If you’re looking for a new Christmas song — or if you’ve already got our Advent Songs album and enjoy “Hosanna in the Highest” — check out this video performance by the Sojourn band from the recent Light Up Louisville outdoor festival. Before the song begins you’ll hear about three second of, according to keyboardist Dave Moisan, “the square dance portion” of the set. Two things about that:
- there was actually no square dance portion. Just original and classic Christmas carols. But next time, maybe.
- Dave appears as an orb of light in the video because it comes from a little palm-sized recorder that couldn’t handle the big stage lights. You can’t see him but he’s one fine lookin’ dude. You can see the others though, and they don’t look so bad either.
Sojourn’s Jeremy Quillo wrote “Hosanna in the Highest.” Check out his “story behind the song.” You can also download this video from our free podcast, Sojournmusic.com Radio, available on iTunes and other podcast directories.
Watch videos of Sojourn performing “O Come, O Come Emmanuel” and another of our original Christmas songs, “Glory Be.”
You can also watch all these videos from our Facebook page or from my personal YouTube account.
“Hosanna In The Highest”
Bright the stars o’er Bethlehem
Shining in the darkest night
Guide the hearts of mortal men
Leading them to lasting light.
Hosanna, Hosanna in the highest, In the highest.
Come to where the manger lay
Mary with her child asleep
List’ning to the angels say
“Here is born the glorious King!”
Hear the shepherds with one voice
“Hail! The king of Israel!”
Tell the people to rejoice
“Christ the Lord, Emmanuel”
Hosanna, Hosanna in the highest, In the highest.
photo above courtesy of Alan Vales: Dave Moisan playing keyboard for the band at Light Up Louisville
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