Dear LHS "Lion Pride" Marching Band Parents,

I sincerely regret to inform you that I have made the decision to cancel our participation in the Parade of Lights this year.  We have made a good faith effort through a variety of indoor and outdoor rehearsals to make this parade work.  However, with a parade time temperatures scheduled for this evening and tomorrow, I have made the decision that I would be putting our students in an unsafe performance environment.  Therefore we will not be performing in the Parade of Lights this evening and tomorrow. We have struggled to keep valves from freezing during the daytime rehearsals, and it will only be much worse at night.  There are also real concerns regarding frostbite and exposure at these temperatures.

I want you all to know how much I appreciate all of the effort and work that our Band parents (especially Carrie McNealy) put into making the banner, lighting and decorating the capes and making our band look great.  I was so looking forward to seeing our band in full assembly for this performance.  We will certainly work towards being able to perform in a holiday parade next year.

Thank you again for all of your support and assistance with this endeavor.  I am looking forward to our concert on Tuesday evening on stage in the LHS Theater at 7pm.

I hope that this message reaches you quickly and efficiently.

Thank you again for your support of the LHS Band Program.

--
Don Emmons, Instrumental Music Director
Littleton High School

Parade of Lights information sheet

The 2013 Parade of Lights is on Friday night Dec. 6th at 8pm and on Saturday night Dec. 7th at 6pm. The Parade Route and information is online at http://www.denverparadeoflights.com/ Call time for Friday is 4:45pm and for Saturday at 3:00pm. We will return to the bandroom at LHS by around 10:00 pm on Friday night and should be back by around 8:00pm on Saturday night. You need to make sure that you have transportation or rides home in advance. On Saturday evening, we have reserved Cici’s Pizza on the corner of University and Dry Creek for everyone who would like to go and celebrate our Parade of Lights performances. $5 per person will allow you access to the Pizza Buffet and drinks. This parade will be very, very cold. Be prepared to perform in extremely cold weather conditions. Get the gloves, hand warmers, under-armor or anything else you need to be warm enough to perform in the cold. You will need to provide any holiday decorations that you are doing for your instruments on your own. Please encourage your family, friends and neighbors to come watch the parade and cheer on the LHS band and colorguard as we perform. The parade will be telecast live by channel 9 at 8pm on Friday night. It will be rebroadcast on Saturday, Dec.14th at 6pm. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the parade, please call me at (303) 347-7736 and leave a message and I will get back to you. Thanks for your support of our student musicians and the tremendous opportunity and honor it is to perform in the Downtown Denver 9NEWS Parade of Lights. Sincerely, Don Emmons, Instrumental Music Director Littleton High School 199 E. Littleton Blvd. Littleton, CO 80121 (303) 347-7736 demmons@lps.k12.co.us

Help needed to finish getting uniforms ready for parade of lights

THANK YOU to all the band moms who helped out today! We got SO much done! If you are around tomorrow morning we will trying to get things finished up from 7-11am Tuesday morning. Carrie