Join us for Alumni Band Day!
NOTES:
* The CBAA website (calband.berkeley.edu/cbaa) is UP!
* You may already have seen this event posted on Facebook. (If not, and you are on Facebook, please join the "Cal Band Alumni" group!) We are not keeping an official RSVP, but we are using both Facebook and Socialzr to notify as many people as we can.
* Socialzr only allows 1000 invitees, so this list includes most California residents, but not all. Please spread the word!
SCHEDULE:
6:15-6:45am: BRH (if you need an instrument)
7:00am: Check-in, donuts, coffee, juice, music pick-up at at Maxwell Field (just north of Memorial Stadium)
7:30am: DOWNBEAT at Maxwell! (Pleeeez be on time!)
~8:00am: We move into Memorial Stadium to practice with the Cal Band and then continue on our own
9:45am: Leave Memorial Stadium for BRH
10:30am: Full check-in at BRH
11:15am: DOWNBEAT in BRH for music rehearsal
12:15pm: Sandwich lunch on Lower Sproul
1:00pm: Cal Band Sproul Steps concert
1:15pm: Sather Gate parade form-up behind Cal Band, follow through campus
1:35pm: FunZone performance
1:50pm: Enter Memorial Stadium
~2:25pm: Perform Star Spangled Banner with Cal Band
2:30pm: Kickoff!
UNIFORM: Alumni Band polo shirt & hat (old or new design), jeans or dark pants/shorts. Shirts & hats will be available for purchase. CBAA Member prices: $19/shirt, $11/hat; non-member prices add $5 each. A new shirt & hat are included with a first-time 2-year membership ($30) or any new lifetime membership ($325 or $80 per year for 5 years). Credit cards accepted. Sign up for CBAA membership at Alumni Band Day (not required).
ALUMNI SHOW: We'll be making fun of the BCS by playing "Big Spender" and then "Everything's Coming Up Roses" as we form a big "C". Screw the jinx - we want to go to the Rose Bowl! :)
MUSIC:
www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~bandalum/library/
login: alumni
password: gobearson3
INSTRUMENTS: Available on a first come first serve basis in BRH at 6:15am. No guarantees! They have NO BRASS MOUTHPIECES, and only a handful of alto saxes, trombones, mellos, trumpets, baritones, 1 or 2 basses, percussion stuff, a few clarinets with no mouthpieces. They have no piccolos or tenor saxes.
RECEPTION: Immediately following the game, there is a reception in Alumni House (free snacks, soda, beer) for ALL former (and current!) Cal Band members & families. You do not need to have marched in Alumni Band Day to join us for the reception.
TICKETS: Band members with instruments and kids holding the banner (see below) receive free entry. ALL non-marchers need tickets and should enter through another gate (there is usually room near the Alumni Band to sit at the front of sections I and II). To help our family members without tickets, marchers with season tickets are highly encouraged to bring their tickets to give to those without tickets. Tickets can also be purchased from calbears.com or 1-800-GO-BEARS.
BANNER KIDS: To carry the banner on the field during halftime, kids MUST be at least 53 inches tall & attend the morning marching rehearsal. Limited spots are given on a first come first serve basis. The uniform is a white Cal shirt & blue Cal hat. All kids of all sizes are encouraged to march behind the Alumni Band banner on our way from Sather Gate to the stadium.
Go Bears! Beat the Eagles!
