9 posts tagged “music”
Hi, friends!
THAT HOLY NIGHT ON SALE NOW!
My new Christmas CD will continue to be on sale through Christmas. Visit
http://amy.dualravens.com
RADIO INTERVIEW SATURDAY NIGHT: LISTEN ONLINE
I'm
going to be interviewed live on Rockin' Ron's radio station on
Saturday, December 20th at 10pm Central Time (that's 8pm for West
Coasters!). You can listen through the website at
http://www.bethelks.edu/KBCU/
TOP 20 and POWERPRAISE
My song "Joy to the World" has the honor of being featured in two places this month, the Top 20 Indieheaven Christmas Songs:
http://www.indieheaven.com/top20
AND
the latest edition of PowerPraise Radio:
http://www.indieheaven.com/powerpraiseradio
THE EVE OF CHRISTMAS EVE
Portland
area friends are invited to attend Two Rivers Church's Annual Eve of
Christmas Eve service on Tuesday, December 23rd, at 7pm. This special
service will feature skits & songs by yours truly :).
For details, visit
http://www.tworiverschurch.net/
Merry Christmas to you all!
:) Amy
Hello again, friends!
THAT HOLY NIGHT ON SALE NOW!!
I hope that you enjoyed your Thanksgivings :)! For those of you now ready to dive head first into the Christmas season and need a soundtrack to go with it, my new Christmas CD is now available for purchase through Indieheaven: www.indieheaven.com/artists/amygustafson
And for those of you cursing the radio stations for playing Christmas music already, well...it'll be available there all month long :).
VOTE FOR "JOY TO THE WORLD"
I
got the happy news this morning that my single "Joy To The World" was
selected to be on Indieheaven's Top 20 Chart for the month of
December. You can help me out by rating the song (1 to 5 stars): www.indieheaven.com/top20
SPREAD THE WORD!!!
If
you've already got your copy of the CD (thank you!), or if you've listened online
& like what you hear, could you donate a few minutes to my ministry
and let others know about this project? Without a record label backing
us, we indie musicians rely heavily on word of mouth, and in my case, that means words from your mouths :)...or emails...or, you know, sandwich boards on your street corners...heh heh heh...
Thanks so much for your continued support!
Grace & peace to you--
Amy
Dear friends,
I hope you all are enjoying your summer, wherever you may be! It's been a long while since I've written an update letter, but big things are afoot, and it's high time I let you know.
Musical News
As
opposed to my 2007, most of my 2008 has been spent off the stage &
out of the coffeehouse, but that's largely because the next project has
been brewing. I'm heading back to the studio in August to begin
recording my next CD: That Holy Night (A Christmas EP) which you will be hearing about more & more in weeks to come. GOD has given me the incredible opportunity to work with Jordan Richter,
a producer in the Portland area who's spent time in Nashville and
worked with many recognizable names in music. I'm so excited about all
that I will learn from the experience, as well as the quality of the
finished product! Stay tuned...:)
Magical News
For
those who haven't already heard, I'm engaged to be married to Patrick
Oden! It seems that I have somehow managed to snag the most wonderful
man on earth (I always suspected he was out there somewhere...;) ) and
we're planning a January 3, 2009, wedding. He's starting a PhD program
at Fuller Theological Seminary in the fall, which means I'll be moving
to Pasadena, CA, after the wedding. The wedding, however, will be in
Canby, OR, and we look forward to seeing many of you there! :)
Check out our newly-posted-and-still-being-created wedding website for answers to the inevitable questions. Thank you to all who've already expressed your congratulations & support!
with much love, 
Amy
...I've been nominated this year for Indieheaven's Momentum Awards! Vote now by clicking on the banner below!
Many of you are already voting for Mindy Boyd, as you well should be. But if you left any categories that I could be voted for in that won't clash with your vote for her, please feel free to support my cause :).
Female Vocalist of the Year
Acoustic Artist of the Year
Contemporary Artist of the Year
Album of the Year: "Live In The Tension"
Song of the Year: "Toward the Light"
I joked in an email earlier this week to friends & family that I was really hoping to take home the Male Vocalist of the Year award. My clever friend Jane wrote back and asked, "Just to clarify, were you wanting the Male Vocalist of the Year award or just the Male Vocalist?"
I'm still laughing about that one...
Why, I haven't even mentioned my trip to California.
Oh, it was so great. SO great. I think I haven't mentioned it because I'm still there in my head.
I'll write more when I come back.
But here's a couple photos from my coffeehouse gig at Steamers in Sierra Madre for the folks back home.
Hello, dear friends!
It's been an awfully long time since I've sent out an email like this! Well, after such a full summer, I kinda took the Fall off to rest & pray & write, which has been an invaluable time for me.
CALIFORNIA-BOUND
But now I'm venturing back out to the coffeehouse again :)...this week I've got my first ever gig in California!! If you're down there, or you know anyone down there, I'm playing at Steamers in Sierra Madre, CA,
on Friday, Nov. 30, from 7 to 9 pm or so. If neither of those
conditions applies to you, you can kindly being praying from afar :).
I'm also helping with the worship service at Altadena Baptist Church in Altadena, CA on Sunday, Dec. 1st, at 11 a.m., which will be the first time I've done anything musical with my cousins Sarah & Bill, and I'm very excited to do so!
SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL ARTISTS
Anyone
looking for Christmas gift ideas? Drawing from the minds, hearts,
& talents of some incredible people I know, I have a few
recommendations, some of my favorite things from 2007:
It's A Dance: Moving With The Holy Spirit
by Patrick Oden
Written
by a friend & fellow Wheaton graduate (and a very talented writer),
this book--through the narrative of a conversation in a pub between a
pastor & a journalist--sheds a great deal of light on who the Holy
Spirit is & what He does. Must read!
Coming Home--Mindy Boyd
This
is the first solo album by indie artist Mindy Boyd, who not only has an
amazingly beautiful voice, writes stunning original songs, and
ministers to deep places in people's hearts with both of those things,
she's also in the top running for Amy's Favorite New Person In Her Life
Of 2007.
In The Real World--Brad Reynolds
This
is an excellent collection of songs, masterfully crafted by my friend
Brad, the gifted songwriter who convinced me to sign up for
Indieheaven. Though it's hard to pick a favorite track, I think "The
Edge" might be mine...
My Beautiful Everything--Evie Haskell
I had the privilege of sharing the stage with Evie at this year's Clackamas County
Fair...and I could've listened to her angelic voice all night. I've
been enjoying this collection of original songs since--beautiful
worship!
Need more ideas? Let me know...more where those came from :).
with much love & thankfulness for you all, 
Amy
So Mindy and I were talking the other day and we discussed the possibility of making some sort of Christmas recording. Neither of us are terribly fond of Christmas music, but we'd both like to write some original stuff...you know, do the noble thing and do our part to redeem the genre ;). Neither of us have any good ideas yet...it feels so "all been done"...
We tossed out the idea of making it an Indieheaven collaboration (then we'd get to come up with less ideas), and Mindy came up with the BRILLIANT title "Indieheaven Got Run Over By A Reindeer", which three days later is still making me laugh so hard I can't breathe.
Then we were joking about a Christmas Song Challenge...like setting a date & we'd both have to have something by then.
Anyway, I actually started coming up with a song the past couple days.
I've got a verse, a chorus, and a bridge. But before I can sleep easily I need someone to give me a lesson of passable uses of the phrase "was made manifest"...Anyone?
The Christmas Song Challenge 2007 is on, Mindy Boyd...what have you got? The loser has to come to the other person's state to make the recording. You'll like Oregon this time of year... :)
