The Flint All City Marching band is dedicated to preserving the art of instrumental music. We feature two renowned and acclaimed band directors of the great state of Michigan, who offer decades of experience in musical composition and performance technique. They not only have a love for music, but they also have a love for young people as well.
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Jacqueline B. Witherspoon
Mrs. "Spoon" has spent several years as a band director at Hamady High School and Beecher High School, where she now serves as the band director.
She has been noted for cultivating a passion for music in those who have nothing but the mere desire to believe in themselves. Often given little to work with, she produces very big results. Her love for music theory and composition is like none other. She is one of the most well respected high school band directors in the state of Michigan. She is known for transforming students into musicians, and sending musicians to college on full-ride, band department scholarships.
Mrs. "Spoon" has spent several years as a band director at Hamady High School and Beecher High School, where she now serves as the band director.
She has been noted for cultivating a passion for music in those who have nothing but the mere desire to believe in themselves. Often given little to work with, she produces very big results. Her love for music theory and composition is like none other. She is one of the most well respected high school band directors in the state of Michigan. She is known for transforming students into musicians, and sending musicians to college on full-ride, band department scholarships.
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Eric Majied, Director
As the former Band Director of Northwestern High School, Central High School and Hamady Middle/High School, in their "golden years", Eric Majied led many students to discover their passion for instrumental music; sending many of them to Colleges & Universities on musical scholarship.
Born 1962, and raised in Flint, Michigan, he was beating on pots and pans at age 1. He is the youngest of 10 children; He started getting serious about music performance in middle school, after listening to his older brothers' bands. He played formal clarinet in the public school setting through 4th, 5th and 6th grades, and started playing Drums and percussion in the 7th grade middle school band. He received an eye opening advancement by studying Drum Set with Bill Schaffer and Melodic Percussion with Anna Watkins in the 70's and 80's. Charles Fair, a then local middle school music Instructor who encouraged the seemingly impossible, motivated his growth of performance on more than one instrument at a time. He started with the idea of playing bells and trap-set simultaneously. Ever since then, he has sought out the most expressive instrumental voices to create a sincerely strong performance.
He now seeks Professional Endorsement from the most reputable name in drum manufacturing to further his efforts in bringing forth the knowledge of, and enjoyment in, the Art of Percussion Performance, as a means of human expression.
As the former Band Director of Northwestern High School, Central High School and Hamady Middle/High School, in their "golden years", Eric Majied led many students to discover their passion for instrumental music; sending many of them to Colleges & Universities on musical scholarship.
Born 1962, and raised in Flint, Michigan, he was beating on pots and pans at age 1. He is the youngest of 10 children; He started getting serious about music performance in middle school, after listening to his older brothers' bands. He played formal clarinet in the public school setting through 4th, 5th and 6th grades, and started playing Drums and percussion in the 7th grade middle school band. He received an eye opening advancement by studying Drum Set with Bill Schaffer and Melodic Percussion with Anna Watkins in the 70's and 80's. Charles Fair, a then local middle school music Instructor who encouraged the seemingly impossible, motivated his growth of performance on more than one instrument at a time. He started with the idea of playing bells and trap-set simultaneously. Ever since then, he has sought out the most expressive instrumental voices to create a sincerely strong performance.
He now seeks Professional Endorsement from the most reputable name in drum manufacturing to further his efforts in bringing forth the knowledge of, and enjoyment in, the Art of Percussion Performance, as a means of human expression.
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Blake E. Odum, Founder and Organizer
Blake discovered his love for instrumental music in the 6th grade, under the leadership of Eric Majied, at what was known then as, Northwestern Edison; the former Northwestern High School. His passion was later cultivated by the well respected, Jacqueline Witherspoon at Hamady Middle/High School. If it had not been for them, his love for music would not exist today.
A native of Flint, MI and a 2007 graduate of Flint’s Hamady High School. At an early age, Blake realized his commitment to invest, empower, and educate his peers, society, his community, and mankind as a whole. Blake attends Eastern Michigan University with a dual major in Film & Media Production and African American Studies. Aside from his academic commitment, Blake is the founder of the Show Style Marching band of Eastern Michigan, a member of the Black Student Union and the NAACP, a charter member of Eastern Michigan’s chapter of SAAB (Student African American Brotherhood), a noted poet of the Poetry Society, just to name a few. Blake a traveling accredited orator and motivational speaker with the MotivationFoundation; a self owned and operated company. Blake received national recognition for his gift in oratory in 2007 from ACT-SO, NAACP’s youth program dedicated to the performing arts. His philosophy on life is, "one should seek to do his life's work as if God almighty called him at this particular moment in history to do it. And he must do it with a sense of cosmic responsibility." -Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Blake discovered his love for instrumental music in the 6th grade, under the leadership of Eric Majied, at what was known then as, Northwestern Edison; the former Northwestern High School. His passion was later cultivated by the well respected, Jacqueline Witherspoon at Hamady Middle/High School. If it had not been for them, his love for music would not exist today.
A native of Flint, MI and a 2007 graduate of Flint’s Hamady High School. At an early age, Blake realized his commitment to invest, empower, and educate his peers, society, his community, and mankind as a whole. Blake attends Eastern Michigan University with a dual major in Film & Media Production and African American Studies. Aside from his academic commitment, Blake is the founder of the Show Style Marching band of Eastern Michigan, a member of the Black Student Union and the NAACP, a charter member of Eastern Michigan’s chapter of SAAB (Student African American Brotherhood), a noted poet of the Poetry Society, just to name a few. Blake a traveling accredited orator and motivational speaker with the MotivationFoundation; a self owned and operated company. Blake received national recognition for his gift in oratory in 2007 from ACT-SO, NAACP’s youth program dedicated to the performing arts. His philosophy on life is, "one should seek to do his life's work as if God almighty called him at this particular moment in history to do it. And he must do it with a sense of cosmic responsibility." -Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.