It's that time of year again: the CdS Band is selling Cookie Dough! Students can earn 50% profit on every item sold, to be used for their individual band accounts. Order forms are available in the Band Room. Most items are $15 (although the cheesecakes and pretzel dogs each sell for $16). People should make checks out to "Corona del Sol," and the money should be deposited via the School Bookstore (into the Band 101 account). Students should then bring all receipts from the Bookstore AND the cookie dough order form to Mr. DuPlessis. All orders will be due Wednesday, September 8. Orders will be delivered to Corona on October 4. Families can pick up the orders on this day and deliver them to the people that ordered items.

By now, your student may have talked to you about the U of A Jazz Day, which is on Thursday, September 9th. This was not on the original calendar but something that the University of Arizona invited us to just recently. THIS IS NOT A REQUIRED EVENT, just an extra field trip for whoever wants to go. We will depart school at 11:30 am (students will be excused from their last classes of the day if they attend the trip). The U of A will present master classes on Jazz musicianship, improvisization, and instrument master classes. THIS WORKSHOP IS FREE OF CHARGE! The afternoon will conclude with a concert by the band Sylvan Street , an awesome, high energy jazz group! Students should bring $5-$10 for dinner after the concert. We will leave Tucson after dinner and return by 9 pm or earlier. YOUR STUDENT WILL BRING HOME A PERMISSION SLIP this week - so please make sure to sign so they can go on this optional field trip. Students have already signed up (a group of 61!), but need a permission slip to attend.

Excellent pictures from the first Corona del Sol Aztecs football game (at Desert Mountain) have been posted here. You should also check out the HD video of the opener, which is available here. Thanks to David Waldman and Susan Stephens for posting these items!

Band camp was a huge success! Thanks to everyone for their hard work. We're looking forward to a great season. A number of pictures from band camp are available here, and we expect more to come. The title of this year's show is "Egypt: Echoes in Eternity," which has three parts: "Shadows," "Souls," and "Spirits." The awesome graphic to the right is this year's theme image, created by Nick DuPlessis. Thanks also to Nick for the cool header graphic at the top of this page.

If you have not received an e-mail from the Band Boosters recently, you are probably not in our e-mail database. If this is the case, please send an email to cdsbandboosters@gmail.com and include your student's name, your student's e-mail address, a preferred parent/guardian name, and a parent e-mail address. Alternatively, you can try out our new online form.