Thank you to an Allstate volunteer for empowering people and our community. Jaime Viladiu gave his time and helped us to receive a $500 Allstate Foundation Helping Hands Grant. The Allstate Foundation supports the causes that Allstate agency owners, financial specialists and employees care about most by providing Allstate Foundation Helping Hands Grants to nonprofits where they volunteer their time to help communities thrive.
We had a record number of Ross students audition for the highly competitive Ohio Music Education Association’s Honor Bands. They performed January 14 at Mason High School for the Honor Band Festival.
Students that made the groups for this year are:
7th Grade Honor Band
Olivia Wilson, Caroline Pate, Levi Hale, Ethan Mason, Ross Molina, Grace Berting, Malea Rednour, and alternate Hudson Breedan.
8th Grade Honor Band
Dylan Wold, Bryan Butterfield, Kyla Moore, Carly Marcum, and alternates - Molly Garrow, Ryan Bailey, Emma Sheppard and Jon Hudson
Freshman Honor Band
Maddie Rednour, Brayden Meade, Collin Schneider, Bryan Pence, and alternate Hayden Stewart.
High School Wind Symphony
Clayton Yelton, Nathan Green, Jordan Reid, Ben Schuler, and alternates Cameron Gieske and Harry Moeller.
Congratulations to all who had the courage to audition and congratulations on a wonderful performance!
Way to go Mr. Morelock, Mr. Roemer and our RMS Honor Band students! Thank you to the Hamilton Journal for sharing their fantastic accomplishment!
Congrats to the Ross Band of Class on their SUPERIOR performance at the OMEA State Marching Band Finals! Great job!
Here’s the Ross Marching Band last night in Tipp City. Ross earned Best Percussion, 2nd place in class A, 2 Superior ratings and 4 Excellent ratings from the judges. Go Ross Band!
The final Middle School Band Concerts will be held tonight in the Ross High School Performing Arts Center. The 6th grade concert will begin at 6:00pm and the 7/8th grade concert will begin at 7:00pm. Click the links below to see the programs for the concerts.
Conzart will be held at Ross High School this Thursday, May 11, beginning at 6:00pm. Conzart is a Fine Arts Festival, featuring the RHS Choirs, Bands, and the Visual Arts Department. The Ross High School Choir will be performing at 6:00pm. This performance will last about 30 minutes. The Ross Concert Band will perform after the completion of the choir performance. The Ross Jazz Band will then perform following the Concert Band performance. Please join the arts department in celebrating the students’ hard work. Click the picture below for the Ross Band of Class Conzart program.
The Ross High School Band Banquet is back this year May 22, 6:00pm, in the high school cafeteria. Meat and drinks will be provided but please sign up to bring a side dish if you are attending. Your student was given a form to bring home today.
Join us in the Ross High School Gym Wednesday, April 12, 2023, 7:00pm, for our third annual Bands in the Round Concert! The concert includes performances from all middle school ensembles, the middle school jazz band, the high school jazz and concert bands, the Ross indoor percussion competition group and a finale performed by all the groups combined. You don’t want to miss this!! Click on the picture to the right for a concert program you can download and/or print. Limited high quality programs will be available for $1 at the concert as well as a limited number of black and white paper copies.
Come support our Indoor Percussion Competition this Sunday! If you can donate your time, it would be greatly appreciated! Or just come enjoy the competition!
Here is the link to watch the 2022 Marching Band Concert. For more performances, scroll to the bottom and click on the YouTube icon to take you to our Marching Band YouTube Page!
Join us Friday night between the parade and the game!
Join us Wednesday night to help support the Ross Band!
Hello. I am so impressed with our Band's performance at the Wilmington Band Contest. We worked very hard on improving our music - balance, blend, awareness of your place in the ensemble, dynamics, timing, precision, etc, etc. And it paid off. One of the best parts of my job is when students learn that hard work and dedication are truly the secrets to life's challenges. As much as getting a superior rating at our very first contest would have been nice, it would not have taught the students the value of perseverance. So we can all sleep a little easier now, but trust me, we are not done with our show. Plenty of work ahead. See you at State! We scored a total of 82.160 points. This was up from Tipp City at 78.480. We earned superior ratings from both music judges, visual judge, color guard judge, and percussion judge. We earned excellent ratings from both general effect judges. - only one point away from each to get superior rating from them. We earned First place in class A. Which is very cool since we have one three first place trophies in a row now. We earned Best Color Guard. Two weeks in a row now. They are doing fabulous and the judges like their contributions to our theme. We earned Best Percussion. We have an extremely hard working percussion section. This was a great show for them. But if I know them, they are going to work even harder. We earned an overall Superior rating. This qualified us for Ohio State Marching Band Finals. This is Ross Band's 37th consecutive appearance at State. 1985 was our first appearance. State finals is held around the state over the course of two weekends. There are no first place, best guard, etc trophies. It is for ratings only. We will do our best to achieve the top rating of Superior. The contest date is assigned to us. Most likely, but not confirmed yet - this will be November 6. Not sure of the time. The venue will most likely be Piqua High School. It will NOT be Dayton Welcome stadium as in the past. That stadium is being renovated. This week is a busy one - but no band commitments on Saturday! Friday activities. - End of the 9 weeks. Check grades, some students have not turned in playing tests.! Pep rally during school. Homecoming parade -meet at school at 3:30 pm - many kids just stay after school. Parade steps off at 5 pm. New start location but same route basically. We assemble near Marathon gas station on Wade Mill road. We will take school buses there. We end our portion of the parade at Elda as usual. The rest of the parade continues on to Wade Mill road. I am interested to see how this new plan works. Hopefully even better that before! Booster sponsored Food trucks. These will be in the circle in front of RMS. Please eat here! Friday Football game- we will perform at halftime for the homecoming court activities. We typically don't play our show due to time restraints. Next week on Saturday we play at Turpin High School at 7:15 pm. I will send out schedule details next week. Next week also we have an indoor concert on Wednesday at 7pm. Oct. 19. Remember to join our zoom meeting THIS THURSDAY. Just being on the zoom meeting earns us money. https://scanmail.trustwave.com/?c=12185&d=-8q840TmbQcA9wD-nbJDeMP-0EsX7EKQxG2-JQZzMQ&s=10&u=https%3a%2f%2fus02web%2ezoom%2eus%2fj%2f87603684734 Have a great Homecoming week. The band is extremely busy. Thank you, Richard Roemer Ross High School Administration
If you or someone you know is looking to replace a bed in your home, now is the time! Ross High School Band Program is excited to announce they will be hosting a one-day Mattress Fundraiser on Sunday, October 23rd, from 10am - 4pm. There will be 25 different styles of beds on display for customers to try. The brand name mattresses are made to order, have full factory warranties, are available in all sizes, and are priced below retail. In addition to beds, there will also be premium pillows, luxury sheets, mattress protectors, adjustable power bases and even massage chairs! Delivery & financing are available.
The Ross Band increased their scores last week at the Hamilton Band contest and we brought home First Place! We earned two of the three required Superior ratings needed to qualify for State Finals. The band earned a total of 79.460 points. We needed a total of 80 points to qualify. Our score from Norwood was 74.5. In addition, our percussion section earned the third highest score in the entire show. They outscored several AA bands! We are right where we need to be. Still room to grow and improve - remember we are just now half way into our fall season. The students must keep a good attitude and a growth mindset to take this show to its ultimate completion. The judges love our show so we know we are on the right track. As always, the number one thing a student can do to help our show- PRACTICE individually at home. Color guard, percussion, winds. This week - we will have an added rehearsal on Friday from 4 - 6 pm. Sorry to add to our schedule, but when I put together our calendar I was not aware we would not be going to away football games. Since we are not playing at all Friday - we need to rehearse to stay sharp for Saturday. If there are circumstances that cause issue, please reach out to me. Saturday - we travel to Tipp City. The contest is not at Tippecanoe high school. Type into your GPS "Tipp City Family Aquatic Center" and it will take you right to the park where the stadium is. (No we are not playing in a swimming pool!, but that sounds interesting) The whole show starts at 6 pm and awards are at 8:45 pm. Ross performs at 7:30 pm. Under the lights! This is a smaller stadium, but I do like the contest. We have been going here for many years. Thanks to all the fans that have been coming to our shows and cheering on our band. We love to hear you out there! And thanks to all the kind emails and texts I received in support of our program. This weekend will be the furthest regional show we go to this year due to busing constraints. You might want to ask your student to alert you via text when we leave Tipp City so you can plan for pickup. I estimate around 11:30 pm. I have attached our complete schedule for the day.
Click the link below to download and print the show shirt order form!
Hello! Band Camp 2022 is fast approaching. We will be holding an informational meeting tomorrow night, Monday, July 25, at 7:00pm in the Ross High School PAC. Please join us!
Also, we have a Signup Genius for anyone who would like to donate to our Band Camp supplies. Click the following link to help out!
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/20F084AAEA629AAF94-band8
Please send in donations no later than Friday, April 8. You can turn in tickets to your student’s band director or turn them into the Band Boosters the night of the concert.
Thank you for your support!
