Welcome Back to School!


Welcome Back!!  We hope everyone had a wonderful summer. We have a lot of fun performances and activities planned this year!
  • Fall/Winter concerts will be in November and early December. The band and orchestra will have pyramid concerns again this fall.  Details coming soon!
  • We will have Yankee Candle and Claire's Popcorn fall fundraiser. This was very popular and successful last year, and funds raised went towards purchasing percussion equipment, a bass clarinet, a violin, and orchestra and choral sheet music. Information will be coming home in packets with your music student soon.
  • Key Dates coming up:
     10/31-11/2/18          Musical Auditions
     11/5/18                    BBMB meeting, 5:30pm - All welcome!
     11/13/18                  Chamber Orchestra Pyramid Concert
     11/15/18                  Concert Band and Concert Orchestra Concert
     12/5/18                    Choral Pyramid Concert
     12/6/18                    Wind Ensemble Pyramid Concert
     1/26/19                    Solo/Ensemble Festival
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  • Last year and this year we provided $1,000 to each music director (Band, Orchestra, Choir, and General Music).  This is more than the annual county budget they have to spend!  Thank you to all the parents for making this possible!!!

This Year's Goals

All of last year's accomplishments (see below) PLUS:
  • Bring on new volunteers that will carry the BBMS Music Boosters traditions forward into the future!!
  • Looking for new grant resources to continue to bring additional programming and opportunities to our students
  • Create a monthly newsletter and new method to email communications.​

Last Year's Accomplishments

  • Achieve our official non-profit status as a 501 (c)(3) organization
  • Maintained this website!​
  • Continued the tuxedo shirts, ties, and cummerbunds as our uniforms.
  • Produced new BBMS Music Program t-shirts that music students wore for many special events, including Hershey Park
  • Provided grants that allowed us to bring master musicians to work with our music students respectively
  • Held our 11th annual Music with the Sharks concert 
  • Performed the National Anthem at a Frederick Keys game
  • Held our End-of-Year Awards Celebration (dessert bonanza!!) at BBMS
  • and much more!
Music Booster Board 2018-2019
President- Carole Veihmeyer
Vice President- Mark Booker
Secretary- Courtney Robertson
Treasurer- Seth Churchill

Quick Notes...

Like us on Facebook!! Click on the Facebook link above to get to our page.

Stay in touch! Signup to receive emails from us.  Also an option to be a part of the Howard County Parents for school music!  Go to our Want email? page.

Our calendar has been updated for 2018-2019 music events. Mark your calendar now! Click here for Calendar
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Please consider donating to the Music Boosters receive reserved seating at concerts! Just go to The Giving Team web page 

You can also receive reserved seating at concerts if you volunteer to help the BBMS Music Boosters at a concert or in some other way 

Follow us on Facebook- Bonnie Branch Music Boosters Page


Join Us!

Join the Music Boosters NOW so that you can "learn from the experts" before they "graduate" at the end of this school year.

Our next meeting will be Wednesday October 3rd at 7:00 pm in the Band/Orchestra room at Bonnie Branch Middle School.

What do the Music Boosters do??

We have been helping the music programs at Bonnie Branch since the fall of 2008.  The band, orchestra, and chorus programs have grown tremendously since we began.  We have many more students participating in the Solo and Ensemble Fair; and many students achieved high ratings!  We have 2 jazz bands now.  Parents working together with our outstanding music directors have made all of this possible.  

These are some of the items and activities we support:
  • Music uniforms - assist in providing shirts, ties, & cummerbunds to foster a sense of pride in performances, facilitate self confidence and just to look good! 
  • Creating opportunities for students to perform inside & outside of school to foster confidence in performing. 
  • Hosting an end of year awards picnic to recognize hard work done all year. 
  • Bringing in professional musicians to school to work with the students and prepare them for key assessments or improve playing skills.
  • Assisting with work around Concert performances to help support the music teachers.
  • Communicating Music News in the Bonnie Branch monthly email newsletter.
  • Providing additional funding for music directors to purchase music and instruments for our music programs. 

Above all, we try to make music fun for students so that they will love it and continue to make it a part of their life... forever.

Encouraging middle school students to participate and continue in music is a great way to volunteer. Join the Boosters -- You will be amazed at how satisfying and fun it really is. 

NOTE: whether you volunteer behind the scenes or on concert nights, all volunteers receive reserved seating at concerts. 
IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, PLEASE SEND AN EMAIL TO bbms.music.boosters@gmail.com