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Date: Sunday, November 3
Location: Orlando, Florida
Setting: First Baptist Church, Orlando
Occasion: FBC-O Free Gospel Concert event
Average age guesstimate: 58
Opening act: mercifully, none, but while I killed time before the show, I found this wonderful note scrawled in child’s script inside the Praise! Our Songs and Hymns book in the book rack: “OZZIE: Where is my gameboy? […]
While we’re on the subject of personnel changes, the last week or so has brought with it some muted but slowly building talk that Rodney Griffin is laying the groundwork to leave Greater Vision. Not so, says Gerald Wolfe, in a reply to an email I sent asking him about the situation. Griffin’s house is […]
In my extended hiatus, I missed the opportunity to mention that last month, Gerald Wolfe marked 25 years in gospel music. I don’t usually make habit of mentioning these kinds of things, if only because it can […]
So I hear that Daywind (home to the likes of Greater Vision, Legacy 5, and Brian Free & Assurance among others) is having its sales people push a handful of praise and worship (P&W) titles from England, […]
My review of Greater Vision’s Faces is now up, at long long long long last. I had every good intention of posting it before I saw them at a Real Evangelism conference this evening. But, […]
Location: Arnold, Mo.
Setting: First Baptist Church; large but informal
Occasion: Real Evangelism Conference
Average age guesstimate: 57
Opening act: local choir (despite some infelecities, choir gets more sustained applause than GV)
Attendance: ca 500-600
Cost: whatever you […]
I don’t have a lot to add to the discussion about the Dove awards over at sogo. Good to see so many sg nominations in different categories, especially […]
Back in the fall, I mounted a pretty vigorous defense of Gerald Wolfe’s decision to trot out “O Holy Night” at NQC. I argued that if you’re a baritone who can sing a full-voice A-flat in […]
