The Sojourn worship band performed modern and classic Christmas carols and songs for Advent last Friday at Louisville’s major holiday festival, Light Up Louisville — a downtown celebration in its 28th year that draws 75,000+ to celebrate together. Sojourn had the crowd singing along to songs from our Advent Songs album, a Bill Mallonee cover, and one song each from Before The Throne and our upcoming CD based on the hymns of Isaac Watts.
You can watch one of our modern Christmas songs now, “Glory Be,” written by Worship Arts Pastor Mike Cosper. In the video you’ll see these band members, playing in the most difficult of circumstances (outdoors at night, in the winter, in the middle of a multi-stage festival with all kinds of other things going on over the course of a few city blocks):
Mike Cosper: Lead guitar. Sometimes appears as a ghostly orb, depending on where he’s standing while jamming on his guitar. This would be due to the combination of very powerful stage lights, night-time darkness, and a palm-sized, personal video camera.
Robert James: bass guitar. Almost never a ghostly orb. Robert is a solid kind of guy.
Brooks Ritter: lead vocals and acoustic guitar. Sometimes a ghostly orb, sometimes a man.
Smitty Smith: drums. Doesn’t matter whether he might have been an orb or not because, as often happens to drummers, he was completely out of camera-position and thus, nowhere to be found on the video.
Rebecca Elliott: harmony vocals. Never a ghostly orb. Always standing in just the right spot. She’s the smart one.
Dave Moisan: keyboard. Always a ghostly orb, in this and every other video from Light Up Louisville that you’ll see between now and Christmas. In fact, his new name may be Dave “The Orb” Moisan. If this video were in any way analogous to Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, Dave could play one of the three spirits.
You can also download this song video from our free podcast, Sojournmusic.com Radio, available at iTunes and other podcast directories. And you can view it from YouTube, where you’re also free to email it or embed it into blogs, Facebook, Myspace — wherever you think people might like to see it.
If you’re a newcomer to this site, you can hear selections from all the songs on Advent Songs, hear four songs in their entirety, and even download the entire album for whatever you’d like to pay (or free, if you recommend it to five friends).
Photo above courtesy of deacon Michael Morgan and his handy iPhone.
