Odem Band Schedule – Week of 10/26/2025
We’d like to first of all thank all of our volunteers and students who helped run the 2A Area Contest yesterday! UIL’s staff, the judges, and participating bands all had great things to say about Odem and how well we hosted the event!
Now, this week, we are onto our final run to our own Area Contest! Due to a Thursday game, we are restructuring this week a bit to make up for the loss of our Thursday rehearsal. Monday will be our typical 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm rehearsal, and in place of Thursday, we’ll be adding a Tuesday night rehearsal from 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm. On Wednesday, we will have our 4:15 pm to 5:30 pm Thursday football game. On Friday, we will have a brief rehearsal from 4 pm to 5:15 pm, followed by an Area Send-off performance for the band at 5:30 pm at Owl Stadium!
Saturday will be an all-day event for the band. Just as a reminder, all of our performances are required and graded events! Students will need to be at the Stadium for our Warm-Up at 6:30 am on Saturday. We will feed them breakfast afterward, and then head out by 8:30 am to AC Jones HS in Beeville. We perform at 11:30 am and hope everyone comes out to cheer the students on! Afterward, we will have lunch, then return to Beeville for the announcement of the finalists. Before this announcement, we will not be checking any students out. If we advance to finals, we need all students to be present for their finals performance! Our students are quite capable of having a performance that could return us there, and need the students to have their very best chance at returning to State in that case!
Should we not advance to finals, we will feed the students dinner and then return to the school. If we advance to finals, we’ll feed them and then work to quickly get ready for their performance. In that case, I will post on Facebook and share the information with the students. 26 Bands are competing on Saturday, 10 Bands advance to the Finals, and 5 Bands advance to State.
Tickets for Saturday are available only online. You may purchase them here: https://uilareae.ludus.com/index.php Beeville does have a clear bag policy they enforce, and parking is a bit of a challenge for this event. We recommend you arrive at least 45 minutes before our performance to navigate that.
This week is by far our most intense for rehearsals through the year, but we hope it will pay off for them on Saturday. Please help us make sure that every student is at EVERY rehearsal and performance this week!
2026 Florida Trip
We ask that parents/students please check in on their trip accounts this week. This website link https://bobrogerstravel.grcoll.co/v2/go/odem26 should let you access the site. If you have any questions or concerns, please let me know! We are scheduling a meeting for November 11th at 7 pm for updates on the trip that we’ll need the students and a parent to attend. We’ll confirm that as we get closer to the date.
This Week’s Schedule
| Day: | Event: |
| Monday: | Marching Band Rehearsal: 5:30 pm – 8:30 pm |
| Tuesday: | Marching Band Rehearsal: 5:30 pm – 8:30 pm |
| Wednesday: | Marching Band Rehearsal: 4:15 pm – 5:30 pm |
| Thursday: | Game vs. Banquete (AWAY)5:00 pm: Students at Band Hall5:30 pm: Depart for Banquete7:00 pm: Game Begins (Note this is an earlier start time!)~9:30 pm: Depart Banquete~10:00 pm: Return home to Odem |
| Friday: | Commmunity Send-Off Performance5:30 pm (Students at Band Hall at 4:00 pm) |
| Saturday: | UIL Area Marching Contest at Beeville6:30 am: Students on Field at Stadium10:45 am: Warm-Up in Beeville11:30 am: Perform12:30 pm: Depart for Lunch~3:00 pm: Return to Beeville5:00 pm: Announcement of Finalists5:30 pm: Dinner7:30 pm: Finals Begin |
Upcoming Events:
| Day: | Event: | Time: |
| Thursday | Odem vs. Banquete (Banquete) Thursday Game | 7 pm |
| Friday | Afternoon Rehearsal/Area Send-Off Performance | 4pm Students at Band Hall5:30 pm Perform |
| Saturday | 3A Area Marching Contest (Beeville) | |
| November 7th: | Odem vs. Santa Rosa (Home – Senior Night) | |
| November 14th?: | Tentative Playoff Game 1 day | |
| November 15th: | JH All-Region Auditions (Tuloso-Midway) | |
| December 6th: | HS Region Auditions (HM King) | |
| December 9th: | OJH Winter Concert | |
| December 11th: | OHS Winter Concert | |
| December 12th-13th | All-Region Band Clinic/Concert |
Full Fall 2025 Calendar: https://tinyurl.com/25SpiritOHSFall
Thank you for your help and support of these amazing students! Please contact us if you have any questions!