Program Updates

Tower Awards This Wednesday This Wednesday, band is performing at the HBHS Tower Awards ceremony. We will be performing our new music repertoire as the audience is finding their seats before the ceremony, and then performing snippets of different songs between each departments awards. Students need to be in dressed in concert black. That means dress shoes, black dress clothes/long black dress. The only exception are students who are nominated for an award themselves. Those st

Hi guys, It's concert week! All I require from every one of you is attentiveness to the details you will be provided and obviously the best level of practice you can give on your instrument. Do those things and everything will work great! Tuesday May 5 2:00-3:45 - Tutti sectional rehearsal with me, last touches on Bolero and rehearse Wagner and Handel 4:00-5:45 - Tutti sectional rehearsal with me, last touches on St. Pauls, Mozart, and Beethoven 6:00-7:30 - Tutti full orches

Banquet Tickets Are On Sale Now Our end of year banquet is on June 4th, 2026 @ First Christian Church in Huntington Beach. Tickets are $35 per person and everyone attending must have a pre-purchased ticket, including students. Click this link to purchase tickets and see more info. See you there! AP Testing Reduced Schedule AP testing at HBHS is starting this week, so we will have a slightly reduced schedule for after school Jazz Band rehearsals. Please check the schedule

Please join us tomorrow, Wednesday April 29th, for our next dine-out fundraiser! Stop by anytime between 5:00–9:00 PM at Dog Haus Biergarten to support our program while enjoying a great meal. Dog Haus is donating 20% of sales to the program. Please be sure to mention you’re there to support the Oiler Music Guild Dine-Out Fundraiser. 📍 7811 Edinger Ave, Suite 120, Huntington Beach, CA 92647 (Bella Terra) Thank you for your continued support of the program! Please share with

Weekly Recap Congratulations Drumline on a terrific performance at WGASC Finals on Sunday, we placed 2nd and received a silver medal! What a great way to cap off a great season. Everyone has put in so much work and all of it also wouldn't have been possible with all of our parent volunteers. So thank you!!!! Our HBHS Jazz Big Band and Lab Band performed in competition at the Costa Mesa Jazz Festival on Saturday. Jazz Big Band received a rating of Superior, and Jazz Lab Band r

Costa Mesa Jazz Festival This Saturday, April 26th This Saturday our Jazz Lab Band and Jazz Big Band will be performing in competition at the Costa Mesa HS Jazz Festival. It's our first performance in competition for both groups this year. Please come out and support! We would love for our jazz band parents to fill the Costa Mesa HS Auditorium. It's free attendance, no ticket purchase required. Students will need their own transportation to Costa Mesa HS and will get picked u

Drumline Competition @ A.B. Miller HS This Sunday (yes, it's a Sunday!), drumline travels to their 2nd-to-last competitive show at A.B. Miller HS in Fontana, CA. More info from WGASC like the site address, ticket cost, etc can be found here . Please volunteer! Our biggest need will again be parent drivers. Here is the link to volunteer . Please email me if you have any questions at all! afloyd@hbuhsd.edu Family Contributions We have already began to plan for next year's mar

Hi everybody, From now on, I will be posting the orchestra schedule for the week here. Please continue to DM me on Slack with any attendance issues or questions. Tuesday 3/31 and Thursday 4/2 Winds/Brass/Percussion - 2:00 - 3:45 Begin sectionals on Bolero. Rehearse Handel, Wagner, and Beethoven 1 Strings - 4:00 - 5:45 Begin sectionals on Bolero. Continue rehearsing Mozart Symphony No. 29, St. Paul's Suite, Beethoven 1 Next week is Spring Break (yay!), so no rehearsal 4/7

Weekly Recap Our HBHS Colorguard are WCWG 2026 Scholastic AA Champions !! They finished off an incredible season with an 11 point score increase, and it's their 3rd season in a row winning a gold medal in championship competition. Congratulations Colorguard! Our HBHS Drumline also won first place at this past Saturday's WGASC Competition at West Covina HS! They broke 80 points for the first time this season, and beat out 15 other groups to get first place. Spring Band Conce

Drumline Competition @ West Covina HS This Saturday, drumline travels to our next competition @ West Covina HS. More info from WGASC like the site address, ticket cost, etc can be found here . Please click here to volunteer! Our biggest need is again parent drivers. Please email me if you have any questions at all! afloyd@hbuhsd.edu Spring Band Concert - March 31st! Please note that our spring band concert date is Tuesday, March 31st, at 7pm in the HBHS auditorium. Our HBHS

Spring Band Concert - March 31st! Please note that our new spring band concert date is March 31st, at 7pm in the HBHS auditorium. Our HBHS Wind Ensemble will be performing in addition to our Jazz Lab Band, Jazz Big Band and a couple of our chamber groups. For a full schedule of the rest of the year, please visit the OMG Calendar on the website . Band Camp 2026!!! Wow! We are already planning next year's marching band season! Please keep these dates on your calendar, especial

Last Week's Recap Drumline had another amazing performance on Saturday, placing 2nd out of 9 groups in our division! Even though we don't have a drumline competition for a few weeks due to the APA musical, we'll be working hard to get our movement 3 on the floor and our show finalized. Spring Band Concert - March 31st! Please note that our new spring band concert date is March 31st, at 7pm in the HBHS auditorium. Our HBHS Wind Ensemble will be performing in addition to our Ja

Last Week's Recap -We had a group of parents and students that came last Saturday to help paint our Drumline props. Thank you to everyone that came and helped! -Colorguard travelled to San Diego for the WGI San Diego regional, and participated in a 2-day competition. After a strong performance on Saturday, they qualified for finals the following day. Congrats Colorguard! -A group of our drummers and colorguard members performed at the 8th grade visit day on Tuesday morning. T

First Drumline Competition 2/28! This Saturday, Indoor Drumline will travel to their first competition at Martin Luther King High School. Even though this competition is a bit far away in Riverside, please come support your students! Here are a couple of things to know for these competitions: They day starts much like a marching band competition day...we'll meet to change and load the equipment trucks, but we will travel to the competitions via parent volunteer cars. Once we

Chipotle Fundraiser on Wednesday Please help our music program by eating at Chipotle @ Seacliff on Wednesday, 2/18 between 5-9pm! Make sure to show the flyer or use the code 7VFPPQ6 at checkout online and the program will get 25% of proceeds. Mardi Gras "Parade" @ HBHS on Tuesday On Tuesday during lunch, we will be participating in a small "parade" at HBHS. To celebrate Fat Tuesday, we'll be playing some tunes through the main offices with APA council. Student should try an

2026-27 OMG Executive Board & Chair Positions We are getting ready for the next school year and we need you! If every position is filled and each person fulfills their duties, then no position will be too much work!! "Many hands make light work." With your help, we'll have an amazing 2026-27 school year!! Our OMG Board and Program Chairs are the people who make things happen! Oiler Music Guild President- The President shall preside over all meetings of the Boosters and the E