Brendan Slocumb, author portrait
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Brendan Slocumb

Brendan Nicholaus Slocumb was raised in Fayetteville, North Carolina, and holds a degree in music education (with concentrations in violin and viola) from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. For more than twenty years he has been a public and private school music educator and has performed with orchestras throughout Northern Virginia, Maryland, and Washington, D.C. He is currently working on his second novel.
Symphony of Secrets
The Violin Conspiracy

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Tue Sep 16 | 06:30 PM
East Columbia 50+ Center
6610 Cradlerock Way
Columbia, MD 21045
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