Ketchikan Community Concert Band

When KCCB was created in 2001, Roy McPherson was the instigator, music director and organizer of the project. The impetus behind the Band was that there were so many adults in the community had nowhere to play their instruments. As the Band grew and became a 501c3, the newly formed Board of Directors began taking on some of the organizational responsibilities. In 2018, Roy McPherson, after over 50 years of teaching music, retired from the Directorship of KCCB and took up playing euphonium in the Band. Roy did not make this decision lightly not wanting to quit the leadership until there was someone to replace him. Roy found his replacement in Jeffery Karlson. Jeffery grew up in Ketchikan and excelled at trumpet, he went to Interlochen high school and then on to Manhattan School of Music. Jeffery took over the music director position for KCCB in the Fall of 2019.