Day 128-- 2007 Festival of Faith and Music
Thursday, January 11, 2007
May I draw your attention to this (and wikied here). Like their now-famous biennial Festival of Faith and Writing, Calvin College began their Festival of Faith and Music humbly, a combination of workshops, concerts and downtime focused on the Christian faith, culture and music. It grows each year.
I attended the past two in 2005 and 2003; I saw some great live performances, sure (Jan Krist, David Bazan, Sufjan Stevens, Half-Handed Cloud, Sarah Masen, Over the Rhine, Bill Mallonee, Pierce Pettis, Greg Brown, Don Peris, Denison Witmer, Daniel Smith, and the incomparable David Eugene Edwards), but I also heard some wonderful speakers (Steve Stockman, David Dark), made some life-long friends, and talked to countless people that sought to glorify God and His risen son with creative, challenging popular music and music critique/study.
The memories stick too, more than most--eating continental breakfast with Andy Whitman and his wife, talking about power pop; running into two old friends that I hadn't seen since my sophomore year of college; watching Joy Morton giggling and wave her hands because she got to sit next to Denison Witmer in a van on the way to a restaurant, Scott Calgaro telling me she had "rock star fever" (Denison just laughed hysterically); me, Scott, Josh Jackson and Nick Purdy visiting Powell's Books in Grand Rapids and making sure their "PASTE recommends" stand was filled, only to watch the employee stare gape-mouthed at the magazine's editors; Scott, Matt Fink and I in a hotel room, discussing the mixed evangelical reaction to the pope's death; Scott telling David Bazan he needed to "stop reading Chomsky, dude"; pulling over Scott's car at a gas station as we drove back to PA, falling asleep, and awaking with 4 inches of snow all over the ground. These memories last.
The 2007 line-up is being finalized. See you there.
posted, with grace and poise, by Jason @ 1/11/2007 11:37:00 PM,
2 Comments:
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At 11:56 AM,
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Hey i'm thinking of going this year. planning on it, if i can get some students to come with me. hope to see you there fo shizzel
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At 11:56 AM,
said...
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Hey i'm thinking of going this year. planning on it, if i can get some students to come with me. hope to see you there fo shizzel
