Online event blends with documentary to celebrate 125th performance
Colleges and universities that return to in-person classes are finding ways to apply COVID-19 social distancing precautions to fine arts activities.
CHICAGO — On a Monday night, a dozen musicians sit on mismatched chairs in a sparse room inside a one-story brick building that used to be a discount store.
There are three members in the band Girl Named Tom. But Tom isn’t one of them.
MOUNT PLEASANT, Pa. — In the late 1980s, Marilyn Houser Hamm, Ken Nafziger and Marlene Kropf began Laurelville’s Music and Worship Leaders Retreat when they gathered singers and musicians to test songs and resources for possible inclusion in what became Hymnal: A Worship Book.
A new album of hymns has raised around $6,000 for Mennonite Central Committee in one month. The Midnight Hymn Sing is a collection of 10 classic hymns recorded in a blues-rock-folk style. Shannon Koehler of San Francisco, one of the lead musicians, said the project has a two-fold purpose: to introduce hymns to an audience unfamiliar with them and to financially support Syrian refugees.
ORLANDO, Fla. — God’s unconditional love, first expressed through the gift of Jesus Christ, was the focus of the opening night of the Mennonite Church USA convention July 4 at the Orange County Convention Center.
