Letters From Home
The mission of Letters From Home is to honor veterans, celebrate people, and unite the nation through music.
Letters From Home was started by Erinn Dearth at the suggestion of her late father, Pat Dearth, a veteran of the United States Coast Guard. Since that time, the group has performed over 900 shows in venues big and small across the United States, touching the hearts and caressing the memories of hundreds of thousands nationwide with their mission to honor our veterans, active military heroes and their families.
The show is now performed in theaters, for air shows, cruise ships, schools, patriotic celebrations, military bases, VA hospitals, VFWs, American Legions and many other venues. A television documentary on Letters From Home by OurState Television won the Emmy for best magazine documentary in 2017. The duo performed in Normandy, France to perform for the 75th Anniversary of D-Day on June 6th, 2019, kept audiences safely entertained digitally in 2020 and 2021, and performed near the site of the Battle of the Bulge in Belgium in 2023. Letters From Home will be performing a 50-States Tour in 2023.
So who makes up Letters From Home? Erinn Dearth found her love of tap dancing at Franel School of Dance when she was three years old. She won her first national tap competition at age 5, and has been making noise ever since. For years, Erinn did musical theatre and performed on cruise ships, and when she returned to her home city of Winston-Salem, Erinn founded First in Flight Entertainment which now books entertainers all over the world. Producing Letters FromHome was a perfect way of combining her love of production and being onstage, while spreading a message of hope and patriotism.
Meanwhile, proverbial worlds away, New York-based actor Dan Beckmann was photographing penguins in Antarctica when he was approached by Dearth, who had discovered him through a video on a magical multimedia portal known as YouTube. She expressed interest in having him aboard, and before but another word was uttered, Dan packed up his lenses, wiped the bird poop off his pants, and hopped the next jet to Winston-Salem to accept his role within the LFH team.
