Conductor Search For Blazing River Freedom Band (Cleveland area) FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 1, 2015 Title: Conductor Search For Blazing River Freedom Band Cleveland, Ohio, June 1, 2015-- The Blazing River Freedom Band (BRFB) Board of Directors formally announces its search for a new Artistic Director of Blazing River Freedom Freedom Band. The organization's former Artistic Director, Brandyn Metzko, resigned earlier this year to pursue other projects and opportunities. Mr. Metzko was a founding member of BRFB which first began in 2004. Blazing River Freedom Band is a Cleveland-based LGBTQ community band that welcomes musicians of all skill levels as well as sexual orientations and gender identities. During the summer BRFB marches annually in the Cleveland Pride Parade and plays as a guest pep band with organizations like Burning River Roller Derby and Leather vs Drag Volleyball. From the fall to spring the concert band begins rehearsals to perform a myriad of concert pieces at Pilgrim United Church of Christ. As a member organization of LGBA (Lesbian and Gay Band Association), Blazing River's volunteer musicians have travelled to other cities with LGBA member bands to provide support through musical performance as a part of a larger national LGBTQ band movement. "LGBA ensembles like BRFB are unique in the role they serve in many communities. BRFB's new director will have the exciting opportunity to increase musical fine arts within a thriving LGBTQ community here in Greater Cleveland," states LGBA Board Member Tim Yanok. BRFB Board Member Jill Bacon adds, "The new Artistic Director will have the chance to work with fun people and strengthen the LGBTQ community through volunteer musical leadership." If you would like more information about BRFB's conductor search simply reply to this post right away. Karl Kimpo Blazing River Freedom Band Board President -- ---- -------- --------/--------/--------/--------/--------/-------- "I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, to discover that I had not lived." -- Henry David Thoreau --------\--------\--------\--------\--------\-------- -------- ---- --