[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text css=""]Principal Percussionist Lee Parham's percussion journey began at the tender age of 4, when most children are still mastering the art of building block towers. Instead, Lee was already tickling the ivories, eventually expanding his rhythmic empire...
Greg Lindstrom, a native of Michigan, started playing the tuba in fifth grade. And he never wanted to play anything else. He has been the principal tuba with the LR Winds since 2005 and is a founding member of tuba quartets Toad Suck Tuba Quartet and...
Elizabeth Taylor-McMullen joined the LR Winds in 2009 and is the principal euphonium. She is a former member of the Ozark Mountains British Brass Band where she played baritone as well as euphonium. She has served as a school choir director and band director. She...
Janet Sutton is the bass trombonist for the LR Winds, a position she has held since 2002. She actually began her music career as a trumpet player. She switched to tenor trombone when her school band had none, a change she has never regretted....
Trombonist John Prater joined the LR Winds in 2010. He also plays trombone with the Searcy Brass Quintet, and has performed with Quapaw Brass Quintet and Basso Voce tuba quartet. He is a band director in the Cabot Public School District, where he teaches all...
Little Rock native Carrie Spradlin has played trumpet with the LR Winds since 2010. She also plays in the Bible Church of Little Rock Orchestra most Sundays of the year, sings in the church choir when she is not playing, and enjoys singing in a...
Bob Roberts joined the trumpet section in 2021. He is a lifelong trumpeter and enjoys every minute of it! His trumpeting career path was set when as a ninth-grader he won First Chair in the Arkansas All-State Band and then in tenth grade was one...
LR Winds trumpeter and Arkadelphia native Amy Anderson Jackson has been a member of LR Winds since 2001. She is also a member of Mass Brass and Percussion and The Spirit of Arkadelphia Brass Quintet and subs with the Stardust Big Band in Hot Springs....
West Virginia native Nathan McCoy has been a member of the LR Winds trumpet section since 2010. He has performed with various groups, both classical and jazz, throughout the central Arkansas area, including the Searcy Brass Quintet, Jazz Xtreme Jazz Band, and the Pine Bluff Symphony...