Music Boosters - Parent Volunteer Opportunites
The Music Boosters Association is a volunteer organization that provides support to the Avon Grove High School Music Department. Each year, parent volunteers contribute in many different ways.
Consider volunteering to support your Music Program student. Review the Volunteer Opportunities list and sign up to help the Music Boosters by contacting us to serve on a committee or by using SignUpGenius. For a detailed description of each volunteer opportunity, see the Volunteer Descriptions below and the Volunteer Descriptions.
Get your clearances now as required by Avon Grove School Board Policy 916. Visit the Avon Grove School District Website.
Thank you for volunteering; your help is welcomed and appreciated!
Consider volunteering to support your Music Program student. Review the Volunteer Opportunities list and sign up to help the Music Boosters by contacting us to serve on a committee or by using SignUpGenius. For a detailed description of each volunteer opportunity, see the Volunteer Descriptions below and the Volunteer Descriptions.
Get your clearances now as required by Avon Grove School Board Policy 916. Visit the Avon Grove School District Website.
Thank you for volunteering; your help is welcomed and appreciated!
Volunteer Opportunities
All Music Departments (Band, Choir and Orchestra):
Choir Specific:
Marching Band Specific:
Indoor Color Guard, Jazz Band and Percussion Specific:
Thank you for volunteering; we truly appreciate your help!
- Chaperone Music Department Field Trips
- Concert Receptions (winter & spring) – We help provide a pleasant reception with information tables as well as sweet treats and cool drinks for family and friends after each Band, Choir and Orchestra concert (winter and spring). Sign up to help plan, call for baked goods and organize volunteers. We also offer delightful Fresh Flower Bouquets for purchase before each concert if you would like to help with that.
- Homecoming Booth (October) – This annual event helps welcome Avon Grove Alumni back home for the day and provides a fundraising opportunity. Lead or help plan for this fun event (organize the booth, facilitate volunteers, source, prep and sell hamburger meals, candy and run the raffle, guessing games and other activities).
- Indoor Showcase (March, 2016) – Each spring, we host a TIA tournament at the high school, where between 30 and 50 unique shows come to compete, as a fundraising event. Lead or help plan for this event, by helping with activities such as selling tickets to the event at the door; escorting TIA Judges and visiting performance groups; selling concessions like pizza, chicken sandwiches, hoagies; selling "Candy Grams"; facilitating parking and more. Come, join in the fun!
- Nut Sale (Sept. thru Nov.) - This annual fundraising program starts in late September and runs through mid-November. We work with a vendor to sell delightful prepackaged premium nuts and confections.
- Santa Breakfast Charity Event (December) - Each year, Music Department Students give back to the community by holding this charity event to raise money to support families in the Avon Grove community. It's fun, but it's also a lot of hard work and planning starts over the summer months! Come, help us help our students give back!
- SCRIP Rebates Program - prepaid gift card rebate program that helps earn money for all of our high school Music Programs.
- Spirit Wear (July thru December) - Twice each year this team works with our vendor to select items of Spirit Wear (Marching Band and Boosters wear like jackets, shirts, hats, sweats, blankets and more) for sale online.
Choir Specific:
- Choir Camp - provide food and drinks for students
- After school sales - less than one hour twice a month, you choose the months
Marching Band Specific:
- Away Band Camp Chaperones – 4 women and 4 men needed (requires own camp fee and transportation)
- Water Bottles for Performances - clean and refill squirt bottles for Football Games, Parades and Competitions (2 adults needed)
- Equipment Crew for Practices – utilizing golf cart and small trailer, help load and transport equipment from band room to practice location and back to Band room (2 adults needed per practice, training will be provided. Not required, but welcome to stay for entire practice.)
- Equipment Crew for Football Games and Competitions – load and transport equipment utilizing golf cart, small trailer and large equipment trailer. Tow large and small equipment trailers to and from away performance locations. Sign Up Genius
- Chaperones for Away Football Games, Competitions and Parades – Many adults needed per event to help with hat plumes, prop placement and supervision of students. (requires own transportation.) Sign Up Genius and UPDATED suggested fanny pack supplies and chaperone procedure list.
- Devil Fries Sales – preparation, sales and clean up of french fries at football games and home shows. Training will be provided. Listed under home football games.Sign Up Genius
- Band Banquet – pot luck dinner and senior student recognition night. Sign up Genius
- Halloween Candy Bags - collect donations, fill and distribute goody bags on Halloween
- Post Memorial Day Parade Picnic
- Pictures
- Uniforms – fitting, distribution and collection of marching band uniforms, wind ensemble and jazz band formal performance attire
Indoor Color Guard, Jazz Band and Percussion Specific:
- Equipment & Chaperones to Single-Day Competitions: Our students need assistance in transporting their percussion instruments, floor and props or color guard equipment, floor and props to and from their competitions. Please consider volunteering to help by towing the equipment trailers and moving props as well as chaperoning. Sign Up Genius
- Equipment & Chaperones to Multi-Day TIA Chapter Championship: Our students need assistance similar to that as that of a single-day competition, but in this instance they need it for several days and nights in a row in Wildwood, NJ! Parent Chaperones are needed for competitions, to tow equipment, food preparation and more. Sign Up Genius
Thank you for volunteering; we truly appreciate your help!