October 27, 2025
“Music She Wrote” Organ Concert
Sunday, November 16, 2025
3:00 p.m.
First United Methodist Church
(“The Coppertop Church on the Skyline”)
230 East Skyline Parkway, Duluth, MN
Free admission; a free-will offering will be received.
Join us for an organ recital exploring music written by women composers. Three accomplished local organists, including our own Velda Graham Bell, will perform works by Emma Lou Diemer, Celina Kobetitsch, Rachel Laurin, Isabella Leonarda, Brenda Portman, Florence Price, Ghislaine Reece-Trapp, and Gwyneth Walker. Velda will be joined by Rachael Kresha, organist at the Cathedral of Christ the King in Superior, and Karen Sande, organist at First Lutheran Church in Duluth.
November 7, 2025
The November 2025 edition of First Family is now available. The online version on this website, is viewable, downloadable, and sharable. You can find information on church activities, as well as a photo album of FUMC’s October activities in this issue. If you want to go back and find something specific, you can also find years of First Family, available in the archives at any time.
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June 26, 2024
The Northern Lights Music Festival will present a concert on Saturday, July 13 at 3:00pm at First United Methodist Church, 230 E Skyline Parkway in Duluth. Featured on the program will be some of the great chamber music polished and performed at the Northern Lights Music Festival held each summer on the Iron Range.
The repertoire on the program includes piano trios by Johannes Brahms and Arno Babadjanian, Café Music by Paul Schoenfield, and works for solo piano. Performers will include musicians representing Indiana University, Rowan University, University of Nebraska, and the University of Cincinnati. There will be a freewill donation taken.
