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Dick Ellis & Ellis Music Company

• Dick Ellis Is Music Man To The Whole State Of Vermont (June 27, 1985)
• Meet Vermont's Own Music Man (April 6, 1986)
• Bandmaster (July 14, 1987)
• Renting A Joyful Noise (March 13, 1994)
• The Music Man For 50 Years (October 8, 1996)
• The Real Music Man (July 2000)
• 76 Trombones? At Least That Many In His Parade (October 1, 2000)
• Dick Ellis Has Been Making Music Most of His Life (2004)
• For The Love Of Music (2004)
• Instrument Supplier In Tune With Bands' Needs (December 27, 2004)
• Music Man Is South Royalton Fixture (July 23, 2006)
• Dick Ellis Honored By VMEA (October 29, 2009)
• Teaching South Royalton To FISH (November 25, 2010)
• The Music Man Of South Royalton (April 21, 2012)
• The Johnny Appleseed Of Music (April 26, 2012)
• Music Man Richard Ellis And The Big Band Sound (May 30, 2013)
• Royalton Music Boosters Honor Ellis At Musical Showcase Event (March 20, 2014)
• The Music Man (photo) (October 8, 2015)
• In Appreciation Of Dick Ellis (October 8, 2015)
• Playing Tribute To Dick Ellis (October 2015)
• Community Plays Farewell To Dick Ellis (October 11, 2015)
• Ellis Contributions Still Heard Throughout SoRo (October 15, 2015)

Dick Ellis & the South Royalton Town Band

• A Band With A Tradition And A Future (October 18, 1979)
• A Century of Striking Up the Band (July 18, 1981)
• And The Band Played On (July 1988)
• The Music Man For 50 Years (October 8, 1996)
• New Bandstand's A Big Deal In SoRo (July 1, 2004)
• Command Performance (March 13, 2005)
• Ellis Marks 60 Years With The Baton (2006)
• Music On A Summer's Eve (July 21, 2005)
• Thursdays On The Green (June 29, 2010)
• For The Love Of Music And Community (2015)

A Building For Ellis Music

For the first 42 years of the company's existence, Ellis Music was run from Mr. Ellis' home.

Side view of the Ellis residence, original home of Ellis Music Company.

Front view of the former Ellis residence taken in 2025.

In the late 1980s, a store was built on Route 107 in Royalton.