NEWS
This November the BigChurchNightIn ‘Worship Tour’ with Matt Redman and Rend Collective Experiment will be heading out to venues across the UK! The event aims to draw local churches together for an exciting night of celebration. This will be Matt’s first extended UK tour since returning from living in the USA where he was part of the Passion City Church in Atlanta. Matt is married to Beth and they have five children. They are now based in Brighton. He is the writer of songs such as ‘Blessed Be Your Name’, ‘You Never Let Go’ and ‘The Heart of Worship’. More recent songs include ’10,000 Reasons’ from his latest album, and ‘Our God’ written with Jonas Myrin, Chris Tomlin and Jesse Reeves. Also, with two critically acclaimed albums and a stand out performance at this years BigChurchDayOut, Rend Collective Experiment will be joining the BigChurchNightIn. They started in 2004 as a group of confused 20 something’s trying to figure out life, God and community. Then in 2007 grew into a collective of musicians and artists trying to share with the world what they were learning. Reminding the church that we are called to be “One” a “Collective” even a “Family”. Check out this month’s Gig & Event Guide for details, or For further info go to www.bigchurchnightin.com
Singer-songwriter Juliet Turner is offering a free compilation download at http://noisetrade.com/julietturner
Juliet will be releasing a new song called “The House at the Top of the Hill” in early December 2012. Further details will be given at www.julietturner.com in the next couple of months. This will be available for download at http://julietturner.bandcamp.com/ Juliet’s 1996 recording Lets Hear it for Pizza is also available for download at her bandcamp site.
East Yorkshire’s HOT GOSPEL CHOIR are asking for your support for a brand new fund-raising project that could lead to an historic breakthrough, in the medical world. The whole focus of this project is a HUGE concert that will be held at Hull City Hall 7th December. The high profile concert will feature Hot Gospel, (The North’s premier Gospel choir) All For One Choir, (a huge adult choir made of 250 wonderful people from the East Yorkshire Area) and a scratch teen choir known as All For Felly(made up of Josh Fells friends from Hornsea School). This wonderful event has some great support from many high profile local people and we are hoping will attract lots of publicity both regionally and potentially nationally into this wonderful example of communities coming together for a shared purpose.
Christmas in a Heart Beat (the Concert), will take place 7th December 2012 at Hull City Hall. Funds will be raised from a donation from tickets sales, concert programme sponsorship and a great raffle. Tickets can be booked through The City Hall Box office 01482 300 300. If you would like to get involved and support the event in any way, please contact hello@allforonechoir.com
Popular songwriter, producer and recording artist FREDDY WASHINGTON, who has earned Grammy, Stellar and Dove Award nominations for his songwriting and production work with the likes of Hip Hop luminary Da’ T.R.U.T.H. and Gospel Dream winner Melinda Watts, releases his debut, double-disc project, The Jesus Record today. Skirting the edges of Gospel, Hip Hop and R&B and pop, with hints of Washington’s early influences Phil Collins, Andrae Crouch, Michael W. Smith and Kirk Franklin, the songs on The Jesus Record feel right at home on both contemporary Christian and Gospel radio formats. While the music will move your feet, Washington’s rich, compelling vocals will lift your spirit.
Gospel/Jazz pioneer BEN TANKARD has been nominated for a SOUL TRAIN MUSIC AWARD following the release of his 18th solo CD “Full Tank”. “This is the most successful record of my 20+ year career, and the music industry is buzzing with excitement about it,” Tankard says.
New Haven Records and RSI Music Group have announced that Academy of Country Music award-winner GORDON MOTE’S new Christmas project, The Star Still Shines, will hit store shelves October 16. The holiday CD combines Southern Gospel, inspirational, and country music-flavoured renditions of new and traditional Christmas songs and carols, including Michael W. Smith’s classic “Emmanuel” and Steven Curtis Chapman’s “Christmas Is All In the Heart.”
Award winning gospel artist AMI RUSHES has produced a 122 page Word-focused and Christ-centred tool of healing and uplift. Her love for people and compassionfor the hurting are communicated on every page while ministering to the reder with simplicity, clarity and insight. ‘Monday Manna’ contains a foreward by Bishop Charles E. Blake Snr.
Jesus Culture With Martin Smith Live From New York : One of the most significant releases of the year will be the new Jesus Culture double CD, a live recording from the Hope Is Alive arena in New York, featuring Kim Walker-Smith, Chris Quilala and special guest and former Delirious? frontman Martin Smith. An unforgettable night, captured as an unforgettable recording, Live From New York looks set to further establish Jesus Culture’s passion-drenched worship albums as absolutely essential listening. Live From New York arrives on 20th November…..UK worship leader ANDY SMITH will be known to many for his work with The Eden Project and The Message Trust. He’s lead worship from the stages of Spring Harvest and New Wine and will tour the UK again in 2013 with The Message Trust. Andy’s songs have already impacted UK churches through Breathe his earlier release on Survivor’s Emerge label, and on albums such as Spring Harvest’s Fresh: New Songs. ‘Ladders, Rocks & Lightening Swords’ is full of heartfelt, congregation-friendly worship songs with superb acoustic-based arrangements and first-class production…..Spring Harvest Acoustic Worship 2 : Today’s worship songwriters offer some rousing anthems, but this release strips away the big arrangements to let the melody and words shine through. Stripped back to a few essential instruments with which many churches will play them, on this resource less is quite definitely more!….This Is Your Kingdom Come Now: Casey Corum & Friends Live From The Sugar Land Vineyard New and powerful congregational songs recorded live in Texas. Featuring veteran worship leader and songwriter Casey Corum recorded before a full house at his church, Sugar Land Vineyard. Introducing the powerful voices of Torri Baker (Vineyard Church Columbus, Ohio) and Crispin Schroeder (Northshore Vineyard Louisiana), as well as a 17-voice gospel choir, threads of R&B, gospel, and modern rock are woven together to create a fresh sound while, at the same time, being deeply rooted in the hallmark Vineyard worship value of intimacy with God…..Live Anthems from Vineyard USA is an extraordinary collection of songs showcasing some incredible live worship from Vineyard US worship leaders, mixing the well-known and the new. Taken from a wide selection of writers including Jeremy Riddle, Chris Lizotte, and Sheri Carr, the US Vineyard continues to nurture and develop some of our most gifted songwriters. These and many of the new songs have the potential to impact the worldwide Church is a similar way.
Leeds based worship leader/singer/trainer JOE KING, is leading a 2 day event in Garforth on December 8th & 9th called POWER OF THE HOLY SPIRIT CONFERENCE. The Cost is £25, and it’s to be held at 62c Main Street, Garforth, Leeds, LS25 1AA. Subjects to be covered include: Spiritual gifts, inner healing, physical healing, deliverance, soul ties, generational influences, ungodly beliefs, spiritual roots of disease, bitter root judgements & expectations, inner vows, the power of negative words, the effects of trauma. To secure a place, send a cheque payable to ‘Joe King’ to 5 Hertford Chase, Leeds, LS15 9EP. For more information: Tel. 0113 2285917 or email: sarakinguk@aol.com or j.stringwell@live.co.uk
Some testimonies from recent conferences:
“The conference was a huge blessing. I am a GP and I was saying to my husband about me calling patients in for an over 40’s health-check. My hubbie said, “This conference is your health-check!” During the conference I got rid of more stuff, so there’s more room for Jesus. It was like, in a small way, being ‘born again’ again.”
“I enjoyed the conference so much. The laughter and fun was something I hadn’t expected, not just from the Holy Spirit, but from everyone there.”
A strong line-up for the 2012 Whitby Gospel Music Convention has been announced. The event, due to be held at Whitby Pavilion on Saturday 17th November, will feature comedian Bobby Ball; the Indian family group now living in Scotland, The Sunbeam Singers; the veteran country singer Tony Goodacre; and the singer formerly with Live Option, Samuel Purdy.
Never for Nothing 