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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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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I was with a group of young people on Tuesday trying to learn a new song and no one happened to have a 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 along and made do without it [...]
Posted on July 11th, 2009 by Josh Champagne
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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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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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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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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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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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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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This song was a blessing to me. Yes, because of the blood of Jesus I can go in. Hallelujah! (You can download the mp3 at http://www.abigailmiller.com/) He stood beside the gate of Heaven, waiting to go in, And he wondered how this Holy Place could take a man like him. With shouts of great rejoicing [...]
Posted on December 18th, 2007 by Josh Champagne
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