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

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

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

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