Emergency Contacts: John Lack, Director, 509-389-0467 (Emergencies Only).
Student Transportation: Provided to and from the event via Charter Bus.
Hotel: Coming Soon!

• Please Note: Parents are discouraged from booking the same hotel at the band.

• Checking in with your student at the hotel, visiting their hotel room, having breakfast with your student, etc. is not permitted as students must follow our exact guidelines and policies when on a trip.

Ensuring the students are at the best for the performance, getting proper nutrition is essential. Please review “Meals & Eating On Trips” on our Travel Guidelines page.

• All students must eat every meal. All dietary concerns are considered when preparing the menu.

• When the students have a their choice at a meal stop, we encourage them to make good/reasonable food choices, especially if we have a performance coming up.

• No Energy Drink or Overly Sugary Coffee Drinks are permitted until we have finished our final performance.

Meals Provided/$ for Meals Needed:

• Friday:

  • Provided: Sack Breakfast on the Bus, Dinner.

  • Not Provided: Students need $$ for a lunch stop on Friday and should pack additional snacks for the bus ride.

• Saturday:

  • Provided: All meals provided, including Breakfast (at hotel), Lunch, Dinner, and Snacks.

• Sunday:

  • Provided: Breakfast (at hotel)

  • Not Provided: $$ for a meal stop and snacks at stops on our trip home.

Please click on Competition Info above for the preliminary competition schedule, daily schedule, tickets, parking, event schedule, etc.

• Competition Site: J. Lawrence Walkup Skydome, 1705 S San Francisco St, Flagstaff, AZ 86001

• Buchanan Preliminary Performance: 3:30pm
  Directions: Google Maps • Apple Maps

• All bands will perform in finals! Buy the DAYPASS that gives you access to both prelims and finals.

• Spectator Parking & Shuttle Map: Click Here (Available in Lot P62, with free shuttle to stadium)

• Spectator Bag Policy: Click ‘Competition Details’ above

• Outside food and beverages are NOT allowed to be brought into the stadium, either by students or spectators.

• Concessions: Available at the stadium.

• Online BOA Merchandise Sales (Also available at the stadium): Click Here.

• Video & Audio Recording is prohibited. Out of respect for fellow audience members and spectators and to protect the rights of the original composers and copyright owners who license their music to the Buchanan Instrumental Music Program and organizations that host events we participate in, the use of audio and video recording technology - including mobile devices and live streaming applications - during and rehearsal or performance setting is strictly prohibited.

• Please remember that parents/friends may not visit the band at the hotel.

• If you are traveling to Flagstaff and planning to take your student home with you, you may pick them up from the hotel at 8:45am on Sunday, just before we depart. We will not release students on Saturday night after the show.

  • Complete the “Post-Event Release Form”.

  • Check your student out from a director or bus chaperone IN-PERSON. We will only release students to their own parent/guardian.

• Packing list link above!

• Label EVERYTHING with your name.

• All bags must be brought on Thursday morning before school.