GVSU Band Day
Saturday, September 6, 2025
The Mu Kappa Chapter of Kappa Kappa Psi and the Laker Marching Band invite YOU to the Annual GVSU High School Band Day on Saturday, September 6, 2025 as the Lakers of Grand Valley take on the Black Hills State Yellow Jackets! One member or the whole band can register to attend! On Saturday, September 6, 2025, the Band Day Check In opens at 11:30am, activities beginning at 1:00pm, and Kick Off at 7:00pm.
Come be apart of the action with the National Championship Laker Football Team as the GVSU Band Day musicians perform in a powerful mass band with the GVSU "Pride of the Midwest!"
To ensure a safe and enjoyable experience, the band director, parent, or chaperone must accompany participants.
If you have any questions please free to contact us by phone at (616) 331-2942, or by email at [email protected].
Registration Information
- Registration will open on August 1
- Registration closes on Wednesday, September 3, 2025
- All participants and guests must register online
- You can enter 1-15 registrants (participants and guests)
- If you have more than 15, then you will need to submit more than one time
- To ensure a safe and enjoyable experience, the band director, parent, or chaperone MUST accompany participants
Band Directors
Band Directors can download a Band Day Registration Help Packet that contains:
- Band Day Letter
- Registration Work Sheet to assist with online registration
- Map of GVSU Allendale Campus with marked parking (free) and drop off location
Band Day Costs
- The cost of attendance for a student participant is $13.
- This covers the student's ticket to the football game and music.
- Guests can request football tickets ($13/per person) for the game through the online GVSU Band Day Registration form.
- Every guest attending the football game will need to purchase a ticket.
- Students and Guests can request:
- Meal ticket ($10/per person) and/or an official GVSU Band Day T-Shirt ($6/per person) through the online GVSU Band Day Registration form.
- Both the meal and t-shirt are optional. Due through the online registration on Wednesday, September 3, 2025.
- Refunds will be honored until Friday, September 5, 2025.
Payment & Required Forms
I. Payment
Only checks are accepted. No cash or credit cards.
- Payments will be accepted by mail (encouraged) through Friday, September 5, 2025 or at the Band Day Check-in on September 6, 2025.
- All participants and guests must be paid in-full on or before Saturday, September 6, 2025 to participate.
- Checks should made out to: 2025 GVSU Band Day
Please send checks to:
2025 GVSU Band Day
1 Campus Drive, 1300 Haas Center for the Performing Arts
Allendale, MI 49401
II. Required Form for All Participants to Complete
Submit completed photo release form at Band Day Check In.
Drop Off / Pick Up Policy
Drop Off:
Location: The Drop Off location is Parking Lot M across from the Check-In tent at the Haas Center for Performing Arts Practice Field that is located behind the Haas Center for Performing Arts.
Time: 11:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Pick Up:
Location: Lubbers Stadium - South Gate Entrance
Time:
- Participants leaving immediately after halftime must be met by their parent/legal guardian/approved chaperone at the South Gate of Lubbers Stadium at approx. 8:30 p.m.
- Participants staying for the rest of the game will remain in the designated seating until the end of the game. Participants will be met their parent/legal guardian/approved chaperone at the South Gate of Lubbers Stadium at approx. 10:00 p.m.
To ensure a safe and enjoyable experience, the band director, parent, or chaperone must accompany participants.
Parking
Personal Cars
- Parking is FREE in Lot H2, H4, K East and K West that are NOT designated for Faculty/Staff or Paid Parking
- These are the closest lots to the Haas Center for Performing Arts
- You must pay to park in all other Allendale campus parking lots
Bus Parking
- Park in Lot H4 ONLY
Band Day Participant Drop Off for Buses
- Buses can drop off students in Lot M across from the Haas Center for Performing Arts Field where Band Day Check In takes place.
- After drop off, buses will need to park in Lot H4 ONLY
GVSU Valley Campus Map
Music
Each band can purchase the following musical selections that will be performed during the 2025 Band Day Halftime Show or music will be provided the day of the event:
Selection #1: Jungle Boogie, arr. Tom Wallace
Selection #2: Uptown Funk, arr. Jay Bocook
Stand Cheers And GVSU Fight Song: Parts posted below
Instruments
- ALL participants must bring their own instrument or flag, lyre and flip folder.
- GVSU will not provide any instrument or flag, lyres or flip folders for the Band Day Event.
- Participants must secure their case and personal items in their vehicle before marching to the stadium.
- Participants cannot store cases or personal items in the GVSU Band Room or the Haas Center for Performing Arts.
Uniforms
Participants wear their HS Band Uniform at the performance.
Meal
We offer a Pizza, bread Sticks, and Salad early dinner from 3:45-4:45 p.m. for students and guests with a meal ticket. A meal ticket ($10/per person) can be requested through the online GVSU Band Day Registration form. The meal is completely optional.
If you choose to not purchase a meal ticket, other food options are offered by GVSU Laker Food Co.
Color Guard Information
Jungle Boogie
C 104bpm
A. M1-5 20 counts (1-2 nothing, 3-4 pick ups to m2, no work till m2)
1-8 broken down ext DS
9-16 4 count toss
https://youtube.com/shorts/V9udRi_iqwU?si=NSR9j7XWekWpnG4D
B. M6-13 32 counts
"Tonight"
- 1 pop up to flag up, right hand on bottom cheater, arms 90 degrees to each other on 45s parallel to ground
- 2 hold
- 3-4 flag sweeps toes to right in right hand at bottom cheater, hand stays low, not extended, silk up on 45, upper body twists to face right
- 5 place pole on right shoulder
- 6 turning body back to front, pole passes behind head
- 7 continue motion to face left, place pole on left shoulder
- 8 pop up to back present facing left
- 9 continue motion of flag to float to flat at waist, flag on left, hands tape and bottom cheater
- 10-12 chaine right
- 13 releve lifting flat fully extended up
- 14 push flag out, flat back, plié with tondue left
- 15 upper body relaxes as flag continues to the ground
- 16 everything returns to flat at waist, second position, chin up
- 1 pop up to inverted at tape in right hand, left hand up curved arm
- 2-6 side to side flourish (front-back-front) free arm floats down on 4
- 7-8 small release, not a full on toss, follow through at eye level to flag low to left in hip shoulder, right hand at top cheater and left hand 1/3 into silk, both thumbs towards bottom cap
- 9 lunge left sliding flag out and grabbing bottom cheater with left hand
- 10 hold
- 11-12 small sweep around, just big enough to clear ground without lifting left hand, to right slam
- 13-16 large stir bringing feet together in releve on 14 and finishing in second position 16
https://youtube.com/shorts/bRp4KwFNkUs?feature=share
C. M14-21 32 counts
"Red Pony"
- 1 extend up
- 2 flat
- 3-4 small stir
- 5 extend up
- 6 flat
- 7 hit low 45
- 8 hold
- 1 flat
- 2 extend up
- 3-4 to flat
- 5-8 wave turn, flag trails
Repeat all 16 on other side
https://youtube.com/shorts/X4RMkfPtb30?feature=share
D. M22-29 32 counts
“Tonight” (repeat M6-13)
E. M30-35 24 counts (uhh ahs)
- 1-4 strip up to flag
- 5-7 wave turn
- 8 prep
- 9-24 Stripped Toss in 4 Groups:
- 9-12, 13-16, 17-20, 21-24
- 1 squeeze 2 out 3 apex 4 catch
https://youtube.com/shorts/wFzAyev4SCo?si=Wt89iEtl1B0S9o47
F. M36-39 16 counts
Repeat M2-5
G. M40-49 40 counts (32+8)
“Tonight” (Repeat M6-13)
- 1 lift flag sliding to bottom cheater
- 2-3 spin to tuck under arm
- 4 flag hits the ground in a slam behind you
- 5 look down
- 6 left arm extends up, left knee pop
Uptown Funk
4/4 116 bpm
M1-4 16 Counts
From stripped up at waist
- 1 step left into second position
- 2-4 hold
- 5-8 soutenu left
- 9-10 step right to front, hip leads
- 11-12 back to second
- 13 right shoulder
- 14 hold
- 15-16 float to right slam
M5-8 16 counts
1-16 X-Hits on Odds
https://youtube.com/shorts/NC3YQPHDw8Q?si=9PUZf6f35VSQ2QnT
M9-16 32 Counts
- 1-16 Tom Wallace
- 1-16 Tom Wallace
"Tom Wallace"
- 1-4 top cone, bottom cone
- 5 follow through to extended up, both hands on bottom cheater
- 6 continue, don’t change direction, to low 45 on right side, left hand palm out, thumbs towards silk, left toe point
- 7-8 flag comes overhead on 45, both hands at bottom cheater thumbs towards silk
- 9-10 flag swings out to left in left hand with small lunge, free arm like an extension of pole
- 11-12 continue to right slam behind back, grab right hand at tape, palm towards body
- 13-14 sweep toes through to left present, knee turns in with right toe dragging in
- 15-16 flag follows through to right slam, toe drags back to turned out knee in second position
https://youtube.com/shorts/ssxLQVOQTPc?feature=share
https://youtube.com/shorts/YiZw2FHW9Cs?feature=share
** GV will turn right to change direction instead of hip roll **
M17-24 32 counts
- 1-13 small stir into pole hit toss on 1-5, 5-9, 9-13:
- 1 pass through flat 2 pass through front slam 3 straight up and down 4 out 5 catch in slam
- 13*-16 Group 4 NO TOSS same stir, but to right slam on 16
- 1-8 windmill to behind back
- 9-12 Big unwind behind with knee pop to right slam
- 13 releve in first extending flag up at bottom cheater
- 14 hop into deep plié in second, flag spins down beginning a big oar
- 15 finish oar with big reach through left present right toe extends flag line
- 16 to right slam
https://youtube.com/shorts/XauxCJbvCIA?si=v5q5FuR-DdArtLHr
M25-32 32 counts
Repeat M9-16 (Tom Wallace X2)
M33-36 16 counts
Repeat M17-20 (Group tosses 16)
M37-44 32 Counts
- 1-8 X-Hits on Odds
- 9-24 Georgia Boxes/Drop Spin Box up then down
- 25-28 tuck into around back
- 29-30 to prep for
- 31-32 J-Toss from top cheater, catch in slam on count one of repeat
M45-52 32 counts
Repeat M37-44 except catching on count one, so skip first hit and come in on count 3 of the X-Hits, catch final toss on cut off.
Majorette Information
Majorettes will be placed as a group alongside the GVSU feature twirlers
- Song #1 - Jungle Boogie
- The twirlers will be provided a video after registration of the routine that they will perform with the GVSU feature twirler.
- Song #2 - Uptown Funk
- This song will allow the twirlers to showcase their talents. Please come with some 1,2, and 3 baton work prepared. You will be placed next to other twirlers but you will perform your own routine.
All majorette participants can contact Emelia Adam ([email protected]) if you have any questions.
Schedule
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Time |
Description |
|---|---|
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11:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. |
Check-In at Haas Center for Performing Arts Marching Band Field |
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1:00 - 1:45 p.m. |
Laker Marching Band Rehearsal at the Haas Center for the Performing Arts Marching Band Field. Open rehearsal. ALL encouraged to attend! |
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2:00 - 3:30 p.m. |
Mandatory Rehearsal with Laker Marching Band at Haas Center for Performing Arts Practice Field |
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3:45 - 4:45 p.m. |
Pizza Dinner (for those who purchased) at Haas Center for the Performing Arts Marching Band Practice Field or GVSU Band Room (if raining) ** Participants should be uniform by 5:00 p.m. ** All cases/personal items must be secured in vehicles before marching to the stadium. Participants cannot store cases or personal items in the GVSU Band Room or in the Haas Center for Performing Arts. |
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5:15 p.m. |
Line up at Haas Center for Performing Arts Practice Field to prepare for march to Lubber's Stadium |
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6:15 p.m. |
Arrive at Lubber's Stadium - Band Day participants go to designated seating in stadium |
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7:00 p.m. |
Kick Off! - ANCHOR UP! **Participants are dismissed after halftime. Participants leaving after halftime must be met by their parent/legal guardian/approved chaperone at the South Gate of Lubbers Stadium at approx. 8:30 p.m. **Participants staying for the rest of the game will remain in the designated seating until the end of the game. Participants will be met their parent/legal guardian/approved chaperone at the South Gate of Lubbers Stadium at approx. 10:00 p.m. |