Sandy Wentworth is starting her fifth year at All
Saints Episcopal Church as Organist and Music Director. Previously she
worked at St. Cecilia’s Catholic Church for sixteen years as organist and
music director. In her spare time she plays for special services at area
churches.
Sandy graduated from college in 1978 with a Bachelor
of Science degree in Music Education specializing in Instrumental Music.
Sandy has taught piano, brass, woodwind, beginning violin and drums
privately from her studio in Wolfeboro for the past thirty years.
She directed the former Wolfeboro Village Band for
twenty-three years. Sandy and the band, which performed concerts and played
in parades around New Hampshire and Massachusetts, received the Governors
Award for Volunteerism from former Governor Steve Merrill. The band was
featured in Yankee Magazine in 1984 as well as Yankee Magazine’s New
England: Special Places & Certain People. They were featured in New
Hampshire Profiles magazine in 1988, and later were in a televised
commercial for Public Service of New Hampshire. Sandy also directed the
Center Harbor, N.H. summer band.
Sandy worked with former All Saints parishioner
Nathalie Erickson at the Kingswood Summer Theatre for Children for thirteen
years as music director; the last year which Sandy also directed the show
when Nathalie became ill. Since then Sandy has been a guest theatre
clinician at high schools in N.H.
Currently Sandy is involved with the Cotton Mountain
Community Church, an historic church on Stoneham Road in Wolfeboro near the
Brookfield, Wakefield line. She has been on the board for two years and is
currently President of the Association.
