Hello,
I am writing to you from somewhere in the middle of somewhere. It’s mid-morning on Easter Saturday. Half way between the time when the sun refused to shine and when the Son will rise again. This feeling of being somewhere in the middle of somewhere, this Easter Saturday-ness is a place I’ve been found in often these days. It seems that tomorrow can’t come soon enough. As often happens a song from my youth comes to mind (August of 1986 to be specific... I was twelve): “Oh, we’re half way there; oh, livin’ on a prayer...”
I know that there is work to do here, today, but I am eager for tomorrow. Some of the work coming today will be really fun: I’m scoring a four part vocal arrangement of a song for worship services at Trinity Lutheran Church in Eau Claire, WI. Some of the work is boring and a bit tedious: doing the dishes. Part of me is really looking forward to the day (dishes and all), and another part just wants to forget about the dishes and watch the “Fringe”. Where do you find yourself today? Are you feeling, like me, that we are, together, this whole world on the verge of something big? I mean, life changing, Easter-y, kinda big! “...take my hand, we’ll make it I swear. Oh, livin’ on a praye r.”
Well, thanks for listening to me wax a bit nostalgic in that opening. Aimee and I are well. The trees are starting to bud around our Minneapolis home. It’s been in the 70’s this week so we grilled out four times. We had a meal with each of our neighbors and enjoyed the kind of conversation that comes with an open sky and warm air.
April has us leading worship music in Eau Claire, WI and Webster Groves, MO and May is bringing with it house concerts in South Dakota and more worship music around the Minneapolis area. We still have a few open spaces between now and when our summer tour takes off in June. Let me know if you’d like us to come and share some music in your community this spring.
The big news I want to share with you is that we’ve started to work on our next recordings! We will be cataloging the recording process in a more intentional way this time around and will be creating some video diaries of the songs as they come into being. We’ve already posted the first introductory video, and will post the first song video in the next day or so. We are utilizing a service called kickstarter.com to help us raise the funds for these new recordings and place these videos online. Our goal is to put a new video journal online every couple days throughout April. Here’s the address at which you’ll be able to find all of the new video journals: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1103349008/new-music-for-worship-by-tangled-blue
Making plans about how these new songs will be recorded, has made us also look back on how we got here. For eight years you have supported us with your encouraging words, and with more than words, sustained our livelihood by purchasing our music for your own collections and inviting us into your communities to perform our “folk and roll” blend of caffeinated hymnody. Thank you! We are, once again, as always, going to need your help to make Tangled Blue - version 2.0 happen. We have four distinct recording projects in the works, and a goal of releasing at least two of them in the next 20 months. This is a huge (never before achieved by us kinda) goal. We’ve never been able to complete a recording project in less than two years, but I’m confident that with your help we can get these new recordings out with both quality and speed. All of the details are on the kickstarter.com page I posted above, but there’s one detail I want to especially mention. Our kickstarter.com page has tools set up to easily send info. to your facebook page or send an email to your friends with a link back to us. If you and your friends are moved by the songs we are posting on kickstarter, I am confident we will be able to meet our goals.
Thanks for walking with us. We are looking forward to the conversations these new songs will bring. We hope to see you soon!
Under the Mercy,
Joel
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1103349008/ new-music-for-worship-by-tangled-blue
PS - Upcoming Tangled Blue Performances and Open Dates can be found at tangledblue.com
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