If you live in the Louisville, KY area and are looking for something to do this weekend, consider attending the Sanctuary Series Inaugural Concert at Christ Church United Methodist on Sunday, August 30 at 7:00 p.m. My church choir, St. John United Methodist (look at the picture of our choir with Jimmy Carter–that’s me in the front row with baby Simon), is traveling this weekend to sing with the Christ Church Chancel Choir (take a look at their organ–it’s beautiful).
It’ll be my first time in Louisville! We’ll arrive Friday night, tour Churchill Downs on Saturday, and the concert is Sunday. See more concert details here. We are also going to sing during the service Sunday morning. I just might have a solo to bless everyone with…
I hope to see you there!
If you do miss this concert or don’t live in the Louisville area, this concert will be rebroadcast on WUOL 90.5. I’ll be sure to post the link when it’s live!
One of Jamie’s coworkers got a new computer for graduation this year, so she gave us her old iBook. I’ve been having fun learning how to use it and I think that my PC is enjoying a much needed break. We’ll be enjoying the luxury of wireless internet once we get a hold of an AirPort card. For the time being, I’m snuggled up in the corner of the living room on a couple beanbags.
I was a responsible adult today; I actually did things on my To-Do List and I feel accomplished. Of course, none of those things involved cleaning the house or doing laundry (two things that most desperately need to be done).
As the Jimmy Carter trip approaches, I am getting more and more excited. Even more so now because I found out that I get to sing my infamous “Old Time Religion” solo! My choir director could not make a decision about the two anthems we were to sing so she called up the preacher down in Plains. He had listened to a couple of our choir CD’s and said that he wanted to hear “Old Time Religion” because he “had never heard anyone sing that high.” If you’re familiar with the piece, it’s the Moses Hogan arrangement.
That anthem means so much to me in so many ways. First, I had the solo when I was in the choir at ASU. We performed the piece several times while I was there. Second, my choir director at church has had us sing it for a lot of concerts and it’s on our “Old Time Religion” CD. Third, Jamie’s dad had a copy of that CD and made everyone he knew listen to my solo. And I mean EVERYONE. It was all anyone could talk about when we were keeping vigil in the ICU. Then at his funeral, I was asked to sing that solo and I organized a makeshift choir with my ASU choir director and people from the church. To this day, I’m still not sure how I made it through that song.
So now I get to add Jimmy Carter to reasons why I like singing “Old Time Religion”. Yippee!
