New Era Begins in June

Hello and Goodbye!

It has been my sincere pleasure to be your Mavband President these last 2 years. In addition, I have been involved with this band program for a total of 9 years. I will continue on as your webmaster as long as the band and board want me to do it for you.

Mavband.com

Since its beginning, our website has grown quite a bit. At first, nobody even knew it existed! Today though, it has become a staple for our band program and continues to keep our band parents, visitors, vendors and school in the loop as to what is happening with the Mavband program. Right now, we have one webmaster and 4 assistants updating our website every week. Our media team keeps up our flickr page and continues to do a bang up job with that too.

Mavblasts:

Ever wonder what these are? Every so often, we send out a "Mavblast" of items that need your attention. We ask that every band parent and student sign up to receive the blasts as they are of upmost concern to all. You can do so by logging onto our website at http://www.mavband.com and look to the left hand side of the page. You will see the signup button there, click on it and send it to us. All information is held in upmost confidences.

Moving Onwards:

We have a new band booster president: Mr. David Moore. David comes to us with 1 year of High School band experience and a bunch of Middle School experience on their board. Please make David welcome when you see him.

In Conclusion:

As I move on towards free-er weekends in the fall, I want you all to know that I will miss you and being part of the band. I'll still show up and participate and cheer the band on at some competitions, but I want you to know that I have appreciated the support that I have been given all these years. As always, I can be reached via email at webmaster@mavband.com.

Keep in step!
Mike Wills

Webmaster

http://www.mavband.com/

Mavband News

We've sent out our latest mavblast today, but here's today's biggest news..

We are having our end of year banquet on May 21st at 12pm at Sunset Park in Mauldin. Please make every effort to attend and support our band.

Winter Guard Season going strong! We are proud of our color guard as they continue to impress the judges and make great strides towards improving at every competition. The next competition will be held on March 5 at Blue Ridge high school. Our JV goes on at 4:10 and the Varsity at 7:08pm.

We are looking for new board members for next years' booster board. If you are interested, contact the webmaster or Mr. Scheuch for details.

As always, the most recent and updated content is on our website found at http://www.mavband.com/

Have a great day!

Website Is Updated

Hello Mavbandfans,

We have updated our website with new and exciting pictures from our Award Winning trip to the All State Sugar Bowl competition and trip. Thanks to Scott Blackwell for the great pictures. You can see them by clicking on this link: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mhsmavband/sets/72157625752299158/show/

Upcoming Events:

The website has been updated with the dates for County, Region, State Band Clinics as well as the dates for Concert Festival and the Spring Concert. Please mark you calendar for those dates.

Booster Meeting:

We will have our 4th of the 6 required booster meetings in February. When I get my schedule, I will let you know what date that will be. In the meantime, we need people to consider running for the 2011 Booster Board and Budget Committees.

Keep checking back with the website to see the next changes.
Webguy

Marching Mavs WIN IT ALL!

The Mauldin High Marching Mavs won the "GRAND CHAMPION" trophy at the 2010 Sugar Bowl - Bowl Games of America - Marching Competition held on Sunday. The band beat out 19 other bands in the competition making this the biggest competition that the band has ever won in its entire history. "Our kids had a great time out there today," said Director of  Bands Adam Scheuch "..and even though it was not our best performance of the year, our kids played well and they were just smiling  and having a great time. They should be very proud of themselves for the hard work this year that paid off on a national stage." Ann Miller, Principal of Mauldin High School, remarked, "I am so proud of our kids. They really worked hard this year!"

In addition to the band participating and winning it all, the band made a donation of 38 used musical instruments and $445 to "The Roots of Music" . This program provides music education in history, theory, instrumental instruction and ensemble performance. Furthermore, academic tutoring is offered to ensure the students maintain at least a 2.5 GPA in school. (source http://www.therootsofmusic.com/program.html) The Mauldin Band was the ONLY band from South Carolina to attend and the ONLY band to provide instruments and a cash donation to the band. "The Roots of  Music" band was phenomenal," Scheuch said "..they had this one kid who was really young and was playing the drum like he was a pro! They came out to Jackson Square and entertained us with a great show. This was well worth it and we are glad we had the privilege to participate in it"

The Boosters would like to thank Mrs. Miller, the staff and Greenville County School district officials for allowing our band to participate in this event. We believe that this reflects well on the School, Staff and our band program. Thank you very much.

The Band should be home by 6pm on Wednesday night after a highly successful "once - in - a - high school career" trip. Make your plans to be there for them when they get there!

New Orleans - 3 days and counting

Just 3 days til our students, chaperones and staff head off on our Sugar Bowl Trip. I have updated all the pages including the final itenerary, student checklist and safety / rules and regulations pages. The band will meet on the evening of the 31st for a rehearsal and then a New Years Eve party begins at 11:15. We'll load up the busses and be on our way around 12:15am or so on January 1st.

For more information, click on the links below for up-to-date info.

Sugar Bowl Home Page
Trip Itenerary Page
Safety / Rules & Regulations Pages
Roots of Music - Mauldin Page
Roots of Music Home Page

Venue Pages:
Hilton Riverside Hotel - New Orleans
East Jefferson High School
New Orleans Superdome
Mardi Gras World
Naches Paddle Boat Cruise
New Orleans Aquarium and IMAX
Jackson Square / 360 Panarama View
Hard Rock Cafe'

That's all for this posting. Keep checking back on our webpage for more stuff!

Mavband Puts on a great show

Hello to all our Mavbandfans!

Thanks to all who came out to support our band this evening as we were treated to a great concert packed with a media presentation that was second to none. All three bands put on a great show and their hard work and practice was very clear to see and hear!

Thanks to Gil Searcy, James Chen, Scott Blackwell and Dan Haas as they have once again shown why our media team rocks!

Our Media Sale was a HUGE success! Thanks to you and the Mellow Mushroom fundraiser last month, we will probably be able to at least buy our kids one additional meal on the Sugar Bowl trip. Once our final numbers are tallied, we will send out a mavblast letting you know! Thank you to each of our band parents who have so dilligently supported our band and the boosters. To make a band of this size work so well, it takes everyone's help. We are very blessed to have so many parents be part of our organization.

A special thank you to Kaye Emsley and all the Booster Board parents who have worked to tirelessly for our kids this marching season.

Don't forget to visit our Sugar Bowl and Roots of Music webpages!

Mavband makes the finals!

Congratulations to the Marching Mavs as they finished the 2010 marching season receiving "Superior" ratings and a 7th place finish in this years SCBDA State 5A competiton. The Marching Mavs worked a very long and tiring season this year with the ultimate goal of getting into the finals at state. It was so important in fact as our goal that Mr. Scheuch made a deal with the band. "If you get into the finals this year, I will shave my head and beard in honor of your making your goal!"

See the Recap!

Spurred on by JR Carlisle (our advisor)  and the strongest desire to compete, the Marching Mavs did just that! They beat out Spartanburg High Schools band for 7th place and missed beating Lexington HS by only .625 of a point.

Next up is the prepraration for the Sugar Bowl trip and "The Roots of Music" charity that we are supporting. For more information, click on these Mavband links:

All State Sugar Bowl Page

The Roots of Music Page

That's all for today, keep checking back in. I'll try and update this blog more regularly.

webmaster