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Area singers celebrate Christmas with 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, Nov. 30, and again on Saturday, Dec. 1, at the college's Center for Worship and Music in Demorest. The concert is free and everyone is invited. This is the 19th anniversary of the annual concert, which will include readings from the story of the birth of Christ, accompanied by choral pieces. 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 conductors Jennifer Babel and Emily Giardina. 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 Patricia Jameson, Philip Jameson, Colin Jones, Cathy Kilroe-Smith, and Amanda Pepping. Lectors will include the Rev. Dr. Ashley Cleere, Dr. Garen Simmons, Linda Wofford, Bob Glass, the Rev. Dr. Michael Chittum, Lores Hauck, Dr. Tim Lytle, Dr. Barbara Steinhaus, Dr. Barbara Brown Taylor, and Dr. Curtis Bradford. Members of the Piedmont Chamber Singers include sopranos Jennifer Babel, Logan Brooks, Leah Della Torre, Amber Dodd, Luna Dunnett, Emily Giardina, Caitlin Marney, Katelyn Meents, Laurel Mullinax, Ashley Shaw, Mary Helen Still, Mary Beth Williams; altos: Chelsea Angelich, Maria Arenas, Sarah Austin, Portia Burns, Maghan Holmes, TaShara Lee, Annelise Millwood, Sonia Siu Tung Mok, Katie Sawhill, Leslie Sokal, Heather Thomas, and Heather Vaughn; tenors: Jeff Akana, Patrick Anderson, Jeron Bargen, Seb Burnett, Thomas Dunbar, Jeff Hall, John D. King, and Benji Stegner: bass: Daniel Burns, Patrick Hawkins, Phillip Hayner, Larry Holbrook, John Paul Jordan, Jonathan Kostulakos, Kyle Maxwell, Parker Meadows, Paul Meier, Phillip Slusser, and Kyle Thurmond. Singers for the Piedmont Chorale include soprano: Margit Adams, Sue K. Blair, Mary Brennan, Edna Brescia, Jean Calef, Mary Garrison, Alice Granberry, Amanda Greenway, Mary Harlan, Ethel Henderson, Carolyn Hill, Beverly Holbrook, Carole Jackson, Martha Kaulbach, Jeanette Lackey, Julia Lackey, Laura Leigh Owenby, Betty Ridley, Arlene Roach, Jessica Simms, Joy Threlkeld-Brown, and Virginia Webb; alto: Theresa Barefoot, Brenda Boonstra, Louise Bonadies, Karen Brown, Gwen Cuvo, Lu DeMore, Donna Elliott, Jane Engquist, Mary Lu Gunn, Robin Fonclara Harrison , Ethel J. Kenney, Leanne Kinney, Brenda Kipchillat, Shirley Leavens, Doris Mallard, Beverly Mannes, Barb McKinley, Sonia Siu Tung Mok, Rita Myers, Sandy Oscar, Amy Pointer, Sylvia Price, Jane Ann Quartel, Lauren Ringwall, and Alicia Varner; tenor: Mack Barry, Phil DeMore, Bill Gaik , Ray Kreiner, Gene Mallard, Ken Roach, George Stabler, Nicholas Varnado, Jerry White, and Van Wunderlich; Bass: Len Cohen, David Fore, Jack Foster, Curt Fredrick, Larry Holbrook, Bob Lackey, Mike Mixon, Robin Oscar, and David Owenby. Members of the Habersham Singers include Anna Kate Bradley, Brittany Brady, Kristi Brock, Autumn Brown, Kelly Burke, Breanna Bussey, David Chandler, Chelsea Cochran, Joel Cox, Michael Etheridge, Ashley Farmer, Brittney Grogan, Amanda Herrera, Kelsey Hudgins, Kayla Hughes, Hannah Ivey, Abigail Jeffers, Kris Maxwell, Emily McLeod, Sharon McNulty, Shannon Monroe, Tyler Normandia, Meredith Pruitt, Tiffany Reece, Alyssa Sellers, Jacob Smagur, Trey Smagur, Brooke Sweeten, Anna Swick, Brittany Swift, Stephen Tilson, Jason Turner, Colton Webber, and Katie Williams. -30-
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