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Jeffry Hamilton Steele
Weddings,
Memorials & Services Appreciations |
In
addition to his concertizing, Jeffry Steele has performed at weddings,
memorials, and liturgies for more than
twenty-five
years.
He
will work with clients to personalize the music to fit the
particular
occasion -- including coming up with guitar arrangements of a favorite
song
or piece. He can draw from Christian, Judaic or other traditions.
Pieces
may be drawn from, though not limited to, current
repertoire.
He
regularly accompanies entire worship services, replacing the
role
of organist and is also a skilled leader of sing-alongs (particularly
for
children -- having worked with many of them in classrooms and
assemblies).
He has been Music Minister for the annual Retreat of priests from the
Boston
Archdiocese, the New England Synod Conference of Lutheran pastors,
along
with weekly worship services of U.C.C., U.U. and Catholic churches.
In
addition to solo guitar music, he can assemble a program from among
other
talented colleagues (guitar with FLUTE, PIANO, ORGAN or VOICE, for
example).
He
can bring his own sound system (which may also be used by hosts or
guests
to propose toasts, etc.), allowing him to play receptions and dinners
in
addition to ceremonies.
Jeffry
is also willing to provide background music for appropriate
settings
-- receptions, openings or dinners -- where he can either play
amplified
or as a "roving minstrel".
Suggested
musical
selections:
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"Listening
to Jeffry Steele play in the sanctuary, it was as if the ages of the
room,
the shadows and the colors, the spirits of past and present seekers,
were
called forth, became present, interchanging their richness with that of
the music, deepening the mystery and the sanctity of the night."
--
Rev. Wendy Fitting, Gloucester U.U. Church
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jeffry@addr.com