Music at the heart of worship and retirement!

      Psalm 96:1 Sing  to the LORD a  new song ;  sing  to the LORD, all the earth.  Sing  to the LORD, praise his name; proclaim his salvation day after day. Declare his glory among the nations, his marvelous deeds among all peoples. It is quite clear from the beginning of this psalm that we were given an ability to sing, not just for the great feeling it can give you when you sing with others or when you sing alone!  The blessing of singing doesn't only happen when we sing 'a happy tune'.  It is much more than that, singing has always been and will always be part of our worship offering to God and we in return receive His blessing.  So in these difficult times, I was interested to read on the BBC news website that the government were about to do some research in the risks of singing together, and it was to be done initially in a synagogue.  When I read the report I have to admit to have rather been taken aback, but ...

My collection...... (from left to right) Ovation 6 string electro acoustic; Art & Lutherie 12 string; Michael Kelly Les Paul style 6 string electric; Takamini 6 string electro/accoustic  (2020 addition); Ashbury Bouzouki; Ebury Mandolin; Electric bass  (2020 addition) Each instrument has been used on at least one recording and they have been used for  particular reasons. However, three of the guitars are particularly special to me. Their stories follow.... The aging ovation. I must have owned this guitar for over thirty years.  It is a good guitar but I always found it difficult to tune and it is only now that I have modern electronic tuners in various bits of tech that I can now use it a bit more.  Because of the tuning problem I never progressed in playing, as most of my time was spent struggling to tune the guitar. However, with a bit of patience it was used many times in different churches and it was played very nervously, as my skills as a guitarist had...

        Welcome to my new blog!  A project to help people find my demos...    Over the last few months I have become aware that Facebook isn't the best place to share my music demos. It is quite clear that the demos aren't seen by many people and it really is only be sending them out individually on Messenger, that people know they exist and then listen to them.  Having said that, I am pleased that already this year the demos have been listened to for 3.5 hours longer than the whole of last year.  To try and make it easier for folk to know about the demo's I have decided to create a blog that will be devoted entirely to them.  I will continue to place them on Facebook occasionally, but here will be the main sharing of demos that are placed on You Tube.      Below is the latest worship demo that I have put together, there is another one on it's way and I look forward to sharing it here as a blog and on Facebook. 2020 has be...