business
In Tune
Cape Fear Music Center is
instrumental to Dogwood
Festival fun
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By Shari Dragovich
he owners of Cape Fear Music Center
are used to creating opportunities out of obstacles. In fact, it was adversity that created the
store. In 2006, Jeff Stone, Tony Harrison, David Wallet and Tyrone Green were employees of Brook Mays
Music Group, a chain-store music company specializing in
servicing area schools with instruments. The men heard rumblings that the decades��� old company was shutting down and,
rather than take a ���wait and see��� approach, they planned. They
coordinated their diverse skills and created a business model
during the evenings, so that when Brook Mays closed, Cape
Fear Music Center was able to open the very next day.
The new store spent the first nine months in the back corner of the Gas House on Rowan Street. Though the store was
cramped, loud and nearly invisible, the partners forged ahead
to build a music business much like the one they left. ���We
wanted to do the same thing we had been, but with a slightly
Jeff Stone, Tony Harrison (seated), David Waylett
and Tyrone Green
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