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favorite songs of Catholics

Thu, 22 May 2008 00:48:06 GMT

Christian Copyright Licensing International has released a list of what it calls the Top 50 songs, "as reported by Catholic churches and ministries across the United States and Canada." Take a look at the list. How many songs are by Catholic artists that you know? This just goes to show how unaware people are of the existence of Catholic music. (Thanks to Lynn Geyer for the tip) 1. Come Now Is The Time To Worship – Brian Doerksen 2. Open The Eyes Of My Heart – Paul Baloche 3. Here ...

new CD by Amanda Vernon

Fri, 22 Feb 2008 22:45:51 GMT

Amanda Vernon will release her fourth CD, entitled, “Living His Story,” in concert on Wednesday, February 27, 2008, at 7:00 PM at St. Anthony of Padua Catholic Parish (2510 Richmond St. NW, Grand Rapids, Michigan 49504). The new CD includes 14 of 15 original songs, and features many guest musicians and vocalists. To learn more about Amanda Vernon’s Catholic Music Ministry, visit www.amandavernon.com.

Rise, Gretchen Harris and Veronica Morrissey together on Sept. 22nd

Sun, 02 Sep 2007 19:35:18 GMT

The Grand Opening and Blessing of new Wordnet Television Studio with TV host Father Mike Manning will be September 22, 2007 (Saturday) in San Bernardino, California 92405 Rise will be appearing with Veronica Morrissey and Gretchen Harris from 2PM-4PM to help the celebration. The festival and Blessing event begin at noon at 532 North D Street in beautiful San Bernardino, California.

New Danielle Rose coming soon!

Sun, 02 Sep 2007 11:21:30 GMT

The new Danielle Rose CD will be out very soon! This new recording is a musical meditation on Mother Teresa's lifelong work of serving the poor, quenching Christ's thirst for souls even in the midst of her own personal spiritual struggles and doubts. The 14 tracks, all original songs written and performed by Danielle, are deeply personal and deeply moving. As a special bonus, the booklet included with the CD presents complete song lyrics, scripture and prayer text references for each...

Amanda Vernon at Notre Dame

Sat, 04 Aug 2007 16:25:13 GMT

Amanda Vernon (www.amandavernon.com) will give two Family Concerts for the Eucharistic Congress at the University of Notre Dame (Notre Dame, Indiana) on Saturday, August 18, 2007. The Eucharistic Congress will be the highlight of the 150th Jubilee Celebration for the Fort Wayne-South Bend Diocese. The gathering will feature workshops for Adults, Teens, and Families, and culminate with a mass for the entire diocese in the Joyce Center at Notre Dame. Visit http://www.diocesefwsb.org/JUBILEE/Euchar...

Tatiana offers free music videos on web

Fri, 06 Jul 2007 10:00:08 GMT

Catholic singer Tatiana, or Tajci, has released a few free music videos on the web. While surfing around YouTube.com and search for the name “Tajci” I found a few of them. Her husband Matthew says about the new video, “ After years of asking I finally talked her into just recording whatever strikes her - whether it be relevant to some (like the graduation song "Let them Fly"), to us all ("America America") or something she just is enjoying writing or singing. At the moment the plan is to...

Life Fest 2007 will feature Rise

Sun, 03 Jun 2007 17:03:16 GMT

Life Fest 2007 will be June 16, 2007 (Saturday) at 10 AM in Monrovia Library Park in Monrovia, California This is a great family event in the park to raise funds for the Foothills Pregnancy Resource Center, with games, a 5K Walk in the morning for those into that sort of thing, and live music from the Catholic group Rise. Bring the family, a picnic blanket and some lawn chairs and make a nice day of it!

Valerie Von Fange concert for Corpus Christi

Sun, 03 Jun 2007 16:54:10 GMT

Valerie Von Fange will be performing a concert in celebration of the Corpus Christi feast day on June 10 from 6-8pm at Our Lady of Guadalupe Church Concert in Lathrop, CA Valerie be performing songs from her latest CD, Steadfast Love, as well as songs pertaining to the Body of Christ.

ROCK-N-SOUL Catholic Family Fest

Sat, 02 Jun 2007 22:25:15 GMT

ROCK-N-SOUL Catholic Family Fest - The second annual ROCK-N-SOUL Concert will be on June 23rd at the Marquette Catholic High School in Michigan City from 12:00 NOON to 10:00 PM. Performers this year are Amanda Vernon, manuel3, Zealous(with Sammy Blaze & DJ Servus), Dacia, ACB (Average Church Band) and Emcee M.A.S. The guest speaker is Jason Angelette. Fr. David Kime will celebrate the Mass. Tickets in advance are $10.00 for adults ($15.00 at the door); $5.00 for 3 to 10 ($10.00 at the door); und...

Last Day To Perform At Ohio Youth Rally

Mon, 07 May 2007 10:42:50 GMT

Seems like Norwood, Ohio is the rockin’ place to be in the last few weeks. This past weekend at Our Lady of the Holy Spirit Center they had a concert from Catholic singer Tatiana. The crowds were large and they were blessed by her singing. This next week the Catholic center will have a "Rock YOUth Rally." Organizers hope to give Catholic teens and young adults a good time and a positive message. The program features Catholic rock band Last Day and motivational speaker Michael Walsh. It...

WYD 2008 now accepting applications to perform

Tue, 24 Apr 2007 22:00:06 GMT

World Youth Day 2008 (WYD08) is now receiving applications from performers and creative artists from around Australia and the world to apply to participate in the event next year. The three-day Youth Festival takes place in the middle of WYD08 week - 15-20 July 2008 - and will feature music, performing arts, visual art exhibitions, debate, film, community gatherings, street performers, workshops and a vocations expo. "These are just some of the ways we are encouraging the youth of Austra...

Amanda Vernon on EWTN

Fri, 13 Apr 2007 23:11:08 GMT

Amanda Vernon will be the featured guest on EWTN’s LIVE call-in show “Life on the Rock” on Thursday, April 19, 2007, at 8p.m. (Eastern).

An American Idol on Kitty Cleveland's New CD

Tue, 03 Apr 2007 14:57:05 GMT

By a fortuitous happenstance, the wonderful Melinda Doolittle (a favorite to win ) sang background vocals on all three of Kitty Cleveland's original songs on the new Be Not Afraid CD. In addition to having phenomenal talent and sincere humility, she says that her personal goals are "to represent Christ well and to do everything 150%." And what a special addition she makes to the new Kity Cleveland CD. She is also joined by some other wonderfully talented gospel singers, who truly took th...

Sharmane Adams to conduct Lenten Mission in LA

Wed, 14 Mar 2007 22:44:50 GMT

ST. HILARY CATHOLIC CHURCH PRESENTS NATIONAL CATHOLIC RECORDING ARTIST SHARMANE ADAMS FOR 2007 LENTEN MISSION. Sharmane Adams will be conducting a three day Lenten Mission at St. Hilary Catholic Church located in Matthews, Louisiana. This year’s theme is “Make Me a Channel of Your Peace.” The Lenten Mission will be held March 26, 27 & 28 at 7:00 p.m. in the church. The first evening will consist of her testimony. The second will be filled with spiritual renewal as Sharmane answers the quest...

Spirit Wing Announces Catholic Music 2008 CD - Music Wanted

Thu, 08 Mar 2007 15:30:25 GMT

One of the biggest CDs this year has been Catholic Music 2007. It had a great start coming out just before Christmas and has been in CatholicMusicNetwork’s top twenty ever since. It’s a great CD that collects various Catholic musicians. Well the guys over at Spirit Wing Records were so overwhelmed that they had now officially opened the door for song submissions to be considered for the below 2 projects: Project #1- Catholic Music 2008! A 2 CD Praise and Worship compilation designed to hig...

Paul Harrigan to play the Rosary Bowl

Wed, 28 Feb 2007 12:21:43 GMT

"A World at Prayer is a World at Peace®: The Rosary Bowl" is a multi-cultural Rosary celebration for world peace and the largest outdoor recitation of the Rosary in Southern California in 50 years. It will take place Saturday, May 19, 2007 at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, CA. It will be a time of praise and worship as well as medatation as His Eminence Cardinal Roger Mahony, Archbishop of Los Angeles, will lead bishops, clergy, Religious and the faithful in an evening of prayer, meditation and...

Sarah Bauer: Real Woman, Real Faith, Real Rock

Wed, 28 Feb 2007 12:07:56 GMT

I love what Catholic artists are doing to get their message out to the people. Sarah Bauer is jumping into next phase of internet broadcast by posting a video magazine. She plans on making this a regular feature. This month she talks about her favorite moments in ministry and where it all began! The song used on the video is this year's Steubenville Youth Conference theme song, called "All Access" and will be one of the songs on her upcoming album! Sara is heading over to Nashville t...

Rise Plays Fund Raising Concert for Africa

Fri, 16 Feb 2007 17:01:25 GMT

AIDS and hunger continue to ravage many parts of Africa. You can't help but read the news and see the horrors that are going on there. Africa tops the Holy Father's list of concerns. The Catholic rock band, Rise, are doing a small part in battling these epidemics. They were approached by Chris Hartzog last year to perform in the Seattle, Washington area to help raise money for the Immaculate Conception and Our Lady of Perpetual Help parishes to help fight extreme poverty, hunger and diseas...

Mark Mallett Divine Mercy CD coming soon

Mon, 12 Feb 2007 16:28:04 GMT

Mark Mallett is getting ready to release a new Divine Mercy Chaplet CD and if you liked his rosary CD, you are going to love this new project. The CD will include 15 Chaplet decades with incredibly powerful original music scores set to John Paul II's Stations of the Cross composed by gifted composer Darcy Phillips, beautiful new original versions of the "Eternal Father", "Holy God" and "Our Father" composed and sung by Mark Mallett and five new songs written and sung by Mark on the themes of ...

Valerie Von Fange Recording for EWTN's Backstage

Fri, 09 Feb 2007 10:56:33 GMT

The continual decline of the Anglican Church

Wed, 07 Feb 2007 13:28:28 GMT

Sorry, but as much as I like the band U2 (and not that much really since the Joshua Tree/Rattle and Hum days), I must say I find this idea to be rather bizarre. But then again bizarre does seem to describe the path the Anglican Church has taken in recent decades. Reuters reports that for those Anglicans who still haven't found what they're looking for, the Church of England is staging its first "U2-charist" communion service -- replacing hymns with hit songs by the Irish supergroup. "Rock music...

Chris Padgett's having another one!

Fri, 26 Jan 2007 01:05:17 GMT

It's not a baby though! He is a father of eight you know, but he is just as prolific in the studio and he is getting ready to record a new CD, which will feature the classic live material he performs, some re-mixes of tunes on earlier CD's, and a few new songs. Three of the tunes are collaborations with Matt Maher and others will be recorded and produced in Nashville soon with Jeff Thomas Productions (Jeff did Matt Maher's three CDs and Josh Blakely's latest. On top of all that the guy is work...

One to watch on American Idol

Thu, 25 Jan 2007 00:57:48 GMT

If you watched American Idol this past week you might remember a shy and humble gal named Melinda Doolittle, who described herself as a backup singer from Nashville. Turns out she has worked extensively with Joe Hand and contributed heavily to the new Ceili Rain album, "Whatever Makes You Dance." Keep an eye out for her. Thanks to Aly B of Albie Entertainment for the tip.

Jim Caviezel leads all star CD version of the Bible

Wed, 24 Jan 2007 15:00:48 GMT

I've been a big fan of our prayer CDs that we carry here at CatholicMusicNetwork.com I'll swap around by listening to Donna Cori Gibson, Angelica or Kitty Cleveland while listen to the Rosary. I've also enjoyed the Divine Mercy Chaplet or Stations of the Cross on CD as well. (We just got in the new Kristen Fisher version of the Stations of the Cross.) It looks like by October we will be able to listen to the Bible on CD. What makes this special is that an all-star cast will preform it,...

Music in the Pews

Fri, 19 Jan 2007 17:29:20 GMT

Is it just me or does it bother you when you are preparing to sing the Psalms that are in the Missal on Sunday and then the cantor starts sings something completely different. I always look around to see how many others are feeling like they lost their place. You wonder what the minister of music was thinking. I had one who for weeks just did without the Psalms and wanted to sing “Go Tell It On The Mountain.” every Sunday till I protested. This just goes to show you that people in Cat...

Janelle up for music award in Canada

Thu, 18 Jan 2007 17:52:26 GMT

Canadian singer Janelle is in the running for the SHAI Awards, which are a sort of "people's choice" awards in Canada. But in order to win she needs your vote! If you'd like to cast a vote for Janelle as Female Artist of the Year, click here and follow the instructions.

CMN gets coverage in Spain

Fri, 12 Jan 2007 00:34:23 GMT

One of the most important business newspapers in Spain has published an article about CMN's Spanish site www.reddemusicacatolica.com. "El Economista" has roots that go way back, long before the "Wall Street Journal" and "The Financial Times." As far as coverage goes by a secular media outlet, it's a pretty good piece, although the author did get a few things wrong. The site was not founded by a "group of young Latinos," we're actually all gringos, but we do have Latinos who work with us closely,...

Best Spanish CD 2006

Sun, 07 Jan 2007 23:29:57 GMT

Each year's end on my radio program Fe hecha canción on EWTN's Spanish radio network I do a special on what I consider to be the top 20 CDs of the year. Last year I caused a bit of a controversy, but the whole thing is nothing more than my own opinion, not based on sales anywhere, listener requests or anything else. Just on my own analysis of the new CDs released that year. In fact I readily admit that my critique is limited only to the CDs I have for my program--I am well aware that there are ...

Sara Torres on EWTN Spanish

Sun, 07 Jan 2007 21:33:33 GMT

CMN artist Sara Torres will be on EWTN's Spanish TV and Radio network on Monday, January 8, 6pm ET. If you speak or understand Spanish you can watch online here: http://www.ewtn.com/spanish/audiovideo/index.asp.

Ceili Rain in concert

Sat, 06 Jan 2007 19:03:05 GMT

Ceili Rain has just put out a new CD, Whatever Makes You Dance. It is excellent--just what you'd expect from Ceili. The band has also released a list of upcoming tour dates: JANUARY SAT 13TH- Syracuse, NY St. Ann’s Church 4471 Onondaga Blvd. Syracuse, NY 13219 For info/tickets: (315) 468-1803 or irishceili@twcny.rr.com 6PM SUN 14TH- Syracuse, NY BOB ONLY: The Redhouse, 201 S Wes...

Mix it up with CMN

Sat, 06 Jan 2007 18:53:31 GMT

Welcome to the CMN Music Blog! We figured it was time for us to get in the mix and start giving you a bit more information about what is happening in Catholic music, as well as a peak behind the scenes here at CatholicMusicNetwork.com. We'll be posting items of interest to fans of Catholic music everywhere and sharing our humble opinions about goings-on in the Catholic music world. And when we say world, we mean it. Some of you still don't know that CMN has a Spanish site as well,