Local volunteer group sings to people ‘at the thresholds of life’

Threshold Singers of Appalachia practices at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Athens on June 5, 2025. Photo by Dani Kington. ATHENS, Ohio — When Athens resident Bonnie Edwards’ mother was dying, she sang to her.

“My mother was a singer. We sang together a lot, and she was always really supportive of me as a singer,” Edwards said. “It was just a really wonderful way to connect with her – even in the last week of her life, when she wasn’t actually able to be present with me, I knew that she could hear. And I just sang – a lot.”