Category: Indy
Willis Music Lends A Helping Hand
By Christy Schutte When you want to help others, good things happen. It’s simple, but true. And it certainly was the case for Marion County High School teacher Holly Wooten. Wooten is a first-year English and Advanced Drama teacher and was anxious to get an annual school play back on stage for her students. “They [...]
Best In Music Celebrates 23rd Anniversary
Best In Music celebrated its 23rd anniversary on September 21 and 22 with a huge sale and drawing. For the past 10 years, Best In Music has been hosting a huge anniversary event featuring live music, vendor-sponsored promotions, door crasher accessories, special event pricing and a huge drawing where more than $10,000 worth of product [...]
Industry Vet Douglas Fenton Retires
Former Co-Owner and Sales Manager Douglas Fenton ended his five-decade tenure at Dietze Music in Lincoln NE, having retired on October 6. The retail veteran is the son of one of the original partners, Robert Fenton, who incorporated the company in the ’50s after the Founder, August Dietze, established the full-line music store in 1927 [...]
Going Down To Uncle Jon’s Music
In Westmont IL, Uncle Jon’s Music held its annual Customer Appreciation Hot Dog party the first weekend of August, as reported by Westmont Progress. It featured raffles, kids’ activities, open mic sets and more. The event was held from 11am to 6pm on Saturday, August 4, at Uncle Jon’s N. Cass Ave. location. The party, [...]
Oak Creek Is Making Sweet Music
In Oak Creek WI, Dana and Michele Clark opened a new store, Sweet Music, in the Market Place Village in August, reported oakcreek.patch.com. Both of them teachers, they teach, sell and repair a wide variety of musical instruments, ranging from guitar, banjo and mandolin to ukulele, dulcimer and drums. As the original story reported, since [...]
Edwards Music Evokes The ‘Supernatural’
In Fayetteville NC, Edwards Music hosted a very cool event in July. That month, The Fayetteville Observer reported in its original story, 10 drummers competed in Supernatural Cymbals’ “I’m A Natural!” 2012 Drum Off. Every drummer had three minutes to play, with the winner earning a cool $1,000 in cymbals and prizes, as well as [...]
From A To Z Music Store
In sunny Flagler Beach FL, Z Music Store, which opened in January, has already made quite a name for itself in the community, reported The Palm Coast Observer. Opened by Gene Kisselev and Alex Gourin, Z Music Store grabs your attention as soon as you walk through the door with its sizeable display of acoustic [...]
Redding Makes The Music Connection
In Redding CA, music is in the air once again. Back in August, The Music Connection celebrated its grand opening on Bechelli Lane, according to the original report from The Redding Record Searchlight. Part of the festivities was Bernie Baker, the store’s Manager, who had owned the music store that previously occupied that space. As [...]
Summer NAMM Hugely Successful For iMSO
This might have been the best Summer NAMM to date for iMSO members. The evening of July 10 (before Summer NAMM), MIRC hosted about 35 iMSO members at its facility. Members were treated to a full factory tour, great barbecue and time to hand-select inventory from MIRC’s 14,000-plus guitars. The morning of July 11, independent [...]
Willis Music Hits A Homerun
Hearing the sounds of the organ bellowing through the ballpark is as much a part of baseball as hearing thousands of fans cheer when the bat smashes the ball into the outfield. With that in mind, Willis Music (with locations in Kentucky and Ohio) and Yamaha teamed up to bring exciting new sights and sounds [...]
