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☀️ July News 🕶 Mr. Brown's Retirement Event SAVE THE DATE! We are planning a picnic style event for Sunday August 8, 2021 11 am - 2 pm at Northgate HS to give everyone a chance to wish Greg Brown a Happy Retirement. All Northgate Instrumental students and their families, past and present, are invited to attend. We will have catered tacos, ice cream, cake and of course awesome music performed by our students and alumni. We'll also feature DJ Sammy. We are asking for a $5 donation per person. Please bring your own camping style chair if you have one. We also are in need of easy ups for shade. Students and alumni are encouraged to put together combo groups to perform at the event. Please contact Heather-Ann LeBlanc, NIMB Past President and Coordinator for this event, at haknits@gmail.com to be added to the program. New Music Director! We are delighted to announce that a new Instrumental Music Director has been found - Roberto Garcia-Leiva. Our junior and senior students and families may remember Mr. Garcia-Leiva from his time as a student teacher with Mr. Brown in the 2019-2020 school year. In the time he spent with us, Mr. Garcia-Leiva demonstrated his strong musicianship and passion for teaching and established a great rapport with our student musicians. We look forward to a great year and NIMB will do all that we can to help. New NIMB President At the June 1, 2021 Board Meeting John Zamarripa was elected as our new NIMB President. John was been our Vice President this past year and has been one of our chief Roadies since his son Sebastian (trombone player in wind Ensemble and Jazz I and this year's Senior BOSS president) joined the program three years ago. Thank you John for taking over the helm! 🥁🎶 Marching Band & Auxiliary Need You! Please see our new Marching Band & Auxiliary 2021 calendar. MB is a great way to have fun with friends new and old while playing and performing with our award-winning Marching Band. Do you want to join in the fun of Marching Band, but don't play a MB instrument? Join Auxiliary! We need a group of enthusiastic students to march and twirl in formation to the beat of our Marching Band. No experience is necessary, our coach will train you, and as musicians you already know how to keep time! Click HERE for more information for MB & Auxiliary. Please fill out the registration forms and mail byJune 15th. For contributions to MB, we are requesting $350 for the season. You can pay in Full or use our Payment Plan. Our 2021 season includes: (subject to our New Band Director’s Approval for dates and times). NIMB Board Vacancies - We Need You! NIMB is a volunteer organization dedicated to supporting the Northgate Instrumental Music Program, in order to do this effectively we need the help of as many parents and guardians as possible. At the end of the 2019-2020 school year we lost almost half of our Board Members whose children graduated from Northgate. The pandemic shut down affected our ability to fill those positions and we have even more openings now with the graduation of the Class of 2021. Most of the positions we need filled are behind the scenes organizational work, things you can take care of at home. We would really like to have a fully staffed NIMB Board in place for the new Instrumental Music Director to make a smoother transition in the Instrumental Music Program. Please seriously consider helping us in the following areas: Communications
Transportation Coordinator. This position involves organizing and contracting buses to take students to music festivals and other events. Concerts
Class Representatives. Each class in the program has a Parent Representative to coordinate communications and volunteers for class specific events/ information. Our current classes are: Concert Band (freshman parent), Symphonic Band, Wind Ensemble, Orchestra, Jazz Band II, Jazz Band I. Treasurer We need someone to keep the account books for NIMB and oversee monetary transactions. A background in accounting is not necessary, but some experience as a treasurer for another volunteer organization would be helpful. We have a Finance Committee to support this job. Vice President. We need someone here to help out the president as needed, ideally someone who expects to have students in the program for several more years, as our president is the parent of a senior and it would make the transition smoother next year if we have someone learning the ropes now. Jobs can be shared by more than one person and we are here to offer help and support to new recruits! Please contact us at nimbconnect@gmail.com to sign up to help our amazing Student Musicians. Virtual Performance 2 Another Outstanding Virtual Performance! Congratulations to all of our wonderful student musicians for their fantastic performances in our end of year Virtual Performance II! You should all be very proud of of your efforts. If you didn't catch our amazing Virtual Performance 2, would like to see it again or would like to share it, go to our You Tube Link. Also, congratulations to all of our Instrumental Music Performing Arts Award winners! If you are looking for our Virtual Performance 1, you can also view at this YouTube link. 📣 Special shout out to Athena Zapantis for her Virtual Performance article in the Northgate Sentinel. Click HERE to view. Athena played Symphonic Winds clarinet, Jazz Combo Tenor Sax, and Jazz Band I Saxophone, and was an Audio Producer and Production Advisor for the Virtual Performance! Way to go Athena! NIMB BOARD MEETINGS Who attends NIMB Board Meetings? YOU do! The meetings are for ALL parents of Northgate Instrumental Music students. By sharing reports from each area of the program, we collectively make decisions on expenditures and plan for future events. The meetings are held the second Tuesday of each month at 7pm. Please join us and be part of the action and planning! Come for a short time or stay for the whole meeting. Please email us at nimbconnect@gmail.com and we will add you to the Zoom invite. Our next meetings will resume after summer break. Stay tuned here for a new schedule. Extra Music Section - Please Donate In order to keep the Instrumental Music Program at its current level of six classes NIMB has been committed to paying for the sixth section for the 2019-2020 and 2020-2021 school years. Class donations are currently $25,000 below budget expectations. We rely on your donations to meet these obligations. With many of our usual fundraising opportunities, especially March-A-Thon, cancelled or diminished due to the current health situation we need to the financial support of every NIMB family more than ever. We understand that everyone is being impacted by the current economic situation, our hope is always 100% participation at whatever level is comfortable for each family. The amounts listed below are suggestions, what we intend the average for each class to be. Please help us continue to support the day-to-day needs of our music students. Suggested donations are: Concert Band $190 Symphonic Band, Wind Ensemble, Orchestra $225 Jazz Band II $240 Jazz Band I $400 Please visit nimbconnect.org for PayPal packages and payment plans under the Contribute tab. Checks, made payable to "NIMB" can be sent to: NIMB P.O. Box 30232 Walnut Creek, CA 94598 Scan QR Code or click DONATE BUTION below. Thank you!
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