Who is Seasons?

We’re a sibling harp and hammered dulcimer trio made up of Mary-Kate Spring, Peter Winter, and Mary-Teresa Summer Lee. Teresa also plays mandolin while Mary-Kate and Peter are heard on the penny whistle. We all play piano and try our hand at percussion. We range in age from seventeen to twenty-two unless our fourteen-year-old sister Mary-Grace Autumn sits in. We’re all homeschoolers although Mary-Kate and Peter are now at Franciscan University. We’ve been playing professionally and as a ministry for about seven years.

What kind of music do you like to play?

In addition to our original songs, we play everything from Johnny Cash to Coldplay, from Bach to the Beatles, and from Elvis to Lord of the Rings. (In fact, Mary-Kate and Peter can be seen on you tube playing Clocks on the harp and hammered dulcimer with two djembe players. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaIiS8DZhew)) That video, by the way, has been viewed more than 2500 times, meaning that it’s been viewed by 12 people other than our dad!

Do all the children in your family have a season for a middle name?

Yes. Believe it or not, even our sister Mary-Clare, whom we adopted from China in 2000, was already Li Chun, or Spring Lee, when we adopted her! Our younger brother Luke-Joseph is Winter,

How did you guys meet?

Our parents introduced us.

Where do you play?  (Also see the "Now Playing" Link)

Mary-Kate played an original rendition of The Prayer of Saint Francis for mass in the crypt where Saint Francis is buried at the Basilica of San Francesco d'Assisi in Italy and did some time as a street musician while studying at Oxford. More routinely, we play at churches, nursing homes, receptions, weddings, parties, coffee houses, and just about any venue a band can be called to. We’re pretty sure we are the only harpists to have ever played on the stage of the Appalachian Brewing Company.

We once opened for three-time Grammy Award winner Ashley Cleveland in Ohio, and we played at a reception for the Papal Nuncio in Washington, D.C. We’ve also been featured performers with the Harrisburg Harp Orchestra on numerous occasions including performances at the Forum. This summer, we’re playing again at the Harrisburg Arts Fest, and Mary-Kate will be the featured harpist for the Pennsylvania Renaissance Faire. This summer Peter will be playing in Bob Rice’s band for the on-campus Franciscan University of Steubenville Conferences.