Come, see and hear The NEW EARTH BAND at the following events. We’ll fill your tank and charge your batteries, then we’ll send you out with a fire in the belly to share the Good News … because God can’t drive a parked car !!!
WHAT’S COMING UP?
Saturday, October 26, 2024, 10a – The worship hour at Manor at Market Square, 803 Penn Street, Reading PA, (www.manoratms.com), will feature the message, “He Died For You”, delivered by The NEW EARTH BAND’s Lee Schappell.
Sunday, November 3, 2024, 2p – The residents of Keystone Villa at Douglassville PC, 1152 Benjamin Franklin Highway, Douglassville, PA, (www.keystonevillaatdouglassville.com), will hear the message, “He Died For You” at the worship hour, delivered byThe NEW EARTH BAND’s Lee Schappell.
Friday, November 8, 2024, 7p – Tonight’s guest at The Torch Community Center, 134 Maple Drive, Morgantown, PA 19543 (ehtesting4@gmail.com), will be The NEW EARTH BAND’s Lee Schappell, with an evening of tasty gospel tunes and testimony for tonight’s attendees.
Monday, November 11, 2024, 3:30p – Encore! Encore! The NEW EARTH BAND has been summoned back to the Main Street Theatre at the beautiful StoneRidge Poplar Run Retirement Community (www.stoneridgeretirement.com), 440 East Lincoln Avenue, Myerstown, PA, for an Autumn Matinee of organic, throwback Gospel music for the residents.
Thursday, November 21, 2024, 2p – Wending their way back to Chestnut Knoll, 120 West 5th Street, Boyertown, PA, (www.chestnutknoll.com) will be The NEW EARTH BAND, loaded to the gills with a Thanksgiving slate of easy Gospel music for the residents.
IN MEMORIAM:
Stanley L. Witinski
(08/05/1943 – 06/26/2016)
Our hearts remain heavy as we remember the passing of The NEW EARTH BAND bassist and beloved friend Stan Witinski. Stan was not only a superb bassist, but he was also a fine pianist and organist, having played keyboards for many years with Bobby Newton & The Band. Stan, whose father was an icon in professional motorcycle racing, had a long and well-traveled career in rock, pop, blues, and jazz, dating back to the late 1950′s, playing with more headliner bands than memory allows – including Rock’n’Roll pioneer Chuck Berry – ultimately joining The NEW EARTH BAND in 2010. Pleasant, easy, and so agreeable, Stanley L. “Smith” Witinski was truly loved by all. To say Stan will be sorely missed would constitute the understatement of the 21st Century.
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WARREN L. ”Mose” BOYER
(10/11/1927 – 09/13/2011)
REMEMBERING NEW EARTH BAND fiddler and bassist Warren “Mose” Boyer. A most earnest, courteous, respectful, kind, gentle man, and a true master musician, “The Moser” was one-of-a-kind, irreplaceable indeed. He will be missed by fellow NEW EARTH BAND members, as well as by the countless numbers of followers who loved “Mose” throughout his astounding, seven-decade-long, musical legacy.
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CRAIG WESLEY FISHER
(02/21/1938 – 09/21/2011)
The passing of a solid friend and music icon, “Mr. Entertainment”, Craig Wes Fisher, will forever leave a lingering, empty space in our hearts. Well known and much loved by all, Craig leaves a gap that simply cannot be filled until we are reunited once more at that great, Gospel jam that will most assuredly follow The Marriage Feast of the Lamb!
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS:
The “Grey Geezers” of The NEW EARTH BAND returned to the comfortable confines of Spruce Manor, 220 South Fourth Avenue, West Reading, PA, 19602 (www.saberhealth.com), with a Good-time hour of easy, rural Gospel music for the residents, on . Tuesday, October 22, 2024.
What a great time that was! when The NEW EARTH BAND returned to the warm-and-fuzzy Zion Spies Golden Seniors (www.zionspieser.org), 318 Spies Church Road, Reading, PA 19606, with an Autumn Matinee of Golden Gospel Oldies for the members and guests, on Thursday, October 10, 2024.
Our thanks to the residents and staff Grand View Manor, 129 Houck Road, Fleetwood PA (www.gvmanor.com), for their customary, warm welcome and response on Thursday, October 3, 2024, when The NEW EARTH BAND brought in an Autumn Matinee of Loose-and-Easy rural Gospel music for the residents and staff.
A great turnout greeted The NEW EARTH BAND on their return to Fairlane Gardens 21 Fairlane Road, Reading, PA 19696 (https://fairlanegardens.com), as they delivered a brand new truckload of Loose-and-Easy Gospel Music for residents and staff, Monday, September 30, 2024.
Sincere thanks to Pastor Ed and Helen Kurtz, and attendees at The Torch Community Center, 134 Maple Drive, Morgantown, PA 19543 (ehtesting4@gmail.com), as The NEW EARTH BAND’s Lee Schappell delivered an evening of tasty gospel tunes and testimony for tonight’s attendees. on September 27, 2024.
What a great time! at Columbia Cottage (www.columbiacottages.com), 3121 State Hill Road, Wyomissing, PA, for The NEW EARTH BAND on Tuesday, September 17, 2024, as they delivered a hopping-good Country Gospel Matinee for the residents.
A genuine thank you to the residents and staff of Keystone Villa at Douglassville, 1180 Ben Franklin Highway, Douglassville, PA, (www.keystonevillaatdouglassville.com), as those “Grey Geezers” of The NEW EARTH BAND presented an afternoon of inspirational, Loose-and-Easy rural gospel music, Sunday, August 25, 2024.
Gratitude to the staff and residents of Manor at Market Square, 803 Penn Street, Reading PA, (www.manoratms.com), as The NEW EARTH BAND’s Lee Schappell delivered the message for the morning worship service, “Prayer – The Breathing of the Soul”,, August 24, 2024.
Sincere thanks to Pastor Ed and Helen Kurtz, and attendees at The Torch Community Center, 134 Maple Drive, Morgantown, PA 19543 (ehtesting4@gmail.com), as The NEW EARTH BAND’s Lee Schappell delivered the message “A Purpose in All Things – Shabbat”, on Friday, August 2, 2024.
A full house and a warm welcome awaited The NEW EARTH BAND when they hauled in a wagonload of gentle, easy Gospel Music for the residents of Country Meadows of Wyomissing (www.countrymeadows.com), 1800 Tulpehocken Road, Wyomissing, PA, on Thursday, August 1, 2024.
Tons of gratitude to the staff and residents of Manor at Market Square, 803 Penn Street, Reading PA, (www.manoratms.com), as The NEW EARTH BAND’s Lee Schappell delivered the message for the morning worship service, “A Purpose in All Things – Shabbat”, July, 27, 2024.
What a joyous return! to Columbia Cottage (www.columbiacottages.com), 3121 State Hill Road, Wyomissing, PA, for The NEW EARTH BAND on Wednesday, July 24, 2024, as they delivered a hopping-good Country Gospel Matinee for the residents.
Our thanks go to the staff and residents of Keystone Villa at Douglassville PC, 1152 Benjamin Franklin Highway, Douglassville, PA, (www.keystonevillaatdouglassville.com), for their warm welcome and response when The NEW EARTH BAND’s Lee Schappell delivered the message at the worship hour, titled “A Purpose in All Things – Shabbat”, on Sunday, July 21, 2024.
Heartfelt thanks to the residents and staff of Maiden Creek Place, 105 Dries Rd., P.O. Box 134, Blandon, PA 19510 (https://inspiritseniorliving.com/maidencreekplace/), for a toasty welcome when those “Grey Geezers” of The NEW EARTH BAND delivered a Gospel-fest & Birthday Bash for all in attendance, on Thursday, July 18, 2024.
El grande “Muchas Gracias!” goes out to the residents and staff of Wyomissing Nursing & Rehabilitation Center, 1000 E. Wyomissing Blvd., Reading, PA, (https://www.senioradvisor.com/local/wyomissing-nursing-and-rehabilitation-center-reading-pa) for a great time when The NEW EARTH BAND revisited one of their favorite haunts with an afternoon of easy, throwback country gospel music, Thursday, July 11, 2024.
Our gratitude to the staff and residents of Manor at Market Square, 803 Penn Street, Reading PA, (www.manoratms.com), as The NEW EARTH BAND’s Lee Schappell delivered the message for the morning worship service, “Heaven: It’s the Real McCoy”, June, 22, 2024.
Sincere thanks to Pastor Ed and Helen Kurtz, and attendees of “Chapter 24” of The NEW EARTH BAND’s Lee Schappell’s Blue Collar Gospel Series, “Where the Rubber Meets the Road”, a soiree of music and testimony at The Torch Community Center, 134 Maple Drive, Morgantown, PA 19543 (ehtesting4@gmail.com), on Friday, June 21, 2024.
Many thanks to the residents and staff of Berkshire Commons, 5485 Perkiomen Avenue, Reading, PA (www.genesishcc.com), for their warm welcome as Lee Schappell, of The NEW EARTH BAND, presented the Fathers Day message at the worship hour, titled “Knowing God”, on Sunday, June 16, 2024.
Muchas Gracias! to the residents and staff of Manor at Market Square (www.manoratms.com) 803 Penn Street, Reading, PA, for their warm and enthusiastic response when “The Grey Geezers” of The NEW EARTH BAND rolled in with a matinee of Loose and Easy Gospel Music, Sunday, June 9, 2024.
It was a triumphal return for the “Grey Geezers” to Wyomissing Nursing & Rehabilitation Center, 1000 E. Wyomissing Blvd., Reading, PA, (https://www.senioradvisor.com/local/wyomissing-nursing-and-rehabilitation-center-reading-pa), on Tuesday, June 4, 2024, The NEW EARTH BAND revisited an old haunt with an afternoon of good-time, throw-back, rural gospel music for the residents.
A great time with the Saints! With Summer in the wings, The NEW EARTH BAND headed back to an absolute favorite venue, The Zerbe Sisters Nursing Center (www.zerbesisters.com), 2499 Zerbe Rd, Narvon, PA, with a wagonload of Easy Rural Gospel Music for the resident, Thursday, May 16, 2024.
Mothers’ Day brought The NEW EARTH BAND to Keystone Villa at Fleetwood (www.keystonevillaatFleetwood.com) 501 Hoch Road, Blandon, PA, with a Sunday Afternoon Serenade of Good-time Gospel music for everyone who has ever been blessed with a mother!!
The long-anticipated return of those “Grey Geezers” of The NEW EARTH BAND, to Faithful Living Personal Care (www.faithfuliving.com), formerly Colonial Lodge, 2015 North Reading Road, Denver PA 17517, took place Wednesday, May 10, 2024, with a “Spring Fling” of easy, rural Gospel music for the residents.
Spring was springing with the good-time sound of The NEW EARTH BAND, as they trucked in a matinee of easy Gospel music for the residents and staff of Rittenhouse Village, 2900 Lawn Terrace, Reading PA (www.rittenhousesl.com), Thursday, May 2, 2024.
The exuberant return of The NEW EARTH BAND to The Gardens at Stevens (www.gardensstevens.com), 400 Lancaster Avenue, Stevens, PA, 400 Lancaster Avenue, Stevens, PA,, on Thursday, April 25, 2024, featured a matinee of old-fashioned, throwback, rural Gospel music for the residents.
Our thanks to the residents and staff Grand View Manor, 129 Houck Road, Fleetwood PA (www.gvmanor.com), for their customary warm welcome and response on Thursday, April 4, 2024, when The NEW EARTH BAND brought in a Springtime Matinee of Loose-and-Easy rural Gospel music for for the residents and staff.
It’s been a long time coming! The “Grey Geezers” of The NEW EARTH BAND delivered a soiree of gentle, organic Gospel music in the Main Street Theatre at the beautiful StoneRidge PoplarRun Retirement Community (www.stoneridgeretirement.com), 440 East Lincoln Avenue, Myerstown, PA, one of their favorite venues, on Monday evening, March 25, 2024.
Those “Grey Geezers” of The NEW EARTH BAND returned to the comfortable confines of Spruce Manor, 220 South Fourth Avenue, West Reading, PA, 19602 (www.saberhealth.com), with a Good-time hour of easy, rural Gospel music for the residents, on . Friday, March 22, 2024.
Thanks go out to the staff and residents of Keystone Villa at Douglassville PC, 1152 Benjamin Franklin Highway, Douglassville, PA, (www.keystonevillaatdouglassville.com), for their warm welcome and response when The NEW EARTH BAND’s Lee Schappell delivered the message at the worship hour, titled “Christ, Our Redeemer”, on Sunday, March 17, 2024.
A rowdy shout-out to the residents and staff of Keystone Villa at Douglassville, Personal Care, 1152 Ben Franklin Highway, Douglassville, PA, (www.keystonevillaatdouglassville.com), for their warm welcome and response when The NEW EARTH BAND returned for a Sunday, March 10, 2024, Matinee of their signature Loose-and-Easy Country Gospel Music.
A gigantic thank-you to the residents and staff of Keystone Villa at Douglassville, 1152 Benjamin Franklin Highway, Douglassville, PA, (www.keystonevillaatdouglassville.com) for their enthusiastic participation as The NEW EARTH BAND’s Lee Schappell delivered the message for worship hour titled “The Promise of His Return” on Sunday, March 3, 2024.
A hearty “Hooot!” to the residents and staff of Amity Place, 139 Old Swede Road, Douglassville, PA (http://www.enlivant.com/communities/pennsylvania/amity-place-douglassville), for a warm and toasty response as The NEW EARTH BAND returned to those friendly confines, Wednesday, February 21, 2024, for a matinee of loose-and-easy Country Gospel music for everyone!
A genuine thank you to the residents and staff of Keystone Villa at Douglassville, 1180 Ben Franklin Highway, Douglassville, PA, (www.keystonevillaatdouglassville.com), as those “Grey Geezers” of The NEW EARTH BAND presented an afternoon of inspirational, Loose-and-Easy rural gospel music, Monday, February 19, 2024.
Heartfelt thanks to the residents and staff of Maiden Creek Place, 105 Dries Rd., P.O. Box 134, Blandon 19510 (https://inspiritseniorliving.com/maidencreekplace/), for a toasty welcome when those “Grey Geezers” of The NEW EARTH BAND delivered a mid-winter Gospel-fest & Birthday Bash for all in attendance, on Thursday, February 15, 2024.
Making their debut at the beautiful Holiday Walnut Woods Retirement Community (www.holidayseniorliving.com) , 35 N. Walnut St., Boyertown, PA 19512, were none other than The NEW EARTH BAND, with a winter matinee of good-time, easy Gospel Music in tow for the residents and staff, Friday, February 2, 2024.
A rowdy “Ho-Ho-Ho” for the reception and response of the residents and staff of Mifflin Court (www.genesishcc.com/MifflinCourt), 450 E. Philadelphia Avenue, Shillington, PA, when The NEW EARTH BAND presented a mid-afternoon of easy Gospel Music, Sunday, December 24, 2023.
The “Grey Geezers” of The NEW EARTH BAND presented an after-dinner matinee of their signature, gentle Gospel music, punctuated with a couple of post-Veterans’ Day patriotic “America” songs, for the members of the Ontelaunee Region chapter of the Antique Automobile Club of America, in the banquet room of the Blue Mountain Restaurant, Shartlesville, PA, Sunday, November 12, 2023.
Color Him Gone! In his final, “Goodbye Bash”, the retiring Dave Reinwald Live!, accompanied by his lovely wife, Jackie Reinwald, along with The NEW EARTH BAND’s Lee Schappell and Don Morgan, delivered a rousing two-hour spectacular of the Best-of-the-Best Oldies Classics, Doo-Wop, and John Denver favorites for a packed audience, Sunday, September 17, 2023 at Kissinger’s Church (www.kissingerschurch.org), 715 Berkshire Blvd, Wyomissing, PA.
Call it an Autumn Encore when those “Grey Geezers” of The NEW EARTH BAND trucked in another loose-and-easy Gospel Music Fest to Mifflin Court (www.genesishcc.com/MifflinCourt), 450 E. Philadelphia Avenue, Shillington, PA, Sunday, September 17, 2023.
It was 10 years coming, but The NEW EARTH BAND returned to the monthly meeting of the Blandon Seniors Club, at the Maiden Creek Church, 261 Main Street, Blandon, PA 19510 with an easy, good-time Gospel Music Matinee, Wednesday, September 13, 2023.
The chickens came home to roost! When The NEW EARTH BAND revisited an old, familiar home, bringing with them a matinee of easy, good-time, country gospel music to the Keystone Villa at Fleetwood (www.keystonevillaatFleetwood.com) 501 Hoch Road, Blandon, PA, Sunday, September 10, 2023
It was a triumphant return to Mifflin Court (www.genesishcc.com/MifflinCourt), 450 E. Philadelphia Avenue, Shillington, PA, when The NEW EARTH BAND trucked in a matinee of good-time gospel music for the residents and staff, Sunday, August 6, 2023.
Making a spectacular debut at Chestnut Knoll (www.chestnutknoll.com), 120 West 5th Street, Boyertown, PA, was The NEW EARTH BAND, with a wagonload of their signature “Loose-and-Easy Country Gospel Music” for the residents and staff, Wednesday, July 27, 2023.
What a homecoming! when The NEW EARTH BAND returned to an old, familiar haunt. After a three year pandemic lockout, the “Grey Geezers” trucked in a Mid-summer Matinee of easy Gospel music for “July Birthdays” at The Zerbe Sisters Nursing Center, 2499 Zerbe Road, Narvon, PA (www.zerbesisters.com), on Thursday, July 20, 2023.
Thanks go out to the League of Golden Agers of Mohnton, for their warm reception and participation, Wednesday, June 28, 2023, as Dave Reinwald Live! and sideman Lee Schappell, of The NEW EARTH BAND, brought in an hour of Oldies-But-Goodies to their meeting at St. John’s Parish House, 1 Front Street, Mohnton, PA.
A triumphal return to Columbia Cottage (www.columbiacottages.com), 3121 State Hill Road, Wyomissing, PA, for The NEW EARTH BAND took place Sunday, June 18, 2023, as they delivered a hopping-good “Fathers’ Day” Country Gospel Matinee for the residents.
What a welcome! as The NEW EARTH BAND trucked in to Rittenhouse Village (www.rittenhousesl.com) 2900 Lawn Terrace, Reading PA, for a rousing Pre-Spring Sunday matinee of loose and easy, rural gospel music for the residents, Thursday, June 1, 2023.
A rowdy shout-out to the residents of Grand View Manor, 129 Houck Road, Fleetwood PA (www.gvmanor.com), for rolling out the red carpet for the Dave Reinwald Live! Oldies Extravaganza with sideman bassist Lee Schappell, of The NEW EARTH BAND, Thursday, May 25, 2023.
Muchos gracias! to the residents and staff at Grand View Manor, 129 Houck Road, Fleetwood PA (www.gvmanor.com), for their warm welcome, as the “Grey Geezers” of The NEW EARTH BAND trucked in a Springtime Matinee of loose-and-easy country gospel music for the residents and staff, Thursday, May 11, 2023.
With grateful hearts, we thank the residents and staff of Maiden Creek Place, 105 Dries Rd., P.O. Box 134, Blandon 19510, for their warmest reception when The NEW EARTH BAND’s Lee Schappell delivered the message “Who Is This Jesus?” at the worship hour, Saturday, May 6, 2023.
To all who attended in person, viewed live streaming, and responded to the appeal during the Sunday, April 30, 2023 Concert for the Benefit of the Families of the R.M.Palmer Company’s West Reading, PA, plant explosion and fire, in which there were seven fatalities and dozens more injured: Your kindness and generosity are most deeply appreciated, Dave & Jackie Reinwald, accompanied by bassist Lee Schappell, of The NEW EARTH BAND, presented a slate of Oldies-But-Goodies at Kissinger’s Church (www.kissingerschurch.org), 715 Berkshire Blvd, Wyomissing, PA.
More heart-felt thanks to the residents and staff at Amity Place, 139 Old Swede Road, Douglassville, PA (www.aplaceformom.com/community/amity-place-1367174), as The NEW EARTH BAND’s Lee Schappell presented the Sunday, April 23, 2023, worship hour message, “Knowing God”.
Heart-felt thanks to the members of the Holy Guardian Angels Seniors Club, for their kind invitation, and their warm response as The NEW EARTH BAND delivered a Springtime Matinee of easy, good-time gospel music at the Club’s monthly gathering, at the Holy Guardian Angels Church Rectory, 3121 Kutztown Rd., Laureldale, PA, Wednesday, April 12, 2023.
Making their debut at the 1st Reformed United Church of Christ (www.hamburgfirstucc.org) at 3rd and Pine Sts., Hamburg, PA, were “one half” of The NEW EARTH BAND, bassist Gary Yerger and vocalist-guitarist Lee Schappell, who delivered a program of easy gospel music for the Hamburg Seniors Organization’s monthly business meeting, Wednesday, February 8, 2023.
Many thanks to the staff and residents for the warmest welcome as The NEW EARTH BAND’s Lee Schappell delivered the message “Knowing God” at the worship hour at Berkshire Commons, 5485 Perkiomen Avenue, Reading, PA (www.genesishcc.com), Sunday, January 29, 2023
Kicking off the New Year, old friends, The NEW EARTH BAND, returned with a Mid-winter Matinee of their signature, easy, country gospel music for the residents and staff of Keystone Villa at Douglassville, Independent Living (www.keystonevillaatdouglassville.com), 1180 Ben Franklin Highway, Douglassville, PA, Saturday, January 21, 2023.
