CLICK HERE FOR THE BOBCAKE BASH SIGNUPGENIUS!
WHAT IS THE BOBCAKE BASH?The BOBCake Bash is a 75+ year tradition in Grandview Heights and currently serves as a major fundraising event for the GH Band & Orchestra Boosters. You can read more about the 75 year history of the BOBCake Bash by clicking here. Here are this year's specific details:
Wait, what's with the name?The BOBCake Bash was renamed in 2024, to better reflect GHBOB's sponsorship goals and ensure all community members feel welcome at the event. You can read more about this decision by clicking here. Different name, same great history and event!
WHO ORGANIZES BOBCAKE BASH?The Grandview Heights Band & Orchestra Boosters sponsor the BOBCake Bash every year, and we are THRILLED that the dynamic duo of Catt Dimes and Terra Welsh are once again partnering as co-chairs for this big event. Catt and Terra will put in a ton of work between now and April 11, and we hope a ton of you will also pitch in and help lighten their load.
WHO PERFORMS AT THE BOBCAKE BASH?Band students in grades 7 through 12 will perform at the BOBCake Bash. Band students in grades 7 and 8 cover the first half of the event, and then the high school band takes over for the second half. More details on what to wear and when to report will be provided by your student's directors, closer to the date of the event.
WHAT ABOUT THE ORCHESTRA?We're glad you asked! To help kickoff this important fundraising event, our orchestra students also get in on the act. We are partnering with the Grandview Heights Public Library to offer the second annual "CAKE POP CONCERT" on Thursday, April 10 at 6:30pm at GHPL, to get everyone in the cake fundraising mood. Weather permitting, we will use the library's nifty new outdoor stage (otherwise please join us in the atrium). Select students from our GHHS and middle school orchestra program will perform, and we'll have a raffle and treats for the crowd. Big thanks to GHBOB orchestra liaison Tessa Carrel for organizing this event for the second year.
WHAT ELSE HAPPENS AT THE BOBCAKE BASH?All kinds of things! In addition to the "main event", there will be snacks and refreshments for sale, the cake decorating contest, the VERY popular cupcake eating contests, opportunities to win a chance to conduct the band, silent auction items, cakes for sale, and many other fun activities. Our very popular "CAKE IN THE FACE" game will be back, and lots of your favorite faculty and staff members will be volunteering their faces for your cake-smashing entertainment. We also have other carnival games, and special kids' area for our youngest BOBCake Bashers.
The CUPCAKE BAR is also back for 2025! For just $4, you and/or your kiddo can build your own cupcake to eat at the Bash or take home to eat later (containers with lids will be provided). Didn't win a cake? No problem, come decorate your own! Also, NEW for 2025: enter the 50/50 Raffle for the chance to take home some cold, hard cash from the Bash! |
WHO COMES TO BOBCAKE BASH?Absolutely ANYONE! The event is open to the public - please help us spread the word and invite your friends and neighbors, especially those with youngsters since they tend to love it best and we like to get them started early! There is a nominal $1 entrance fee per person collected at the door.
What are the funds raised at THE BOBcake BASH used for?Funds raised during the annual BOBCake Bash event are used to fund lots of things for all of our instrumental music students! In the past year, GHBOB has funded field trip/extended learning opportunities for all 5th and 6th grade band and orchestra students (Ohio State concert in December), all 7th and 8th grade band and orchestra students (adjudicated performance event before the Kings Island trip last May), all 9th-12th band and orchestra students (Dayton Philharmonic concert last March), and Band Camp for the GHHS Marching Band (last July). We also help support solo and ensemble and honor band participants. We bought ice cream treats for middle schoolers who met performance goals, helped pay for assisting and visiting professional musicians who have worked with several of our student groups, and provided recognition pins and treats for students receiving awards in the spring, as well as gifts for all of our graduating seniors.
It's a lot! Click here to read more about it. We need your help to make this year's BOBCake Bash a huge fundraising success, so we can continue to make these opportunities possible for all of our students in the future. ALL STUDENTS DONATE ONE CAKEThe BOBCake Bash cannot happen without a couple hundred cakes to give away as prizes. Therefore, the GHBOB requests that every family with an instrumental music student in grades 5 through 12 donate (at least!) one cake on behalf of each of your students. This means that if you have two band or orchestra students in your house, please plan to donate two cakes, three such students in your house means three cakes, and so on. Good news: you don't have to bake them yourself. Store-bought cakes work just fine for this purpose. Cakes may be dropped off starting at 3pm on the day of the event (April 11), at the GHHS gymnasium.
BOBCAKE BUYOUT: if you don't have time to buy or bake a cake, we'll do your shopping for you! Click here to submit your donation of $30 per student/cake, before April 7, so that we have time to secure cakes on your behalf. IS THERE A CAKE DECORATING CONTESt?You bet there is! The competition has two separate divisions, for students and adults, and prizes will be awarded for the best decorated cakes in each division (NO PROFESSIONALS, please - this contest is for amateurs only!).
Cakes to be entered in the contest should also be dropped off at the GHHS gymnasium beginning at 3pm on the day of the event (April 11). Please make sure you fill out a contest entry form before leaving your cake, so we don't accidentally give it away in a cake circle! Decorated cakes will be given away for a donation at the end of the event! See one you love? Come and claim it when the music stops! JOIN US FOR "AFTERCAKE"GHBOB members will gather at a location TBD at around 10pm, following the BOBCake Bash, to celebrate yet another successful and fun year of fundraising. Mark your calendar and plan to join us!
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SOUNDS GREAT, HOW CAN I HELP?
It takes lots and lots and lots and LOTS of volunteers to make the BOBCake Bash a success. The jobs are all fun and easy and NO EXPERIENCE IS NECESSARY! We know a lot of you are new to BOBCake Bash, and that's OK - we will teach you everything you need to know. If you are the parent of a GH band or orchestra student, please click here to sign up as soon as possible, or contact us at [email protected] to help!
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