Members of the folk group play and sing at the 11 a.m. Mass Sept. 25, 2022: in front, Tom Faletti on piano; in back, from left, Jim Sprenke, Sonia Faletti, Jim Bullock on banjo, Jacqueline Flores, and Karen Walczewski (holding her son). Sonia has been singing and playing guitar with the folk group since 1990 and leading this ministry since 2001; Tom has been its pianist since 2000. Sonia said she looks for songs to enhance the Sunday readings and highlight social justice. This group has made music for the 10:30 and 11 a.m. Sunday Masses since the 1970s, following the liturgical changes of the Second Vatican Council. Sonia continues the service of earlier folk group leaders, including Debbie Ahearn, Mary Hufford, and Patricia Linnell.

Then-Auxiliary Bishop Michael Fisher of Washington (far left) blessed the new Noack pipe organ Nov. 14, 2019, as Dr. Kevin O’Brien conducted the choir during a vespers service before the dedicatory recital. Kevin has been St. Peter’s music director and organist since 2002, and continues a long tradition of sacred music programs open to the public. Music at the 9 a.m. Sunday Mass is organ-choir; at the 5 p.m. Sunday Mass it is organ-cantor. Pipe organs have been part of parish liturgies since a Pomplitz was installed in the first church circa 1840. A Lewis and Hitchcock organ installed in the second church in 1926 was damaged in the 1940 fire and restored for the third church in 1941; it was destroyed completely in the 2011 earthquake.