To celebrate Easter Day, I have chosen to bring you one of my favourite Easter Hymns, even though it is not one that will be regularly sung on this day. I hope it proves a suitable background to your celebrations of Jesus being Alive! “Now The Green Blake Rises” John MacLeod Campbell (J.M.C.) Crum (1872-1958) […]
I Will Wait
The Saturday between the tragic events of Good Friday and the miracle of Easter Sunday has always been marked by the Christian church as a period of waiting. Obviously for the disciples, they thought that all their hopes had ended, even though Jesus had promised to return. So today our music selection reflects that sense […]
O Sacred Head, Now Wounded
In honour of it being Good Friday I am pausing the current series to bring you an ancient hymn which I have always found to be very moving at this time of year, although I must say it seems to have fallen out of favour these days and I have found it less frequently sung […]
Rome
Moving on again, this time from the Austrian capital Vienna to the Italian capital Rome. Rome’s history spans 28 centuries. While Roman mythology dates the founding of Rome at around 753 BC, the site has been inhabited for much longer, making it a major human settlement for almost three millennia and one of the oldest […]
Vienna
Moving on from Berlin in Germany we find ourselves in Vienna the capital of Austria. It is known as the ‘City of Music’due to its musical legacy, as many famous classical musicians such as Beethoven and Mozart called Vienna home. Vienna is also said to be the “City of Dreams” because it was home to […]
Amsterdam
Today we begin a new series – ‘Songs About Places’. Songwriters have frequently been inspired by their hometown or places that they have visited to capture them in words and music. So, we will follow in their footsteps on a journey that will no doubt take us around the world to discover the best songs […]
April 2
A second trawl through the songs inspired by the month of April. “Pieces of April” is a ballad written by Dave Loggins which became a Top 20 hit for Three Dog Night in January 1973. First recorded by Loggins himself for his 1972 debut album Personal Belongings, “Pieces of April” was recorded for the 1972 […]
April Songs 1
April is the fourth month of the year in the Gregorian and Julian calendars. It is the first of four months to have a length of 30 days, and the second of five months to have a length of less than 31 days. April is commonly associated with the season of spring in the Northern […]