Welcome Back!!

I know this post might seem a bit premature, but you'll get over it. We are just about to get underway with the 2013-2014 school year. Many of you are probably just checking out what your summer reading list looks like. A number of you are protectively nestling your iPad as you recover from the long separation of summer. Others are looking in closets for the location of the carefully stowed instrument you will need on day 1 when you return. Yes, that is right, you will need your instrument the first day we meet in band. Over the next few days and into next week, you will also notice some new links and posts on the blog about helping you to get off on the right foot this year. By this coming weekend there should be links to much of the music we will be studying and performing this year.

Other things to consider:

• Pep Band will meet on Wednesday afternoons until 3pm. The first meeting will be on Wednesday the 4th.
• Jazz Ensemble will get up and running within the first few weeks of school. Watch for announcements and posts with more information.
• The music calendar can be found adjacent to this posting in the right column. Dates for music activities are already up, please check them out.
• Subscribe to this blog. You will get all of these informative posts sent right to your door (if your door was the email account you subscribed with)
• Follow Grafton music on Twitter @GraftonBAND I often tweet out links to blog posts as well as reminders, musical musings and some favorite quotes.
• Guest blogging: This year I would love to post your thoughts within this forum. If you are interested in authoring a music oriented blog post, please let me know.

I am looking forward to seeing you all in the next couple of weeks.