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Tommie Arendale
Tennessee Band Rep
Joined Amro in 1992
Tommie is responsible for
sales and service to TN schools.
He received a degree in Music Education from Delta
State
University and directed the band at
Hernando High
School for five years. Tommie has spent 33 years as a school music representative.
Personal
Interests: motorcycles, boating, and fishing.
Reach Tommie here.
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C.J. Averwater
Jackson, TN, Band Rep
Joined Amro in 1993
CJ has worked in many different areas of the
company including website development and marketing.
CJ played trumpet
in the CBHS band and today plays guitar with his own band. He graduated from Hendrix
College in
Arkansas and received his
MBA from Ole Miss.
Personal Interests: music, computers, and mountain
biking.
Reach CJ here.
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Danny Blurton
East Tennessee/East Mississippi Band Rep
Joined Amro in 1999
Danny
is responsible for sales and service to eastern TN and eastern MS schools.
He has a music education degree and
worked as a band rep for Wright Music in Jackson,
MS,
for ten years. He is an accomplished trumpet player who has played with most of
the area’s symphonies and shows.
Personal Interests: music, fishing and traveling
Reach Danny here.
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Phil Burns
Arkansas Band Rep
Joined Amro in 1993
Phil is responsible for sales
and service to AR schools.
He received a music education
degree from ASU, where he played French horn. He directed bands at Morrilton Public
Schools for 11 years and was supervisor of music and director of bands at West
Memphis
Public Schools for 14 years.
Personal Interests: music
and traveling.
Reach Phil here.
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LaDonna Gibson
Arkansas Band Instruments Sales Rep.
Joined Amro in 1998
LaDonna is responsible for
sales and service to Western AR schools.
LaDonna received a degree in Music
Education from ASU, and played clarinet in the ASU bands. She directed band at
Brinkley Middle
School for one year and
Bald
Knob High
School for sixteen years.
Personal
Interests: music and
traveling
Reach LaDonna here.
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Keith Sanders
Mississippi Band Rep.
Joined Amro in 1994
Keith is responsible for sales
and service to MS schools.
He played trumpet in
the Carthage HS band and received a music education degree from Ole Miss. He directed bands at Hattiesburg
Public Schools for two years and at Southaven for eight
years.
Personal
Interests: traveling, music and
spending time with family
Reach Keith here.
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Janice Wood
Shelby County Educational Rep
Joined Amro in 2002
Janice assists Memphis and Shelby County bands with instruments and tools to make their programs a success and help children to discover music.
Janice has a BA in
Communications from the University of
Memphis and played the trumpet in Jr.
High and High School.
Personal
Interests: travel, writing,
and old architectural
structures
Contact Janice here.
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Reece King
Kentucky Educational Rep
Joined Amro in 2006
Reece received his Bachelor of Music Education and Bachelor
of Arts in Music from Murray State University and he received his Master of
Music from the University of Minnesota. He then taught middle and high
school band for 7 years in Kentucky.
Reece is the principal trombonist for the
Paducah Symphony Orchestra.
He is married and has two wonderful children.
Reach Reece here.
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