Upcoming Events
Nickel Mines Reflection Concert
A Nickel Mines Reflection Concert will be held Sunday, October 21,
3–5 p.m. at the Lancaster Mennonite School Fine Arts Center at 2176
Lincoln Highway East. Co-sponsored by Lancaster Mennonite School and
the Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society, the concert will focus on
the themes of forgiveness, release, hope, and new life in response to
last year's shootings at the Nickel Mines Amish School. The service
will also include a period of reflection and prayer.
The music will include 1994 LMS graduate Frances Miller with the Canadian
duo of composer/pianist Carol Weaver and singer/song writer Rebecca
Campbell. Miller will open the concert singing some of her own songs
as she plays the violin, viola or drums. Miller, a free-lance musician,
recently completed a fourth CD of her own songs, featuring a unique
instrument called the Hang drum.
Campbell and Weaver will follow with Campbell singing compositions by
Weaver, with Weaver at the piano. In response to the Nickel Mines tragedy,
Weaver, a music professor at Conrad Grebel College/University of Waterloo,
wrote a song for the five girls who died, titled, “Lobsang,” which she
will perform at the event. Both Weaver and Campbell have produced numerous
CD’s and have performed together nationally and internationally. Their
music has been described as “adventurous and imaginative, with joyous
fusions of folk, jazz, roots, art and world music—daring, calming, grounded
and passionately connected with the world round about.”
