We’ve been learning this song the last few weeks in a small group meeting at church. We’ll be singing it Sunday morning for the first time with the congregation as a whole. What a wonderful song to use to begin a morning of praise and worship, because, really, how can I keep from singing? It…
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Dominican Music at the Monumento Ruinas de San Francisco
Every Sunday local musicians hold an open-air concert at the gate to the ruins of the monastery of San Francisco, built between 1509 and 1560 in Santo Domingo. The music is lively and loud with a lot of brass – my kind of music! The driver dropped me off at 3:30 with a promise to…
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O Happy Day
Honestly, of the hymns I have read so far from “The Hymns of Philip Doddridge“, this is the only text that is familiar to me. That’s not to say there aren’t good, solid texts, it just may hint to the popularity of the tunes to which they were sung. Bob Kauflin recently posted on twitter…
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Wealth at your fingertips
How much wealth we have, right at our fingertips, which is so easily overlooked or ignored. Reading through Gadsby’s Hymns, I came on these two Charles Wesley hymns, found back to back at numbers 1053 and 1054, and most likely found in most hymnals of the last century. The words may be familiar to you,…
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Page CXVI Update
Page CXVI is offering free downloads of their first Hymns album starting April 27th in honor of their second Hymns II album. Neat naming convention, eh? It’s a pretty good set of songs, and well worth the cost of your time to download. Then buy the new album while you’re there.
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Southern Gospel at its finest
Just got this card in the mail today. This will be one concert we’ll be sure to attend. If you plan to be up north on May 21, come hear Greater Vision at Gaylord High School, 7:00 PM. You don’t want to miss this concert!
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Good music coming north?
Friday was a good day for me, music wise. First, I got a call from Jacob Kitson, tenor for Greater Vision. They are coming to Gaylord High School, and he wanted to make sure we weren’t doing anything that would conflict with that date. (We have sponsored a number of concerts in Cheboygan, including Glad,…
