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Disaster relief through gospel music

 
Karen and Donald Peyton and their daughter Joey perform gospel music. They will host a March 31 concert to benefit disaster relief for West Liberty, Ky., which was struck by tornadoes.
Karen and Donald Peyton and their daughter Joey perform gospel music. They will host a March 31 concert to benefit disaster relief for West Liberty, Ky., which was struck by tornadoes.
Published March 17, 2012

NEW PORT RICHEY — Donald Peyton saw the news reports out of West Liberty, Ky., where a March 2 tornado killed five people and turned the town of 3,000 into rubble, and decided to help the best way he knew how.

With music.

Peyton, an attorney who performs in a gospel music trio with his wife and daughter, has organized a March 31 benefit concert to raise money for West Liberty. The town lost an elementary school, many homes and most of its businesses in the barrage of tornadoes this month.

"We wanted to do something for the worst-hit areas, and I know people there," Peyton said.

West Liberty is nestled in the foothills of the Cumberland Mountains in Morgan County, Ky., where Peyton's parents were from, and he still has two cousins in the area.

The gospel music benefit concert will feature 30-minute sets by three groups: the Sunny South Trio, Crimson Creek and the Peytons.

It starts at 6:30 p.m. March 31 at the New Port Richey Seventh-day Adventist Church, 6424 Trouble Creek Road.

An offering will be collected, with all of the money going to Morgan County Christian Social Services for disaster relief in West Liberty.

Can't make the concert? You can still send a donation made out to the Morgan County Christian Social Services Fund at the Bank of the Mountains, P.O. Box 309, West Liberty, KY 41472. The social services agency is a registered nonprofit with the IRS, and the bank is not charging any administrative fees.