Casting Crowns Stays On Top

The group called Mercy Me is still on top of the Gospel chart after moving to number four last week, Word of God Speak, from the CD "Spoken For" is sitting pretty at number one. This is a truly moving song. MercyMe has done it again.

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Dove Awards Once Again

The GMA Music Awards will showcase 16 Dove-nominated artists in performances that will range stylistically from rousing soulful gospel to infectious guitar-driven pop to powerful quartet harmonizing to rootsy rock n’ roll to inspiring modern worship, today announced John W. Styll, president of the GMA and executive producer of the 37th annual GMA Music Awards. The gospel music industry’s premier event will be held Wednesday, April 5 at the Grand Ole Opry House in Nashville and will be broadcast in national syndication later in the month.
Confirmed performers for the GMA Music Awards include leading Dove Award nominees Chris Tomlin, Israel & New Breed, Kutless and Third Day. Joining them in performances will be BarlowGirl, Ernie Haase & Signature Sound, Mark Schultz, Martha Munizzi, Natalie Grant, Sawyer Brown and The Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir. Jeremy Camp, David Crowder of David Crowder Band, Casting Crowns’ Mark Hall and Third Day’s Mac Powell will join together for a special acoustic performance. Additionally, Kirk Franklin and Rebecca St. James, who were previously announced as hosts for the 37th Annual GMA Music Awards, will perform during the show.

Tickets can also b obtained via GMA

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Easters Records Live In Easter

Jeff and Sheri Easter are both having a concert in Jamestown, New York on the 13th of April 2006. Tickets are available at iticket.com. Sheri who just gave birth to a bounsing baby girl "Maura" last October, said that she is fit to sing her heart out to fans who have waited in anticipation for her return. The whole Family promise to do their thing the only way they could to bless all during the Easter season. They also promise that New songs would be released and a new CD of the concert would be sold via amazon.com

Shows To Raise Money For Park

BEDFORD - Natasha Johns is determined to have the new playground at Englewood School finished before classes start next fall. She's making calls asking for donations, writing grant applications and watching the mailbox, and her latest effort to raise funds involves a weekend of music.“We really hope families take advantage of this,” Johns said, referring to a rock ‘n' roll show April 7 and a gospel concert on April 8. Both shows will take place in the convention center building on the northwest corner of the downtown square, formerly the Lawrence County Museum.“The kids really love Rusty Bladen and the other groups, but they don't get an opportunity to see them because they usually play in bars,” Johns said.Johns and her group of volunteers orchestrating the event will have concessions on hand, which they are still hoping will be donated from within the community. Already several businesses have offered money, goods and services to help the playground come to fruition. So far, about $30,000 has been collected through donations and grants, which leaves about the same amount left to raise.

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PCD Latest Collections

Covering thirteen years of musical ministry, this two-disc collection from Phillips, Craig & Dean is a virtual soundtrack for vertical worship. The trio are members of the United Pentecostal Church, International and are staff pastors at their local churches: Dan Dean at The Heartland Church in Irving, Texas, Randy Phillips at Promiseland West Church in Austin, Texas, and Shawn Craig at South County Christian Center in St. Louis, Missouri. These leadership roles have accounted for the unpretentious lyrical content of their songs, which seek to strengthen the church with hope and encouragement. History has proven their knack for developing church-ready music to assist the Christian in communicating with the Creator. Together they create crisp harmonies, with music that plays to pop sensibilities intermingled with Gospel influences. Read More

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Churches Try Redeeming Rap

As he takes the stage, wearing baggy jeans, an oversize basketball jersey and a massive gold chain, Sahaan McKelvey could be any rapper, layin' it down for any crowd in any of a dozen concerts happening in Portland that night. But he's not and they're not and it isn't.
McKelvey is a youth pastor. His crowd is 100 teenagers, parents, grandparents and young families, and this is RepChrist, a night of holy hip-hop at Irvington Covenant Church in Northeast Portland.
McKelvey and his backup, a five-piece band, a deejay and background singers, fill the church sanctuary with the unrelenting urgency of hip-hop that has found salvation not in drugs, not in violence, not in the degradation of women, but in the message of Jesus Christ. Here's a sample:
"No condemnation, I'm free, I'm free.
"I dance and sing in liberty.
"I don't care what they say about me,
" 'Cause I have a right to be free."

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The Blind Boys Are Back

Singing songs about going to that spirit in the sky is commonplace for pop gospel group the Blind Boys of Alabama.
But those same songs took on a whole new meaning after the death of member George Scott early last year.
Scott, the Blind Boys baritone, helped co-found the group at the Talladega Institute for the Deaf and Blind in Alabama more than 60 years ago.

Their Latest release "Atomc Bomb" broght back the Old school of the Olddies.

Costello to Headline at JAS June Fest

Elvis Costello and the Imposters, with New Orleans legend Allen Toussaint, will be among the headliners at the Jazz Aspen Snowmass June Festival at Aspen’s Rio Grande Park.The festival bill, announced today, also features Costello’s wife and JAS regular Diana Krall and her quartet. The festival, presented by new title sponsor Calamos Investments, returns to its tent at the park on June 22-25.The festival opens Thursday, June 22 with a special program, “New Voices,” headlined by the Jamie Cullum Trio, led by the English-born vocalist/pianist whose debut album, “Twentysomething,” sold 2 million copies. Opening for him will be Lizz Wright, an emerging star who presents a style that fuses jazz, soul, folk, blues and gospel, according to JAS. Her latest album, “Dreaming Wide Awake,” brings together songs associated with Neil Young, Fats Waller, the Beatles, Madonna and Herb Alpert. Read More

Kirk Turns A New Page

In 1993, a new voice burst onto the gospel music scene.
I sing because I'm happy,I sing because I'm freeThe song, Why We Sing, spent 100 weeks on the Billboard gospel chart and solidified Kirk Franklin's place among the gospel elite. Turns out, while he was writing songs about being free, Franklin was the one who needed freeing. Until six years ago, this chart-topping, Grammy-winning minister of music was a porn addict.

I hope this is a really new page and a lesson for others still in the realm of porn addiction.

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Was God Really On MJ's Side?

kurt Carr yesterday spoke withe me on the phone "Claiming that God was on Michael Jackson's "side" and "protected" him from a conviction on child molestation charges, a prominent gospel artist says, "God obviously has a work for Michael Jackson to do."
Carr says God "truly blocked" jail time for Jackson
Kurt Carr, whose latest album, One Church, debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard gospel chart in March, made the comments in a prepared e-mail statement released through his publicist on June 16, two days after the Jackson verdict in which a California jury found him not guilty on all 10 counts against him.

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Jaci Velasquez Divorced

Less than two years after her 2003 wedding made the news, Christian/Latin music superstar Jaci Velasquez's marriage has ended in divorce.
Velasquez and Indiana native Darren Potuck were married on August 16, 2003, in Franklin, Tennessee. But their marriage later "took a turn," Velasquez told Christian Music Today in an exclusive statement.
"When my husband and I started out as newlyweds, we were like all newlyweds, wanting that dream marriage," Velasquez said. "Somehow, things took a turn and we have ended up in divorce."
Velasquez did not elaborate on the reasons for the divorce.
A Word Records spokesman said Velasquez and Potuck had worked to save their marriage, and Velasquez alluded to that in her statement.

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Anothe Musical Conference

The "I Hear Music In The Air" conference is back for its 5th year on May 19-21st in Cincinnati, OH. The conference is an exciting and multifaceted three-day Gospel music showcase, conference, concert, and gala. This year artists confirmed to appear include Israel & New Breed, Tye Tribett, J Moss, Byron Cage, Martha Munizzi, Vicki Winans, Max Siegel, Vicki Mack Lataillade, Bobby Jones and others.

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Gospel Singers And Gays

Gospel singerpersonal experience that God offers an exit for people who don't want to be gay.
The Grammy Award-winning singer, who pastors a church in New York, told Religion and Ethics Newsweekly that after being molested as a boy his "desires were toward men."
But he said, "God gave me the wherewithal to get out of that and find out who I really am."
"That's how the change took place, the different scriptures in the Bible, his will being shown through the scriptures," McClurkin said. "God walked me through it."
McClurkin said that he tells others "who are looking for that exit" that God can "do it for them."

So my fellow readers, with this you can tear the kingdom down by being an example to unbelievers and gays.

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Dave Koz And kirk Whalum

Dave Koz, a leading artist in the smooth jazz genre, is coming to Japan this spring, playing his sexy saxophone music in a show with Rendezvous All-Stars featuring Kirk Whalum and Brian Simpson.
Ever since Koz released his self-titled debut album in 1990, the California musician has beguiled fans with a combination of pop, jazz, R&B, funk, African folk and more in his eight discs, including two gold albums: 1993's "Lucky Man" and 1999's "The Dance." His latest CD, "Saxophonic," was released in 2003. Read More

Johnny Cash biopics

Johnny and June return just in time for their big night at the Academy Awards. Joaquin Phoenix as country legend Johnny Cash and Reese Witherspoon as his one true love, June Carter, earned Oscar nominations for director James Mangold's portrait of Cash's roots, his early musical success, his drug battle and the long courtship he shared with Carter. The film comes in a single-disc or two-disc edition, both with 10 deleted scenes, accompanied by commentary from Mangold. The two-disc set also has three extended song performances by Phoenix and Witherspoon, plus featurettes on Cash's career, his romance with Carter and the making of the film. Also new to DVD is "The Gospel Road," Cash and Carter's 1973 musical testament to Jesus Christ. "Walk the Line" two-disc set, $39.98, single DVD, $29.98; "The Gospel Road" DVD, $19.98. (20th Century Fox) Read More

Get Your All-Stars Concert Cds

On February 17th in Houston, TX at The Fountain of Praise at 8pm, the All-Star Gospel event will present an exuberant, contemporary concert featuring performers such as Israel & New Breed, J Moss, Micah Stampley, Dave Hollister plus a special guest. Celebrating music without borders, All-Star Gospel will gather music’s closest cousins – Gospel & Christian - to weave together a fun, music-filled night of the best of both genres. Tickets are $25 (general admission) & $30 (VIP) and are now available at Fountain of Praise, local record and book stores and by registering at http://www.allstar-gospel.com/.

Kirk Tours with Mary Mary

Grammy-Award Winning Duo Mary Mary Featured on Nationwide Tour to Support Gospel Mogul’s Latest Gold Certified CD “Hero” and Will Honor Hometown Heroes
Fo Yo Soul Entertainment/Zomba recording artist Kirk Franklin will embark on a national tour in support of his latest CD Hero, kicking off February 28 in Cleveland and continuing throughout the summer with stops in Los Angeles, New York City, Atlanta, Las Vegas, Chicago, Detroit and Washington, DC among others. Kirk, the biggest selling gospel artist in the SoundScan era, is well-known for his dynamic and energetic performances, which have included two hugely successful “Hopeville Tours” in the past few years. On the new tour, the gospel dynamo will perform selections from his sixth CD Hero, which debuted in the #1 position on two Billboard Magazine charts -- Top Gospel Album and Top Christian Albums – and continues to maintain the top positions respectively. In the spirit of the CD’s title, Franklin also plans to celebrate and honor “hometown heroes” in each market. Fellow Grammy Award-winning, platinum-selling gospel duo Mary Mary will be joining Franklin on the tour. read more

Hezekiah Gay Affair Story False

The people of musicnewsweekly.com deeply apologized to the family, friends, congregation and Pastor Hezekiah Walker, for allowing themselves to be pawns of a totally false story that was confirmed by mediatakeout.com. As the founder, I am deeply hurt of the lack of integrity and respect. I have allowed to come through Music News Weekly against Pastor Walker. I was given the opportunity to discuss this matter directly with Pastor Walker and offer my sincere apologies for allowing such a terrible thing to take place. Read More If an America media can make such a blunder, i wonder what our fellow Nigerians would do to our pastors. This man just won a grammy and few medias commented on his performance but if for a gay story the whole world would hear in a flash. we need to grow up.

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