Slifer House
K.J. Reimensnyder-Wagner to Perform at Slifer House Museum
May 25, 2007
As part of its Summer Concert series, the Slifer House Museum will be hosting KJ Reimensnyder-Wager (KJ Smile) on Thursday, June 14 at 7p.m.
Well-known throughout the region, KJ learned how to play guitar at age 12. After a full-time career and just playing music on the side, KJ realized she wanted to perform full time. “I remember being strongly influenced by John Denver, Joni Mitchell, Joan Baez, the Beatles, Carol King, Peter, Paul and Mary, Harry Chapin, and Jim Croce”, she recalls. KJ will be performing a number of familiar tunes as well as songs she has written covering a diversity of subjects including “her love of rollerblading, drinking too much tea, of inconvenient love, of cancer heroes, and her love for her second land, Scotland”.
The concert will honor the life of the Reverend Richard (Dick) Bender, chaplain at RiverWoods Senior Living Community from June 1979 to December 1998, who passed away in April 2007. K.J. has been a close and personal friend of the Benders for many years.
In honor of Flag Day, guests are asked to come early, by 6 p.m., to listen to the fascinating history of the evolution of the United States flag. There have been twenty-six official flags preceding the present fifty-starred ‘Stars and Stripes’. This lecture will be presented by Rudy Mummey at 6 p.m.. from the front porch of the museum.
Both events are free and open to the public. Guests are encouraged to bring a lawn chair or a blanket.
The Summer Concert series will also include: Thursday, June 28 at 7 p.m., dulcimer music of Lucy and Bruce Henry; Thursday, July 12 at 6:30 p.m., the Repasz Band; Thursday, July 26 at 6:30 p.m., the Dansbachers; Thursday, August 9 at 7 p.m., the Front Porch Country Band; and Thursday, August 23 at 6:30 p.m., the Nittany Mountain [Bag] pipe Band.
The concert series is supported by Pennsylvania Partners in the Arts (PPA), the regional arts funding partnership of the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency. State government funding comes through an annual appropriation by Pennsylvania’s General Assembly and from the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency. PPA is administered in this region by Community Partnerships Resource Conservation & Development (RC&D) Council.
To learn more about the Slifer House, contact us by e-mail or call (570) 524-2245.
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