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The Sanctuary Serenade Recital Series brings local elite performers to beautiful St. John’s, complementing our cabaret and theatre series and giving back to the surrounding community. Featuring a variety of mediums of performance and styles with an emphasis on classical, Sanctuary Serenade expands on traditional musical theatre performance with a quarterly recital.
August 9 - Beth McElroy, Marimba and Voice
"Reclaiming Love"
Featuring selections such as Rhapsody in Blue, Queen of the Night,
Love Never Fails, and more. "Reclaiming Love" is an emotional, musical journey through love, loss, and loving again.
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Beth McElroy is a native to the Poconos, graduate of Stroudsburg High School and former private student of Steve Mathiesen. Since beginning piano lessons at age 3, music became her first language and lifelong passion. She grew up in church choirs and handbell choirs at Christ Hamilton United Lutheran Church, attended Moravian Jazz Camp, Interlochen Arts Camp and went on to pursue a degree in Percussion Performance at Ithaca College with Gordon Stout, where she sang in the Vocal Jazz ensemble and co-founded their first handbell choir. Since moving to the Lehigh Valley in 2010 she has been teaching private lessons, directing choirs, and leading worship through music at several local churches. Currently, Beth is serving alongside Bobby Siegfried to lead the Music Ministries at Emmanuel’s Lutheran in Bath. She has performed internationally with Spirit of America, played off-Broadway for the NYMF festival, at the Bucks County Playhouse, and in Carnegie Hall 4 times. Locally she performs regularly with the Allentown Band, Allentown Symphony, Muhlenberg Summer Theater, PA Shakespeare Festival, The Pines Dinner Theater, Southside Sinfonietta, Star of the Day and several other chamber groups and pit orchestras throughout the valley. You can catch her and her fabulously talented friends at SteelStacks on Thursdays at the Open Mic Night sponsored by Martin Guitar.
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October 11 - Rachel Knappenberger and Friends
December 20 - Christmas Spectacular
Star of the Day’s new recital series at
St. John’s UCC in Emmaus.
FREE ADMISSION
(Light refreshments immediately following the concert)
Good-will offering to be collected
St. John’s UCC in Emmaus.
FREE ADMISSION
(Light refreshments immediately following the concert)
Good-will offering to be collected