:: PETER STANGANELLI & RAPTURE




(left to right - back row): Billy Scaduto - Drums; Sandra Morilus - Vocals;
Peter Stanganelli - Vocals,Guitar, Keyboard; Tom Formisano - lead guitar;
(front row): Al Davis - Bass Guitar; John Riolo - Vocals, Trumpet, Keyboards;

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Rapture with Tim Edwards on Bass Guitar (back row, left)

PETER STANGANELLI & RAPTURE offer a wonderful one hour concert package which includes the six piece group and a complete sound system. Rapture plays middle of the road rock which can appeal to all ages. They get your audience involved occasionally singing along with the group. Their music is a mixture of approximately 75% original material from their CD’s and 25% popular standard Christian songs including a contemporary version of Amazing Grace, Put Alittle Love in Your Heart, Put Your Hand in the Hand, Celine Dion's That's The Way It Is and an exciting grand finale version of God Bless America.

Their new compact disc Do It Up America is available in Tower Record stores in Carle Place & Huntington, New York and at various Christian book stores throughout the country. KJOY radio station on Long Island & New York has played their Do It Up America song quite frequently. Please call 516-826-1124 for more concert information. Our email address can be used for all concert related correspondences.



Peter Stanganelli has been promoting positive messages through his music for many years performing in various concert halls, colleges and churches. Peter holds an MA Degree in Music Composition/Theory and a BA in Music Education. He is currently one of the Directors of Instrumental Music in the Garden City Public Schools. He founded Christian Music Ministry of America in 1985 and later Do It Up America in 1997. He has appeared numerous times on Telicare-TV with Father James Vlaun and Father Thomas Hartman and was the cantor at the Pastoral Formation Weekends for the Diocese of Rockville Centre in New York. He is also Director of Music for the South Shore Y Jewish Community Center's Summer Camp on Long Island, New York. Peter lives in Merrick and is quite well known throughout the Long Island/Tri State area, especially in the Christian community.