Local musicians, Music Row artists and Belmont students will have another place to jam when BLVD Music Shop opens on at the corner of Belmont Boulevard and Bernard Avenue on Aug. 20.
Seth Whiting, a senior entrepreneurship major from Portland, Maine, has joined Eric Guroff, a junior entrepreneurship and music business double major from Pittsburgh, Penn., to open an instrument consignment store that will host in-store jam sessions to help local artists and students increase their visibility.
Whiting, who plays the drums, guitar, bass and keyboard, said Buzzy’s Candy Store inspired him to become a student entrepreneur. He teamed with Guroff, who had plans to sell strings from his dorm room, and their business plan earned them $10,000 from Belmont’s Center for Entrepreneurship.
“So I started thinking of business concepts what would work and what kind of business Belmont students would go to,” he said. “At least half of the Belmont student population plays instruments and breaks guitar strings and needs drum sticks. I’m hoping that a lot of people right across the street at Bongo Java, neighborhood musicians, famous people will see the store, be interested and walk over.”
Forty-one high school students and rising college freshmen from across the state of Tennessee recently gathered at Belmont for the tenth annual Tennessee Society of Certified Public Accountants (TSCPA) Accounting Academy. Co-directed by Dr. Del DeVries, associate professor of accounting and information systems, and Dr. Beverly Alleyne, assistant professor of accounting, this free, four-day camp helps students explore careers in accounting and learn more about the dynamic world of business. This is the fifth consecutive year the program has been hosted at Belmont University.
A group of Belmont faculty, students and alumni from the College of Health Sciences & Nursing are in Ghana this summer for a pilot medical service trip they hope will blossom into an annual mission for the University.
