BETHLEHEM, PA – Fourteen months after it debuted during a summer of protests and a pandemic, a socially distanced collaboration of dozens of musicians from across the Lehigh Valley is going for a regional Emmy award. The Lehigh Valley Song Project’s music video, from Bethlehem’s Touchstone Theatre, features more than 30 performers – including CMS voice student Maanya Gope – ranging in age from students to musical veterans, and representing styles from rock to Hip-Hop to bluegrass to Latin jazz. The musicians separately recorded their parts for the original song “Lehigh Valley be Free,” and producers stitched together videos of those performances into a 7-minute celebration of community and solidarity. Read more…