Music and Chatter episodes strike the right note
Fred Benson plays a mandora for one of the Music and Chatter episodes. He and host Tony Sousa used to play for the residents of Birch Bay Village before the pandemic. Now the assisted living community watches Sousa and others play music on the show that airs on YouTube weekly.
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BAR HARBOR
When in-person church services ended at Church of Our Father about a year ago because of the pandemic, parishioner and pianist Tony Sousa and his wife, Joanne, wanted to do something to keep their community together.
Music and Chatter was born from a conversation with fellow parishioner Jim Vallette, who, along with the Sousas, did not want to see the Wednesday service go by the wayside. A short time after beginning to film the Sunday services for the Mount Desert Island Episcopal Church community due to COVID-19, Tony and Joanne also began recording the Music and Chatter shows from their home in Hulls Cove.