MS Artists at ASI in Orlando this week

If you’re are ASI Convention, look around for our artists: Steve Darmody, Rudy Micelli, Jennifer LaMountain, Vonda Beerman, and possibly more! Who did you spy?

LLSAH Alumni Concert

Darmody/LaMountain Concert at PMC

Television ministry, Faith for Today, is hosting a free gospel concert by Steve Darmody and Jennifer LaMountain. With over 40 years of combined ministry and 12 solo recordings between the two of them, this is an opportunity you’ll not want to miss. Come enjoy their solo music ministries. They will be sharing songs from their most recent CD recordings featuring the Prague Philharmonic.

Steve Darmody and Jennifer LaMountain are extraordinary recording artists and ministers of the Gospel through song. Each bring outstanding talents and years of international experience to their concert ministries. They also bring a sincere love for the Lord Jesus Christ and a unique ability to convey the message of His grace.”

Steve and Jennifer are available for join bookings through Morning Song Concerts.

Quiet Hour “Ambassador of Hope” Retreat

October 29-31, 2010 - Stevenson, WA

Steve will be sharing music and a concert. Duane McKey, is the speaker. Click here to learn more about the “Ambassador of Hope” Retreats.

Register online for AOH 2010 or Email Andrea Griggs or call (800) 900-9021 x101 for more information.

Steve Darmody is one of Gospel Music’s finest voices and we consider him a true partner in ministry. He is the founder and president of Morning Song Music Group, which has an online CD store, an internet radio station, a record company, a tour booking and management company and more. He tours internationally and performs nearly 100 concerts annually.

Steve has been heard in many venues, with some of the highlights including: Carnegie Hall, The Crystal Catherdral, The 1996 Atlanta Olympics, Warsaw’s National Philharmonic Hall and most recently he was invited to perform a concert inside the Pentagon and for the US Senate Staff Luncheon.

He Appears frequently on TV stations like DayStar, Crossroads, Cornerstone and of course Three Angels Broadcasting, The Hope Channel, and Loma Linda Broadcasting. Many of you have seen him often on the Quiet Hour’s telvision program called “Windows of Hope” or on all the FAMILY REUNION Videos.

Steve has just released his 7th Gospel Music CD, recorded with the Prague Symphony, which we think is his best work ever. That’s why, following the concert, Quiet Hour Ministries is going to give each family a free copy. Come learn how you can get your copy.

Who is Quiet Hour Ministries?

“Quiet Hour Ministries is all about “sharing the saving grace of a merciful God with the world.” – Yes, the whole world!

Each year Quiet Hour Ministries sends out more than 400 teams, consisting of close to 1,000 pastors, lay evangelists, teachers, medical personnel, and even high school and college students to more than 45 countries around the world. These volunteers preach God’s word, provide health care, assist in completing critically needed mission projects such as jungle chapels, schools for children, homes for orphans and more! Dozens of airplanes give wings to the gospel, hundreds of motorcycles help carry young men and women to isolated villages, and medical mission boats bring healing – to some of the most remote rivers and jungles on earth.” – Bill Tucker, Speaker/Director

Quiet Hour Ministries has been a part of the world-wide Gospel Commission for 72+ years, supporting global evangelism in scores of countries. Beginning as a radio and then television program, Quiet Hour Ministries is now an international evangelistic ministry supporting soul winning and church-building projects in over 135 countries. In fact, during 2008 alone, they supported 402 different mission teams to 46 countries like the Philippines, Honduras, Sudan, and Poland.

Quiet Hour Ministries is viable only through donations. It doesn’t receive any support from denominational or government agencies. That’s why donations from caring and engaged people is essential. And it’s a blessing for the giver as well, because it allow them to feel the sense being an active participant in winning souls to Christ.

Donations to Quiet Hour Ministries have built hundreds of chapels, provided vehicles for carrying the gospel to several cultures by “embedded” Bible workers, and built and supplied Christian orphanages and schools across the Indian subcontinent.

Quiet Hour Ministries has learned in it’s 72 years of mission work that it isn’t enough to preach. We must enter these communities with concrete plans to help… to train… to encourage… and to equip! That’s why Quiet Hour Ministries has been so successful and has been so admired for their mission service that include project such as building jungle chapels and schools, for providing bicycles and motorcycles for pastors and Bible workers. And you’ll be surprised to know that Quiet Hour Ministries has donated over 50 airplanes to mission services over the years. Currently we are raising the final amounts needed for a new Kodiak airplane for New Guinea. No one can image how critical and appreciated this gift can bring to an entire region. And just think, you can be a part of that! Talk about being the wind beneath our wings! You, our friends and supporters make all this happen. And for those of you who have never heard much about us, we’d love to invite you to start be being a prayer warrior for our teams.

Moments or Musicality?

by Amy Wolter www.onstagesuccess.com

There is a mindset that we Live Music Producers have to combat when it comes to educating musicians on the importance of a good live show. It’s basically the belief that they must be musically perfect. Every note correct, every lick and scale stellar, every voice flawless. And so the artist must stand still with correct posture, or sit down, or stare at their instrument to achieve this “perfect” performance.

Well, I have news for these artists. This may be important to a very small percentage of your audience; but for the majority of us, it will be dull to watch and very forgettable. I know, because I’ve seen your concerts.

If I wanted musical perfection, I would have stayed home and played your CD. But when I get to a show, I want to be a part of it! I want to experience a memorable performance. I want to see moments on stage!

I ran across a book that drives this point home, chapter after chapter: “The Show I’ll Never Forget” (Sean Manning). It is a compilation of concert experiences recalled by various writers and music critics. There are recurring themes in many of the experiences. These themes serve to make the point that a live show is about the moments and the experience the audience has, not about perfection.

In one chapter, David Gates writes about hearing bluegrass legend Bill Monroe sing years ago at the Ernest Tubb Record Store in Nashville. He writes, “I heard Bill Monroe with about nothing left of his voice; he sang a fragile, gentle, unbearably sad and sweet ‘Wayfaring Stranger.’ I’ll bet nobody who was there has ever forgotten it either.” He also spoke of hearing Soviet pianist Tatiana Nikolayeva, saying “…even I could tell she flubbed some of the passage work, but it didn’t matter.”

Writing about Led Zeppelin, Diana Ossana says, “I no longer remember the order of the songs, but I vividly remember moments…the slow build and release in ‘Ramble On,’ the complex rise and fall of emotion in ‘What Is and What Should Never Be.’ Everyone stood, then we stood on our seats…afterwards, none of us wanted to go home. We wanted to hold on to the experience of that live music as long as possible.”
Of a show by Redd Kross, Carl Newman recalls, “I didn’t know as I watched Redd Kross that I would chase their cool for years. All that time I watched them I was just so blown away. In the moment. So ‘in the moment’ that I wanted to chase that moment after it ended, figure out the formula for manufacturing that moment.”

Some pretty strong reactions, right? And some of these concerts were being recalled from decades ago! Notice none of the people reliving their experiences goes on about how perfectly the artist played or sang?

When the audience wants to “chase that moment after it ended” or ‘”hold on to the experience of that live music as long as possible,” you know you’ve really connected with the audience!

THAT, my friends, is your goal. Of course, learn to play well and sing well and write well. But work equally hard or harder on creating a live experience that your audience will make an emotional connection with. Trade the sometimes unreachable goal of musical perfection for the attainable goal of memorable performance.

I would love to hear from you. What live show has stuck with you and why? What were the moments that you wanted to hang on to and how did you feel? Can’t wait to hear your stories!

Amy Wolter, Live Music Producer

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