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The Menno Singers were founded in 1955 by Abner Martin, [4] who acted as the group's first conductor. [5] Many of the original members were graduates of Rockway Mennonite High School. [6] In the 1960s, the group began organizing combined concerts with other choral groups in the area, under the name Mennonite Mass Choir. [6]
Janz began his music career in the 1970s with his brother, cousin, and friends in several bands under the names Danny and Paul, Danny Paul and Wayne, the Janz Team Singers and, finally, Deliverance. Brought up in a Mennonite family, he first learned the trumpet and by age 13 was engaged with his local chapter of the Salvation Army.
His novel Flamethrowers, which was critical of Mennonite traditions, is regarded as one of the earliest novels by an American Mennonite author about Mennonites. [3] Friesen and his wife Cunningham were also members of the Almanac Singers during the 1940s, a Greenwich Village urban folk music revival group with a shifting membership.
Friesen was born into a Mennonite family in Steinbach, Manitoba in 1946. As a child growing up in Steinbach, he was friends with Shingoose, who later became a well-known musician, and Wayne Tefs, future author and co-founder of Turnstone Press.
Musicians who are or were Mennonite by denomination or ethnicity. Pages in category "Mennonite musicians" The following 51 pages are in this category, out of 51 total.
His father, Homer Groening, was born and raised in a Plautdietsch-speaking Mennonite family from Saskatchewan. [59] Joey Kelly, former member of The Kelly Family [60] James L. Kraft, founder of Kraft Foods [61] Milton Hershey, founder of The Hershey Company [62] Robyn Regehr, hockey player [63] Adolph Rupp, college basketball coach [64]
Weaver won a Virginia Music Teachers Society piano competition in 1966. She has performed as a solo pianist in recitals at Eastern Mennonite University, Ohio State University, and Bridgewater College (Virginia). Her music has been heard on CBC radio and TV, SABC, Korean National TV, and other Canadian, American, and European radio stations.
Heppner, of Mennonite descent, was born in Murrayville, British Columbia, and lived in Dawson Creek, British Columbia. [1] He began his musical studies at the University of British Columbia and first attracted national attention when he won the CBC Talent Festival in 1979. He later studied opera at University of Toronto.