I've put up a few of my hymn rewrites on youtube. Cool thing about this is that from time to type other folks and fellow hymn writers like Jason here say hi. Jason's youtube channel is called Bathtub Worship 'cause he records his new rewrites in his bathroom - i guess 'cause it sounds good :) Checkout "This is Power in the Blood" here and then cruise over to his youtube channel by clicking here. Jason and Kristin - you rock my face off! Thanks for sharing.

For those of you who haven't seen the movie Once yet - do it! Here's a link to a great video concert that NPR did with Glen and Marketa of Once fame. Thanks to my buddy Garrett Hope for the heads up.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=111679769

Wanted to share an email I got from my friend and fellow Bodhran player and mixed media artist Janet Strickler the other day around Easter.

Hello Friends, far and near!

This week in my tradition, we celebrated the Feast of Easter.  The whole point of Easter is that suffering and death do not get the last word.  In fact, the phrase "overcame death" will start showing up in the prayers of the church for the next months.

My friend Andy who is in seminary once told me that the Hebrew word for "to play the flute" also means "to defile oneself". Perhaps...

Yep... I'm working on a upgrade to the site so the online hymnal is a mess right now... Check back in a while.

But on another note... After about 2 years planning, our facade renovation is now underway! I'm putting up Day 1 of photos to the gallery so take a look!

This poem by Ralph Erskine is a personal favorite... Mainly because it justifies my love of smoking. Perhaps in the kingdom that is to come we'll all enjoy smoking sans the ill effects.

Smoking Spiritualized

By Ralph Erskine

In Two Parts

The first part being an old meditation upon smoking tobacco; The second, a new addition to it, or improvement of it.

Part 1

Just wrote some new music to the old hymn "More About Jesus" with Scott Lowe of Grace Presbyterian Church in Fort Collins. I've been wanting to put up a list of all the hymns I've rewritten so that I can share them with the world. Click on the music tab and then hymns and you'll see a list of my hymns. I'm kicking it off with this hymn. There you'll find charts and mp3 files. Here's a video example of how I play it (Capo 7).