History of the Scholarship

In 1976, Jim Myers, co-owner of the Up Country Restaurant, traveled to Bermuda on the Bi-Centennial. There he came across a fun band that called themselves the ’MacKenzie, Lewis, & White Band’. He asked them to the Mount Washington Valley, and in 1977 Peter Lewis, Rod MacKenzie, and Peter White came to the valley. And the rest as they say is history!

Peter Lewis went back to his native Britain where he passed away far too young in 1986. That year Nancy Bartlett, Rod MacKenzie and Peter White decided to create a scholarship in his memory since Peter Lewis had a love of music, life, and kids.

Rod MacKenzie and Peter White remained in the valley, familiar faces to many for good music and good fun. And every year the Peter Lewis Memorial Scholarship Concert was held to help send a Kennett Senior to college for music, whether it be applied music or music education.

Sadly, in 2002, Peter White joined Peter Lewis to sing in another place, and probably to create havoc. The scholarship concert was renamed to the Lewis and White Scholarship Concert.