A fundraiser coming up next month aims to provide attendees with an evening full of live music and fun, while also helping support a former Rochelle resident in her battle against cancer.
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A fundraiser coming up next month aims to provide attendees with an evening full of live music and fun, while also helping support a former Rochelle resident in her battle against cancer.
Nola Barnes-Addante, who is currently battling breast cancer that has spread to her liver and bones, grew up and began raising her family in Rochelle community.
She was born at Rochelle Community Hospital and lived in the village of Steward until she was 12 years old.
At that time, Nola’s parents, Emmett and Pauline, decided to move to Rochelle to open a music store that was located on Sixth Street across from the police station, where Kennay Farms Distillery is located now. The store, Barnes Music, employed several people who taught private piano, organ and musical instrument lessons. In addition, they sold pianos, organs, many band and orchestra instruments, as well as sheet music and accessories.
Nola said that she came from a very musical family, so she spent a lot of time at the store growing up. She had a love for everything music and that carried over to many areas of her life. She was the organist for her church, the Rochelle United Methodist Church, from when she was 14 to 19 and was involved in everything music in high school from band and choir to Madrigals and marching band.
Growing up, music and her family music store played a big part in her life.
“As a teenager being a piano player, I was able to go to the shop, pick a piece of music off the shelf and play whatever I wanted at any time,” she explained. “We had pianos at home, but to be able to walk in, pick any piece of music and play whenever was my dream thing to do and I loved it.”
The music shop also helped Nola and her parents meet many different people in the community.