Odem Bands

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

We begin this week’s email by giving a huge congratulations to the members of The Spirit of OHS for earning Superior Ratings from every judge yesterday!!! Additionally, a big congratulations to all of the members of The Spirit of OHS from the past TWENTY YEARS!!! This comprises the longest streak of a 3A Band in South Texas!!!!! We haven’t done

First, thank you to everyone who came out to support us at the Robstown contest this weekend! The Spirit of OHS placed 5th out of the 12 3A Bands competing, and 14th overall out of the 29 competing bands. This included finishing with scores above four 5A bands! This week will be critical to our efforts to improve and be stronger ahead

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