This week we will be focusing on preparing students for the UIL Region Solo and Ensemble contest next Thursday. Students should be getting together with their ensembles, and working with Mr. Williams on their solos with accompaniment at some point this week. We will hopefully have performance times sometime later in the week to share with you. The event is

This week for the Odem Bands will be a pretty quiet one with a short four day week ahead of us. Many of our students are participating in the stock show this weekend and we wish them all the best of luck! We do wish for you to note a few things for this week. One is the Dallas Trip

Happy New Year! We hope everyone had a great holiday break, and are ready to start the spring semester off! We have a few things going on right away this semester, beginning with Area auditions on Saturday for our six students who have advanced. They will need to be at the band hall by 7am Saturday. We also will need

We’d like to begin this week by congratulating the members of the Odem Bands who represented us at the Region Concert this past weekend! I hope they enjoyed themselves! It was especially a cool experience to have composer, Randall Standridge, in as the clinician for the Wind Ensemble and for our kids to meet him in class on Friday! This

We would like to begin this busy week of information by congratulating our students on their outstanding showing at Region Auditions yesterday. Odem JH had 13 students make the Region Bands, with 4 members earning spots in the Region Wind Ensemble. Odem HS earned 11 spots in the Region Bands, with 6 students advancing to the Area Contest and a

We hope everyone had a fantastic Thanksgiving, and is well rested to return for the last three weeks of the semester! I want to begin this week by again letting parents know that we have adjusted the OJH Winter Concert date to December 12th to work around a schedule conflict. Their concert will start at 6:30pm in the Odem HS

We want to thank everyone for all of your help with the events last week, and through this past fall marching season! This week is going to be a much lighter week for the bands than we’ve been having the past few weeks! The only real event for students is the annual Senior Dinner that I put on for the

We would like to begin this week by saying thank you to the parents, teachers, alumni, community members, and Owl Football Team for their amazing support last week at the UIL State Marching Contest! The students had their best performance of the season and we are proud of them! Ultimately they finished the season 20th of the 204 3A Marching

This week is a big week for The Spirit of OHS Marching Band as we return to the UIL State Marching Band Contest Wednesday! Please read this week’s information carefully if you have a student involved in the band. Spectator information is also included below. We hope that the students have a large group of fans on Wednesday at their