This week we begin by congratulating the members of The Spirit of OHS for earning a Superior Rating at Saturday’s UIL Region Marching Contest! All three judges agreed that it was a superior performance! Their performance has now qualified the band for the Area Marching Contest in a little under two weeks on October 28th! I will have a full

Following a successful clinic this past weekend with Mr. Jesse Lotspeich, and trumpet professor Dr. Mary Thornton, this week begins our UIL Contest Season! Saturday, The Spirit of OHS performs at 6:30pm at AC Jones HS in Beeville. Every student must be in attendance as this is our qualifying performance for hopefully advancing to Area two weeks later on the

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

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

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

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.

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

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