Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society's annual Music Night will return in an online format on Saturday, March 6, at 8 p.m. The format will be similar to NPR's "Tiny Desk Concerts." Viewers may watch the performances and support the event's mission to conserve history and promote storytelling. The performers will be A Girl Named Tom, Julian Harnish, and Jessica Smucker.

A Girl Named Tom is an acoustic pop band consisting of siblings Caleb, Josh, and Bekah Leichty from Archbold, Ohio. This band started in 2019, and it offered weekly live performances from home during much of 2020. The siblings honed their three-part harmonies growing up singing hymns in the Mennonite Church.

Harnish, a Goshen College graduate with a piano performance, names classical, jazz, and choral music, along with hymns, as key influences. His recent compositions are both lyrical and cinematic.

Smucker's songwriting is grounded in everyday human experience. She was a poet long before she started writing songs, and echoes of her poetry emerge in the rhythm of her lyrics, cadence of her voice, and the way her lines break. She employs self-reflection, empathy, and wit to shed new light on age-old struggles.

There is a fee, and registration is required by Friday, March 5, at http://bit.ly/AMusicN21.

Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society's vision is diverse communities connecting across boundaries by knowing and valuing their own and others' stories of life, faith, cultures, and histories.