Who would have thought? A symphony playing beautiful classical music in the war-torn Congo.
Posted on April 19th, 2012 by Josh Champagne
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Joy in the Congo – Inspiring 60 Minutes Segment
Messiah Sing-a-long
Yesterday evening I was privileged to attend the 13th annual Messiah Sing-a-long. Here’s a highlight from my point of view in the balcony. Truly this piece is one of the pinnacles of Western music, it’s timeless message of God’s story shouts to us from the dusty pages of history to truly worship Him who is [...]
Posted on April 10th, 2010 by Josh Champagne
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Charity Youth Bible School Chorus 2009
Strains of “There is peace and contentment in the Father’s house today…” replay themselves in my mind as I work, having listened to the newly released album Charity Youth Bible School Chorus 2009 from Altar of Praise Studio. Here are a few youtube videos (posted by others) of the chorus in action last November.
Posted on February 9th, 2010 by Josh Champagne
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Online Pitch Pipe
I was with a music group on Tuesday trying to learn a new song, when we needed an online pitch pipe badly, because no one happened to have a chromatic pitch pipe along. That steel cookie just doesn’t always make it into our pockets along side the requisite wallet, mobile phone and keys. So we stumbled [...]
Posted on July 11th, 2009 by Josh Champagne
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Lebanon County Youth Chorus – He Still Came
Sherwin Samonte, from Vancouver Canada posts beautiful “music videos” of Anabaptist-Mennonite singing on Youtube and Tangle (used to be Godtube) that break the mold of what music videos are usually known to be. Here’s one of his latest postings, He Still Came. It is sung by the Lebanon County Youth Chorus on their album, Somewhere [...]
Posted on May 23rd, 2009 by Josh Champagne
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Hymnary.org and GladSongs.com – Music Sites
I recently made the discovery of a fairly new website dedicated to Christian music, Hymnary.org. Built with Drupal, an open-source content management system, this website is a beautiful example of excellent information architecture. Letting it it speak for itself… The Hymnary is a new kind of hymn Web site. It combines the best features of [...]
Posted on March 6th, 2009 by Josh Champagne
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Youth Bible School 2008 Audio CD
Today I received the recording by Altar of Praise Studio from Chorus at YBS ’08. I must say, I was pleasantly surprised at the quality of the recording. It sounds better than it did live, at least to my untrained ear. Though it is not listed on their website, you can probably get yourself a [...]
Posted on January 30th, 2009 by Josh Champagne
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There You Are
I hadn’t heard this song before. Great message! . . There You Are Verse 1 When I rise in the morning, till the setting of the sun I’m never out of Your care If I soar to the heavens or stumble and fall I know You are always there To lead me on this journey [...]
Posted on November 19th, 2008 by Josh Champagne
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Sunday Morning with SMBI Students
Yesterday evening and this morning our church enjoyed the company of a number of SMBI students who are on their Western tour singing at various churches here on the West Coast. I had wonderful conversations with some of the students and particularly enjoyed meeting blogging friend, Hans Mast. The music was absolutely beautiful, but more [...]
Posted on April 6th, 2008 by Josh Champagne
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Amazing Harmonica Player
I’ve never heard a harmonica played this way. Truly outstanding! First saw it over HERE.
Posted on January 8th, 2008 by Josh Champagne
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