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News from the Odem HS Bands
We began our season with HS Band back in July, with us having completed our 9th full week with the full band this past week. We appreciate the students showing up and working hard for our clinicians on Tuesday and Thursday, and now it’s time to start our competitive ‘Bandtober’ up! This weekend we will host our 5thAnnual Owl Marching Invitational
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First, we’d like to congratulate our 2026 Homecoming Queen Eva Garcia, King Milton Garcia, and 1st Runner-Ups Macy Laird and Von Barrera for representing themselves so well this past week at Homecoming! The next day we traveled to Robstown for All-Region Jazz Auditions, and we’d like to congratulate senior trumpet player AJ Contreras for making the All-Region Jazz Bands! Eva
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This week is going to be a very busy week for the Odem Bands, with Homecoming and HS Region Jazz Auditions! First, we do have a rehearsal for the HS Band tomorrow morning from 8 am – 11 am. We ask that students please arrive by 7:45 am if possible, to help unload their instruments from the Truck/Trailer. We will
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Our season for the high school is well and truly underway! Congrats to the Owls on their opening night victory on Friday! This week we’ll continue working to refine the show with our high school students during our Monday and Thursday evening 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm rehearsals. As a reminder we do have one Tuesday planned for September 15th to
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The year is truly underway this week! Thanks to everyone who attended our ‘Meet the Band’ event on Wednesday night to see a preview of ‘The Flame Within!’ We’re looking forward to seeing the show come together over the coming weeks as we prepare for our competitive season! For HS students, beginning this week, we are adjusting our fall rehearsal
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It was great last week to welcome all our students back from summer break! All the classes have started, and we’re looking forward to a great year! Some key points for this week: For HS students, beginning the week of August 24th, we plan to adjust our fall rehearsal schedule to Monday and Thursday evenings, 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm this
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This year, for the 2026 Odem HS Homecoming Game vs. Aransas Pass, on September 11th, the right dates have aligned for us to host an Alumni Band Night! We are looking for any alumni from Odem HS who have graduated from the band program (ANY YEAR!) to come join us for this special event! We plan to have a special
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This week, we officially welcome all of our students back to school on Wednesday! Due to Meet the Teacher on Monday night and other schedules, the HS Band will only do our 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm rehearsal block this week. It’s important that we have every student at those rehearsals as we continue to push forward to get the
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We would like to begin by thanking everyone who came out to support us at our annual Marchathon last week! We raised just under $1,700 through the event! If you know of any business that would still be interested in sponsoring the band and receiving a shoutout at halftime as a thank you each week, please let us know! We’ll
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This week we start everyone back in full for The Spirit of OHS! We appreciate that we were able to get a start last week with the smaller groups in, and look forward to having everyone. Please see the schedule below, but it works out that we have a sectional with the students in the first half of the day,
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