Thanks to everyone for helping make our Invitational a huge success!!! We got a lot of positive feedback from the visiting bands and everything seemed to ruch much smoother than last year! Congratulations to all visiting bands on some great performances!!! Stay tuned for information about next year's event!
You are cordially invited to participate in our 2nd annual Mighty Knight Invitational. This event will take place on Saturday, October 31, 2009 in the brand new synthetic turf field stadium on the campus of ArdreyKellHigh School. Ardrey Kell HS is conveniently located in Southern Charlotte, just minutes away from I-485, I-85, and I-77.
Even though this is only our 2nd year running a show at Ardrey Kell, I have previous experience running a marching band show at my former school. We hosted over 20 bands each year and the show was always a great success!!!
The Mighty Knight Invitational will be an early day show finishing somewhere around 3:00pm, so bands will be able to “double-up” and attend an evening show as well if they so wish, or will be able to make it home in time to go "trick-or-treating"! In addition to the competition, we will also be offering anEvaluation-only division, which will evaluate your Band only with the caption and overall ratings, not scores or placements. This class is ideal for the non-competitive Band.
Our adjudicators will provide valuable comments for both you and your students, as they possess many years of adjudicator experience in numerous states including FL, GA, NC, and SC. We will also hold a post-competition critique where you and your staff can meet with the judges and discuss their reactions to your performance in person.
Please feel free to contact me if you have anyadditional questions or if there is anything that I can do to help make your marching seasonsuccessful.
Sincerely,
Larry Shane
ADJUDICATION CAPTIONS
We will not be using the State sheets, but will have sheets that follow both the NCBA and BOA sheets / categories in the following captions:
GE Music, GE Visual, Ensemble Music, Ensemble Visual, Percussion, Auxiliary, Drum Major
Overall score will be calculated by the following (ties will be broken by the overall music score):
Ensemble Music - 30% Ensemble Visual - 20%
GE Music - 30% GE Visual - 20%
Judges:
Ensemble Music - John Schnettler - DMA Candidate at the University of Georgia and former Director of Athletic Bands at the University of South Florida GE Music - Edrick Rhodes - Band Director at West Boca HS (Boca Raton, FL)
Ensemble Visual - Mike Higbe - judges visual for FMBC, FFJA, and WGI GE Visual - Sue Nicholson - retired band director - judges visual for FFJA and WGI
Perc - Jonathan Duke - percussion director for 2-time WGI finalist Dorman HS Indoor drum line Guard - Nikki Jones - judges color guard in both NC and SC
Drum Majors - Elizabeth Dockery - band director at Community House MS
Please mail the Registration Form (click this link) along with a non-refundable $50 registration fee to:
Ardrey Kell HS
Attn: Larry Shane, Band Director
10220 Ardrey Kell Road
Charlotte, NC28277
The deadline for registration is October 9th. A package of additional info containing rules, directions, performance times, and a Band Bio request for our program will be sent out after we receive your registration info.
