Odem Bands

This week is busy here at the beginning as we finish our Spring Concerts for the 2022-2023 School Year! Monday will be the Odem JH Symphonic Winds and the Odem HS Bands beginning at 6:30 pm. Tuesday will be the Odem JH Beginning Band and Odem JH Concert Bands beginning at 6:30 pm as well. Both concerts will be held

We would like to begin by extending a big thank you to all who supported Windi and Jazzi this year! We hope everyone enjoyed the event! With that event done, we truly are on the downhill slope for events for the year. Next will be in a week when we have our spring concerts for JH Symphonic Winds and HS Bands

May is upon us, and the final run of events for the school year is ramping up this week! Friday we have our Drum Major/Guard auditions beginning after school at about 4 pm. Then our big dinner fundraiser, ‘Windi and Jazzi’ is the next day on Saturday. Our annual Dinner/Concert Fundraiser will be held beginning at 5:30 pm in the

This is a week we are celebrating great news across our programs here in Odem! First, on Wednesday we were notified that we were named a National Best Communities for Music Education Award Recipient for the 9th Consecutive year! This a great national recognition of our program from elementary music through high school band here in OEISD! We appreciate the support

First off, this week is that we extend our congratulations to the students in the Odem JH Symphonic Winds, Odem HS Symphonic Band, and Odem HS Wind Ensemble for all earning Sweepstakes Awards this year at UIL Concert and Sight-Reading Evaluation! The students all performed amazingly well, and we look forward to completing the very successful spring with them!For the

This week is one of our biggest weeks of the year for the Odem Bands with UIL Concert and Sight-Reading Evaluation taking place for the OJH Symphonic Winds on Wednesday afternoon, and the OHS Symphonic Band and OHS Wind Ensemble on Thursday morning at Tuloso-Midway HS. This UIL event is free and open to the public. We encourage parents to

There are no scheduled events this week for the Odem Bands, but we do have colorguard practices that have started up, as well as we will be starting leadership meetings tomorrow after school (and Wednesday) for any students interested in being a section leader or a drum major next year. Drum Major/Guard Auditions will be held on May 5th after school. 

This will be a quick start to our week, as have our Pre-UIL Concert tomorrow (Monday) at 5 pm in the HS Cafetorium. We are starting with the JH Concert Band, then the JH Symphonic Winds, HS Symphonic Band, and finally HS Wind Ensemble. The earlier start time is necessary to help out with getting our students to JH softball/baseball

We hope this message finds everyone well and rested from Spring Break! Now that we are back we begin the push to the end of the year which will be quite busy! Students will get their progress report grades this week, please help encourage them on their coursework, particularly HS and Symphonic Winds members have events in April and May