Showing posts with label New Music. Show all posts
Showing posts with label New Music. Show all posts

Christmas Playlist Part 1...Making Christmas Bright

Every party needs a good playlist, wait, no, a great playlist and I think I have one for you.  My tastes in music are about as eclectic as any come so you can be sure there's something for you and everyone on this list.

Click on the song to go to a youtube.com video version. 

We Three Kings (feat. Mary Blinge) by Rob Stewart
Christmas Cookies by G. Love

This is only part one.  I'll have one other list in a week or two.  For now, my life is crazy.  Our production of Christmas at Cathedral is in one week.  It's crunch time, folks!

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Saturday's Song Link Up

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Saturday's Song is a Blog Hop where bloggers who love Christian music share the music that God uses to speak to them! So, turn on your radio, Pandora, Jango, or pop in your favorite CD, and get your post ready for next week's Link Up!!

This goal of this Blog Hop
is to broaden your view of
Christian music using a different
theme/challenge each week.

If you are a blogger who loves Christian music, join us in connecting with other bloggers and sharing our love of Christian music with the blogosphere! Enjoy!!

This week's theme/challenge:
A song off a Christian album you listen to, but you have never heard that song on the radio.



Last week I posted a Christmas song too.  I just heard this song this morning.  I was in tears.

Next week's theme/challenge:
A Christmas song by a Christian Artist
Get your post ready for next week's Link Up!!

Did you fall in love with a song after purchasing the album for a different song? Tell me all about it!



Let's get this Link Up Party started!
We would LOVE it if you linked up with a post about what song did you fall in love with after purchasing the album for a different song.


Saturday's Song Blog Hop Rules:

1. Write a post that follows the weekly theme/challenge.
2. Follow the host and hostesses via GFC.
3. Grab a button to put on your blog - the more the merrier!
4. Check out (and comment) other people's blogs.
5. Be blessed by all the sisters and brothers around the world!






Love music?  Me too.  Here's a few links to a few other music posts. (here, here, here, & here)

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Saturday's Song Week #1

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Saturday's Song is a Blog Hop where bloggers who love Christian music share the music that God uses to speak to them! So, turn on your radio, Pandora, Jango, or pop in your favorite CD, and get your post ready for next week's Link Up!!

This goal of this Blog Hop is to broaden your view of Christian music using a different theme/challenge each week.

If you are a blogger who loves Christian music, join us in connecting with other bloggers and sharing our love of Christian music with the blogosphere! Enjoy!!

This week's theme/challenge:
What song has God used this week to speak to you?

I've been listening to Christmas music since probably June, but I came back across this song this week.  It always stirs my heart.  The words are so powerful and the message is infallible.


Next week's theme/challenge:
A song off a Christian album you listen to, but you have never heard that song on the radio.
Get your post ready for next week's Link Up!!

Do you have a song that God used to speak to you this week? Tell me all about it!

Let's get this Link Up Party started!
We would LOVE it if you linked up with a post about what song God used to speak to you this week.

Saturday's Song Blog Hop Rules:

1. Write a post about what song God has used to speak to you this week.
2. Follow the host and hostesses via GFC.
3. Grab a button to put on your blog - the more the merrier!
4. Check out (and comment) other people's blogs.
5. Be blessed by all the sisters and brothers around the world!



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What I'm Listening To...It's a Journey

Tonight I finished the first episode of season five of Fringe.  If you're not familiar with this Fox series I'll give you some brief highlights.

Fringe is a sci-fi thriller.  After years of being locked away in an asylum  Dr. Walter Bishop is released to the care of his estranged genius son, Peter.  He is release for the sole purpose of ascertaining the reasons for several strange and unexplained world events.  Just as an example, entire buildings and towns disappear.  Why?  No one knows.

Now we're in the fifth season.  You can only imagine the craziness that's happening now.  J.J. Abrams is a genius, but that's really a different topic entirely.

The scene that brought this whole post to my mind occurred when Walter, the doctor, is being tortured by a mind reader, or observer,  for information.  In the background music the viewer hears classical music playing.  The Observer says, "You're trying to think of music?  You miss music....we tolerate it.  But it's merely tones, rhythms, and harmonic vibrations.  I don't understand."

Walter replies to the stall inquisitive Observer, "Mostly [music] amazes me.  Music helps you to shift perspective.  To see things differently if you need to."

"To see things like...hope?"

"Yeah, very much like that."

So...that was a long story, but I loved this scene.  You should watch the show.  It's available on through this link on Hulu.com.

Now, on to what I'm listening to now...the music or audio that gives me hope.

The Daily Audio Bible

I listen to this podcast everyday and I love it.  I can listen to it in the car or when I'm putting my makeup on.  It really helps me to listen or read more of God's Word.  It's available for free download on iTunes.

Josh Garrels

How can I sing Josh's praise...well, kinda.  A new friend of mine recommended this project to me.  I listen to the first note and instantly knew I was in love.  With the music, of course.

Bon Iver
Do you need explanation needed?

Emerging Voices

This project just takes me to the presence of God.  I'm thankful that I work out late at night because I'm sure it'd disturb my neighbors if they saw me running around the block beating the air or tears just running my face.  Maybe they'd be ok with it.  Maybe.

Well, that's pretty much it with the exception of Christmas music and Choral music by Eric Whitecare.  Oh no!...I love him too!  And Fun.'s Some Nights (the clean version).  And then my favorite song ever --Journey's Don't Stop Believing.  What is wrong with me?!?

Music--all kinds of music--just has this way of connecting the emotional dots for me.  Music gives me...hope.

What about you?  What are you listening to?


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Sponsor Spotlight: Clara from Happy in Life, Young in Love



Clara from Happy in Life, Young in Love
I'm so, so happy that Clara is sharing here today.  I have no doubt that you will love this post.  I did.  Make sure you hop on over to her blog and follow along with her.  You won't regret it.


Hey there readers of "All My Love for All My Days"! I am Clara and I blog at Happy in Life, Young in Love. I am beyond excited to be on Danette's blog today! She is so sweet and has been so generous to allow me to ramble on today. This is me and my husband Ryan in this picture! {Don't you just love his bow tie!} I blog about anything and everything from recipes, my faith, our furry child {Sox} and lots more! I do hope you will drop in, but today we are talking all about the essentials: colors, music, and women role models. 

In an effort to let you know what I love and to hopefully introduce you to some new things, I thought I would share my favorite colors, in the form of an outfit, my top music right now, and a woman I greatly admire and why. 

COLORS

Essentials



My all time favorite color is deep purple. I think it is extremely flattering {it is the new black ladies, but much less boring!} and it is fun! It goes great with white in the summer and is really deep and pretty in the winter. Oh and looks good no matter what you hair color, another positive!! 
As far as essentials, I can't live without my Jack Rogers {the shoes} and Longchamp {the purse}. 
I bought both of them 4 years ago and haven't bought new dressy summer shoes or a new purse since!!

MUSIC
If you know me in the least, you will know I love some jams! 
Not on my toast silly, but the kind you dance to, worship to, and bang your head to. 
Yes, I love variety.
I feel like music has the ability to be so many things to us that is why it is so important to me to have different artists for different times.

I thought I would share my top 3 artists on my IPod with you all today. 

#1 Ellie Goulding
English Singer and Song Writer
Genre: Indie Pop
This is my go to music right now. I love her sound which is mostly soft and really unique. 
She sounds English, which makes her different from US Pop artists. You may know her for her radio hit "Lights" but I suggest you listen beyond that song. I promise you will love every song!! 
I did.

#2 Mumford and Sons
British Band
Genre: Folk and Rock 
Mumford and Sons may not be new to some of you, but they are such a great band. They have a sound like no other. I am NOT into rock and I love Mumford and Sons. I think that their lyrics are so meaningful and can really make you think hard!
This is an album to listen to all the way through!

#3 Jesus Culture
Genre: Christian Worship
Once again you may have heard of Jesus Culture, but I don't think I can sing their praise enough. {no pun intended hehe} I find that one of the best ways I can stay connected with my Savior is to constantly stay in worship with him through music. That is why I love Jesus Culture. The lyrics are scriptural and the music is contemporary. 


INSPIRATION 
So now you know a lot about me, but I think that knowing who I admire and desire to be like would truly show you my heart. 

I think that I am most inspired by the story of Esther in the Bible. I am sure you are all familiar with the story of how Esther was chosen to be Queen and went through the 12 month beautification process. But in order to save the Jews, Esther must intercede to the King in order to save her people and she had no idea how he would respond, because she herself has hidden the fact that she was a Jew.

Esther's character is so strong and beautiful that it encourages me in my daily walk. 
Although I am sure I will never encounter the same situations, I can learn from her lessons and apply them to every situation. I want to be a woman of God in every situation from being a wife to being a mother and in my work situation. 


Thank you so much Danette for having me on your awesome blog! 
It is an encouragement to read your posts!








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