year.  It has been a great marching season and it has been fun working together.  

Saturday starts at 6:45 pm for our Pit Crew in the KHS Band room where we need those on the crew who are not actively working/volunteering hosting the event, to help the Pit move the equipment around the West side of the High School, through the South parking lot and to the South-west corner of the football field area.  We will help the Pit set up the equipment, wagons and sound system in preparation for their performance.  Please be sure to bring the podium skirts to put them on our podiums at the gate.  IF you are one of the volunteers helping host the event, when Grand Island (the band right before Kearney) has left your area, please join our band and help us get our Pit on and off the field.  You will be able to volunteer for either the afternoon or evening shifts and still be able to help our Band's Pit Crew.


The Band marches in competition at 8:30 pm.  We need to be staging our equipment by 8:00 pm on the South side of the field, and we are On Deck at 8:15 pm on the track ready to go.  After the competition we will hold the Pit equipment at the South end of the field while we wait for UNK's performance and Awards.  We will send the Pit students to join the Band after the performance to get pictures taken in the Gym.  After the Awards we will help move the Pit equipment back to the Band room.  The trailer will not be used for the Band at this performance.  Note that our three podium stands will be on the track in front of the stadium during the day.  We will need to get our podium stands after the afternoon awards so we can skirt them before our performance.  We will put them between the two fences for the evening.  UNK will want to use the two side podium stands after our performance so we will need to remove the skirts so they can take them back on to the field.  Remember to put the podium skirts back in the bag and then back in the trailer during cleanup.

After UNK's exhibition performance and before the awards, we will participate in the Pit Crew Olympics.  This is something fun this year that we are trying with the Pit Crews from other schools, to have fun with the crowd.  We have spoken with other school's Pit Crews and they are in, so let's have some fun with this.  Scott Murrish is coordinating this and he has it set up for teams of 4 to compete.  We will discuss this on Friday evening at the game.

After everything is over, if you are available, we would appreciate any help with clean-up.

For a site map with instructions and all time schedules, go to this link:  http://bit.ly/NSBA18 

* Note that I may need to make changes to this post as things develop.  Please check back here for updates on Friday after the game if you can, or on Saturday morning before you come to the High School.

Thank you all for helping to make this a great marching season for our students.
 
You are appreciated!

Remember to wear BLUE on Saturday.  Let's represent Kearney well.


NSBA in Kearney! - October 20th 2018
9-11 am Rehearsal at KHS
4:30 pm Last Supper at Kenwood Elementary
6:45 pm Depart Kenwood for KHS (on KPS Band Bus)
7:00 pm Arrive and get into uniform in the band room
8:30 pm Performance at the NSBA. 
9:15 pm Awards
9:30 pm Clean Up

We are the last band to perform, following our band your help in cleaning up would be fantastic!