The Kearney Christian School Band Festival will be on
Wednesday, April 24, 2024 at First Baptist Church in Kearney.

KEARNEY CHRISTIAN BAND FESTIVAL 2024 INFORMATION

Date:  Wednesday, April 24, 2024

Location:  First Baptist Church (old Kearney High School)

                   3610 6th Ave.

                   Kearney, NE     (308) 234-2311

Clinician:  Mr. Nathan LeFeber

                   Band Director, Kearney High School

Schedule:     12:30-12:45 –  Arrive, find your school’s area, get set up

                        1:00 – In your seats, ready to rehearse!

                        1:00-2:15 – 1st rehearsal

                        2:15-2:35 – Break – snacks & restrooms

                        2:35-3:45 – 2nd rehearsal

                        3:45-4:05 – Break – snacks & restrooms

                        4:05- 5:30 – 3rd rehearsal

                        5:30-5:50 – Break – snacks, restrooms, & clean up your area

                        5:50 – In your seats, tune

                        6:00 – Concert – Open to the public – invite your family and friends!

                        After the concert – Please help return the facility better than we found it!

                        Then your students will be dismissed to you.

Cost:  The participation fee for the festival will be $8 for each student.  Please send your money with your student(s) by Tuesday, April 2. 

            You can pay with cash or by a check payable to Barb Uden with the words Kearney Christian Band Festival in the memo line.

Snacks:  We will have 3 different snack breaks. 

*Please have each student bring a dozen snacks to share.  (Bring something that you enjoy eating, but that will also fill you up/hold you over until after the concert.)

*Besides cookies & chips, please include healthy snacks as well – fruit, cheese sticks, granola bars, etc.

*If you bring fruit, please wash it and have it individually packaged as a ready-to-eat snack.  If you bring homemade snacks, please place them in individual snack bags that are labeled with what they are.

*If you have students with food allergies, please have them bring their own snacks labeled with their name.

*Please have each student bring 6 water bottles – (can bring ahead of time)

Attire: Please wear concert black for the day/concert.                      

            Guys – black shirts, black pants, black socks, black shoes      .

            Girls – black shirts, black pants or skirts/dresses, black socks, black shoes, black accessories for your hair.    

            *Please be modest!  No clothing with rips, tears, or holes; and make sure dresses/skirts have hems below the knee.

Make sure to bring:

            ~your instrument and any accessories (reeds, cork grease, valve oil, etc.)

            ~all your music

 Please label everything you bring with your name!

            Please label all pages of your music and your instrument cases, drumsticks, percussion instruments, music stands, etc. to make sure things are not mixed up with students from other schools!

Out of respect for our clinician and our rehearsal times, please do NOT have your students bring phones to the festival!  If you need to communicate with your student, please call/text Barb Uden directly.

A copy of this letter is available at https://homeschool.kearneybands.com/festival/

Thank you for helping to make this an amazing and valuable musical experience for our band and for each individual student!