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Victor and Laurie MacDonald of Orange, Massachusetts, met in 1981. From the first, Mrs. MacDonald recently recalled, "we knew that the Lord was going to use us as we combined our talents, Victor being a self-taught fix-it man and my having the abilities of homemaking plus my piano playing [she has a degree in applied piano]. We were both preachers' kids, so Victor and I have supported the church in music since we were teens. Now our children have joined us to reach out to the community."
Profiling the MacDonalds in the November 19th Massachusetts News, journalist Isabel Lyman described the family--whose concert repertoire features bluegrass, gospel, and classical--as the Bay State's version of the von Trapp Family Singers of Sound of Music fame. "Their rambling home near downtown Orange," Lyman writes, "has musical instruments and songbooks prominently displayed, and visitors might be treated to an a capella rendition of a favorite song." Victor "is the manager of the group, a trombonist, and a graduate of Gordon College in Wenham," while Mrs. MacDonald is not only a "whiz at the keyboard," but "a composer and arranger" as well.
The eight MacDonald children (Carol, Bonnie, Vincent, Peter, Nathan, Matthew, Daniel, and Hannah) range in age from three to 18. "Several of them play several instruments," Lyman notes. "Thirteen-year-old Vincent, for ...