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Area singers celebrate Christmas with Piedmont's 'Concert of Lessons and Carols' The Piedmont College Chorale and Habersham Central High School Singers will present their annual "Concert of Lessons and Carols" at 7:30 p.m., Friday, Dec. 1, and again on Saturday, Dec. 2, at the college's Center for Worship and Music in Demorest. This is the 18th anniversary of the annual concert, which will include readings from the story of the birth of Christ, accompanied by choral pieces. The concert is free and everyone is invited. The choirs will perform works by classic and modern composers and the audience is invited to join in the singing of a number of traditional Christmas hymns. The Piedmont Chorale is composed of singers from the college and the northeast Georgia community under the direction of Dr. Wallace Hinson, with assistant conductor Rebecca Barnes. The Habersham Central High School Singers are directed by Bobby Ivey. Accompanists include organist Dr. James Mellichamp and pianists Joy Hayner and Donna Bunn James. The concert also will include brass performances by John Anthony, Lee Lamb, Patricia Jameson, Philip Jameson, and Saul Olvera-Rubio. Lectors will include the Rev. Dr. Ashley Cleere, Dr. Lauren Ringwall, Dr. William Brown, Lores Hauk, the Rev. Dr. Michael Chittum, Dr. Betsey Blakeslee, Dr. Tim Lytle, Dr. Barbara Steinhaus-Jordan, Dr. Dale Van Cantfort, and Dr. Curtis Bradford. Members of the Habersham Central High School Singers include Anna Kate Bradley, Brittany Brady, Kristi Brock, Autumn Brown, Laura Beth Bruster, John Burke, Kelly Burke, Katie Cashion, David Chandler, Chelsea Cochran, Jared Cox, Lawonna Earle, Jessie Finley, Josette Gilbert, Amanda Herrera, Hannah Ivey, Brittany Luke, Kyle Maxwell, Krista McGugan, Emily McLeod, Sharon McNulty, Morgan Miller, Stephanie Moore, Amanda Murphy, Ashley Parker, Jenna Parrish, Tiffany Reece, Alyssa Sellers, Jay Seymour, Kristy Simmons, Trey Smagur, Brittany Swift, Misty Talton, Elizabeth Tench, Casey Turner, Jason Turner, Katelin Williams, and Kayla Wilson. Members of the Piedmont Chorale include sopranos Margit Adams, Jennifer Babel, Rebecca Barnes, Patricia Bass, Maralyn Bell, Sue Blair, Mary Brennan, Edna Brescia, Jean Calef, Leah Della Torre, Hannah Dailey, Amber Dodd, Judy Emde, Mary Garrison, Amanda Ghann, Emily Giardina, Alice Granberry, Rachel Hamilton, Mary Harlan, Ethel Henderson, Carolyn Hill, Beverly Holbrook, Wilma Humphries, Carole Jackson, Martha Kaulbach, Jeanette Lackey, Sarah Miller, Laurel Mullinax, Laura Owenby, Betty Ridley, Arlene Roach, Lindsey Robbins, Ashley Shaw, Glad Simmons, Margaret Stabler, Kristen Taylor, Sandra Taylor, Stefanie Watkins, and Virginia Webb. Altos include Chelsea Angelich, Maria Arenas, Brenda Boonstra, Courtney Branson, Karen Brown, Portia Burns, Martha Cantrill, Gwen Cuvo, Lu DeMore, Donna Elliot, Tina Evans, Paula Gibson, Maghan Holmes, Donna Bunn James, Courtney Johnston, Brenda Kipchillat, Shirley Leavens, TaShara Lee, Carmen Little, Doris Mallard, Bev Mannes, Barbara McKinley, Abbey Meents, Rita Myers, Sandy Oscar, Amy Pointer, Sylvia Price, Jane Ann Quartel, Katie Robinson, Lorena Rojas, Katie Sawhill, Leslie Sokal, Ashley Strachan, Heather Strachan, Ethel Kenney Tanner, Jamie Telford, Heather Thomas, Alicia Varner, and Heather Vaughn. Tenors are Jeff Akana, Patrick Anderson, Mack Barry, Charron Davis, Phil DeMore, Thomas Dunbar, Micah Dingler, Bill Gaik, Greg Holder, Ray Kreiner, Gene Mallard, Brandon Nonnemaker, Ken Roach, George Stabler, Kyle Thurmond, Van Wunderlich, and Jamie Wyman-Blackburn Bass singers include Jeremy Bishop, *Daniel Burns, Kris Chesterman, Len Cohen, David Fore, Jack Foster, Patrick Hawkins, Phillip Hayner, Larry Holbrook, John Paul Jordan, Jonathan Kostulakos, Bob Lackey, Paul Meier, Mike Mixon, Dillon Nelson, Saul Olvera-Rubio, Robin Oscar, David Owenby, Kenny Rainey, Ed Taylor, and Allen Wheeler.
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