10/20-10/25 Weekly Schedule
Updated: 19 hours ago
Tuesday, 10/20 - Rehearsal (5:15pm - 9:15pm, doors open at 4pm)
Thursday, 10/22 - Home Football Game vs Eastern Regional High School (Senior Night & Middle School Recruitment Night!)
*Eat dinner before you arrive, you will not be able to eat a snack until halftime.
We will need parent volunteers to help us move props and equipment on and off the field. Sign Up Here.
3pm - Student volunteers staying after school will load one or both trailers before report time.
We will need to drive over to the stadium, unload at least one of the trailers, then drive back with one empty trailer.
4:15pm - Everyone Report to HS
Retrieve your uniform from the uniform closet and change into uniforms.
Please use bathrooms now!
4:40pm - Rehearse National Anthem with Middle School students in the theater parking lot.
Load any extra percussion equipment needed for the National Anthem and drive it over.
5pm - Depart for Stadium
5:15pm - Set up in the stands before student section arrives.
Unload the pit trailers
Retrieve podium and props from trailers (weather depending). Put everything at the corner of the track.
5:30pm - Seniors and Senior Escorts meet in the stadium endzone gate.
6pm - Senior Night Ceremony
Battery escorts football team to the stadium. Marching Band performs Chop.
MS Band students join the HS Band students on the field to play the National Anthem
6:30pm - Game Starts
Halftime performance!
3rd quarter (after performance), students will be given pretzels (or chips/snacks) and water provided by the Band Parents and will be allowed to use the bathrooms.
9pm – Approximate game end
9:15pm – Approximate Return to WHS
9:30pm - Approximate Dismissal (after clean up)
Friday, 10/23 - Rehearsal (5:15pm - 9:15pm, doors open at 4pm)
Saturday, 10/24 - NJMBDA Class Championships at Piscataway HS (100 Behmer Rd, Piscataway, NJ 08854)
We will need parent volunteers to help us move props and equipment on and off the field. Sign Up Here.
8am - Doors Open
8:40am - Report to High School for attendance
Make sure you bring your 2026 tour shirt. Students will need them if they change out of uniform.
Color Guard - Speak with Gia and leadership about what to wear/come prepared with (hair, makeup, etc). Have your 2026 tour shirt
8:45am - Pack the blue and white trailers at the high school.
9:15am (approx) - Students change into uniforms
Everyone must use the bathrooms before we depart. It is about 1hr 45min to Piscataway.
9:30am - Depart Williamstown
11:15am - Arrive at Piscataway HS
Use bathrooms
Unpack the trucks
12:10pm - Warm Up
1:55pm - Perform
TICKETS WILL NOT BE SOLD AT THE DOOR!! Spectators are more than welcome to purchase tickets the day of the event, or even on their phone at the gate, but there will be no cash handling of tickets, or kiosks at Piscataway.
After our performance:
Pack up all instruments and equipment.
Pit/Loading crew - Please pack things that need to be charged overnight (batteries, microphones, iPad...etc.) on the buses so we can bring them inside when we get back to the high school.
Change out of uniforms (if time)
Watch other groups perform
Students may have the opportunity to purchase concessions (most likely cash only) following our performance.
The Band Parents will also be providing hoagies for the students for dinner. Depending on packing and changing out of uniforms, students will either receive the hoagies before awards or on the bus as we head home.
3:15pm - Awards
All students should be sitting in a group during the awards ceremony.
Use bathrooms before we depart
3:45pm - Load Buses and return home
5:30pm - Approximate Return to WHS
5:45pm - Approximate Dismissal (after clean up)
Instruments and equipment will remain on the trucks overnight
Sunday, 10/25 - TOB Region 1 Championships at Eastern Regional HS (1401 Laurel Oak Rd, Voorhees Township, NJ 08043)
*All times are official and were updated on 10/19.
We will need parent volunteers to help us move props and equipment on and off the field. Sign Up Here.
1:30pm - Doors Open
1:50pm - Report to High School for attendance
Make sure you bring either your blue member shirt or some type of blue Williamstown shirt. Students will need them if they change out of uniform.
Color Guard - Speak with Gia and leadership about what to wear/come prepared with (hair, makeup, etc).
Everything should be packed from yesterday's competition. Double check things before leaving.
2:05pm (approx) - Students change into uniforms
2:20pm - Depart Williamstown
3pm - Arrive at Eastern Regional HS
Use bathrooms
Unpack the trucks
3:55pm - Warm Up
5:15pm - Perform
Tickets:
$15, adults
$10, students and senior citizens
After our performance:
Pack up all instruments and equipment.
Change out of uniforms (if time)
Watch other groups perform
Students may have the opportunity to purchase concessions (most likely cash only) following our performance.
6:15pm - Awards
All students should be sitting in a group during the awards ceremony.
Use bathrooms before we depart
7:15pm - Load Buses and return home
7:55pm - Approximate Return to WHS
8:25pm - Approximate Dismissal (after clean up)
Uniforms should be taken home to be washed every 1-2 weeks.
Uniforms should be returned on Tuesday nights (at the beginning or end of rehearsals) to ensure everything is accounted for in the uniform closet for Friday and Saturday performances.
Upcoming rehearsals and performances
Tuesday, 10/27 - Rehearsal (5:15pm - 9:15pm, doors open at 4pm)
Thursday, 10/29 - Rehearsal (5:15pm - 9:15pm, doors open at 4pm)
Friday, 10/30 - Playoff Football (TBD) & Christmas Parade Rehearsal
If there is a Home Playoff Football game, we will perform during halftime
If there is an Away Playoff Football game, we will be a pep band for the night
Saturday, 10/31 - Rehearsal & Send Off Performance
7:45am - Report for Senior Speeches, End of the year Slideshow, and Group Activities
Seniors, please plan out what you'd like to say! Each Senior will have up to 5 minutes to speak. You don't have to use all of the time. (If all 15 Seniors take 5 minutes to speak, speeches will last for about 1hr 15min...).
9:45am - Load trailers and head over to the stadium.
10:30am - Warm Up & Rehearse
12:30pm - Snack break and change into uniforms.
1pm - Send Off Performance
1:15pm - Group Photos in uniform with tracks and/or train
1:30pm - Clean up and pack trailers for tomorrow.
2pm - Walk back to the high school and change out of uniforms. Students are dismissed after everything is cleaned up.
Sunday, 11/1 - NJMBDA Finals at The College of New Jersey
Report time and Performance time TBD (dependent on how we place at Piscataway)
We will need parent volunteers to help us move props and equipment on and off the field. Sign Up Here.
TICKETS WILL NOT BE SOLD AT THE DOOR!! Spectators are more than welcome to purchase tickets the day of the event, or even on their phone at the gate, but there will be no cash handling of tickets, or kiosks at TCNJ.
Tuesday, 11/3 - Rehearsal (5:15pm - 9:15pm, doors open at 4pm) (if needed)
Thursday, 11/5
Rehearsal (5:15pm - 9:15pm, doors open at 4pm) (if needed)
WBPA Meeting (7pm, Virtual). If we have rehearsal, we will move the meeting later and it will take place in person in the HS Band room.
Friday, 11/6 - Parade Rehearsal & Possible Playoff Football Game
Saturday, 11/7 - Rehearsal (if needed)
Sunday, 11/8 - Rain Date for NJMBDA State Championships
Friday, 11/13 - Possible Playoff Football Game & Possible Christmas Parade Rehearsal (TBD, usually 4:30pm - 6pm)
Friday, 11/20 - Possible Playoff Football Game & Possible Parade Rehearsal (TBD, usually 4:30pm - 6pm)
Tuesday, 12/1 & Thursday, 12/3 - Holiday Tour
Rain/Snow Date on Wednesday, 12/2
Saturday, 12/5 - West Cape May Christmas Parades (schedule coming soon)
West Cape May Rain/Snow Date on Sunday, 12/6
The Fun Doesn't Stop When Marching Band Ends!
Tuesday, 11/10 - Jazz Ensemble, Indoor Percussion and Indoor Color Guard Interest Meetings in High School Band Room
2:30pm - Jazz Ensemble (WHS students only)
6pm - Indoor Color Guard (WHS, WMS, and GCIT students welcome)
7:30pm - Indoor Percussion (WHS, WMS, and GCIT students welcome)
Show themes will be announced, rehearsal and performance calendars distributed, and questions answered! More information coming soon!
Indoor Percussion & Indoor Color Guard: It is mandatory for a parent to attend this meeting. There is a lot of information, including out Wildwood overnight trip, that everyone should hear before agreeing to join either of these groups. If a parent is unable to attend, please reach out to Mr. Kuntz asap.
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