Practical, hands-on training and support for church bands.
A group of us from the Lakeshore Area of West Michigan meet once monthly over lunch to trade stories, support each other, and figure out how to do church music better. If you're interested in joining us, hit the 'Contact Me' button, and I'll get you the details.
Friday, August 15, 2008 at 08:07AM Yesterday Dean wanted to know what motivated musicians, and I thought maybe today I'd come at it from a different angle, something a little more personal. I'm about 15 in the below-related story, around the time I first played organ in the Baptist church (my first church gig!)
Christmas Eve of 1971 sucked.
Wednesday, August 13, 2008 at 08:13AM I like to keep things simple. It’s my whole approach in life. (Well, not the whole approach; widen the focus just a touch and Mexican restaurants immediately join the picture.) I don’t like 14-page menus, novelists that fill pages with endless descriptions of grass and wallpaper and the smell of elderberries, and I don’t like local productions that mistake form for content. Come to think of it, I don’t like national productions that do it either.
One Christmas Eve Service I participated in fit this bill in every respect. It was over-long, over-scheduled, over-produced, featured numerous, multiple combinations of singers and kids, lighting changes, and for the band, many, many pages of music.