The fall concerts were amazing on both Monday and Tuesday evening this week.  A special thank you to Makiko – Tanabe-Kuang, the TIMB concert chair, and all the parent volunteers who helped volunteer at the concerts this week.   All your help is sincerely appreciated.

THIS FRIDAY OCTOBER 10th – HOME GAME – PINK OUT & NHS/SVMS PERFORMANCE

–  The game this Friday is the annual Pink Out Game in support of breast cancer awareness month so parents and families wear some pink along with your TIMB shirts and hoodies.   TIMB has a special pink ribbon that all the Marching Band Students will wear on Friday.

–  Additionally, we are excited to host the Sierra Vista Middle School Band this Friday in the first ever Northwood/SVMS Musical Extravaganza Bonanza Combined Football Game Performance!  There will be close to 400 students performing!

Here are some additional details for our NHS families to make this a successful and fun evening!

Parents please remember that all TIMB volunteers need to purchase a ticket to enter the stadium to volunteer and/or watch the game.  Tickets may be purchases online prior to the game at the link here.  bit.ly/NHSTwolfTickets or purchased at the game using an electronic payment.  Cash will not be accepted.

5:15 PM – Uniform Staff/Band Staff Begin Unloading Trucks
5:20 PM – Call time at Irvine High School.
Wear your band shirt, athletic shorts, black crew sock, dinkles.  Hair needs to be up and out of your face.  No Jewelry.  Also, NO FACE PAINT/BODY PAINT FOR PINK OUT).
Bring your instrument, water, ALL Music and your lyre.  We have the IHS gym to leave our cases in and to use to change into the uniforms.
5:30 PM – Change into uniforms as quickly as possible!!
5:30 – Rehearsal with Middle School Students as close to 5:30 as possible.
6:40 PM – Pre Game Performance with SVMS
7:00 PM Kick Off
Food provided by TIMB to the students after their performance.
9:45 PM – 10 PM approximately.  Game should be over around 9:30 PM.  Student will need to change out of their uniforms and load trucks.  Please plan your pick up accordingly.  Director approved pick up location is the front parking lot off Walnut.

TRUCK LOADING: If you have an open 8th period, we will be loading the trucks at that time.  All Pit, Band Staff, Leadership, Drumline, Tubas & CG and anyone else with a kind heart who wants to help should attend (if you have an open 8th).

TRUCK UNLOADING: All Band Staff, Leadership, Drumline, Tubas & CG are required to attend.  Anyone who needs to make up for tardies should also attend.

CONSIDER MAKING A DONATION TO KMA
There is still time to make your KMA donation this year and help us reach our donation goals this year!  We are almost there and every amount helps!  Your generous gift helps to Keep Music Alive at NHS! Your donation helps to sustain our instrumental music program at its current level by providing critical funding in areas such as clinics and instruction, instrument repair and purchase, sheet music and more.

  • $125 TIMB (2 vouchers)
  • $200 ADVOCATE (8 vouchers + name in program)
  • ​$400 CHARTER OAK (family voucher to all concerts  + name in program + early seating)

Donations of any amount are welcome at any time – no donation is too small to make a significant impact! Please visit timbmusic.org/donate to help Keep Music Alive at Northwood

AMAZON WISHLIST 

The Northwood Instrumental Music directors has put together an Amazon wishlist on materials the program use every year in the classroom.  If you would like to purchase any of the items on the list and donate them, it is a great help to the program.

BUSINESS SPONSORSHIP 

Do you own a local business?  We would like to invite you to place an advertisement in our concert programs for the 2025-2026 NHS Instrumental Music Season. For more detail, click here.

NEXT TIMB MEETING, MONDAY, OCTOBER  13th, 6:30pm
Join us for the latest instrumental music news, including updates from the Music Directors. Email TIMB.President@gmail.com at least 1 hour prior to the meeting for the Zoom link. If you would like to be added to the mailing list to receive the zoom link for all TIMB meetings, please indicate that in your email.

COMING UP: 
Monday, October 13th, TIMB Meeting 6:30 PM
Friday, Oct 17th, 5:30pm call time  7:00 Kick off: Home Game vs Orange at Irvine High School
THURSDAY, Oct 30th, 5:30pm call time  7:00 Kick off: Home Game vs Dana Hills at Irvine High School
Saturday, November 1st.  Marching Band Irvine Invitational Field Tournament. @ Irvine High School.
Wednesday, November 5th.  Band Spectacular @ Irvine High School.  Call Time TBD.
Saturday, November 8th, Marching Band Banquet at NHS.  Dinner at 4:30 and the awards in the theater at 6:00,  More information on this soon.

CHECK OUT OUR WEBSITE
Looking for the latest instrumental music news, calendar, music downloads or photos and videos from every performance and event? Find them on our website at timbmusic.org

QUESTIONS: Email  WhitneyTavlarides@IUSD.org, ColeQuizon@iusd.org or TIMB.President@gmail.com