The Irish Guard Winter Percussion competes in competitions in the Northern California Band Association (NCBA) as well as the Northern California Percussion Alliance (NC-PA).
Irish Guard Winter Percussion earned 5th place of 13 competitors today at Northern California Percussion Alliance Championships at the Stockton Areana with their show, “A Noise Inside.” Their raw score was 82.975, an increase of over 6 points from their last competition!
Thank you Director Mr. Elliot Polot, Caption Heads Mr. Justin Shebert and Mr. Nico Peruzzi, and staff for leading, teaching and inspiring our 20 winter percussion students.
Elliot Polot, Director. Justin Shebert, Captain Head. Nico Peruzzi, Captain Head. Additional Staff: Charlie Tran, Battery Tech.
1. Students will have morning practice from 9am to 12pm on Saturday.
2. They will then load up the u-Haul truck and head out.
3. Students will need to bring a lunch and some money for snacks/dinner.
Info is also in the driver sign-up sheet (link below).
For this away trip, we need parent drivers to transport approximately 22 students. If you are a cleared driver and would like to help out, please sign-up here by so we have time to assign students to drivers.
If you need to complete your driver clearance form, please download it at this link (Driver Form) and turn in hard copies, along with a copy of your valid drivers license and insurance declarations page to Student Activities. Make sure the license and insurance is valid.
Just to remind everyone, the music program is heavily funded by parent contributions and various fundraisers throughout the year. Each season's program has its own contributions (i.e. Fall Marching season has its contributions, Winter Percussion has its contribution, Winter Guard has its contribution, etc).
Please make your contribution via a check into the Band room mailbox or online here: Participant Contributions.
Also, for those of you who are new to DHS Winter Percussion program, we travel to all of our competitions in personal vehicles, so we will be calling on all "district cleared" drivers for help in shuttling the students to and from the venues. Depending on the number of seat belts in your car, we will need several vehicles to shuttle. We also need a couple of large SUVs and flat bed trucks to haul the floor and cart as well as the larger instruments.