Music
Hearts Reach Hearts: Gospel Great Yolanda Adams
There’s a touch of the past that peeks through five-time Grammy Award winning Yolanda Adams’ voice, posture and passion when she’s on stage. Best known as the contemporary gospel artist who merged the genre with R&B and jazz, she’s a picture of her father’s love for B.B. King, Miles Davis and Charlie Pride. Adam’s says …
Launch of Biblical Based Spiritual Insight Radio Show
Special Feature Birmingham’s new WXJC/101.1 FM recently launched “The Chris Danielson Show,” focused on providing local content from a “Real Common Sense, Real Bible Insights” perspective. We caught up with host Chris Danielson to learn more. Q. Chris, what can listeners expect to hear on your show in 2019? A. It’s a show that is …
Vulcan Park & Museum Lights Up the Holidays!
Looking for a great way to celebrate the Christmas season with the family? Visit Vulcan Park and Museum for the Magic of Lights: Vulcan’s Holiday Light Experience, December 12-23 from 5 -9 p.m. At the top of each hour, beginning at 5 p.m., guests will enjoy a 15-minute lively array of dancing lights projected on …
Local Youth Choirs Showcase Talent
Music Notes Choirs from seven area schools performed at the recent 22nd Annual R.E.S.P.E.C.T. Benefit Concert at Birmingham’s More Than Conquerors Faith Church. R.E.S.P.E.C.T. (Respect Every Single Person Ever Created Today) featured choirs from W.J. Christian K-8 School, Hudson K-8 School, Pinson Valley High School, Ramsay High School, Jackson Olin High School, A.H. Parker High …
Celebrating a Colonial Christmas
Christmas celebrations in the American colonies were very different than they are today. You would not have found piles of wrapped gifts under Christmas trees, stockings hung with care on mantels, or televisions playing reruns of It’s a Wonderful Life. But many things were the same. Christmas was an important religious holiday in George Washington’s …
Social Success Grounded in Faith
Jermaine “FunnyMaine” Johnson: Logging nearly one million viewers on social media every week, Jermaine “FunnyMaine” Johnson is best known in Alabama for his college-football YouTube series “How Bama Fans Watched.” The Birmingham, Ala.-based viral video personality and stand-up comedian is also a blogger, a graphic designer and an afternoon co-host on 97.7 JAMZ. In all …
Take a Trip to Colonial America this Christmas Season
Are We There Yet? Just a short ride from Birmingham, you can experience a Colonial Christmas. That’s right- have a delightful luncheon with hostess Abigail Adams. Sing familiar Christmas carols in an early American Chapel. Visit the President’s House. Share a Christmas homecoming with George and Martha Washington and attend a Colonial Christmas party. It’s …
What Will Wake Me Up?
Music Notes When you find yourself staring death in the face, something special happens. I shifted in my chair as I felt the tired and calloused hands from years behind a piano. I turned around to see CDs filled with hymns and gospel music stacked next to the CD player in my grandmother’s room. Ironically, …
Samford University Offers Online Certificate in Worship Leadership
Special Feature Samford University’s Center for Worship and the Arts will launch its third-annual Online Certificate in Worship Leadership August 2018. Created in partnership with Samford University’s Ministry Training Institute, this certificate offers an introduction to the basic principles and practices of worship leadership. Each course presents vital worship leadership practices as well as the …
