Music Friday is “Spreading Out” For those of you who have enjoyed the free, Music Friday  concerts in Lancaster Square for the past three years, the summer 2012 Music Friday season will  bring you even more free music in downtown Lancaster. Music For Everyone, in partnership with the Mayor’s Office of Special Events (MOOSE) and [...]

May 2012 E-Blast MFE Celebrates $65,000 in Grants! On Friday, May 4 MFE, celebrated the awarding of almost $65,000 in grants to schools and community arts groups in Binns Park in downtown Lancaster. Representatives of the schools and arts organizations showed up to accept their “Big Checks” and to enjoy the music of some of [...]

I was hanging out between rehearsals at the Stahr Center last week with Ben, the building manager, when he says to me, “Hey, my record player’s broke.  Could you take a look at it?”  Sure, sure, so we descend into the bowels of the place, down to the former pistol range, a long, narrow room [...]

MFE Awards Almost $65,000 in Grants! Our grant committee met in mid March to award $64,473 in grants to 43 different schools and community arts groups in Lancaster County. This represents our largest award amount for this annual program. The majority of these funds will be used to purchase and repair instruments. As exciting as [...]

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Picture this. A magnified image of a cross section of the human brain.  The image shows hundreds of tiny brownish bits. These bits are toxic proteins, called tau, that form after brain trauma.  Tau can inhibit cellular functions in the brain, leading to depression, dementia and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, better known as Lou Gehrig’s disease. [...]

ABYSSINIA CORTY Well, Thanksgiving is here again. Thanksgiving was always one of my favorite holidays. I loved coming home from college to a houseful of relatives.  It seems my parent’s home was the hub for all the aunts and uncles that had no children and the grandmothers who were still living.  There are few things [...]

On Friday, October 14, 2011, the Music Business students at Millersville University will host a benefit concert at the Lancaster Elks Club entitled “Something for Everyone”. All proceeds from the concert, which begins at 7:00 PM, will benefit Music For Everyone, will include a variety of musical acts and styles, ranging from the “MFE Student [...]

During the September 16 Music Friday festivities in Lancaster Square, we will pause the music to present the third annual MFE Award. I’m sure your response to this news is, “What’s the MFE Award? And why did MFE establish it?” While not as visible as our grant program or our Keys for the City initiative, [...]

TEN YEARS AGO  “Ten years ago on a cold dark night, there was someone killed ‘neath the town hall lights.” Well, it was a lot more than ten people, wasn’t it? And it was in the morning, not under the lights. A day that changed things as we once knew them. For one brief, shining, [...]