Cape Coral High School Band Trailer

The Cape Coral High School Band has almost doubled in size from 2 years ago.  It is a wonderful problem to have, however, it is a logistical problem!  I do not have enough equipment and instruments for the number of students that I have.  Although, the most frustrating situation is our equipment trailer.  The additional amount of equipment that we need to transport to our football games and competitions simply does not fit into our current trailer.  We have had to pick and choose what instruments we take each week, because we don’t have a way to transport it.  (we even put instruments on the bus and have found out that Tubas don’t fit in the bus seats!)  At times we have had to leave pieces of equipment behind, which breaks my heart as a teacher. 

Our band and the trailer travel all over the state of Florida.  Our Indoor drumline championships take us to Daytona Beach.  The Marching Band traveled to Tarpon Springs, and we have also gone to events in Miami.  Not to mention the numerous local events where we would also pull the trailer.

We are in need of a second, 14 foot trailer to accomodate the growing band program.  Without the second trailer we will not be able to transport all of the needed equipment to our competitions!  It takes us over an hour to pack our current, 16 foot trailer, and that's because we have to "tetris" every piece of equipment to squeeze as much in the trailer as we can.  Even then it does not all fit.  It would be great to know that ALL of our instruments make it safely to the shows AND not have to spend so much time cramming everything into the trailer.  

We will purchase a new trailer as soon as we can and we need it as soon as possible!  Thank you so very much for supporting the band, it would mean the world to the students!!