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The Estey Organ Museum presents Cheryl Duerr and Edwin Lawrence in a program for Organ and Flute on Saturday, February 16 at 7 pm at First Baptist Church, 190 Main Street, in downtown Brattleboro.

Cheryl Duerr, MM, AAGO, Region I Councillor, American Guild of Organists and Edwin Lawrence, Dean, Berkshire Chapter, American Guild of Organists will be performing works by by Saint-Saens, Langlais, Franck, Rachmaninoff, and Howells.  There is a $15 suggested donation at the door to support the work of the museum.

Cheryl Duerr currently serves as Region I Councillor for the American Guild of Organists. Previously, she has served the Guild as Regional Education Coordinator and has been a member of the National Nominating Committee. She has served on Steering Committees for the Morristown, 2011; Hartford, 2013; Boston, 2014; and New Haven, 2015, Conventions.  She served the Bridgeport 2010 and Boston 2011 POE (Pipe Organ Encounter), POE A, POE T in a number of capacities – faculty, presenter, dorm mom, volunteer coordinator, and CONO rep; Boston Chapter Executive Board, Program Committee, Nominating Committee and Young Organists’ Initiative.

Of the AGO, she says, “I’m deeply grateful for the gift of serving the region and working with so many committed and talented people.” In addition, Ms. Duerr is Director of Music Ministries for the Attleboro Evangelical Covenant, directing four musical groups who lead two diverse Sunday morning services. She is a member of the International Coach Federation and is Coach and Speaker and owner of The Concord Coaching Company. She earned her Masters in Music degree from Boston University and her Associate (AAGO) from the American Guild of Organists. She credits her sons with giving her the best education of her life.

Edwin Lawrence is Artist Associate in Harpsichord, Piano, and Organ, and Instructor in Music at Williams College, Williamstown, Mass., where he teaches keyboard musicianship labs for music theory courses, piano, organ and harpsichord. He holds a B. Mus. Degree from the SUNY College at Fredonia and has studied piano with Gabriel Chodos, harpsichord with Preethi da Silva, and organ with William Porter. He is currently Dean of the Berkshire Chapter, American Guild of Organists; Minister of Music for the First Congregational Church, United Church of Christ, in Williamstown; and Music Director for the Bennington County Choral Society.

As a producer for Dorian Recordings, he was directly involved with more than 20 recording projects. Mr. Lawrence has long associations with Vermont, having been on the faculty at Bennington College and serving as music director for the Oldcastle Theatre Company in Bennington. He is a founding member of the Consortium of Vermont Composers and has served as a guest conductor of the Vermont Symphony Orchestra.

It is noteworthy that “In the days of the LP record, Mr. Lawrence was the featured artist on ‘Organ Music From Robert Todd Lincoln’s Hildene,’ performing American music from the turn of the 20th century on the Aeolian instrument in the Lincoln home in Manchester, VT.” (Larry Nevin, well known in Brattleboro, was involved in that Hildene project.) In 1990, Mr. Lawrence received a Citation of Merit from the Vermont Council of the Arts for his contributions to the vitality of the arts in the Green Mountain State.

For more information about the museum, visit the Estey Organ Museum online at  www.esteyorganmuseum.org

For more information about First Baptist Church please visit http://www.firstbaptistchurchofbrattleborovt.com/

CARNIVAL CONCERT

Join the Estey Organ Museum in welcoming the Buzzards Brass Band to First Baptist Church on Saturday, January 19th at 7:30 p.m. for a fun and lively Carnival Concert.

The Buzzards Brass Band is the official performing moniker of The New Orleans Brass Band Project, Southern VT, a collaborative music workshop based out of  Brattleboro VT.

Buzzard Brass Band

The New Orleans Brass Band Project was founded in early 2009 by New Orleans native Pete Simoneaux, for the purpose of cultivating a community of musicians interested in performing traditional and contemporary New Orleans style Brass Band music. This is the music of jazz funerals and street parades in New Orleans, the style that gave birth to the careers of Buddy Bolden, Louis Armstrong, Sidney Bechet, and whose lineage continues to this day in the funky, driving street rhythms of groups like the Dirty Dozen, the Rebirth, New Birth & Treme Brass Bands.

The Buzzards have become familiar to Brattleboro area audiences through their performances at numerous Gallery Walks, the Strolling of the Heifers, 4th of July parades, and a host of other local community events. The group is led by Pete Simoneaux on bass drum and vocals. Other core musicians include Tim Ellis of KidsPlayce on sousaphone, Stephen Voorhees on snare drum, Scott Sizer on trumpet, trombonists Dan DeWalt and Chuck Ober, saxophonists Ron Kelley, Frank Sansone, Jon Mack & Walter Slowinski, Jim Kurty on clarinet & saxophone, & Jeanushka Fishell on percussion.

This concert will also featureNed Phoenix playing electric violin and Jon Matthew Worrall playing the huge Estey pipe organ.

Over the past 25 years, the New Orleans Brass Band revival has exploded in popularity, to the point where it has become the dominant musical form in the city, embraced and performed by young and old alike. Bands such as the Rebirth, Hot 8, Soul Rebels and Stooges have people dancing in the streets and the clubs all day, and all night long, almost every day of the year. It is our hope to be able to bring some of this energy to northern New England, utilizing the abundant talents of the Brattleboro area musical community.

There is a $15 suggested donation at the door to support the work of the museum.

Buzzards Brass Band
Saturday, January 19, 2013, 7:30 p.m.
First Baptist Church
190 Main Street
Brattleboro, VT
$15 suggested donation

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For information on the Buzzards Brass Band, contact Pete Simoneaux at (603) 835-6051 or peter.simoneaux@gmail.com.

Bring the family and join the community for the 5th Annual Holiday Caroling on Sunday December 2, starting at 2 pm at First Baptist Church on Main Street in downtown Brattleboro.

The Estey Organ Museum sing-a-long tradition continues, and Pastor Suzanne Andrews will emcee. It’s a perfect compliment to an afternoon of downtown shopping.

All in good fun, and designed for singers of all abilities.

You’ll sing popular favorites, like Jingle Bells, carols such as Silent Night, and familiar hymns such as Oh Come All Ye Faithful. Suggestions from the audience are always welcome and appreciated.

There is a $10 suggested donation and refreshments will be served.