Butler Bands

Calling all Colorguard… Rising 9th Graders, 10-12 - NO EXPERIENCE NECESSARY!

Join us during SPRING TRAINING CAMP:
JUNE 15TH - JUNE 18TH

All new & returning students must fill out the COMMITMENT FORM DUE:
JUNE 5TH

The FIRST PAYMENT DUE:
JULY 17TH

Check out the info below, and if you have any questions please reach out to our Band Director - Ms. Gileza, or the Band Boosters.

[email protected]

SLIDESHOW :
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1fh5DZilZep6tKPVLFEgHmMo8A2YYyEIk5QLDhBBZO9Q/edit?usp=drivesdk

2026 COMMITMENT FORM (DUE JUNE 5th):
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1b_aSbbh1wE18219sHCTNxiGcIrUp2TKxj5GiWPxOXos/edit?usp=drivesdk

Time is running out to join - friendships, memories, teamwork & school spirit all rolled into one unforgettable experience!

Come be a part of the Butler Marching Bulldogs tradition. We are so excited to have you join us this Fall!
❤️🖤🤍🎶

Memorial Day - a day to celebrate and honor those who died while serving in the U.S. military.

Butler Bands wishes you a meaningful and reflective Memorial Day. ❤️🖤🤍🎶❤️🤍💙

May 18th, 2026
Butler Band & Orchestra Spring Concert

Congratulations to all on a fabulous performance tonight; You put on a fantastic show. 👏🏻
And thank you to the Music Educators that share their love of music and bring out the best in our students every day. We appreciate all you do. ❤️🖤🤍🎶

Being a band parent is so worth it! ❤️

I don’t know who scheduled the fundraiser.

I don’t know why the trailer inventory sheet disappeared.

If you are looking for someone to quietly sit in the bleachers and simply enjoy the performance… I can tell you now… I am not that parent.

But what I do have… are a very particular set of skills.

Skills I have acquired over a very long marching season.

Skills that make me a nightmare for broken canopy tents, missing uniforms, and parents who reply-all to the entire booster email chain.

I can back a 20-foot trailer into a parking spot with surgical precision while holding a breakfast burrito and answering a text that says:
‘Do we still need ice?’

I can locate a lost freshman percussionist in under four minutes using only instinct, radio traffic, and the sound of uncontrolled stick clicking.

I have survived bus rosters. I have survived prop loading. I have survived 17 straight hours at a competition fueled entirely by concession stand nachos and emotional instability.

I know how to stretch a budget so far that economists should probably study me.

I can set up hospitality for 300 people in a cafeteria built in 1974 with six outlets and one working sink.

I have stared directly into the eyes of a band director at 11:47 PM when they say:
‘Hey… one more quick thing.’

And I did not flinch.

I will organize the volunteers. I will repair the plume box with zip ties and prayer. I will make 4,000 chicken sandwiches appear out of thin air.

Because I am a booster parent.

And while the world sees chaos…
we see kids.

We see the nervous freshman stepping onto the field for the first time.

We see the senior realizing it is their final performance.

We see the kid who struggled to belong finally finding their people under stadium lights and in band hall laughter.

That is why we do this.

Not because it is easy. Not because it is glamorous. Not because anyone fully understands how much work it actually takes.

We do it because somewhere between the truck loads, the fundraisers, the meetings, and the exhaustion… these programs become home for our kids.

And if protecting that experience means learning a ridiculous set of skills along the way…

Then so be it.