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May 2, 2017:
This week's "NCBB Musician of the Week" is 3rd cornet, Rich Blakemore!

Since graduating from the University of Michigan (BMus ‘82) and East Carolina University ...(MMus ‘85), Rich Blakemore has performed with ensembles such as the North Carolina Symphony, a charter member (solo cornet) of The Triangle British Brass Band, various jazz ensembles, the Winston-Salem Trumpet Society and the Piedmont Wind Symphony. Rich has studied trumpet performance with artists such as Armando Ghitalla, Col. Gilbert Mitchell, Adel Sanchez, and conducting with H.Robert Reynolds, Elizabeth Green and others.

Rich taught in Raleigh, NC and the Asheboro, NC areas for some 10 years as a high school band director, but now owns a web design business in Kernersville. Since 1997, Rich’s Web Design has created and maintains web sites for 55-60 small – medium sized businesses in the Triad area, as well as others throughout the US.

Rich is a member of Main Street Methodist Church in Kernersville, NC and is a regular musician with many Main Street musical events.