I have entered 3 songs in the Contemporary Christian Music Network International songwriting contest for the first quarter. You can enter three songs a quarter. They then give you song critiques. (
http://www.christiansongwriting.com/ )
The songs are Celebrate "God With Us", And I Wonder, and The Lord Of Lords Is Risen Today. I started adding vocals to my web site so the judges would have a place to go to hear the songs. I also wanted to show people there are more sides to my music than just instrumental music.
Two of the next three songs I am going to enter are Looking For Something New and Live For The Moment. They are both on my web site on the video page. I might re-record them. There are a couple of little boo boos I want to correct. I am allowed to enter these songs on April 1.
Now here comes the hard part. I have two choices. My signature song is called To Know You. I wrote that song back in 1985 when I was on tour with the Reach Out Singers. The other song I wrote about a year [...]
Yesterday I had a snow day off from my job as a teacher. I practiced, did some networking, and my daughter record a video of me singing The Lord Of Lords Is Risen Today. I entered it in a song contest sponsored by Contemporary Christian Music International.
http://ccmni.mmgi.org/home.html
In my career as a song writer I had written many Christian songs. One day a few weeks before Easter in 2003 I thought, "I have never written an Easter song. I think I am going to write one." The Lord Of Lords Is Risen Today is the song that eventually came out. Musically I think it has the same type of feel as Lord I Lift Your Name On High.
The song was originally written in the key of G, but for some reason I can't sing it in that key anymore, so on the video I have a capo on the 4th fret.
I am also going to teach this song to the congregations where I am presenting the Passion Play On Guitar Concerts. It would be cool if it would become one of those songs everybody knows!
I have an instrumental [...]
This concert was originally scheduled for Sunday March 28, but now has been moved to March 27, 2010.
The concert will start with a spaghetti dinner beginning at 4:30 PM.
The cost of the event will be:
Adults: $8.00
Kids 5 - 10: $4.00
Kids under 5: Free
All proceeds will go to help Haiti Relief through The United Methodist Committee On Relief (UMCOR)
The dinner will go until 6:00 pm. There will be background music provided at the dinner.
Also, a group will perform in the sanctuary from 5:30 to 6:00 pm.
The Pine Grove United Methodist Church Praise Team will also play during the concert.
The Passion Play On Guitar part of the concert will still be performed by me for about 40 minutes.
Once we get all the musicians confirmed for the event. I'll post those who are playing!
And finally, here is the venue:
Pine Grove United Methodist Church
The Passion Play On Guitar - Passion For Haiti Benefit Concert
2523 Pine Grove Road
York, Pennsylvania 17403
Thanks,
Keith
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OK, let's see how this works. I just enabled my blog page and new feed from my official web site to synchronize with Facebook. So I hope it works.
What this will do, I hope, is to take on less step in adding things to my Facebook page. To my knowledge, at least at this point, Hostbaby, my web hosting company has not enabled the feed to go to myspace yet. But let us take on step at a time.
With these feeds going directly to Facebook it will save me time in posting new notes and stuff!
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My rehearsals for The Passion Play On Guitar Concert Series are going well. I am getting smoother with the presentation. But one thing I noticed is that I think 40 minutes might be too long for the presentation. So I am working on cutting the program down to about 30 minutes.
I think a more to the point and concise program will be more beneficial for the audience who is listening to the presentation. Since I am doing most of the concerts during a church service, I thought it would [...]
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Well, it is snowing here in south central Pennsylvania. The South Middleton School District in Boiling Springs, PA, the school district where I am a middle school PE teacher, cancelled classes today. We will have to make the day up, but it was kind of nice to have a day off in the middle of the week.
As of now they did not call off for tomorrow, but I can not see that we would be having school tomorrow. Too much snow. The school my daughter goes to does not have to worry about having a snow day tomorrow because they are off anyway. They do not have to go back to school until Tuesday.
What did I do on my snow day? I practiced for The Passion Play On Guitar Concert Series I have coming up. I am working out the kinks in the program to make it as professional as possible. I worked on the live performance aspect of the program. I would like the program to be polished and to be able to make a connection with the audience. I might do some more practicing later today.
I also worked on [...]
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