March 1, 2025

Westhill High School
125 Roxbury Road
Stamford, CT 06902


***Please Note: Guard penalties will be assessed beginning with this event, including for minimum equipment time requirements.***

Show Notes:

  1. All performers, staff members, and ensemble volunteers will be given a wristband for the day.

  2. Please note that the City of Stamford has a strict sound ordinance at 8pm. Please do not allow performers to play music from instruments or speakers outdoors after 8pm.

  3. At the conclusion of your ensemble’s performance please use no more than one interval time to fold your floor in the designated floor folding area. Performers can then proceed back to their classrooms through the building while equipment crews bring floors and props through the designated post performance cycle (outside).

  4. Each ensemble will be assigned a classroom. Please respect this teacher’s classroom and all of its contents. Please leave the room as neat and clean as when you entered. Additionally, please do not write on the white boards or eat in this classroom.

  5. We do not allow food or drink in our gymnasium. Please visit our concession stands in the gym lobby, and food trucks located at the front of the school.

For more information about this event, please review the Welcome Packet.

Final Performance Schedule:

Final Logistics Schedule:

Critique:

Critique will begin after the conclusion of the final performance, and will go in performance order. Sign-ups for critique are no longer required; ensemble staff wanting critique from this panel must be present when your ensemble name is called. If you are not present when your ensemble name is called you will join the end of the list.

For this event, critique will be available for: all performing percussion ensembles.

Directors are encouraged to stop by the judges room at the conclusion of the event to pick up your T&P sheets.

Percussion Judges:

Music: Rick Stetson (Woodbury, NJ)

Visual: Megan Rexroat (Jamaica, VT)

Effect/Effect-Music: Neil Larrivee (Norwood, MA)

Effect-Visual: Bert Serrano (Norwalk, CT)

 

Final Performance Schedule:

Final Logistics Schedule:

Critique:

Critique will begin after the conclusion of the final performance, and will go in performance order. Sign-ups for critique are no longer required; ensemble staff wanting critique from this panel must be present when your ensemble name is called. If you are not present when your ensemble name is called you will join the end of the list.

For this event, critique will be available for: guard ensembles in Jr, MS, AAA, and AA.

Directors are encouraged to stop by the judges room at the conclusion of the event to pick up your T&P sheets.

 

Guard Judges:

Equipment: Jeremy Denzer (Lowell, MA)

Movement: Gretchen Shyne (Selkirk, NY)

Design Analysis: Amy Beagle (Manchester, PA)

General Effect: Bob Cavanaugh (Bridgewater, MA)

General Effect: Jackie Aarons (Norwalk, CT)

 

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