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Carlene Neihart Organ Concert.

News release

Carlene Neihart of Kansas City, the nationally and internationally known organist will present an organ concert at the First Presbyterian Church, 115 Chestnut in Carthage on Tuesday evening, October 26 at 7 p.m. The free concert is sponsored by the church and Carthage Musical Devotees. A reception will follow.

Neihart is the organist at Unity on the Plaza and the organist and Director of music at the New Reform Temple both in Kansas City. She is an artist-in-residence at Mid-America Nazarene University in Olathe Kansas.

As an active concert organist she has played recitals and given workshops all across the United States and Canada and has performed 13 times in Europe. She has played for many universities, church organ dedications, and concert series, American Guild of Organist chapters and American Guild of Organists conventions.

Neihart represented the United States in nine concerts in the Netherlands in celebration and recognition of two hundred years of Dutch-U.S. relationships.

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Oak Street Health & Herbs

Natural Nutrition

By Mari An Willis

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