Grace Episcopal Church

Plainfield, NJ

 
 
     
             

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Events

Take Me Out to the Ball Game!

Friday, August 13

Annual Somerset Patriots night out at the TD Bank Ball Park in Bridgewater

First pitch at 7:05 PM Fireworks after the game

Contact Dave Magee (732-968-1329) no later than August 8 to order tickets

Carillon Concert & Peach Festival

Sunday, August 29, 2010 - 12:00 PM

Come and enjoy delicious peach desserts and a carillon concert by carillonneur Wesley Arai.  The event is free so invite all your friends and neighbors.
 

Weather permitting we will block off Cleveland Avenue and set up on the street.

 

Please bring a blanket or a lawn chair, and a peach dessert to share.

 

Wesley Arai began studying carillon with Jeff Davis in 2004 at the University of California, Berkeley, where he received B.A. degrees in Mathematics and Statistics with a minor in Music. Originally from Los Angeles, Wesley returned to his hometown to pursue graduate studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, earning an M.A. degree in Mathematics. During his time in Southern California, he played the carillon at the University of California, Santa Barbara regularly.
 

Wesley passed the advancement examination of the Guild of Carillonneurs in North America in 2008. In addition to the carillon, he has studied piano, trombone, and voice, and has performed in a number of different concert bands, marching bands, jazz bands, orchestras, and choral groups. He enjoys arranging music, and occasionally performs some of his own arrangements on the carillon. Wesley currently works as an actuary for an insurance company in the San Francisco Bay Area and serves as Associate Carillonist at the University of California, Berkeley.

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