Cool Off with a Rehearsal Video for the Choir

I haven't figured out how to just put an audio file here on blogger. I don't think you can. So I made a slide show/video so I could add a song to it for the choir. Some of them wanted to sing through the song one more time before Sunday morning. Since it has been so hot this summer (although today ended up rather pleasant) I made the slide shows from pictures I took last January.

I hope it cools you off a little and maybe hearing this beautiful song will inspire some of you to join us in singing each Sunday. We have a wonderful time in rehearsal each Wednesday evening and then get to sing beautiful songs each Sunday morning.

Enjoy! (The other music for Sunday morning includes "Let the Worshipper Arise" and "Jesus Messiah." There are others but I don't remember them at the moment.)

Hallelujah to the King!

Since we didn't get to have choir rehearsal this week you all need to sing along with this a few times between now and Sunday. This is what we are singing Sunday!

See you then!

Oh! And practice smiling and moving and gettin' excited! That's not our strong point.


This is our choir singing this song a year ago.
If you don't go to Hilldale and you like this song you can order it from Word music and your choir can sing it too.

B-3 - Very Important!

Whoever knew there were so many B3's that are important things in life.

There's the B-3 Bomber. Wow! Looks like a space ship and does really cool secret things that I can't tell you about. (I'm assuming you don't have the security clearance...)

Then of course vitamin B3 a.k.a. Niacin. Apparently (as seen in this picture) it's very important.

But one of my favorite B3's is the Hammond B3.

On it's 50th birthday (2005) The British Broadcasting Corporation said this, "The Hammond Organ is Alive & Kicking....there's just no substitute for the real Thing!"

http://www.hammond-organ.com/Products/B3.htm

It has a very cool, distinct sound with it's draw bars, rotating Leslie.

Wikipedia says this, "While the Hammond organ was originally sold to churches as a lower-cost alternative to the pipe organ, it became the de facto standard for jazz, blues, and rock music (in the 1960s and 1970s) and gospel music. "

Several of our new choir songs have a B3 in the accompaniment. They sound great when we sing thrm by the way. We'll work on trying to duplicate that wounderful B3 sound on the keyboards we have.

I can just see that wild gospel look in Mrs. Church's eyes as she does a glissando...