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I hope this message finds everyone well and rested from your Holiday Break! We have 3.5 weeks left until the Winter Break next, with a lot of events between now and then for the Odem Bands! First up is this week’s All-Region Auditions. There were supposed to be some changes going into last year, but due to COVID we didn’t
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Wow time has flown by here! We’re already at the week before Thanksgiving Break! There are a few important notes here for high school students that I want to make sure everyone gets. First of all, this week will be placement auditions for Spring for the Odem Bands. All students MUST record an audition as part of a test grade.
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This week is going to be busy for the HS Band at the back end of the week. On Thursday, Odem-Edroy ISD will host our annual Veteran’s Day Ceremony at Owl Stadium at 9am. Odem HS Band students will perform in their marching uniforms that day for the event. On Friday we will travel to Victoria to support the Odem
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Thank you to everyone who helped us run a well-received Area Marching Contest yesterday! Directors offered many compliments to our facilities, as well as to our parent and student helpers! We hope this becomes an annual event for us. It is also showing the promise of doing a Pre-UIL contest earlier in the fall as a strong possibility too now
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First of all, I want to offer my and the students’ heartfelt gratitude to all of the parents and volunteers who have helped us this season. All of us were heartbroken that our season came to an unexpected end on Saturday, but I know that the students hard work on the show, and their performance, will forever still have a
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First, I would like to offer congratulations to our students for earning the 16th Consecutive Superior Rating for Odem HS at UIL Region Marching Contest! This weekend they have advanced to the UIL Area Marching Contest for their 9th Consecutive time!!! As of this email I am still waiting an official schedule from UIL, but am making a pretty educated guess on
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It’s hard to believe, but we are already at our first UIL Marching Contest week this week! Saturday at 5:30pm The Spirit of OHS performs at the UIL Region Marching Contest as they seek their 16th Consecutive Superior Rating at Marching Contest, and a chance to advance to the UIL Area Marching Contest the following weekend! We appreciate all of their
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We would like to begin this week by congratulating the students on two outstanding performances Saturday that yielded them the Class 1A Champion award! With the extended game on Friday night everyone was exhausted by the end, but I believe our students represented the community of Odem very well! There were many compliments on our show! Most importantly we received
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Thank you to everyone who came to our contest on Saturday. We appreciate your support! From that performance we received some very helpful comments from the judges that we will be using to guide our rehearsals moving forward in the season! Hopefully many of those adjustments will help benefit us for this coming Saturday’s competition in Katy. We perform that
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Welcome to the first full week of our competitive marching season! This week The Spirit of OHS will travel to Beeville to compete in the Beeville ISD Marching contest. This will be our first chance to have judges begin offering us feedback for this season, and we look forward to the students getting to start their season off right! Tickets
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