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Moises Borges CDs and hats are available now!
If you enjoyed the concert on the lawn earlier this month with Moises Borges and friends but missed out on your chance to purchase a CD or hat, don’t despair! Just contact UUCC Music Director Mike Carney to get yours today! This is the CD that features our UUCC Chancel Choir members on “Estrela” – supplies are limited, and this is a first-come, first-served opportunity, so don’t delay – act today!
Music Notes – Sunday, July 30th:
This week’s musicians are Alex Michaud, Leon Michaud, Barbara Schenk, Pamela Schenk, and UUCC Music Director Mike Carney
Opening Hymn: #1067 Mother Earth, Beloved Garden – Udis-Kessler
Amanda Udis-Kessler (b. 1965) is a hymnwriter, songwriter, composer, and writer who specializes in music and lyrics for liberal/progressive religious people and communities, including inclusive, social justice-minded Christians, Unitarian Universalists, and other open-hearted religious traditions. Amanda’s religious music is in use across the US and in Canada, the UK, South Africa, and New Zealand. (from queersacredmusic.com) #1067 in Singing the Journey, “Mother Earth, Beloved Garden” is a 2004 piece by Udis-Kessler, expressing reverence for the Interdependent Web and outlining the Pagan earth-centered ritual of Calling the Corners.
Centering Music: Love Song – Duncan
Lesley Duncan, also known as Lesley Cox (1943-2010), was an English singer-songwriter who rose to prominence during the 1970s. She was well-respected and successful as a studio musician and songwriter, but never became famously known as a performer, largely due to difficulties overcoming stage fright. Her best-known composition was “Love Song”, which she recorded as a duet with Elton John (b. 1947), who included it on his 1970 album Tumbleweed Connection.
Offertory music: Woodstock – Mitchell
“Woodstock” is a 1969 song by Canadian folk-rock singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell (b. 1943), a 9-time Grammy Award winner and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductee. Mitchell wrote the song about the famous 1969 rock festival of the same name, the lyrics describing a festival-goer’s journey to Woodstock, which Mitchell compares in the song to the Garden of Eden. She was inspired by television coverage of the festival and by stories shared in phone calls from her then-boyfriend Graham Nash (b. 1942). Nash attended Woodstock and performed there as part of Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young. He relayed much of what he was experiencing to Mitchell, who was in New York City and unable to attend Woodstock herself because her then-manager had convinced her an appearance on The Dick Cavett Show would be more advantageous to her career than performing at the festival.
Closing Hymn: #1064 Blue Boat Home – Mayer/Prichard
A native of Minnesota, folk musician Peter Mayer (b. 1963) is a guitarist and songwriter who specializes in earth-centered music. UU congregations know and love Peter as the lyricist behind “Blue Boat Home”, which first appeared on Mayer’s album The Great Story and is #1064 in our Singing the Journey hymnbook. The melody Mayer set his inspiring words to is called “Hyfrodol”, a popular Welsh hymn tune credited to Rowland Prichard (1811-1887).
Postlude: Shower the People – Taylor
Singer-songwriter and guitarist James Taylor (b. 1948) is one of the best-known and most successful artists in the history of American popular music, having sold more than 100 million records and winning 6 Grammy Awards over his decades-long career. Among his many honors, Taylor is an inductee into both The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and The Songwriters Hall of Fame, he received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2015, he is a Kennedy Center Honoree, and he performed at both the 2009 and 2013 inaugurations of President Barack Obama. “Shower the People”, which featured Taylor’s then-wife Carly Simon on harmony vocals, was released in 1976 as the opening track of Taylor’s seventh studio album, In the Pocket. “Shower the People” spent 8 weeks in Billboard Magazine’s Top 40, peaking at #22.
-Mike Carney, UUCC Music Director
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