The Barnhart Group — Trumpeting Family Business

WHAT WOULD you give up for a life in the music business? Brent Barnhart unwittingly sacrificed his childhood.

Barnhart, chairman of The Barnhart Group in Canton, OH, wasn’t always in the sheetfed printing business, though the firm has been in his family for more than 80 years. At the age of 8, the now 37-year-old Barnhart—even as a child, an accomplished trumpet player—began touring the world with a sundry of evangelists. For the next 20 years, it was an annual diet of 30 weeks on the road and 100-plus cities.