WE WELCOME MARY LAUREN KEENY AS OUR MUSIC DIRECTOR
Mary Lauren’s musical background includes experience as an educator, a performer, and as a church musician. While living in North Carolina, she served churches in Greensboro, Thomasville, High Point and Charlotte. Mary Lauren has been a music educator for the past 15 years. She has taught elementary, middle and high school in the Forsyth (NC), Gaston (NC), Lincoln (NC), and Greenville (SC) County school systems. Mary Lauren holds a Bachelor’s degree in Choral Music Education from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. In addition to her teaching and mom duties, she currently performs with Song of Atlanta Show Chorus and Shazam!, an all-female barbershop quartet. When she isn’t doing musical things, Mary Lauren hangs out at her family’s mountain home, “Ladybug Lodge”, with husband Jonan and their two sons, Wyatt (7) and Miles (2). Mary Lauren and her family are excited to begin their new adventure at St. James.