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Thank You to Our Sponsors!
Our Platinum Sponsors
The Dettmer Family,
in honor of Sam
The Mitchamore
Family
Our Gold Sponsors
The Otten
Family
The Maloney
Family
And thank you to the many orchestra families who have given so generously.
Updates
- Helpful Links
- Important Dates and Times!
- Dia de los Muertos Festival of Orchestras – We need your help!
- Online Wristband Sales Ends on Oct. 30. Buy Now and Save $5!
- Online Auction is Live!
- Student Donation Items Are Still Needed for the Festival!
- Upload a Picture of Your Loved Ones for the Festival
- Spring Break Orchestra Trip to CHICAGO! Deadline to Register is Sunday, October 27th
- Get Messages Using Remind
Helpful Links
Important Dates and Times!
The deadline for paying your annual orchestra fee has passed. If you haven’t paid the fee already, please do so as soon as possible. Students have already received their uniforms, binders, and other supplies.
- Fri, Oct. 18th: Online Auction went live! (details below)
- Sun, Oct. 27th: Final day to register for Chicago trip
- Wed, Oct. 30th, 7:30 am: Early morning practice for all orchestras
- Wed. Oct. 30th: Deadline for preordering your Festival wristbands, with discounts!
- Thu, Oct. 31st: Donated dessert items due from Period 7 class (details below)
- Sat, Nov. 2nd, 1:30-6:30 pm: Austin High Orchestra Dia de los Muertos Festival of Orchestras at the Austin ISD PAC. Concerts will run from 2-8 pm.
Dia de los Muertos Festival of Orchestras – We need your help!
The Dia de los Muertos Festival of Orchestras is coming up on Saturday, November 2nd, from 2-8 pm at the Austin ISD Performing Arts Center (1500 Barbara Jordan Blvd, Austin, TX 78723) and we need your help!
It takes more than 100 volunteers to help us organize and run our biggest event of the year! We are in desperate need of parent volunteers throughout the day, for just 2 hours—or more if you can. Some areas where adult volunteers are needed include monitoring the concert hall where food is prohibited, ticket sales, and receipt of payment from customers on food orders.
No matter what you enjoy doing, there’s a shift for that! Ticket sales, tee shirt sales, silent auction, food service, backstage help, loading up the trucks at Austin High the morning of the festival, and so much more.
All of our orchestra students have already signed up for at least one shift, so show your support and work alongside them to make it a great event.
Online Wristband Sales Ends on Oct. 30. Buy Now and Save $5!
The link to order wristbands online for the festival is here:
https://austinhighorchestra.com/concerts-uil/fall-concerts/dia-de-los-muertos-festival-of-orchestras
Online Auction is Live!
Our online auction is live and open to the public for the festival. It’s a great way to get the bigger community involved, so please spread the word to all your friends, family, co-workers, and acquaintances! Bidding closes on November 1st.
You can check out the goodies here: https://givebutter.com/c/AHSOrchestraFestival/auction
- 3 amazing vacation rental homes, 2 near Austin and 1 in Aspen, Colorado
- 2 month-long unlimited memberships to a new yoga / pilates studio
- Gift cards to Juliet Italian Restaurant, Oak Hill Social, Mighty Fine, and The Soup Peddler
- Tickets to Austin Symphony Orchestra and Our Town by Rude Mechanicals
- A 4-hour paddleboard adventure for 10
- A private wine class for 20
- And more!
Student Donation Items Are Still Needed for the Festival!
If you could donate the following items within your budget, this would help us reduce our expenses for the festival. Again, thank you for your support! Periods 1-6 donation items were due Friday, October 25th, but are still needed! 7th period orchestra class should bring their items by Thursday, October 31st.
Click here for information about the items needed based on your class period.
Upload a Picture of Your Loved Ones for the Festival
Please upload the picture of a loved one who is no longer with us but that you would like to honor at the festival. Please use the following link and make sure that your picture is uploaded with a sharable link.
https://forms.gle/SE8zY7ea4DntiahG6 links to an external site.
Spring Break Orchestra Trip to CHICAGO! Deadline to Register is Sunday, October 27th
We need all registrants to finish their Chicago Trip registration by THIS SUNDAY. Our representative has extended the deadline to Sunday, October 27th, but he will be securing flights on Monday. There is a minimum number to travel to Chicago, and we will make our number if everyone tentatively registered finishes their registration details!! Woo hoo! This should be a really fun trip!
Here is the link:
https://bobrogerstravel.groupcollect.com/v2/go/austinhso25
If you have any questions, please email Stacie Mitchamore or text at 512-633-4028.
Get Messages Using Remind
Please make sure that you and your student(s) sign up to get important messages and reminders. To sign up for Remind, compose a text message to the number 81010.
Camerata Orchestra: @a2aa82
Philharmonic & Recital Orchestras: @g4kcfc2
Chamber Orchestra: @hh2949
Orchestra Parents: @hak8gd