Christmas Program

I have been playing the Christmas song, This is the King: Joseph's Song, at a variety of events this year. These are mostly our choir performances. I played last night at Oak Run Bible Church's Christmas program. I think this was the best I have done it yet. I've been working on looking at the audience as I sing, which has always been hard for me (except with leading children's music). You would think that someone who enjoys public speaking would have no trouble singing for people. After all in "The Music Man" Professor Hill says that "singing is just sustained talking." I've found it much harder than just talking, but I am glad that it is getting easier!

2nd Saturday Art Hop

This past Saturday the Oak Run Community Choir performed to a small audience (mostly our wives children and friends) at Parmer's furniture store in Redding, California. We had a great time singing our carols. Afterward one of our choir played blue grass songs on his banjo with his band mate and two other guest musicians. He asked if I would join them. There was one banjo, three guitars, and one fiddle. I am not a blue grass guitarist, but primarily folk rock. It was a little different rhythmically, but a huge amount of fun. I believe we played for an entire hour. It has been since I lived in San Diego that I have played with a group of musicians such as that. It was a wonderful Christmas treat!

Christmas Song

The Christmas song that I wrote last year has been getting more playing time recently. I joined the Oak Run Community Choir and we have three performances this December. One was earlier today at the firehall bazaar. I am been privileged to share "This is the King: Joseph's Song" at these events.

It's been a while!

Last Christmas I started this blog and now that Christmas is rapidly approaching I thought I should update it! I changed the name to be more general. After all if you have a blog about thankfulness and you don't write anything, it seems rather ungrateful. So, by simply changing the name, I am no longer ungrateful. I do, however, remain a procrastinator and terrible at maintaining things such as this. Let's see how long it takes for me to do this again!