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This week I would like to begin this email by expressing my sincerest gratitude to the students, parents, community members, and others who were involved in the contest. Yesterday we unfortunately had a judge experience a medical emergency during the contest, but fortunately we had an army of people respond as we began giving him care. I am very pleased
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Welcome to what is going to be a very important and busy week for us with the Odem Bands! First, we would like to congratulate Benjamin Castaneda for earning a spot in the trumpet section in the All-Region Jazz Bands this past weekend! He will perform with the group in February during our Annual All-Region Jazz Clinic/Concert! This weekend we
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Welcome to homecoming week! This will be a very busy week for us with the Odem Bands as we have Homecoming events through the week and HS All-Region Jazz Auditions on Saturday for our students who are signed up. Then next week is the 2nd Annual Owl Marching Invitational! For homecoming events we start on Thursday with the Parade at 7:30pm
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This week with the Labor Day holiday makes for a shorter week, but just as a reminder we do rehearse with the HS Band from 6:30pm-8:30pm tomorrow night! We will show the film from Friday at 6pm, and there will be a Leadership Team meeting at 5:45pm. Last week we met with parents about the upcoming June trip to Cleveland.
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We’ve made it through our first week and a half of school, first football game, and now we’re on the road for the rest of the semester here with the bands! This week we have several big things to keep in mind. First, we will have two trip meetings for our 2024 Cleveland trip that is open to Freshmen through
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It was great to see all of our students back last week for the first week of school! We also very much appreciate the community for coming out to support Meet the Band this past week as well! Friday will be our first home football game of the season versus Karnes City. If you have been assigned this evening to
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This week sees the official end of Summer Band rehearsals as school starts on Wednesday. Wednesday evening, we will hold our annual ‘Meet the Band’ night at 8pm at Owl Stadium. We encourage parents to come out and see what your students have been working on for the past few weeks! They truly have been working hard, and we look
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Last week the high school band began setting drill for our show and made some great progress! We’re hoping to continue building on that through the week leading up to our ‘Meet the Band’ performance next Wednesday, August 16th at 8 pm. This week for the HS Bands we will be making our final schedule shift leading into school starting next
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It was great to see all of our HS Band students back last week to the first week of camp! The students worked hard on their music and marching to get a great start to the season! Thank you to all of the community for your support at Friday’s March-A-Thon as well! Through the event we marched about 2 miles
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Welcome to the first week of HS Summer Band!!! Beginning tomorrow every one of our members is back. Mornings/early afternoon has sectionals, late afternoon inside music rehearsal, and evening outside marching practice. It is imperative that we have students at all of their portions of summer band – please help us make sure they get there! Missing one day of
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