Peter F. Smith, the founder of AmericaTheBeautiful.com and Creator of The Spirit of America – DVD is proud to share with you his love of America and all the wonderful things that the USA truly stands for. With his family, wife Nancy and children Madison and Zachary, they have found a new love of life in the mountains of Western North Carolina. “God has truly Blessed America - Stand Proud for you live in the Greatest Country on Earth.” We hope you enjoy our website; we truly appreciate all the wonderful people who helped bring it to you.
****Peter can be reached by email: Peter@americathebeautiful.com.

Douglas Darlington, Editor Doug has spent over 20 years in the film and television industry as Assistant Director on direct-to-video features as well as an Editor for longstanding corporate and broadcast clients garnering numerous awards for his corporate and commercial productions. Proficient in both linear and non-linear editing systems, his credits have included works for the Golf Channel, HBO and most recently MTV and VH-1 on the Hogan Knows Best, Tiara Girls and My Big Fat Fabulous Wedding reality show series. He is also a director of live concerts including acts such as Ludikris and The Commodores and has served as Segment Producer for the Oprah! show.

The stunning female vocalist on these arrangements is Andrea Kramer. Raised in Portland, Maine for most of her life, Andrea Kramer has made Florida her home for the last 15 years. Andrea has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Historical Studies. It was there she met her husband of 8 years, Ryan. Andrea became music pastor at the age of twenty-three and has produced two original worship albums composing over two hundred worship songs.

Andrea has led worship for women’s conferences around the state and the nation. She has also been invited to sing at motivational and political events including those for Zig Ziglar and Mayor Rudy Giuliani. Although, her greatest accomplishment by far is being mother to Jeremiah (3), Jordan (2), and Journey.

Andrea was 8 months into her pregnancy with Journey when we recorded her voice at Whitewater Recording Studios. Since then, Journey has been welcomed into this world with warm loving arms. Special thanks go out to Andrea for “delivering” a magical touch to this project.

Dr. Barry Pate Jr. is a native of Asheville, NC and presently resides there as an ear, nose and throat Physician. Music has been an avocation for him most of his life having played the Trumpet since age nine. He began singing while in Residency training in New York City and upon his return to Asheville in 1997 began singing with All Souls Cathedral Choir and Cantaria Mens' Chorus. He has studied voice with Paul Templon since 2000 and has sung in productions at Asheville Community Theater and The Asheville Lyric Opera company. He has had the opportunity to sing with Choruses in Washington, DC, Atlanta, GA, Canterbury, England, and Carneige Hall, NY. Thank you Dr. Pate for your vocal contribution to this project.

The Appalachian State University Wind Ensemble

The Appalachian State University Wind Ensemble is a 100 member performance ensemble comprised of undergraduate and graduate students from the distinguished Hayes School of Music as well as talented student musicians from across the campus and community. The ASO presents five to six concerts a year and performs literature from the standard orchestral repertoire spanning the baroque to the contemporary. Recent performances have included masterpieces such as Brahms' Symphony No. 4, Shostakovich's Symphony No. 5, Saint Saëns' Symphony No. 3, Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 2, Beethoven 5, as well as works from contemporary composers such as Libby Larsen, Ellen Taaffe Zwilich. Featured performances can be heard across the state of North Carolina on public radio stations and programs such as "Carolina Live" and in the PBS special entitled "An Appalachian Showcase." Directed by Dr. John Ross, the emsemble provided a moving performance of these Classic American Compositions.

Voices in the Laurel: A Musical Success Story

Directed by Martha Youngwood and starting its eleventh season, this not-for-profit community organization based in Western North Carolina, stresses musical excellence for young people. Members hail from all over the region, and come from Haywood, Swain, Jackson, and Buncombe counties in North Carolina. Voices in the Laurel began in the summer of 1996 as a single 33-singer choir, and have grown into a regional choral music program consisting of two performance groups. The organization is now made up of 120 singers, ranging from the third through the twelfth grades.

Voices choristers learn music reading and healthy singing techniques through rehearsals that incorporate a variety of music education methods, including Kodaly. One of the organization's goals is to expose choristers and audiences to a variety of styles of music, ranging from the historical musical styles of the Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic and twentieth century art music to folk songs from many countries, gospel, popular music and jazz.

Our heartfelt thanks go out to this stellar organization and their angelic voices.

Adam Greenberg has owned and operated Whitewater Recording since 1987, producing thousands of tracks for a variety of clients in the music, video, television and radio industries. A graduate of the University of Georgia and a multi-instrumentalist, Greenberg has performed duties including engineering, producing, voiceover narration, and video production. Music production credits include a variety of pop/rock, jazz, country, folk, and classical projects.

Whitewater Recording is located in Asheville, NC and we truly appreciate all of the skills and dedication Adam has brought to this project.