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Lancaster Native Comes Home for “The Ones Who Wait”
WXPN Welcomes The Denison Witmer CD Release concert, with special guests The Beggar Folk and Mike McMonagle – Friday, June 3rd Lancaster, PA – Philadelphia’s taste-making radio station WXPN welcomes International recording artist (and Lancaster Mennonite Graduate) Denison Witmer to his hometown to share a live performance of material from his 8th CD release “The
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Lancaster Native Comes Home for “The Ones Who Wait”
WXPN Welcomes The Denison Witmer CD Release concert, with special guests The Beggar Folk and Mike McMonagle – Friday, June 3rd Lancaster, PA – Philadelphia’s taste-making radio station WXPN welcomes International recording artist (and Lancaster Mennonite Graduate) Denison Witmer to his hometown to share a live performance of material from his 8th CD release “The
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He said, She said…An Interview with The Slackwater News
by Erin McIntosh I sat down to interview three-fifths of The Slackwater News, a band of boys based out of Lancaster, PA, on an unseasonably warm, fall evening. And a great band of boys they are (being a girl, I feel I’m in the best position to make such a statement). Dan Zdilla (electric guitar
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The Tony Kirchner Interview
I attended the most recent Singer/Songwriter Showcase at the Lancaster Dispensing Company (DipCo). The series is put together by Tony Kirchner, the drummer for Slimfit, a Lancaster County band. I got together with Tony recently at Quips Pub to talk about the series, which continues with a show on December 23. FT: So you started
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In Good Company…with Ryan Peters I met with singer-songwriter, Ryan Peters, at Bistro 19 in York, PA, over Thanksgiving weekend. Ryan is a native of the York area and is currently residing in Annapolis, MD, where he teaches fifth grade. Do not let Mr. Peters fool you, though—music is not a hobby he fools around with between grading papers and
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Badge album review First Time Back—Badge (2010) The band Badge consists of brothers Matt and Mike Martin. On their debut release—First Time Back—they lay the foundation of their career as recording artists. One of the perks of this gig (writing CD reviews) is that sometimes you get to be there at the beginning of a new career. Occasionally
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Sviraj live performing Tera Lenka The members of Sviraj are life-long friends who grew up together in an ethnically diverse steel town in Pennsylvania. They learned the music of their culture and others through many, many performances, jam sessions and encounters with folk musicians from the ethnic communities in the United States and the Balkans. Visit www.sviraj.com for more info
