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Parents - Please read the 2 emails below sent to me, Mr. Fantaski and Dr. Driver concerning our great Falcon Band members' visit to Panama City on May 9th -


 * From:** nicole dortch
 * Sent:** Wednesday, May 14, 2014 9:41 AM
 * To:** Fantaski, Mike; Driver, Jason; Colon, Robert; Lewis School
 * Subject:** band

I had the pleasure of meeting some band members as well as your band director at CiCis pizza in Panama City Beach. There were quite a few students and honestly when I saw them I thought "oh great, this isn't gonna be good." Well boy did I learn a lesson because I couldn't have been more wrong!! They were ALL very well behaved and respectful! As the parent of an 8th grade band student here in Bay Co., I should only hope our students behavior mirrors what I saw that day. WAY TO GO FALCONS!!!

NICOLE

Another email of praise recently sent about our students on the trip -

From: Laura Webber To: Colon, Robert May 21 at 10:16 PM Dear Mr. Colon, It is not often that we have the opportunity to serve such a delightful group of students as the ones you brought to our facility on Friday, May 9th. They were SO well mannered. It was a real treat. I personally wanted to state what a pleasure it was serving your students, chaperones and yourself. Having been a chaperone on numerous trips myself, I know the challenges of dealing with a group of students on an outing. Your students truly impressed me.

We wish you a delightful summer. Sincerely, Laura Webber Coconut Creek Mini Golf & Gran Maze 9807 Front Beach Road Panama City Beach, FL 32407



= = Congratulations to our outstanding Falcon Symphonic Band for earning All Superior ratings from all 4 FBA judges on Friday, March 14th's Music Performance Assessment! Furthermore, all 3 Stage judges had the band at all straight A's in every caption and subcaption. The Sight Reading judge also had the band rated at all A's in every caption and subcaption. Pictured above are our Falcons on stage at Pensacola High School performing for the audience and judges. The students will get to read and hear the outstanding comments the judges made on their sheets Monday and see the plaque they earned for display in the band room. We will also listen to the professional performance CD made of our performance. After our performance, several Escambia and Santa Rosa county band directors who were in the audience said it was "the band of the weekend!" Great job Falcons! =// Here are the 4 judges sheets for you to view on Adobe PDF. The sightreading judge is 2 pages because he used front and back to write on. //=



Click here to listen to our Lewis Symphonic Band at their MPA on March 14th - Lewis Symphonic 2014

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Click here to listen to our Lewis Jazz Ensemble at their Jazz MPA Performance on March 1st - Lewis Jazz 2014

Click here to view the list of students who earned Solo/Ensemble Festival medals on Feb. 22nd - Solo-EnsResults14



=Thank you Jessica Jones for nominating Mr. C as Z96 Teacher of the Week 2/11/14!=

Congratulations to this week's Z-96 Teacher of the Week Winner, Mr. Robert Colo’n, the band instructor from Lewis Middle School. The students appreciate the passion that Mr. Colo’n has for teaching. For the 3rd year in a row, Lewis, the smallest middle school population in the district, has had the second highest representation in the All-County band. Z-96 has been honoring these local heroes since 1999. We show up at the school and surprise them with prizes from El Paso/La Rumba, [|AAMCO], Edible Arrangements, The Trophy Center, The Northwest Florida Daily News and more.



= Congratulations to our 18 All-County Band Falcons!! L to R, front row – Jadyn Richardson (2nd in county), Faith Fry (4th), Tacy Colόn (#1 in county), Grayson Kramer (2nd in county), Jasmine Richardson (4th in county), Noah Shaw (5th), Danielle Davis (19th), Jessica Jones (5th), Haley Pratt (3rd), L to R, 2nd row – Randy Roberts (12th), Derrick Mason (6th), Andrew Colόn (#1 in county), Bella Devoid (3rd), Ian Zegouros (5th), Jacob Hohman, (3rd), Peregrine Conroy-Baarsch (13th), Clay Williams (9th), not pictured Adam Mistretta (6th tpt.) Lewis, with the smallest middle school population in the district, had the second highest number of students selected to the All-County Honor Band with 18 selected by audition. 12 of them placed in the top 5 of their sections, and 7 of those in the top 3. -



=--= ===8th Graders going into NHS Band next year - along with the audition materials we are working in class, please click on the following link to get all of your audition info. Pay attention to the areas under "specific information" on the NHS page - http://www.okaloosa.k12.fl.us/niceville/band/auditions.htm=== = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =Private Lesson opportunities...= __Private Lessons available and recommended by Mr. C below - contact them__


 * ==Private weekly lessons on all woodwind AND brass instruments in Niceville - Please contact Mr. Fitzpatrick at tfsax@aol.com for available times and cost.==
 * ==Private weekly lessons on trombone and all low brass - please contact Hank at rockinitwell@yahoo.com==
 * ==Private weekly clarinet and sax lessons - contact Nancy at nancyds@cox.net==


 * **Private Percussion lessons - Brent Purcell, brentpur@aol.com**


 * Josh Bledsoe, brass lessons, Studio at his home in Valparaiso, 501-764-8088, Joshua.Bledsoe@gmail.com www.joshbledsoe.com


 * Private brass lessons from Patrick Carnahan -Here is his info - (850) 830-6926 Patrick.Carnahan@mail.okaloosa.k12.fl.us

=-Our Falcon Musicians in action this Fall and Winter! ////=