Tiger Choir Chronicles

It has been another great week in the Tiger Choir Room! As always, each week I'll be sending out our weekly newsletter, the Tiger Choir Chronicles, sometime between Sunday and Monday. It will also be posted on the choir website under "Weekly Updates." Please be sure to read the full news update each week for reminders, upcoming events, and news. There is a lot of information in this week's newsletter so please be sure to read through everything that applies to your student.

Go Tigers!

This past week we kicked off our Fall Donation Fundraiser for the Booster Club. This is our primary fundraiser that allows us to do MANY awesome things for the students. The following list contains just a few of the many things our boosters were able to do for our students as a result of last year's successful fundraiser:

1. Provide 6 scholarships to All-State Camps
2. Provide private voice lessons for several students
3. Assist with Choir Fees
4. Sponsor several social events including the Fall Festival and holiday game night
5. Organize and sponsor last year's choir banquet for our students
6. Lower the cost of the choir banquet tickets for all students who wished to attend
7. Provide meals for students who advanced to the Region Weekend
8. Provide meals for students during both Pre-UIL and UIL Contest
9. Provide meals and/or snacks for students who need to stay after school on concert days
10. Assist with providing costumes, props, and design elements for Pop Show.
11. Cover accompanist costs when the district budget is not able to.
12. Provide instrumentalists to enhance concerts and UIL performances.

As you can see, our priority is to ensure that our fundraiser money goes to help our students in any way possible.

We are doing a FANTASTIC job so far with the fundraiser! If you are able to continute to provide contacts for your student, or encourage your student to at least TRY and send out donation requests (we have quite a few students who have not yet tried), it would be most appreciated as funds raised benefit ALL students!

Our total below is as of Friday at 12:50 pm. This is FANTASTIC and I'm so appreciative of everyone who has donated and/or helped your child reach out to potential donors!

Our annual Fall Festival will take place on Tuesday, October 29 from 4:30 - 6:00 pm. The festival is a fun, casual social event for ALL choir students and will have plenty of food, candy, small carnival games, a costume contest, and voting for the pumpkin decorating contest! All students are welcome to attend and the event is free of charge. Dressing up in costume is completely optional!

We do need a bit of help in order to make this event successful for our students:

1. Volunteers: We need a few parents to assist serving food and be present for the event. It's an easy job and I appreciate additional adult presence! If you are available, please send me an email.
2. Candy for games: If you are able to donate a bag of candy, we would greatly appreciate it! We use candy as the prizes for each of our different game stations.

If you have any questions, please feel free to send me an email!

This is just a friendly reminder that ALL classes had an assignment due in Schoology today. A gentle reminder that the choir grading policy states that assignments will be accepted up to one week late, but then will no longer be accepted. Please check in with your student and encourage them to complete this and future Schoology assignments on time so that they do not fall behind.

For the students who earned a spot at Region Weekend, the itinerary is below:

Friday, November 8th

• 9:00 am: Leave campus for George Ranch HS.
• Rehearsal will take place at GRHS until 5:00 pm, lunch will be provided for THS students.
• 5:30 pm: Arrive back at THS

Saturday, November 9th

• 7:15 am: Meet at THS and depart for George Ranch HS
• ALL Day rehearsal. Lunch will be provided for THS students.
• 5:30 pm: Region Concert.
• Please note that transportation will NOT be provided after the Region Concert. All students will need to be picked up from GRHS at the conclusion of the concert.

Our Choir Parent Booster Club operates to help support and assist the choir program in many ways! We have regular meetings to help plan events, discuss volunteer needs, and discuss financial needs of the choir program. You can be as involved as you would like to be! To encourage membership, the board has waived all membership fees this year in hopes that you will join us and find out ways you can support your child in their musical journey as a member of the Travis Tiger Choir!

Thank you to everyone who has been purchasing items from our Amazon Wishlist to help "clear the list!" If you are able to browse our list and help purchase an item, we would be SO grateful for your support!

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1. Saturday, October 26: Homecoming Football Game (Chorale & Seniors ONLY) 1:00 pm @ Mercer
2. Tuesday, October 29: Fall Festival (4:30 - 6:00 pm in the choir room)

1. November 8-9: Region Choir Clinic and Concert at George Ranch HS
2. November 12: Pre-Area Mock Auditions
3. November 14: Men's Fest at Austin HS
4. November 21: Pre-Area Auditions

Chorale continues to work hard and make great progress! A few notes for the week:

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• Homecoming Game: The game will take place on Saturday, October 26 at Mercer Stadium. Game time is 1:00 pm, Call time is 12:15 pm. Students should wear their gray choir polo with jeans or shorts and closed-toe shoes. Students are welcome to also add any school spirit gear they would like including choir sunglasses, senior overalls, face paint, etc.
• I am currently building our caroling schedule for December and hope to have it to students by mid-November. Most caroling will take place during the school day, and I appreciate everyone's flexibility as we get the schedule built.
• On December 12th, we will be performing at Garcia MS as part of their Winter Concert. Please note that this date is DIFFERENT from the choir calendar. Concert start time is 6:30 pm. THS students call time is 5:30 pm. We will be performing pieces as part of the concert as well as caroling for concert attendees prior to the concert.

This year we are thrilled to add another private voice teacher to our staff and extend a warm welcome to Mr. Antoine Griggs. Mr. Griggs is an accomplished performer who regularly sings with various organizations in Houston, including the Houston Ebony Opera Guild and Houston Grand Opera! He came to campus a couple weeks ago to meet the students and began lessons last week. He still has a few spots open. If your child is interested, or if you have any specific questions please feel free to reach out to him at antoinegriggs@gmail.com. We are very fortunate in Fort Bend that lessons are taught during student's choir class time so no additional rehearsal time is necessary and I hope that many students will take advantage of this awesome opportunity!

Thank you to everyone who has paid choir fees! If you have not yet, please remember that they were due on Friday, September 20th. If your child needs assistance, our Booster Club is here to help! Please simply send me an email and let me know that your child needs assistance paying choir fees and our Boosters will be happy to help out if they are able!