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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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This past week our Leadership Team members got to experience a great clinic by Marching Health and our Drum Line/Front Ensemble members got off to a great start as well! Starting tomorrow through Wednesday we’ll have our Guard Camp and two days of Leadership Prep/Training. The schedule for each of those will be below. Everyone else in HS Band will
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I hope this message finds you well and rested! Over the next few weeks we will begin ramping up our Summer Band rehearsals to get rolling on the 2023 Marching Season! Next week we will have two parts of that preparation. First, on Monday/Tuesday we have Leadership and a few other students attending an incredible clinic put on by Marching
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We will be traveling with all 2023 Color Guard Members, Drum Majors, and Leadership Camp participants on Sunday to Texas A&M University Commerce. Students need to be at the HS by 4:30 am (Arrival may start at 4:25 am, please do not plan on arriving earlier in this instance!) Students will need to gather their equipment/instruments/needed materials and be ready
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I hope this message finds you well! The bands are in a little bit of a summer lull these next two weeks, but we do plan on having HS Band Rehearsals Monday-Thursday this week from 1 pm-3 pm. We ask that any students who are in town please be at these rehearsals. We’ll focus on the marching show music and
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Welcome to the final week of the 2022-2023 school year!!!! It really is always amazing the journey the students take from the beginning to the end of the year! We appreciate everyone who came out to support the students this past week at their Spring Concerts to wrap up the year! JH Band Students other than Symphonic Winds need to
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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
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