Craig Cagle - AMEA (ABA) Jazz Chair From the Jazz Chair
Hello, colleagues across the state of Alabama. I hope that the summer has provided you time to rest, reflect, enjoy time with family, and achieve all the goals you set for this short time away from school. I am excited to welcome Ben Posey as our Jazz Division Vice-Chair for the next two years. Mr. Posey is a band director at Bumpus Middle School, in Hoover, and is active in jazz education as a teacher. His jazz program at Bumpus continues to grow and many of his students have earned positions in the All-State Jazz Bands.
All-State Jazz Band auditions are some of the earliest auditions on our calendar, and we hope to make the All-State Jazz Band an event that your students look forward to each year. Registration instructions, audition instructions, and audition materials are available online at
myamea.org/aba. Registration and audition recording submissions are all done electronically. Students are required to perform scales, etude, and play-along tunes, all submitted electronically via a link. The deadline for registration and payment is October 30, 2019. The deadline for submitting student recordings is November 13, 2019.
The All-State Jazz Band festival takes place at the AMEA conference Pat Stegall - AMEA Registrar From the Registrar
It is not too early to be thinking about our AMEA Conference in January, 2020. Just remember, you must join NAfME, and you should pre-register if possible. A healthy organization is always concerned with growth and development, and the AMEA board is interested in growing our organization, and for getting all music teachers in Alabama involved in professional development through AMEA and NAfME. You can help increase our membership by communicating the benefits of membership to our colleagues. When you are joining or renewing your membership, think of those music teachers in your area that may not be active members, and send them a message inviting them to join! You could send an email with their contact information to me at
pstegall@mscs.k12.al and I will invite them!
Remember to: Remind your colleagues to join, include the new music teachers, invite the inactive music teachers and be involved as a
22 mentor to the young music teachers.
Renew your membership now at
www.nafme.org . Membership in NAfME is required for participation in state MEA sponsored events like the AMEA Conference, the Elementary Division Fall Conference, All-state and Musical Performance Assessments.
Joining NAfME
secures your membership in AMEA and in your division. The national office has recently gone through an upgrade to the system, so I would recommend that you get your information updated ASAP.
Register now for the 2020 AMEA conference online at
www.myamea.org. You will find it is easy and will save you time and money. Reunite with friends and colleagues from all over the state in January. Rejuvenate your energy and renew your enthusiasm for the rest of the school year!
August/September 2019
on January 16-18, 2020 at the Renaissance Montgomery. We have a stellar panel of clinicians to work with your students this year, including:
Jim Ketch - Gold Band, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Tom Luer - Silver Band, Freelance Saxophonist, Los Angeles, CA
Sallie Vines White - Bronze Band Hoover High School, Hoover, Alabama
Art Ruangtip - Middle School Band Rowlett High School, Rowlett, Texas
I hope that you have a successful start to your new school year and achieve the goals you set for yourself and your program. I also hope to see many of your students involved in the All-State Jazz Band audition and festival process. Please feel free to contact me with any questions you have along the way.
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