10/26/19 - 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.  Thank you to everyone who endured the rain on Friday night and helped get our equipment dried out, as well as helping re-load the trailer on Saturday morning.  Lincoln went well last Saturday and Kearney was represented very well.  Good job, team!

Please note that you can work on our Band Pit Crew ~and~ Volunteer to help with NSBA in any area, AND, you can be a Volunteer for NSBA ~and~ help with our Band's Pit Crew for our performance.  We are the last HS band to perform, so we can just follow our Band in to the field.




Saturday starts at 7:00 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.  Please start moving our Pit equipment out of the Band room NO LATER THAN 7:50 PM and go around the West side of the build to the South parking lot.  We need to be staging our equipment by 8:00 pm on the South side of the field (just outside the fence), 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-West corner of the track/field while we wait for UNK's performance and Awards.  We will send the Pit students to join the Band immediately 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 that the crowd really enjoyed last year and have asked for it to return this year.  This involves the Pit Crew Parents 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.  Our Pit Crew is big enough that we can enter TWO teams in this event.  Let's have fun and cheer on other teams.  Give it our best and represent Kearney well.

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

Links to information about NSBA 2019:

http://bit.ly/nsba19kearney - this is for our guests - it includes the Parking plan

http://bit.ly/nsba19khs - this is for our Crew - it has maps, instructions and the schedule

http://bit.ly/nsba19time - this has the schedule


* Note that I may need to make changes to this post as things develop.  Please check back here for updates on Friday evening 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 26th 2019

Band Schedule for the whole day - HERE

9-11 am	Rehearsal at KHS
4:00 pm	Last Supper at KHS - Scott D Morris Institute - make sure you come with your instrument and uniform, store them on the uniform racks in the hall
7:00	Get into uniform in the band room
8:30	Performance at the NSBA. We are the last band to perform, following our band your help in cleaning up would be fantastic!
9:15	Awards
9:30	Clean Up