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March 28, 2021

Picker priest explains bluegrass appeal

Dominican Fr. Thomas Joseph White, co-founder of the U.S.-based bluegrass band The Hillbilly Thomists.

ROME -- Rome’s baroque churches, street-side shrines to the Virgin Mary and regular cycle of papal liturgies conjure fitting sentiments for a priest living and teaching theology in the Eternal City.

Published in Music News
December 23, 2017

Ottawa priest's dream of Christmas album becomes a reality after a few rough notes

Deacon Guy Dacquay, Rachel Dillman and Fr. Vincent Pereira collaborated to produce a Christmas CD that features Dillman as a soloist, and the world premiere of Pereira’s composition of “Ave Maria” in Latin.
OTTAWA – For years, Fr. Vincent Pereira, an Ottawa priest and canon lawyer, mused about producing a Christmas CD, perhaps featuring one of his own musical compositions.
Published in Canada