We begin this week by congratulating The Spirit of OHS on an outstanding set of performances on Saturday at the US Bands Davenport Regional contest! In prelims they earned the caption awards for Overall Effect, Best Music, Colorguard, and Percussion, and 1st Place in their Class! They advanced to finals and had a great performance there alongside the much larger, 4A,

We want to begin by thanking all of the volunteers and students for helping make the Owl Marching Invitational run smoothly for all of the participants! We had a lot of positive feedback from those who attended! This week, we will have a home game versus Taft. We need an adult for the following students to please help from 6:30

This week is a big week for the Odem Bands, as we host our 4th Annual Owl Marching Invitational! The OMI has become one of our best fundraisers for the year, but in order for it to be successful we need an army of parent and adult volunteers! If you have not already signed up to volunteer, we ask that you

We begin this week by congratulating Benjamin Castañeda – Trumpet, Eva Garcia – Bass, and Ysidrio Roman – Trombone, for making the All-Region Jazz Bands this weekend! They competed alongside students in conferences 2A-4A for this honor! Additionally, Ben earned 1st Chair Trumpet and has advanced to the Area Jazz round, where he will record for a chance to be a

The year is already well underway here, and we’re heading into the quick pace of fall! This weekend, we will have six high school students auditioning for the All-Region Jazz Bands – please see the information below for those students. Friday will be an away game versus Aransas Pass before that. This week will also see the first pep rally

Welcome to the week where everything really begins to start up for us with the bands! Our first football game will be this Friday in Ben-Bolt. Students will need to be back at the HS Band Hall by 5 pm to depart for the game. We should return around 10:45 pm, depending on how late the game runs. We will

It was good to see our students all back at school this past week! It was a busy three days, but lots of good things already apparent with our students this year! This week is our final week without a football game on our schedule for a while, but we do have a couple of events on Wednesday. The first

Last week it was great to see students back as we began having students come in for summer rehearsals! This week is our most intense week of preparation, with students having sectional rehearsals, full band indoor rehearsals, and outdoor evening marching rehearsals on Monday through Wednesday. Please check the schedule below for that information! On Thursday, we will have sectionals

I hope this message finds everyone well and rested from the summer break! We have reached that time where we’ll be starting up summer band stuff for The Spirit of OHS for our 2025 Season. Just a reminder, physicals are required for participation in Marching Band in Texas. It’s the same form/policy as Athletics. We can see if forms have

I hope this message finds you well as we’re beginning our 2nd full week of the summer break here! We had a hectic end of the year for the bands, and we appreciate all of the students who attended graduation to support our graduating seniors! That Monday, we took students to State Solo and Ensemble and were pleased to have a