Odem Bands

This week we wish all of our students involved in Stock Show the best of luck! It’s a light week for us with the bands still, as we continue our preparations for UIL and upcoming concerts. We will have high school band rehearsals from 6 pm to 8 pm on Thursday night. Also, from 4 pm-5:15 pm, we will have

We begin this week by congratulating senior trumpet player Benjamin Castañeda on earning a spot in the All-State Band on Saturday! This is the first time in school history we’ve had a trumpet player make the All-State Band! Ben will travel to San Antonio from February 11-14th for the All-State Clinic/Concert that is part of the Texas Music Educators Association Convention. 

Happy New Year!!! Welcome back to all of our students. We hope everyone had a great break! We have a busy spring ahead, with our first event right off the bat for our three students who have advanced to Area Auditions this coming Saturday. They’ll need to be at the school by 7:30 am to travel to Calallen HS for

Welcome to a final packed week for us of 2025 with the Odem Bands! First up is the Odem JH Bands Winter Concert on Tuesday evening, beginning at 6:30 pm. Please see the information below on call times for students, and help them ensure they have the required concert attire. The Odem HS Band Winter Concert will be on Thursday

Welcome back from the break! We hope everyone had a chance to rest up before these next few weeks ramp back up! We’ll start this week on Tuesday with our monthly Booster Meeting in the HS Cafetorium at 6 pm. Please consider joining us for that, as we look towards needing additional volunteers in the future!  Saturday, we will be

We want to begin by congratulating the 14 Odem JH Band Students who successfully made the All-Region Bands on Saturday! Please see the region results section below to see the full list of names, but we would like to especially congratulate Shane Gehris on F Horn, and Constancio Bello on Euphonium for earning the 1st Chair in their sections! This was

We want to thank every parent and community member who helped support The Spirit of OHS this year! Saturday, we concluded our season with a fantastic amount of support in the audience, and we’re very grateful for that! The students fell short of our goal, but still delivered an outstanding performance in a competition featuring fantastic bands. In the end,

We’d like to first of all thank all of our volunteers and students who helped run the 2A Area Contest yesterday! UIL’s staff, the judges, and participating bands all had great things to say about Odem and how well we hosted the event! Now, this week, we are onto our final run to our own Area Contest! Due to a

We begin this week’s email by giving a huge congratulations to the members of The Spirit of OHS for earning Superior Ratings from every judge yesterday!!! Additionally, a big congratulations to all of the members of The Spirit of OHS from the past TWENTY YEARS!!! This comprises the longest streak of a 3A Band in South Texas!!!!! We haven’t done