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Hymn Writers Included in This Festival

Mary Louise Bringle was born on July 31, 1953, and has lived most of her life in North Carolina. The two notable exceptions are a year in Paris, France, on a Fribourg Foundation grant (after completing her . B. in French and Religion at Guilford College), and seven years in Atlanta, Georgia, where she held a Danforth Fellowship for completion of a Ph.D. in Theological Studies at Emory University.

Saint Francis de Sales

Third Annual Hymn Festival

Celebrating the Song of the People of God

Featuring the combined choirs of

Harderwyk Ministries, CRC

and

St. Francis de Sales, RC

with

Kelly Dobbs-Mickus, Organist

Robert J. Batastini, Narrator

 plus

Brass Quartet, Timpani

Sunday, May 22, 2011, 4 p.m.

Kelly has been the organist for all three of the annual festivals in this series. She has the incredible gift of playing the organ in a way that the compels even the reluctant singer to join the song.

The combined choirs of Harderwyk Ministries and St. Francis de Sales Church will number more that fifty singers for this event. Besides their separate preparation, the St. Francis folks will journey to Harderwyk for a combined rehearsal on May 11^th, and the Harderwyk choir will come to St. Francis for their second combined rehearsal on May 19^th.  On the day of the festival that choirs will meet together for the third time to warm up and tune up one hour before the festival begins.

Hymns are the song of the people—the persons in the pew, the congregation that assembles. While choirs always join in the hymn singing, and often perform a leadership role—as well as providing musical enrichments to the hymn singing, hymns are ultimately the song of everyone gathered.—the entire community.