The Story

Super excited to announce new guest, Jen Felty, to The Story!

Jennifer, a Lancaster County native, had a love for musical theatre and sports at a very young age. She spent her childhood on the stage, the soccer field, the volleyball court, the basketball court and behind a piano or cello. Despite the pleadings of her coaches and directors, she continued playing sports and doing theatre and music. Jen excelled at soccer in college where she gained All-American status her senior year.

She has a Bachelor’s Degree in vocal performance from Houghton College, NY, a second Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration and Bible from LBC, and a Masters’ of Music Degree in Vocal Performance and Pedagogy from Penn State. Jen has performed in numerous musicals as well as opera productions in regional theatres. Her favorites include Denise in Smoke on the Mountain, Carrie in Carousel, and singing while playing the banjo, fiddle, and upright bass at the Grand Ol’ Opry and accompanying tv program Opry Backstage.

Most recently, she has been focusing on directing shows, teaching voice, and managing the careers of her two children.

You can find Jen and her projects here:

Instagram : @RedAccordionStudios

Website : www.RedAccordion.com

Super excited to announce new guest, Jen Felty, to The Story!

Jennifer, a Lancaster County native, had a love for musical theatre and sports at a very young age. She spent her childhood on the stage, the soccer field, the volleyball court, the basketball court and behind a piano or cello. Despite the pleadings of her coaches and directors, she continued playing sports and doing theatre and music. Jen excelled at soccer in college where she gained All-American status her senior year.

She has a Bachelor’s Degree in vocal performance from Houghton College, NY, a second Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration and Bible from LBC, and a Masters’ of Music Degree in Vocal Performance and Pedagogy from Penn State. Jen has performed in numerous musicals as well as opera productions in regional theatres. Her favorites include Denise in Smoke on the Mountain, Carrie in Carousel, and singing while playing the banjo, fiddle, and upright bass at the Grand Ol’ Opry and accompanying tv program Opry Backstage.

Most recently, she has been focusing on directing shows, teaching voice, and managing the careers of her two children.

You can find Jen and her projects here:

Instagram : @RedAccordionStudios

Website : www.RedAccordion.com

Super excited to announce new guest, Jess Cannzie, to The Story!

Jess Cannzie, aka Jesse Cannon, is a Live host and podcast host for U Street Media Company out of Lancaster, PA (formally TCP ENT). He signed with them in 2018.

Cannzie started off as an artist performing and marketing without much return. Audio engineering can into play as an option after he realized he had to figure out how to have money coming in instead of always putting money out. Cannzie went to school for audio engineering, but dropped out. However, it was always something he wanted to always do. Through the guidance of a legend producer and engineer, Frank Franchise, he learned the skills he needed to start thriving as a mixing engineer under the tag cadence “It’s Cannzie Daddy.“ This new role not only brought substantial income but it open the door for him to work with artists like Nova, Ekko, OTH, Cassidy, and many more.

Cannzie is a personality without much filter on his tongue, which really opened the door for radio hosting. While preparing for an event in Philly to accompany OTH, Cannzie met the 610 radio owner through a local promoter. He was offered a spot on the radio immediately. His show started as "Coffee with Cannzie" in the morning, but the show ended up being called "Boss Talk" during midday rush and another host, Savage Kayy, was added to make the show gold. "Boss Talk" opened the door to host many concerts for Casanova, Jim Jones, Gillie the Kid, Cipha Sounds, and many more.

After a while, U Street Media took over "Boss Talk" and Cannzie has been with them ever since.

Check out Jess and his projects here:

Insta : JessCannzComedy

Facebook : Jesse Cannon

TikTok: jesscannzcomedy

Super stoked to announce new guest, Silas Angelino, to The Story!

Silas Angelino is from Lancaster, PA. He is an introvert with extroverted tendencies, and he writes music. His current project is focused more on indie, alternative, singer/songwriter-type creations. Silas loves making song-stories. Books, movies, life experiences - those are some of his biggest influences in his songwriting process.

You can check out Silas' current project here:

https://linktr.ee/Narrowhavenmusic

Absolutely thrilled to announce new guest, Kristen Brewer, to The Story!

Kristen lives in Lancaster, PA with her husband, kiddos and their dog. She works as a writer and director for Sight and Sound Theaters as well as an occasional adjunct professor in the Musical Theater Dept. at Lancaster Bible College. She also created a musical project called SEEN about the women of the Bible.

Kristen attended Belmont University as a vocal major. She went on from there as a musical theater performer on many stages around the country. She’s thankful for the variety of rich experiences in her life and career. To God be the glory!

You can find her work here:

SEEN Collective : Seen-collective.com

SEEN Spotify : https://open.spotify.com/artist/2dkFLZxjkPXz08XvQOMZ6R...

Sight and Sound Soundtracks:

David : https://open.spotify.com/album/0AQqR0RW47ZNyiNSzxbgfV...

Queen Esther :

https://open.spotify.com/album/6VMLxrMocOKwlgZTLAAF9y...

Jesus :

https://open.spotify.com/album/7h8JCJwrX6ORFsJOMQjLD2...

Super excited to announce new guest, Chris Keeney, to The Story!

Originally from mid-state Virginia, Chris has lived in Lancaster for most of his life. He earned a BM from Lebanon Valley College as a music and recording major, and then jumped right into teaching and performing.

Over the past 18 years, Chris has taught many hundreds of guitar students, both collegiately and through private lessons. At his height, he was teaching approximately 70 private students a week. Though he doesn’t have much time for independent teaching these days, he does keep a few individual students, but most of his teaching time is devoted to the collegiate world. He is currently head of the guitar program at Lancaster Bible College, and will be taking over the program at Franklin and Marshall College in the Fall of 2022. Previously, he ran the guitar program at Albright College from 2005-2010.

As a player, Chris has been fortunate to have had a wide range of gigging and touring opportunities. Over the years, he’s played with many jazz and rock groups, toured in extreme metal bands, played in regional orchestras, and joined backing bands for national and international artists.

Since 2010, Chris has been heavily involved in the theater world in Lancaster. Beginning at American Music Theater, and then branching out into many others, he’s been involved with various performance venues and theater companies for the past 12 years. He’s worked with The Fulton, AMT, Prima, Servant Stage, and others. Since mid-2017, Chris has been first-call guitarist at the Fulton theater, and is currently playing in the band for Jersey Boys.

Also since mid-2017, Chris has been the head of worship and technology at Saint James Episcopal Church in downtown Lancaster. He runs all contemporary music (which includes the well-known Saturday night secular music mass that St James has run for years), while also running all streaming, video, and technology. In addition, he plays oud for contemplative services and events, including the popular First Friday Compline.

Previously, Chris was the band director and recording engineer for Victory Church of Lancaster for over 15 years. In addition to his music work, Chris is also a mixing and mastering engineer for Immersive Music Media Group, which is an immersive sound studio and post-production house in Lancaster.

When not working, Chris enjoys spending time with his wife and kids.

Super stoked to announce new guest, Bradley Hawkins, to The Story!

After starting a career as an actor in the San Francisco Bay Area during the 1990s, Bradley Hawkins and his family moved to Lancaster in 1997 where he taught film studies, acting, and humanities courses at Lebanon High School as well as directed several stage productions there through 2012. Now retired from teaching, Hawkins made his directorial debut for the big screen in 2015 with his award-winning comedy short, ROLLER COASTER.

Hawkins is currently living his dream as a film director, screenwriter, and producer, and is the co-founder of Lancaster-based film production company, Dadley Productions. The small startup film company now has three multi-award-winning short films that have cumulatively won over 200 film awards, with several of those being earned for Hawkins’ direction, screenwriting, producing, and original music scoring. Roller Coaster and Filling In can now be seen on Amazon Prime Direct and Calf Rope will be streamed from PureFlix beginning on August 1st.

Hawkins and his co-screenwriters also have two new short film scripts completed (Night Voices and Book Drive) as well as two feature-length screenplays (Calf Rope - the feature and Wrangled) that have both won awards. Hawkins hopes to roll all four of these film projects now in development into production within the next five years.

Check out Bradley and his projects here:

Facebook : Bradley Hawkins

Dadley Productions

Instagram : @bradley_hawkins

@dadley_productions

Super excited to announce new guest, Brayden Krikke, to The Story!

In fifth grade Brayden was hit with the acting bug. Of course, you never know how long a phase like that will last. Luckily for him, and unluckily for his parents, that phase turned into a passion and never went away.

After graduating with a BFA in Musical Theatre from Lancaster Bible College in 2021, he has been fortunate enough to act in projects all across the nation. Favorite theatre credits include Spelling Bee (Chip, Chip U/S, Leaf U/S), The Little Mermaid (Prince Eric), and The Addams Family (Lucas). Favorite film credits include Followed (Carter), The Veil (Young Douglas), and Brave The Dark.

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You can find Brayden and his projects here:

Insta: @bkrikk3

Website: BraydenKrikke.com.

Super excited to announce new guest, Brayden Krikke, to The Story!

In fifth grade Brayden was hit with the acting bug. Of course, you never know how long a phase like that will last. Luckily for him, and unluckily for his parents, that phase turned into a passion and never went away.

After graduating with a BFA in Musical Theatre from Lancaster Bible College in 2021, he has been fortunate enough to act in projects all across the nation. Favorite theatre credits include Spelling Bee (Chip, Chip U/S, Leaf U/S), The Little Mermaid (Prince Eric), and The Addams Family (Lucas). Favorite film credits include Followed (Carter), The Veil (Young Douglas), and Brave The Dark.

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You can find Brayden and his projects here:

Insta: @bkrikk3

Website: BraydenKrikke.com.

Super excited to announce new guest, Donald Grabowski, to The Story!

Don lives below Elizabethtown and has lived in Lancaster County all of his life. He has been a public school and university music educator for 33 years until 2013.

Don was the Director of Bass Studies at Millersville University for 18 years, and has been an active bassist in jazz, symphonic and chamber music. As Hempfield High School Director of Orchestras his orchestras were selected to perform at the PA Music Educators Conference twice, and is in his 13th year as adjudicator for Music in the Parks/Festivals of Music. He has traveled and performed in parts of Austria, Germany and Hungary, and since 2005 is a member of Allegro, The Chamber Orchestra of Lancaster. He has performed with other varied chamber music events, the Lancaster Opera Workshop, and various jazz and rock ensembles. He has been found playing bass in the Hershey Theater orchestra for traveling Broadway Shows, for stars like Jim Brickman, John Blake, and at American Music Theater for Don Rickles, Frankie Avalon and Bobby Rydell.

He is currently one of the bass players for LCBC Church serving numerous area campuses.

Don is the founder and owner of the online company Musician’s Practice Glove, since 2015. This is a glove for musicians who play under unique conditions and circumstances, sold on Amazon worldwide, Walmart and Sweetwater Music.

He has been Treasurer and Board Member of NAMI Lancaster County PA for 6 years and served as a Family-to-Family teacher with his wife. Don also has been a member of Elizabethtown Rotary Club for over 8 years and is Past President for 2020-21. Don and Peggy have 3 grown boys and two grand-children.

You can find Don and his work here:

https://musicianslive.org/

https://linktr.ee/musicianspracticeglove