It’s amazing how fast the year flies by each year and before we know it we’re here at Graduation Week! Our band events have mostly wrapped up at this time, so there’s not a lot of announcements to make this week. The first item is that OJH students should be taking their instruments home for the summer tomorrow. Symphonic Winds

We are in the home stretch here for the Odem Bands, with our final concert of the year tomorrow night featuring the Screeching Owl Jazz Band and a special Alumni Jazz Band! Tomorrow night we celebrate the 10th Anniversary Spring Evening of Jazz and look forward to a fun evening! Dessert and refreshments will be provided to audience members who

Thank you to everyone who attended this past weeks concert of the OJH Symphonic Winds and the Odem HS Bands! We’re beginning to roll through the last performances of the year for all of our groups with the next one tomorrow night (Monday) with the Odem JH Beginning Band and Odem JH Concert Band’s Spring Concert. The concert will begin

Congratulations to the members of the Odem Bands for a phenomenal showing at UIL Concert and Sight-Reading Evaluation last week! All three of our performing groups, the Odem JH Symphonic Winds, Odem HS Symphonic Band, and Odem HS Wind Ensemble earned Superior Ratings in both Concert and Sight-Reading portions, bringing home 3 Sweepstakes Awards! This marks the 6th Consecutive Year

We would like to begin by thanking everyone who came out and contributed to our Windi and Jazzi Fundraiser this weekend! Between ticket sales, donations, and the silent auction this was a very successful fundraiser for our students! We will have a full report and breakdown from the Band Boosters at their next meeting. We would like to give a

We’d like to begin this week by congratulating Odem-Edroy ISD on once again being named a National Best Communities for Music Education Recipient! This recognizes OEISD as among the best 623 districts in the nation for music education in grades K-12. Odem-Edroy ISD is one of just 68 Texas school districts named to this list! We appreciate all of the

This is going to be a very busy week for the Odem Bands. Before I get into the schedule for this week I wish to give an update on the 2020 OHS Band Trip. We currently only have 22 of a minimum of 30 students signed up for the trip. Ideally I would prefer to travel with at least 40

I hope everyone had a fun and restful Spring Break! Our schedule with the bands starts getting busier through the end of the year, please pay close attention to dates/events. PLEASE NOTE: We have rescheduled the Pre-UIL Contest Concert from this Thursday to the following week on Thursday, March 28th. We know there is a conflict with HS Track that

This past weekend nine students from the Odem HS Band participated in the Texas A&M University Corpus Christi South Texas Honor Band. Those students had a fantastic performance on Saturday and we congratulate them on their performance! I would also like to take a moment and congratulate Senior Saxophonist Joey Aguirre on his successful audition and acceptance into the TAMUK