Watch this video and read this update to learn more about how our Band program is adjusting to Covid19 while still providing challenging, engaging, and growth-enabling lessons. Please contact Sandi Wilson at swilson@thefsi.us for more information about our growing band program.
Concert Band
The Franklin School of Innovation Band program is in its 4th year under the direction of our new band director, Sandi Wilson. In the 1st year of the band program, there were less than 20 students, but as of the fall of 2019, there were over 60 students involved in this growing band program.
We now have a beginning band of 5th-6th graders. We also have a middle school band with 6th-8th graders, and a high school band made up of 9-12th graders.
In the 1st 2 years of the band program, the band met after school for an hour and a half to days a week. Now that the band program has grown, the high school band meets during the school day, while the beginning band and middle school band still meets after school. Starting next school year all band classes (5-12) will meet during the school day.
We are at a very critical point in the development of this band program. We are in need of a set of concert percussion equipment, along with several other large instruments like tubas, french horns, and low woodwind instruments.
Listed below are what we need to purchase in the next two years to help our band program flourish:
the instruments listed are not luxury items, but necessities):
Set of Timpani (4 sizes 22, 26, 28, 32)
Marimba
Xylophone
Vibraphone
Bells
Concert Bass Drum
Concert Snare Drum
Concert Crash Cymbals
Concert Suspended Cymbals
Two School Tubas
One School Bari Sax
Two School Bass Clarinets
Two School French Horns
