WMS Band

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FY25 Band Department Calendar

(Dates are subject to change an more may be added)

AUGUST

22 - Band parent meetings 6th Grade - 6:30 Cafe A - 7th/8th Grade - 7:30 - Virtual (link will be emailed home)

26 - first day for 7th/8th band

SEPTEMBER

19 - Fill the Drum @ WTHS O'Plaine campus, 6:30 report time, 7pm show - Marching Wildcats

28 - WTHS Homecoming Parade: time TBA - Marching Wildcats

OCTOBER

5 - Greendale trip, usually 3 to 11pm-ish - Marching Wildcats

NOVEMBER

4 - WTHS 8th grade band night, ALL 8th grade band members attend

DECEMBER

12 - WMS Choir Concert, 6:30

17 - WMS Bands Winter Concert, 6:30

18 - 20 - Midwest Clinic @ McCormick; Awe/Matusek attend so no bands these days

FEBRUARY

22 - Solo/Ensemble @ West Oak MS, Mundelein; ALL Sym 1 and 2 members participate

MARCH

7 and 8 - WMS Music Department HOSTS the NIMCon Music Festival!

Sym 1 and 2 and ALL choirs participate as well

 We will need lots of volunteers for this awesome hosting event!

APRIL

11 and 12 - Spring Musical

MAY

7 - Intermediate Band and Jazz Band concerts @ WMS, times TBA

13 - WMS Choir Concert

15 - WMS Bands concert

28 - Puma Graduation - all 6th and 7th grade Puma band members play - Report time 5:30pm

29 - Jaguar/Lynx Graduation - all 6th and 7th grade J/L band members play

May 29 and 30 - YES there is band! ALL 6th and 7th graders meet in south band room together.

 

 Marching Wildcats ROCK at "Fill the Drum" 2021

Photo of the band playing on the football field

To see part of the performance CLICK HERE

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Wildcat Band We're Back!!!!

Band Marching at assembly

"Because of band, I have memories and friends that will last a lifetime. may never be as close to as many people as I was then, and when I am older, and I see the band that was once my own, I will tap my foot in time with the music and wish that I could be a part of that CRAZY organization just one more time. And, maybe, when the show is over, I will clap just a little louder and a little longer than any other, because I know exactly what it is to ache... to sweat... to laugh. to give.. to cry... to smile... to love."

WMS BAND EVENTS

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