Alta Sierra Bands & Buchanan Marching Band
CUSD Band Night • Veteran’s Memorial Stadium
Wednesday, October 29, 2025
Last Update: 10/9/25 • 11:35pm
General Details
Weather Forecast: See Below
Meals Provided/$$ Needed: Dinner provided.
Event Details
Show Site: Veteran’s Memorial Stadium @ Buchanan High School
Gates Open: 5:30pm
Star-Spangled Banner (All Bands): 6:10pm
Alta Sierra Performs with the Combined Intermediate School Band: 6:25pm
Buchanan Performs: 7:05pm
Admission: Free!
Concessions are available for audience members only (not BHS/ASI band students)
Spectator Seating: Click here for the spectator seating map.
Spectator Parking: Free and available near the stadium off of Nees Ave.
ASI Band Reminders
No students will be dismissed until the event is finished and we return to the ASI Bandroom. Students will be signed out from the Alta Sierra MPR after the event.
We will stay after school. You do not go home. Dinner is provided!
Wear your red ASI Instrumental Music Shirt along with jeans and tennis shoes.
Water will be provided during rehearsal and in the stands after the performance.
NO CONCESSIONS. Your family may not bring you food/concessions during this event.
ASI Band members, wear something long-sleeved and warm UNDER your Band shirt! Bring something warm to wear when the performance is over.
Video Recording is Not Allowed at any Alta Sierra Performance or Festival. Recording of any group or performance is against copyright laws. Thank you for your cooperation.
This event is a celebration of the hard work that ALL of the CUSD band programs have done this fall. Please support and cheer for all groups equally!
BHS Band Reminders
We will rehearse after school. Dinner is provided.
Don't forget your 5 S's - ApolloS (N/A this year), Shirt, Shorts, Socks, & Shoes!
NO CONCESSIONS. Your family may not bring you food/concessions during this event. Dinner is provided!
Video Recording is Not Allowed at any Buchanan Performance or Competition. Recording of any group or performance is against copyright laws. Thank you for your cooperation.
This event is a celebration of the hard work that ALL of the CUSD band programs have done this fall. Please support and cheer for all groups equally!
Alta Sierra Itinerary
2:30pm ASI Band Report to the ASI Bandroom. (Excused from 6th Period)
Get instruments out of cases and put cases back in your lockers.
Line up by instrument type and get seated.
2:45pm Go to sectionals at locations below with BHS. Work on Pep Tunes, Star-Spangled Banner, and “High Hopes”.
Flutes: BHS 451
Clarinets: BHS P1
Altos: ASI Bandroom
Low Saxes: ASI Bandroom/Percussion Room
Trumpets: BHS Theater Stage
French Horns: BHS Makeup Room
Baritones/Trombones: BHS P2
Tubas: BHS Percussion Room
Percussion: BHS Bandroom
Guard: BHS MPR
3:45pm Full band rehearsal on Practice Field B2 (next to BHS Soccer Field).
Make block, play SSB, play High Hopes
4:15pm Watch Buchanan Run-Through
4:30pm Rehearsal Ends. ASI goes to dinner in MPR and sits at assigned tables by section. (Leave space for BHS)
4:45pm BHS joins ASI for dinner. Use the restroom/fill water.
5:20 pm Out to the Buchanan Band Practice Field.
5:30 pm Set Up for combined SSB with ASI & BHS Bands.
5:50 pm Move in a single file line to the stadium entrance.
6:00pm CUSD Band Night Begins
6:10 pm "Star Spangled Banner" played by all High School & Middle School Bands. When the SSB is over, exit the field, line up instruments, and enter stands.
6:25 pm Alta Sierra Performs with the Combined Intermediate School Band
6:45 pm Watch Clovis North Perform
7:05 pm Watch Buchanan Perform
7:25 pm Watch Clovis High Perform
7:45 pm Watch Clovis East Perform
8:05 pm Watch Clovis West Perform
8:25 pm Event concludes. Retrieve instruments from the track, then walk back to the Alta Sierra Bandroom together as a group.
8:45 pm ALL Alta Sierra students sign-out with their parent in the Alta Sierra MPR.
Buchanan Itinerary
During 6th: Guard & Percussion take as much as possible out to the stadium (i.e. props, etc)
2:30pm School ends. Report to BHS Bandroom. Change into uniform.
2:45pm Report to Sectionals with ASI (Locations above)
3:30pm Take everything out to the field
3:45pm Rehearse with ASI Band (N/A this year: No Apollo boxes. Get a plume!)
4:15pm Standstill run-through of the show for Alta Sierra.
4:30pm Each section meets with ASI and walk in 2’s to BHS MPR. You must eat together.
4:45pm Dinner in BHS MPR. Sit with your section! Use the restroom. Bring your water jug.
5:15pm Take all pit equipment and props to the stadium. Front Ensemble on Side 1 Lined up along the track past the CUSD Plants. CE, CW, CHS, CN in front of you. All props to side 2. OUR SECTION is the STUDENT Section.
5:30 pm Set Up for combined SSB with ASI outside stadium.
5:50 pm Move in a single file line to the stadium entrance.
6:00pm CUSD Band Night Begins
6:10 pm "Star Spangled Banner" played by all High School & Middle School Bands. Exit field, line up instruments and enter stands.
6:25 pm Alta Sierra Performs with the Combined Intermediate School Band
6:45 pm Watch Watch Clovis North then immediately move to the field.
7:05 pm Buchanan Performs
7:25 pm Watch Clovis High Perform
7:45 pm Watch Clovis East Perform
8:05 pm Watch Clovis West Perform
8:25 pm Event concludes. Take ALL props, equipment, front ensemble instruments, etc back to the Bandroom/Prop Storage Area. Change out of uniform.
9:00 pm Dismissed from Buchanan.
