At the spring band concert, the Reunion Committee of the CHS 1970 Band presented the newly restored Carlisle High School Band Flag and Kerkrade Flag from the 1970 trip to Europe!  Click here to view the before and after pictures.

Congratulations to Carlisle High School’s former band director, Dave Rohrer, for receiving the 2015 Rodney Miller Distinguished Service Award from PMEA!  This award was presented to Dave at the Carlisle Town Band performance on Sunday, April 24.

The Reunion Committee of the 1970 Carlisle High School Band would like to thank the donors to the project of restoring and preserving the two historical CHS Band flags.  The newly restored and framed flags will be officially presented to the  Carlisle School District as part of the Carlisle High School Band Concert on Thursday, May 5 (7:00pm) at the “Clyde and Lyn Barr Auditorium” at Carlisle High School.  Please plan to come to the concert to see how beautifully the project has turned out and to attend the reception in the lobby following the concert.  Click here to read more about the flags and the restoration project.

Click here to read the Sentinel article about the 1970 band trip and the flag restoration project.

Congratulations to our Indoor Percussion for scoring 84.5 for a first place win in the Bronze Class at the KIDA Championships yesterday at Chambersburg HS!!
Way to go Carlisle!

Congratulations to junior trumpet player Herman Makosky, who represented Carlisle High School in the PMEA Region 5 Band this past weekend at Central York High School!  Herman will also represent Carlisle at PMEA All-State Orchestra on Saturday, April 2, 2016, at 10:30 am in Hershey.

Congratulations to our Indoor Percussion for their 1st place wins at the Red Land and the Mechanicsburg competitions this past weekend!  Carlisle scored 78.05 in the morning at Red Land and later scored 83.01 at the Mechanicsburg competition.  Way to go Indoor Percussion!

With the new car show season fast approaching, we need volunteers to come out and help get our concession stand ready!  The cleanup is scheduled for Saturday, April 9, 2016, from 8am until noon at our fairground concession stand.

Click here for more information and to sign up.

Next Tuesday, March 8,  will be the “Music In Our Schools Concert” at 7:00 pm in the Barr Auditorium.  This concert features Concert Band and Symphonic Band, as well as Orchestra, Concert Choir, Bel Canto and Chamber Singers.  Come out and support our band students as well as our music program!

Our indoor guard performed yesterday at a competition at Daniel Boone HS.  Scores from the competition, as well as a schedule for their next competition can be found by clicking here.

Hey CHS band alumni – have you joined the band alumni group on facebook?  Join the group and get in touch! 

We’d love to hear from you, as well as see you at the Memorial Day Parade, where the alumni marches with both the high school and the middle school marching bands!

Send an email to our alumni representative at alumni@carlislehighschoolband.org, and then check out the Memorial Day Parade information!