The Sojourn worship band performed original and classic Christmas carols and songs for Advent recently at Light Up Louisville — a holiday celebration drawing thousands to Louisville’s downtown.
Below you can see “O Come, O Come Emmanuel,” which is actually a different version than you’ll hear on our Advent Songs album — we like to keep things fresh. As last Tuesday when I shared the video of our original Christmas song “Glory Be,” let’s run down the cast members of this band, playing outdoors in the winter chill:
- Mike Cosper: electric guitar. Sometimes appears as a ghostly orb, depending on where he’s standing on stage. This is due to the combination of 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 either download this video for free, from our Sojournmusic.com Radio podcast at iTunes and other podcast directories, check it out on YouTube, Facebook or Myspace, or view it below now:
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Lyrics to “O Come O Come Emmanuel”
O come, O come, Emmanuel,
And ransom captive Israel,
That mourns in lonely exile here
Until the Son of God appear.
Refrain
Rejoice! Rejoice!
Emmanuel shall come to thee, O Israel.
O come, Thou Day-spring, come and cheer
Our spirits by Thine advent here;
Disperse the gloomy clouds of night,
And death’s dark shadows put to flight.
Refrain
O come, Thou Key of David, come,
And open wide our heavenly home;
Make safe the way that leads on high,
And close the path to misery.
Refrain
O come, Desire of nations, bind
In one the hearts of all mankind;
Bid Thou our sad divisions cease,
And be Thyself our King of Peace.
Refrain
Chord Sheet For “O Come O Come Emmanuel” Available Through Our Advent Songs Page
Photo above courtesy Alan Vales, taken at Light Up Louisville, Nov. 28, 2008
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