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Ken Medema has been performing musical events for over 30 years.
He was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan in 1942 and was blind from birth.
Music became a major component of his life. Ken began playing the
piano at the early age of 5 and by the age of 8, he was reading music
in Braille. Music became his second form of language. After graduating
from high school, Ken studied music therapy from Michigan State University
with a concentration in piano and voice. He later returned to obtain
his master's degree in 1969. After working as a music therapist at
Essex County Hospital in New Jersey for four years, he was inspired
to write his own songs about his Christian life. In 1973m Ken Medema
began his career as a performing and recording artist and went on
to record albums for Word and Shawnee Press, then in 1985 founded Brier Patch Music. He and his wife, Jane, make their home in San Francisco Bay area of California. He has two grown children, Aaron and Rachel. |
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Key Tom Key is best known for his award-winning performances from off-Broadway to Los Angeles, as well as record-breaking runs in Atlanta and Dallas, of the celebrated musical Cotton Patch Gospel, which he conceived and co-authored with the late singer-songwriter, Harry Chapin. Mr Key's one-man play, C.S. Lewis On Stage, has been presented across the United States and Canada, including a production at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington D.C. Film and television appearances include In the Heat of the Night, I'll Fly Away, Following Her Heart with Ann Margaret, Getting Out, and many others. Tom also performs The Revelation of John, and Screwtape in Person. Screwtape in Person |
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Lamb's Players Theatre Lamb's Players Theatre is a professional, non-profit performing arts organization now in its 31st year. The company's mission is to tell good stories well and be a theatre that: *Probes and questions the values and choices of contemporary culture. Lamb's Players is an artist-directed organization. It was the first theatre in San Diego to establish a full-time, long-term company of actors, directors, playwrights, and designers, and it continues to maintain the Southwest's only year-round acting ensemble. In addition to its resident work, the theatre's Educational Outreach runs camps, internships, and theatre immersion programs. Its Touring Company performs to tens of thousands of students each year in schools throughout the county. The company's care for its art, its audience and its community is focused by a perspective centered in an historic Judeo-Christian worldview. Cotton Patch Gospel |
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Kate Butler Mezzo-soprano Kate Butler has established herself as a leading artist both in the United States and abroad. Her professional career began with performances at the Chautauqua Opera Festival and continued with appearances for such American companies as Houston Grand Opera, Dallas Opera, Opera Theater of St. Louis, Diego Opera, New York City Opera, Opera Pacific, Indianapolis Opera and Cleveland Opera She was the leading mezzo-soprano with the Bremen Opera in Germany for six years and has appeared as guest artist with the Teatro di Pisa as Romeo in I Capuleti and with the Stadttheater Bern as Charlotte in Werther. For her performances of Dorabella in Così fan tutte in France at the Strasbourg Festival and the Vichy Opera, she was awarded the Médaille de la Région de l'Auvergne by former President of France Valery Giscard d'Estaing. Ms. Butler was personally selected by composer Gian Carlo Menotti to portray the role of The Secretary in The Consul under his direction for productions at Chicago Opera Theatre, Connecticut Grand Opera, Mississippi Opera, the Edinburgh Festival, Teatro Verdi in Trieste and Teatro Massimo in Palermo. Concert appearances include the Brooklyn Philharmonic, St. Louis Symphony, Chicago's Grant Park Symphony, Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, St. Luke's Chamber Ensemble, Basel Chamber Orchestra at the Zürich Tonhalle, the Juilliard Symphony, and Carnegie Hall. Ms. Butler is a new member of the music faculty at Oklahoma State University in Stillwater.
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