Singing the weather

It’s a sunny day here in Brisbane, but we’ve had some rain lately. Normally, we don’t have weather… It’s just sunny day after day. Not complaining about the sun, but thankful for the rain.
Anyway, weather is a topic of conversation these days! Which reminded me that in the sixties, the Master Singers set the British [...]

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Ukelele virtuoso

I love watching Spicks and Specks on Wednesday nights! And I was enthralled a couple of Wednesdays ago when Jake Shimabukuro played his ukelele version of While my Guitar Gently Weeps.
Like nearly everything else these days, it’s on YouTube. Listen, smile and weep for all the right reasons…

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Contemplating a Change @ CUCA

 
 
No sermon from me today. Katie Wallis and the band led us in worship, as a wind up for their marathon 15-week, 24-service promotion of Contemplating a Change, the CD that Katie & Matt Green co-wrote. All proceeds are going to Mwandi; that meant approx. $12600 at the start of the morning, and another ~$500 by the [...]

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Contemplating a Change

That’s the name of the 6-track CD put out by Katie Wallis and friends, and what a terrific night we had last night at its launch. It was a family affair—the Wallis family and many from the church family here at Centenary helped to put on a wonderful dinner and clear out the church so [...]

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The Wild Goose—Kate Rusby

Some more from Kate Rusby—this time, The Wild Goose, which is normally sung a little more raucously than the lovely version Kate has here…

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My Young Man—Kate Rusby

It’s a few days after Anzac Day. Without taking anything away from those who suffered and died in wartime—on any side—let’s also remember some ‘ordinary heroes’, like those who lost their health or even their lives in mines for you and me.
My Young Man is sung (beautifully of course) by Kate Rusby to a YouTube [...]

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The Yorkshire Couple—Kate Rusby

Kate Rusby is far and away my favourite folkie. It helps that she has a wonderful voice, and that she’s from South Yorkshire and sounds like it (just like me mam!—it takes me back to my childhood). Oh, and it helps that she’s drop dead gorgeous too! 
 
 
I think I’ll be putting [...]

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