Nov 6 - All Area Festival (Marching Band)
Nov 13 - Concert band/Jazz concert
Nov 19 - Jeffco Honor auditions
Nov 20 - All State Band due to Watts
Dec 5 - Winter Concert dress rehearsal
Dec 10 - Winter Concert of Joy and Wonder
Dec 16-17 - Musical Auditions
Jan 21, 23, 24 - Jeffco Honor Auditions and Concert
Feb 12 - Drake 8th grade concert (WE)
Mar 5-8 - Musical
Mar 13 - Combined concert TBD (Symphonic band) CHANGE IN DATE
Apr 3-5 - All State Band
Apr 7 - CBA (WE)
Apr 29 - EOY concert
May 9 - Awards jazz concert
May 16 - Graduation (EVERYONE)
Check back at the beginning of the 2025 - 2026 school year for updated dates.
Marching Band is intended to develop students' techniques for playing brass, woodwind, and percussion instruments and cover appropriate marching band literature styles, primarily for marching performances. Marching Band takes place during August, September, and October. Concert band begins in November until the end of the first semester. Students will audition during this time for either Symphonic Band or Wind Ensemble for second semester placement. Learn more about Marching Band here!
Symphonic Band is designed to promote more intermediate techniques for playing brass, woodwind, and percussion instruments and cover a variety of band literature styles primarily for concert performances.
Wind Ensemble is designed to promote more advanced techniques for playing brass, woodwind, and percussion instruments and cover a variety of band literature styles, primarily for concert performances.
Jazz Band helps students develop their techniques for playing brass, woodwind, percussion, and string instruments as well as guitars and keyboards, focusing primarily on contemporary stage band styles such as traditional jazz, Latin, and rock. Jazz improvisation is introduced and developed.