February 26, 2022 | 12pm-7pm
Treat yourself and your family to a delicious dinner and musical entertainment. The Spaghetti Dinner features the Austintown Intermediate School 5th Grade Band, Austintown Middle School Bands and Austintown Fitch High School Bands.
Take out is available. Try your luck at the 50/50 raffle and various gift basket raffles, and get involved in our bake sale.
Location: Fitch Cafeteria
Cost to attend concert & dinner: Adults - $10.00 | Seniors and Students - $7.00 | Children 4 and under - FREE
Take out is available. Try your luck at the 50/50 raffle and various gift basket raffles, and get involved in our bake sale.
Location: Fitch Cafeteria
Cost to attend concert & dinner: Adults - $10.00 | Seniors and Students - $7.00 | Children 4 and under - FREE
- Cost to attend concert without dinner - $5.00
- A quart of meatballs - $7.00
Get Involved: Volunteering, Basket Raffle, and Dessert Donations
To help cook, serve, and clean-up during the dinner:
To bake and/or provide baked goods:
To enter a basket for raffle:
If you know a person, family, or business that would like to donate a basket, item, gift card, or make a monetary donation, then they can provide their donation at the Drop-Off time listed below, or contact us.
The 2022 Spaghetti Dinner Basket Drop-Off Dates are:
Deliver the donation along with the completed donation form for each donor to the Austintown Band
Parents. You may deliver the donations at the following events:
Each year, AIS, AMS, and Fitch Bands put together grade-level baskets. Students in each grade are asked to donate items for their basket. Donations can be an item, gift card, or a monetary donation. Students should reach out to their Band Director with questions about their basket.
Grade-Level Basket Themes:
- Sign up for your availability at the bottom of the page.
To bake and/or provide baked goods:
- Sign up for your dessert donation
- Including but not limited to cake, pies, cookies, and brownies.
- Please note that all items are to be dropped off between 8:00 am and 11:00 am on the day of the dinner.
- Please bring all items in disposable containers! We will not keep and save personal containers.
To enter a basket for raffle:
If you know a person, family, or business that would like to donate a basket, item, gift card, or make a monetary donation, then they can provide their donation at the Drop-Off time listed below, or contact us.
The 2022 Spaghetti Dinner Basket Drop-Off Dates are:
Deliver the donation along with the completed donation form for each donor to the Austintown Band
Parents. You may deliver the donations at the following events:
- Austintown Band Parents General Meetings: January 25 and February 22 at 7 pm. Austintown Fitch High School – Band Room.
- Jazz and Desserts Festival on Saturday, January 29th at AMS. Drop off donations at the front ticket table.
- Saturday, February 5. Time and location will be announced on the ABP Facebook page.
Each year, AIS, AMS, and Fitch Bands put together grade-level baskets. Students in each grade are asked to donate items for their basket. Donations can be an item, gift card, or a monetary donation. Students should reach out to their Band Director with questions about their basket.
Grade-Level Basket Themes:
- 5th Grade Band - Boy's Basket (ages 5 to 10)
- 6th Grade Band - Girl's Basket (ages 5 to 10)
- 7th Grade Band - Chocolate Basket
- 8th Grade Band - Baker's Basket
- Freshman Band - AF Spirit Basket
- Concert Band - Snack Basket
- Symphonic Band - Beach Basket
History of the Spaghetti Dinner
In the 1940's Fitch Band Parents (that was the full name of the school then) collected old newspapers and magazines and sold the used paper to invest in the first actual uniforms for the Fitch Band. In the years that passed they found other ways to raise funds for both uniforms and instruments. We have heard from alumni that as far back as the 1960's the band held Spaghetti Dinners at Frank Ohl Junior High School since its 1958 kitchen was far newer than the 1912 Old Fitch Cafeteria. Then in the later 1960's the dinner moved back to the old Fitch for several years before its debut in 1969 at the new and current Austintown Fitch High School.
Parents would meet the night before the dinner and roll meatballs and cut up salads with fresh sauce being made the morning of the dinner. Over the years the recipe changed a few times until retired director Joe Pellegrini gave his father's secret sauce recipe to the Chair of Spaghetti Dinner. That secret recipe is passed from Chair to Chair under penalties we don't want to really know!
Parents would meet the night before the dinner and roll meatballs and cut up salads with fresh sauce being made the morning of the dinner. Over the years the recipe changed a few times until retired director Joe Pellegrini gave his father's secret sauce recipe to the Chair of Spaghetti Dinner. That secret recipe is passed from Chair to Chair under penalties we don't want to really know!