We invite you to support the 350-member Hoover High School Band.
Your gift helps cover essential costs for the band, including uniforms, instruments, travel costs, and adjunct
instructors. Supporting the Hoover Band program does much more than this, however. Supporting the band
helps provide the opportunity for 350 high school students to learn:
- accountability
- self-discipline
- to lead, and be led by, peers
- to make mistakes
- to handle constructive criticism
- to set goals and work to achieve them
- to overcome adversity
- to set priorities and make sacrifices
- to win – and lose – as a team
The Hoover High School Band cultivates a life-long love of music and all the mental, emotional, and social benefits that music provides, but fundamentally, the Hoover High School Band helps transform high school kids into responsible adults.
Fundraisers for 2024-2025 will include Charleston Wrap, Krispy Kreme, BBQ, and Snap Raise.
In order to “opt-in” (receive a discount on the spring trip), students must complete each of the following “opt-in” requirements:
- Payment of Fair Share
- 3 Concessions Shifts Per Band Child
- Participation in Snap Raise Fundraiser
- Participation in 2 of These 3 Fundraisers
- BBQ
- Krispy Kreme
- Charleston Wrap
How You Can Support the Band:
Join Publix Partners and select the Hoover Band Boosters. More information here.
Join Planet Fundraiser and select the Hoover Band Boosters. More information here.
Send a donation by check:
Hoover High School
c/o Bookkeeper
1000 Buccaneer Drive
Hoover, Alabama 35244
Please put Hoover Band Boosters in the memo line
For questions or concerns, please email the fundraising chair at fundraising@hooverband.com.
About the Band
The Hoover High School Band represents Hoover and Alabama across the nation. The City of Hoover, population 93,000, is the sixth-largest city in Alabama and the largest suburb in the Birmingham—Hoover Metropolitan Area, a population of more than 1.1 million. Hoover High School has an enrollment of approximately 3,000 students in grades 9—12.
The band embraces a proud tradition of excellence, marching in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, the Pasadena Tournament of Roses Parade, the National Cherry Blossom Parade in Washington, D.C., the Chicago St. Patrick’s Day Parade, and more. The band has earned many class champion awards and has been a finalist in multiple Bands of America Regionals.
The band fields a 200–member Competition Marching Band as well as a 350- member Buccaneer Marching Band that entertains the home crowd at football games played in the Hoover Met Stadium with a capacity of 10,800 and performs in parades across the nation. The Competition band has earned many grand champion awards at contests across the Southeast as well as being a finalist in numerous BOA Regionals. The Hoover Competition Marching Band has been named class 4A champions at the 2019 Jacksonville BOA Regional and most recently won the 2023 Alabama High School 7A Marching Band State Championship. Both marching bands are extracurricular and rehearse outside of the regular school day.
Instrumentalists also participate in one of four ability grouped concert ensembles. These ensembles have consistently received superior ratings at state contest/music performance assessment. These students have the option of participating in one of three ability grouped jazz ensembles. The jazz program consistently receives national recognition and performs at jazz events throughout the country, most recently at the 77th Annual Midwest Clinic in Chicago. The program also has three award-winning winter guards and an indoor percussion ensemble that has won the gold medal at the Southeastern Color Guard Circuit Championships on multiple occasions.