This week we congratulate the Odem High School Wind Ensemble on earning their 7th Consecutive Sweepstakes Rating at UIL Concert and Sight-Reading Evaluation! They earned straight 1’s from a very tough judging panel, playing a 5A HS Level program. We are very proud of them for all of their hard work! The Odem JH Symphonic Winds earned their 7th Straight

Thank you to everyone who attended our Pre-UIL Concert last week! We received a great deal of feedback from the judges to help us make our final push towards the UIL Concert and Sight-Reading Evaluations. OHS Wind Ensemble and the OJH Symphonic Winds perform this Thursday in Goliad. The OJH Symphonic Winds perform at 11:30am and Sight-Read about 11:55am. The

This week we will have our Annual Pre-UIL Concert on Tuesday at 6:30pm at the HS Cafetorium. This concert is for all Odem Band students in Grades 7-12. We know there are a few conflicts with the evening, players in the playoffs are excused and we wish them the best of luck. We need everyone else to please be at

We would like to begin this week by congratulating Ethan Sanchez on his outstanding representation of Odem in the All-State Band! He placed 8th out of all of the trombones in the State of Texas in Classes 1A-3A! Ethan was also part of an outstanding All-State Concert yesterday – congratulations to him! This week will be one of our last

We would like to begin this weeks post by congratulating the 10 Soloists for Odem JH, the 8 Soloists for Odem HS, and the 17 Members of Ensembles at Odem HS for earning Superior Ratings at UIL Solo and Ensemble this past week! We have 17 students advancing to the UIL State Solo and Ensemble Contest in at least one

This is set to be a busy week for the Odem Bands with our 3rd Annual Solo and Ensemble Recital Tuesday at 6pm, and the UIL Region Solo and Ensemble on Thursday in Robstown at Seale Junior High. Please see the Solo and Ensemble section below for information on performance times and spectator information. Not this week, but next week

This week we will be focusing on preparing students for the UIL Region Solo and Ensemble contest next Thursday. Students should be getting together with their ensembles, and working with Mr. Williams on their solos with accompaniment at some point this week. We will hopefully have performance times sometime later in the week to share with you. The event is

This week for the Odem Bands will be a pretty quiet one with a short four day week ahead of us. Many of our students are participating in the stock show this weekend and we wish them all the best of luck! We do wish for you to note a few things for this week. One is the Dallas Trip

Happy New Year! We hope everyone had a great holiday break, and are ready to start the spring semester off! We have a few things going on right away this semester, beginning with Area auditions on Saturday for our six students who have advanced. They will need to be at the band hall by 7am Saturday. We also will need