Join us Sept 24 & Sept 25, 2021
Join us Sept 24 & Sept 25, 2021
Bobby Fisher
Music Director
Bobby Fisher is a world-renowned guitarist, recording artist, composer, and clinician. He has served a number of years as program coordinator for the NPM Guitar Schools and Guitar and Ensemble Institutes. Bobby has recorded and produced a number of his own recordings and has worked as producer and guest musician on countless others. With his daughter, Serenity, and her husband, Michael G. Ronstadt, he currently records and performs with Serenity Fisher and the Cardboard Hearts. Bobby has recorded and published a number of music collections for OCP, GIA, Franciscan Media, and Heart to Heart Ministries and is the author of “The Pastoral Guitarist,” a guitar instructional book and “The Liturgical Guitarist,” an instructional video. As a children’s recording artist, Bobby is best known for “Hymns and Hers for Happy Hearts,” a collection of fun and creative music for children, both young and old. Some of his best selling collections include Play Before God, Guitar Prayer, Catholic Classics Vol. III, If We Dare to Hope, and Go Out and Tell. Bobby lives in Cincinnati, OH with his wife and family.
Bill is a lay pastoral minister, retreat leader/presenter, chaplain, music minister, and singer/songwriter. Bill left a successful career as a radio news anchor/reporter to follow a new calling to ministry. After completing a Master of Arts degree in Religious and Pastoral Studies at the College of Mount St. Joseph in Cincinnati, Bill left his anchor job at 700 WLW Radio to become a Youth Minister at Our Lady of the Visitation Parish. Bill now visits shut-ins, hospitals, and nursing homes providing pastoral care through words and music. He also greatly enjoys Jail Ministry through the parish where Bill also oversees social justice and service programs.
Bill has released 4 original music albums titled: Listen to Your Heart; Live to Love; Give Praise and Thanks and Mercy Reigns.
all available on Amazon Music, https://music.amazon.com/search/bill+tonnis
"He is also the author of two books, Mercy Reigns: A Daily Devotional of Compassion, Comfort and Healing and Listen to Your Heart: A Daily Devotional of Calling, Purpose and New Life. They are available on Amazon.com.
You can find out more about Bill at his music ministry website and read his blog at www.BillTonnisMusic.wordpress.com.
Ed Gutfreund has performed music throughout his whole career as a songwriter, songleader, therapist and educator. He has contributed to numerous musical events to support efforts that bring peace and justice. He currently works as a body-oriented psychotherapist in Cincinnati seeing clients who are addressing complicated effects of trauma and other life challenges. His latest creative project is a one-man musical play, Working My Way Back…and Forward about a man trying to manage his trauma as he works with his therapist. The music expresses the ups and downs and back and forward of of this character’s healing and development. The play has been presented for therapist’s continuing education and to general audiences, and is also approved for continuing education for professional therapists. Other musical adventures include creating music with his three grandchildren.
The Pierson-Young Project (Greg Pierson and Steve Young) combines over 60 years of experience in musical performances and ministry.
Incorporating lessons from their own spiritual journeys with song and scripture, they create an experience of being in the presence of God.
The Pierson-Young Project (PYP) uses original music, drama, dance, Scripture, and personal sharing to create a space for reflection and challenge in today’s world.
Steve Young, vocals/guitars
Greg Pierson, vocals/guitars
Rose Reidmiller Gowda is the director of the Cincinnati Suzuki School at the Wyoming Fine Arts Center and the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music’s Preparatory Department, where she teaches a full studio of Suzuki violin and viola students ages 4 and up in private lessons, group classes, and also conducts the Suzuki Chamber Orchestra. A former Suzuki kid herself, she believes in nurturing and developing the whole child through music. She is also a trained early childhood music instructor with MusikGarten.
Gowda received her Bachelor and Master of Music degrees in performance from the University of Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music, where she graduated summa cum laude and served as a graduate assistant while studying with renowned violists Masao Kawasaki and Catharine Carroll. Rose is the recipient of multiple awards, including CCM’s Outstanding Academic Achievement Award, scholarships from the Clef Music Club and Southern Ohio Music Teachers’ Association, and was a winner in the Geraldine B. Gee International Viola Competition.
In addition to teaching, Gowda is an active and versatile freelance musician and performs a wide range of styles from classical to pop/rock. She has appeared onstage multiple times at the Cincinnati Fringe Festival as a musician for theatre and musical performances, and also performs extensively with the classical ensemble Midnight Rose Trio, the indie pop band Serenity Fisher and the Cardboard Hearts, and plays fiddle with the Rosenthorns, a Celtic contra dance band.
Tom Sparough is a storyteller, juggler, and writer. Beyond his work as a performance artist, he and his wife Geralyn facilitate team-building experiences, days of renewal, and marriage enrichment programs. His latest book is called Ghost Stories to Keep You Alive. Tom is the 2014 Salesian Guild Catholic Communicator of the Year.
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Annie Donnellon Davis is a vocal performance graduate of Northern Kentucky University, specializing in opera and classical music genres. Singing has been her life’s passion for as long as she can remember. Being blind since birth, Annie considers music her visual art.
Through the years, Annie has sung with MUSE, Cincinnati’s Women’s Choir, Jump & Jive Big Band, and currently serves as lead vocalist for the St. Therese Brass Quintet. As a church soloist, she believes that one who sings prays twice.
Bob Zentz and Jeanne McDougall Zentz are old friends and life partners who share a love of music and history -- which they love sharing with others!
With a friendship dating back to the early 1970s, Bob and Jeanne combine his lifetime of bringing traditional music as "edutainment" to students of all ages, with her work as a History Ph.D. with a growing reputation for helping restore lost musical "soundscapes" and adding to an understanding of music in a historical context.
Bob Zentz began performing professionally in his native Norfolk, Virginia, in 1962, in "The Troubadours," with James Lee Stanley. In his college years, Bob was a founding member of The College of William & Mary's "Minutemen" singers from 1962-64, and president of the Old Dominion College Folk Music Society from 1965-66.
As a performer, Bob is a prolific musician, playing several dozen instruments in a repertoire of more than 2,000 songs. His albums span the genres of folk, traditional, Celtic and maritime music and beyond, and his recordings also appear on other artist compilations. As a songwriter, he is celebrated by fans and peers alike; . Dozens of performers have covered his original compositions, three of which -- drawn from songs on Bob's first two albums, recorded on the fabled Folk-Legacy Records label -- have been published in "Rise Up Singing," Sing Out Magazine's award-winning community songbook.
In 2016, Bob and Jeanne launched a series of activities celebrating the 50-year association of Bob's mentor, William "Ramblin' Conrad" Bulher, with all things folk in the Hampton Roads area. The Ramblin' Road Show and Homemade Hootenanny took the Virginia story across the Eastern U.S. and will bring the story to even more audiences in 2017. The video sequel to "The Ramblin' Conrad Story," "The Wind Sang Along," featured an international lineup and carried the story around the globe again.
Betsy is a musician, a therapist, and a Tai Chi for arthritis (Sun Style) instructor.
She sings, plays violin and guitar as well as composing and arranging music. As a solo performer, she does mostly Folk/Jazz type music with a few Old English songs to add color. When performing with the band "Wild Blue Yonder", she sings and plays Blues, Rock and Contemporary Country Music.
She has one solo album of original music and also appears on albums with Therese Edell, Rick Lisak, Chris Collier, just to name a few. http://www.betsylippitt.com/
COYOTE are Marcy Brenner and Lou Castro. They write and perform songs that draw you into their enchanting island life and extraordinary community of 1000 friends and neighbors. Their stories spark from their salty life on Ocracoke, 20 miles off-shore of the Outer Banks of North Carolina.
You are invited literally into their living room for homemade, lightening storm hot music; unexpected, honest, masterful, heartfelt, authentic. Throw a rock at a genre and you will hear it, with a Coyote twist, often with a special guest. No matter what, you'll be enchanted by the inevitable magic of an evening with Coyote, and whoever is playing with them.
If life is about creating experiences, Marcy and Lou are truly alive, making music together, and with neighbors and visiting friends. They share the love of family and community that is so important to everyone in this coastal town.m service.
Performing comes naturally for this Ohio native who grew up in a musical family and has been singing from a very young age. As early as the 6th grade, Lisa played acoustic guitar in church, and for weddings. As a member of the long-time folk duo Prairie Orchid, with Sarah Goslee Reed, Biales played over 100 shows a year as an artist-in-schools educational performer. Always writing and performing her own music, Biales started her recording career in 1999.
Dubbed the “Belle of the Blues” for her crystal clear voice and charming stage presence, Biales has released ten albums with her latest, THE BEAT OF MY HEART produced by Tony Braunagel.
In 2013, Lisa’s album Singing In My Soul wins Cincy Blues Challenge Best Self Produced CD of the year and garnered her a spot at the beloved Cincinnati Blues Fest. The album charted at #10 on the Roots Music Report.
Many will remember Erich Sylvester from his liturgical folk music that became popular in the '70s. He is currently part of Hot Steel & Cool Ukulele, a band that features classic songs of the hapa haole bands who entertained at the ballrooms and barrooms of the Waikiki beach hotels. Hot Steel & Cool Ukulele features Erich Sylvester singing and playing ukulele with a virtuoso steel guitar artist and a bassist at the core of the band.
Donna Peña is a composer and performer, residing in Inver Grove Heights, Minnesota. Speaking strongly to and for the Hispanic community in the Midwestern church, she provides a leadership founded strongly on her Mexican and Cherokee heritage. While at the University of Minnesota, she took part in the Chicano Studies program. As she unites formal education with top-notch communication skills, she is able to produce music that serves well the needs for multilingual worship.
In addition to her incredibly popular song “Digo Si, Señor/I Say Yes, Lord,” her recorded collections Alma Mia and Against the Grain as well as A New Heaven, A New Earth, Mass of the Nations or the collaboration with Marty Haugen We Come Dancing, provide a broad range of music and texts for inclusive worship. “El Amanecer,” which is the first cut on La Tierra, La Gente, is a masterpiece of Hispanic rhythms and instrumentation. When one sings it, one dances it. Her setting of Psalm 25, “Levanto Mi Alma/I Lift Up My Soul,” has become a staple in the Advent repertory for many parishes. Peña’s compositions have been featured on the recording Cross Culture and also in the collection Music for Small Christian Communities. She stands at the forefront of composers who are able to express ethnic richness through accessible music.
Serenity Fisher and the Cardboard Hearts blend playful pop-rock with a Tim Burton-esque quirkiness. A wordsmith, Serenity Fisher entices stories into becoming songs using truth-telling, highly-visual lyrics, and dreamy melodies. Fisher is a powerhouse singer whose nuanced vocals vary from bluesy belt to sultry whisper, from technical prowess to stripped down raw emotion. Her piano style is theatrical and passionate. Her music has been compared to Regina Spektor, Tori Amos and Fiona Apple.
Cellist Michael G. Ronstadt, nephew of Queen of Rock Linda Ronstadt, holds a master's degree in cello performance from the University of Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music (CCM). Ronstadt brings a rich musical heritage and an absolute knack for improvising up a storm.
Violinist Rose Reidmiller Gowda, a childhood friend of Fisher (her mother was Fisher’s piano teacher), also has a master’s degree from CCM. She has a flair for creative improvisation and for exploring dark and light tones.
Bobby Fisher on guitars, mandolin, and ukulele, provides tasteful ambient swirls as well as old school face-melting solos.
Matt Halvorson rounds out the sound with drums and percussion. A true ethnomusicologist his eclectic setup includes a vast array of instruments from Brazil, Pakistan, Peru, Morocco, and Spain as well as household gadgets such as brooms and keys. A diamond in the rough, Halvorson tastefully drives the music with thoughtful dynamics and creative rhythms.
Bishop Todd O’Neal and his wife Linda co-pastor the House of Joy Christian Ministry in Cincinnati. Bishop Todd received his Master of Divinity from Methodist Theological School in Delaware, Ohio, and a Bachelor of Art and Music from Kentucky State University. He is a composer and of leader of gospel choirs.
Linda O’Neal graduated from Lincoln High, East, St. Louis, Illinois, and Kentucky State University with a BS in Music Education. Together they co-pastor House of Joy Ministry in Cincinnati, Ohio.
The House of Joy Singers are part of the House of Joy Ministry, under the Direction of Bishop O'Neal. They perform their music ministry throughout the Cincinnati Area.
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Annie Donnellon Davis is a vocal performance graduate of Northern Kentucky University, specializing in opera and classical music genres. Singing has been her life’s passion for as long as she can remember. Being blind since birth, Annie considers music her visual art.
Through the years, Annie has sung with MUSE, Cincinnati’s Women’s Choir, Jump & Jive Big Band, and currently serves as lead vocalist for the St. Therese Brass Quintet. As a church soloist, she believes that one who sings prays twice.
Bill Tonnis wants to use his music, his ministry and his personal testimony to ignite the passion of God’s love in the hearts of all who hear him. In so doing…Bill hopes to encourage others to listen to their hearts, live to love and give of themselves in the service of God’s on-going creation.
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