Donegal townlively.com
DECEMBER 28, 2022
SERVING THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES SINCE 1954
VOL LXIII • NO 46
Lancaster Band Wins Album Of The Year BY ADRIAN ESCHENWALD
On Oct. 22, Lancaster-based music group The Jess Zimmerman Band won the Album of the Year award at the eighth annual Josie Music Awards in Nashville. The band’s album “Breathe” garnered the award in the country rock and Southern rock category, and the band itself was also nominated for awards in four other categories: Music Video of the Year, Entertainer of the Year, Fan’s Choice Award and Rock Vocalist of the Year. The Jess Zimmerman Band comprises See Band pg 3
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Justin Badgerow and Debra Ronning
Enjoy Music At Donegal BY CATHY MOLITORIS
onegal Presbyterian Church in Mount Joy makes the perfect spot for a concert series, said church member Debra Ronning. “The church is located on a beautiful historic site,” she said. “We recently celebrated our 300th anniversary. There is a grand piano and a tracker
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organ. The wooden case of the organ was built from the ‘witness tree’ that stood outside the church.” Inspired by the church’s history, Ronning created Music at Donegal. The three-concert series will debut on Sunday, Jan. 8, at 3 p.m. and will feature duo pianists Justin Badgerow and Ronning, both faculty members at Elizabethtown
College. The program will include Ravel’s “La Valse,” and Kapustin’s “Sinfonietta” as well as solo works by Chopin and Roldan. The concert series will continue on Sunday, March 5, at 3 p.m., when Rizzetta’s Tones will entertain. The group performs Celtic and folk music with a variety of instruments, including dulcimers,
whistles, flute and guitar. The series will wrap up on Sunday, April 16, at 3 p.m., when the Mennonite Children’s Choir of Lancaster will perform. “(They) will glorify Jesus Christ through choral singing,” Ronning stated. “They will perform a solo program as well as interact with the audience with group singing.” See Donegal pg 8
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