Of the four stages: indie, main, worship, and rock, I will admit to not spending much time at this stage, but I link so that should I need or want to listen to something it will be easily found.

• http://www.myspace.com/heathmcnease
• http://www.joywhitlock.com/
• http://www.esterlyn.com/
• http://www.myspace.com/worthdyingformusic
• http://www.disciplerocks.com/
• http://www.stellarkart.com/
• http://www.hawknelson.com/
• http://www.nailpointmusic.com/
• http://www.agsilver.com/
• http://www.wavorly.com/
• http://www.krystalmeyers.com/
• http://www.fireflightrock.com/ Iamunbreakable.com
• http://www.needtobreathe.net/
• http://www.redmusiconline.com/

Tags: artist, big ticket, christian, music, worship

Of the four stages: indie, main, worship, and rock,the Worship Stage had several well known artists as well as a few new-to-me ones with a focus more on worship than entertaining. I spent a lot of time in this venue.

• http://www.jeremyhornmusic.com/ & http://www.bigticketfestival.com/artists.cfm?artistid=135
• http://www.meredithandrews.com/
• Warren Barfield ~ only songs on big ticket http://www.bigticketfestival.com/artists.cfm?artistid=86
• http://www.brandonheath.net/
• http://www.markharrisonline.com/
• http://www.myspace.com/alisaturner ~ not so much-nope
• http://www.myspace.com/markwhiteband
• http://www.33milesonline.com/
• http://www.ayieshawoods.com/
• http://www.aaronshust.com/

Tags: artist, big ticket, christian, music, worship

Of the four stages: indie, main, worship, and rock,the Big Ticket main stage is home to more widely known artists and winners of the previous year’s indie recognition. Again, this is a bookmark of all the artists from this summer with a short critique of my thoughts. I am not linking them yet, I don’t know how much return traffic to this site I want as a result of a random visit back.

• http://www.myspace.com/everlife ~ good music, talked too much between songs
• http://www.mikefarrismusic.net/ ~ gospel, jazz sound
• http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=7996847
• http://www.leelandonline.com/
• http://www.matthewwest.com/
• http://www.davidcrowderband.com/
• http://www.newsboys.com/
• http://www.myspace.com/andystefanicband
• http://www.redumbrella.net/
• http://www.sevenglory.com/
• http://www.newsongonline.com/
• http://www.barlowgirl.com/
• http://www.kutless.com/
• http://www.tobymac.com/

Tags: artist, big ticket, christian, music, worhsip

So, this year was my first year at Big Ticket and I will admit to not doing my homework before hand. To do over again, I would have spent several days browsing the Big Ticket website and stalking the bands because spur of the moment choosing among the four four stages: indie, main, worship, and rock, proved to be difficult at times, so I wandered back and forth. The big names I know-I’ve heard a fair amount of the ones that were on Main Stage and Worship, but not the other two. Right now it’s a bookmark and critique based on one or more songs from their website. I have a total of four posts, one for each stage. I’ll update them as I listen to more music.

• http://www.myspace.com/breakingthesilenceonline
• http://www.myspace.com/ohioavenue
• http://www.myspace.com/jettyraemusic ~ wishing I hadn’t missed this one
• http://www.myspace.com/alivedownriver ~ actually heard them in person and they have a better studio presence than stage
• http://www.myspace.com/jonathancordero
• http://www.myspace.com/briansmithwebmusic ~ mellow, soft, nice
• http://www.myspace.com/candlefuse ~ each song is so different, but definitely a must
• http://www.thechoirvisible.com/ ~ can’t really tell, only short clips of songs on site
• http://www.myspace.com/redrunsdeep ~ I’d call it rock, not really listening to the lyrics closely, but the beat is catchy
• http://www.myspace.com/reillytheband ~ interesting
• http://www.myspace.com/hailyourhighness ~ varies from song to song-heavy metal no decipherable lyrics to softer

start here with listening:

• http://www.myspace.com/only9am
• http://www.myspace.com/theeffort
• http://www.myspace.com/seabird
• http://www.myspace.com/staynlis
• bird on a wire

Tags: artist, big ticket, christian, music, worship

I was presented with a challenge last night at music rehearsal. We are singing one of the songs performed by the Newsboys, He Reigns. In the ending section of chorus repeats, there are two counter-melodies wandering through the melody. I will admit, I know the verses and chorus and when I listen to my WOW cds, I do it for enjoyment. I can turn off the extra and just hear the melody and harmony, sometimes to the exclusion of interesting extras. During rehearsal, a couple of the other singers took the first counterpoint and I stayed on harmony. I don’t know what I said, but said something smart-alcky and our leader said there were actually two counterpoints. There is the one easily found and there is a part that the gospel choir sings. So I stayed up a little to late last night figuring out the part that I might could sing if I can get my act together. My plan is to practice the song at least twice a day every day until we sing.

Before I set about learning the extra part of the song, I worked out an advertising poster. I’m quite excited to offer my help to the community. I went through several redesigns of the poster, even tried to find the design from the business card, but couldn’t. I put my editing skills to the grind and came up with a poster that coordinates quite nicely with my business cards. I’ve got one ready to hang up and four more on the printer.

I went to bed rather “early” this morning and made for a rather tired trip to GR today. I’ll write about that later.

Tags: challenges, music, poster, songs

I hold no illusions about my speaking ability nor the desires of others to listen to me any more than they have to already. My guess would be most people part company with me and are happy their ears are able to take a break. On truly hyper days, I use up more than a day’s allotment of words in a few hours.

My thoughts on podcasting:

• Some of the knitters I listen to are flighty, they seem perfectly lovely, just very odd.
• I don’t agree with all of the politics espoused
• I appreciate fowl language less and less with time
• There appeared to be a podcast of music to listen to while knitting and is now on permanent hiatus.

I don’t know if that podcast is missed or not, but how fun would it be to create mixes of podsafe music for knitters, with a genre as the title for each episode. I have some extra website space and bandwidth, but it would have to be a trial period thing, I would imagine that most podcasters contract the dreaded podfade due to over commitment of time and not enough resources. I am absolutely loving the music I heard on several podcasts, some of it from magnatune.com, basically a self-publish record label for artists who would like to retain more control over their music and rights. One is able to listen to the music online free of charge and name the price for download, $5 min. I also found a site with mostly instrumental music linked off of a knitting page.

Of this I shall contemplate for a while, suggestions welcomed, collaboration accepted. I’m not silly enough to think I won’t talk a little, but there is little point in rehashing what others are already doing. I refuse to digress into my personal life thinking that others need every medical detail and every personal interaction with everyone I know. It is, however, important for all of you to know that I crave personal interaction and like others to know what’s up and what’s new with them. To that end, I’ve been busy on facebook finding my friends. I don’t know why, but it seems easier than email, is that not truly pathetic, something easier than email.

Tags: knitting, music, podcast