Girl Named Tom — a sibling band composed of members of Zion Mennonite Church in Archbold, Ohio — is competing on NBC’s The Voice this fall.
Girl Named Tom — a sibling band composed of members of Zion Mennonite Church in Archbold, Ohio — is competing on NBC’s The Voice this fall.
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.
