Links for these are at the bottom of this message along with other useful information.
- Additional volunteers needed. Look for an email with volunteer opportunities coming soon.
- To be clear - some activities, like singouts, are in jeopardy without additional volunteers.
- As you make your travel plans, update the forms for rides wanted/needed.
- The deadline for withdrawing from NEHB without paying the balance of your bill is August 1
- Sponsors you have a positive duty to check in with your attendees and help them. Please do so.
- Jeff Forman is our quiet hero for logistics. He'll be reaching out shortly in email with the following:
- You will soon be receiving your rooming form. It is important that you fill it out completely and swiftly.
- Shortly after the rooming form will be additional information on guests etcetera. You will want to fill those associated forms out swiftly as well.
I'm Feelin' Fine
I'm Feelin' Fine is a rollicking gospel tune by Mosie Lister.
Lister was a very experienced composer of gospel music, an experienced quartet singer (albeit not within the barbershop tradition) and eventually a Baptist minister. Lister spent his youth and most of his life (outside of military service) in the heart of Georgia. He was beyond prolific, with well more than 200 songs composed.
The song seems to me to be from an American revivalist gospel tradition.
The American Revival tradition arose in the late 1900s as a means of both cementing faith and bringing in converts, and it is an ongoing tradition today in the Southern Baptist community. Interesting sub-branches include the Northern Chautauqua traditions of the Methodist church.
The song is, of course, about the acceptance of Jesus as one's personal savior (very much in the American Evangelical tradition) after a night of despair and eventually an answered prayer. The answer brings the promise of a heavenly reward. It's a fun tune, and whether you believe or not, you can sing it with joy and verve.
On a personal note - I was raised outside the Christian tradition, and I no longer have even that Jewish faith. For people like me who are basically agnostic/atheist, overtly religious songs can be a challenge, because they ask me to sing with feeling and conviction of a profession of faith that I don't really have. But: let's be honest: I don't know Nora, I'm not a black woman (Blackbird), I'm no singing bear, and so forth.
Good, honest, audience-grabbing performances always require us to bring a bit of our true selves into a song that may not be truly our own. If we are not just singers, but artists - we can enjoy every song and make it matter. For my fellow singers who are in the heart of this Christian faith - this song is for YOU. For the rest of us, this song is for US if we want to make our friends glad. I'm gonna sing like I mean it.
Video Links
Lister was a very experienced composer of gospel music, an experienced quartet singer (albeit not within the barbershop tradition) and eventually a Baptist minister. Lister spent his youth and most of his life (outside of military service) in the heart of Georgia. He was beyond prolific, with well more than 200 songs composed.
The song seems to me to be from an American revivalist gospel tradition.
The American Revival tradition arose in the late 1900s as a means of both cementing faith and bringing in converts, and it is an ongoing tradition today in the Southern Baptist community. Interesting sub-branches include the Northern Chautauqua traditions of the Methodist church.
The song is, of course, about the acceptance of Jesus as one's personal savior (very much in the American Evangelical tradition) after a night of despair and eventually an answered prayer. The answer brings the promise of a heavenly reward. It's a fun tune, and whether you believe or not, you can sing it with joy and verve.
On a personal note - I was raised outside the Christian tradition, and I no longer have even that Jewish faith. For people like me who are basically agnostic/atheist, overtly religious songs can be a challenge, because they ask me to sing with feeling and conviction of a profession of faith that I don't really have. But: let's be honest: I don't know Nora, I'm not a black woman (Blackbird), I'm no singing bear, and so forth.
Good, honest, audience-grabbing performances always require us to bring a bit of our true selves into a song that may not be truly our own. If we are not just singers, but artists - we can enjoy every song and make it matter. For my fellow singers who are in the heart of this Christian faith - this song is for YOU. For the rest of us, this song is for US if we want to make our friends glad. I'm gonna sing like I mean it.
Video Links
- Mosie Lister singing with the Booth Brothers
- The Statler Brothers (you can FEEL the bass)
- Not finding a lot of other video recordings, and NONE of Crossroads - please send some!
Useful Links
- The NEHB Preparedness Blog.
- Critical Information About The Rally
- Run Through Calendar
- Tools for recording yourself
- Map of participants
- If you have to withdraw (before Aug 1, 2018)
- Additional learning tracks available to attendees, order from Music VP Will Johnson
- $15 per part, electronic only
- $17 per part, electronic + CD plus $3 shipping per order
- It's not too late to add the Challenge Song "Victr'y Road".
- Contact Joe Dempsey for more information.
- Travel Assistance (questions to Mark Schuldenfrei)
- If You Need A Ride From The Airport
- If You Need A Ride To The Airport
- If You Can Offer A Ride
- If you are using other transit, send me an email.
- $15 per part, electronic only
- $17 per part, electronic + CD plus $3 shipping per order
- Contact Joe Dempsey for more information.
- If You Need A Ride From The Airport
- If You Need A Ride To The Airport
- If You Can Offer A Ride
- If you are using other transit, send me an email.
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