Charlestown retirement community resident Gene Langbehn has been named a recipient of the 2014 Governor's Leadership in Aging Award for Performing Arts.
Langbehn has performed for more than 50 years in theater and light opera, as well as in nightclubs as an accomplished vocalist from the Big Band era.
He will be honored May 15 in an awards ceremony at Ten Oaks Ballroom in Clarksville, MD, sponsored by the Maryland Department of Aging.
Langbehn, who has lived at Charlestown for 17 years, is a native New Yorker who was raised in an orphanage.
Prior to his retirement he worked as a Chaplain for the Archdiocese of Baltimore and as an elementary school teacher in the Baltimore County Public Schools System.
"I perform because of the satisfaction and reaction by my audiences," said Langbehn, who recently added the Harmonica to his musical repertoire. "It is a way I give back to the community."
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