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This week we would like to congratulate the Screeching Owl Jazz Band on their 3rd Consecutive 1st Place in Class 3A at the TAMUK Jazz Festival! Thank you to everyone who came out to support the students this past Friday! We would also like to thank Mrs. Jasso, Mrs. Edwards, Mr. Dominguez, and anyone else involved in the fundraiser this
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Welcome back from Spring Break! I hope everyone had a restful break and is ready for the sprint towards the end of the year! Tomorrow all students attending the trip will have room lists and other information that needs to be filled out. Windi and Jazzi We will be also sending home the forms for ticket sales for Windi and
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Congratulations to the OHS Students who performed with the TAMUCC Islander Honor Band this weekend! Brandon Morin took the top Trombone chair for the group, and we had several other students who placed fairly high in their sections! This week the Odem JH Symphonic Winds and the Odem HS Wind Ensemble will attend the Region UIL Concert and Sight-Reading Contest
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This next week-and-a-half are going to be very busy for us with the Odem Bands as we enter into the final time before our UIL Concert and Sight-Reading Contest. Tomorrow night, Monday, we will have our Pre-UIL Contest Concert in the HS Cafetorium at 6:30pm. OJH Symphonic Winds Members should be at the Cafetorium on stage at 5:45pm. OHS Wind
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We wish to once again congratulate our All-State Students John Pizana and Zenaida Lara for their outstanding auditions and performance this week! The All-State concert was great, and we look forward to having future students join the ranks of our All-Staters! This week will be a fairly quiet week for the Odem Bands. Please note the information below for what
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Last week our students had some great successes at the UIL region Solo and Ensemble Contest in Robstown! All told Odem JH returned with 9 Superior Medals with a 3 soloists and a Percussion Trio. Odem HS achieved a very impressive 28 Superior Medals, and 18 of our students have advanced to the UIL State Solo and Ensemble Contest! We
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This week will be a busy one for us for the Odem Bands. First I would like to remind everyone that we have a fundraiser currently running for both the Odem JH Bands and the Odem HS Bands. The Odem JH Bands are selling their Mixed Bags Catalog sales and the Odem HS students are selling bedding from ‘Simply Sheets.’
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Thank you to all of the parents that came to the meeting this past Tuesday for the trip. Please note that if you didn’t come to the meeting I would like to make sure you have the information that was covered then. We did have to raise the price of the trip to $1,350 due to costs and what we
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This week we will have a meeting on Tuesday, at 7pm for the Orlando Trip this summer. We need a parent and student at this meeting to discuss an update to the trip. If your student is attending this trip please make sure you are there. I understand if anyone is involved in basketball games that evening that it may
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I would like to begin this week by congratulating John Pizana (Percussion) and Zenaida ‘Ziggy’ Lara (Clarinet) for advancing to the All-State Band! Both represented Odem High School well and we congratulate them! They will participate with the All-State Band Clinic February 14-17 in San Antonio in conjunction with the TMEA State Music Convention. I believe their band will perform
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