Odem Bands

I hope this message finds you well! We survived the first week of school! This week will be our final week before varsity football games begin their regular season next week. We will host our annual Meet the Band performance Wednesday night at 8 pm. This will also be our final week of being on a different schedule than normal

Summer flew by quickly, and we’re at the first day of school already on Wednesday! For HS Band students we will be rehearsing 6:30-8:30 Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday this week. They’ve been making amazing progress, and are halfway through the show with music and drill! We’re most likely doing the same next week, as our goal is to finish

This week is the final week before school starts! We had a fantastic week of work this last week, and our students accomplished a lot! Our March-A-Thon raised just short of $1,000 this week, and we appreciate all of the community support for the band! Thursday evening, we set our entire first song of drill on the field, and Saturday

We begin this week by congratulating the members of the 2023-2024 Odem JH Symphonic Winds for placing 4th in the State of Texas at the ATSSB State Outstanding Performance Series Contest this past week! This is a phenomenal accomplishment for the program, and we congratulate the students on their outstanding performance of a ‘A Scottish Festival’ this past May at Del

For the members of The Spirit of OHS this week represents our first rehearsals with everyone back! We are looking forward to our ‘Legends of the Alamo’ production getting off to a start this week! This week we’re rehearsing Monday through Wednesday only, due to a band convention that directors will be attending. For those freshmen, or new to the

I hope everyone has had a restful set of weeks this summer! The Spirit of OHS begins kicking off Fall 2024 Marching Season practices this week with Leadership, Guard, and Percussion events.  Monday we’re attending the Marching Health Clinic hosted by Flour Bluff HS with Leadership, and volunteer 10th-12th grade students. We still have spots available too! Students should arrive at

This message is to let everyone know we will be having our postponed Owl Band Booster Meeting on Monday at 7 pm in the Band Hall at the High School. Following the business of the meeting we will play our recording of the concert from Cleveland for anyone who wishes to see the students amazing performance! We will be off

First this week we would like to extend a huge congratulations to the students who travelled to Cleveland last week! They are still receiving a ton of compliments a week later, and it’s a testament to their behavior and musicianship last week! We are planning to have a showing of their concert sometime in the next week or two at

First of all, we’d like to congratulate our 2024 State Silver Medalists! Vince Barrera, Benjamin Castañeda, and Eva Garcia all earned Silver Medals at the UIL State Solo and Ensemble Contest! Our Woodwind Choir, Brass Choir, and Percussion Ensemble also earned Excellent Ratings at the contest! We are very proud of every student who advanced and performed!!! This week is