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You Have To See These Photos To Believe Them – Sojourn Music Folks & Others At Interstates Christmas Show

Many Sojourn worship leaders and musicians actively participate in the Louisville music scene, and several tour nationally as part of various bands. Last Saturday at The 930 Art Center, home of Sojourn’s Midtown Campus, we hosted a “Ding Dong Dandy Christmas” spectacular headlined by the progressive post-rock band Interstates.  All members of this band are Sojourners as well.  And one of the other acts in this concert also has Sojourn Music connections — the Yuletide Carrols are a female trio made up of singers who also lead worship at Sojourn Gathered on Sundays. Take this photo tour of the event, …« Read Entire Post

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Advent 2010 Edition: Psalms, Hymns and Spiritual Songs

Welcome to sojournmusic.com’s weekly worship music set list review.  This set list is from our first Sunday of Advent, 2010. And if you missed it last week, this is the final day of our “Black Friday/Cyber Monday CD sale.”  You can get all four Sojourn worship CDs, including Advent Songs, for $20 plus $6 shipping. You can find links to the set lists of this church and many other churches each week in the Worship Blog Carnival at theworshipcommunity.com. And you can learn about some of the songs we sing at Sojourn Gathered each week in advance of the Sunday service …« Read Entire Post

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Psalms, Hymns & Spiritual Songs with Keith & Kristyn Getty, and Sojourn

This set list is one of many that you can find at the worship music set list blog carnival at fredmckinnon.com, featuring many different kinds of churches. You can learn about some of the songs we sing at Sojourn Gathered each week in advance of the Sunday service by reading my “Getting Ready For Sunday” post each Friday at Sojourn’s online journal, TravelBlog. Photos this week by Dan Canales. For this second Sunday of Advent, Keith and Kristyn Getty led worship during the 5pm and 7pm services at our Germantown campus.  They led from their own extensive catalog of compelling modern hymns.  …« Read Entire Post

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Free Christmas Music Video: "O Come, O Come Emmanuel" by Sojourn, From "Light Up Louisville" Downtown Holiday Festival

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 …« Read Entire Post

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New "Joy To The World" Melody Lets The Text Speak — Hear For Yourself

Last week I wrote the article “Is Joy to the World Only A Christmas Song?  Is it wrong for Advent?” and promised that Sojourn worship leader Jamie Barnes would share more thoughts on the song with you.  Jamie wrote a brand new melody for Isaac Watts’ classic, and recorded it on our Advent Songs album. In this post, he talks about his reason for composing a new melody, shares his original demo for you to hear, and talks about changes made to the original arrangement during the recording of Advent Songs : Below, you can hear the rough draft of …« Read Entire Post

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