This week is set to be a very busy week for the Odem Bands! The main event is that UIL Region Marching Contest will be Saturday. For this contest there is a limit of 100 tickets per school for the event. I’m including more information in the section below, but tickets will be held at OEISD Business Office for purchase.

This week the HS Band will begin making our final preparations towards Region Marching Contest on November 21st. Please note that UIL Region Marching Contest is a required and graded event that date, even with it being on the break students must be in attendance! We received our preliminary performance time for the event this week. The Spirit of OHS

We would like to begin this week by congratulating Landon Garza and Samarra Medina for earning spots in the All-Region Jazz bands. Landon earned 2nd chair and advances to the Area/State round that he’ll record for later this month. Especially given this audition puts all of our students in Class 1A-4A together this has gotten to be a very competitive event

This week Odem will celebrate homecoming. Please see the section below for more information on that! For Friday’s game I will send out the Presale Code for parents of band students to use on Remind to them. Tickets go on sale to the general public on Wednesday – I highly recommend you purchase before then. The site to purchase tickets

This week we will be having our Senior Band Member Recognition night during half-time. We will march our half-time show and then bring parents out to recognize the seniors. Please see the section below for more information on that! For Friday’s game I have sent out the Presale Code for parents of band students to use. Tickets go on sale

This week we add another group of students to in-person learning at the JH and HS. Please ensure that those students come with their instrument and supplies to the first day. We will be going through some first day procedures, but mostly getting right into our normal classwork. Each band student (other than percussion) has been issued a special slitted

Last week we began Face-to-Face with some of the students in the district. At the high school only, we are adding additional students to the campus tomorrow. Please make sure that those students bring their instruments each day to school. We are asking students to take their instruments back and forth each day in case of a situation where they

I hope this message finds you all well! We have just a few announcements for this week for the bands. First of all the HS Band is rehearsing tomorrow (Monday 9/7) from 6pm-9pm. We will be setting drill for our marching show tomorrow on the first day that UIL has allowed us to do so. HS Students should bring duct

We’d like to begin this week by thanking all of our students who have been showing up to work hard in our rehearsals and online the past few weeks. This year is a year that lacks anything normal, but we appreciate the students who are doing what they need to make it possible for us to do our best! First