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WEEKLY NEWS 2008NCM News 258 14 NOVEMBER 2008HOT NEWS FOR NCM ARTISTS!! ... Under the auspices of the UKCMA & NCM, NCM artists are invited to perform at the National Christian Resources Exhibition that takes place at the Exeter (Devon) on 29 - 31 January 2009 and Sandown (south of London) on 12 - 15 May 2009. To date, planning to attend Exeter are: LAWSON SPILLER, ROB ASH, MATT GILES, LIZ DOYLE (USA), BIG STREET (Sweden), CHARLES TIMBERLAKE, & PAUL DAVIS (MC). To date, planning to attend Sandown are DAVE CLEMO, JERRY ARHELGER (USA), SUE & WES DAVIS, LIZ DOYLE (USA), MATT McCHERY, MICHAEL J RAMPLIN, MARTIN DAWSON, ADELE PROCTER, JOHN WILSON, CHARLES TIMBERLAKE & PAUL DAVIS (MC). There is already huge interest throughout England for the events. If you would like to be included the NCM Show, you are warmly invited. enq@newmusicenterprises.com asap. CompassionArt has secured a coup by bringing together 12 of the most respected worship songwriters for a week's retreat last January. In global unity, artists gave their services free to create an album of original songs. In an unprecedented way, managers and publishers, label bosses, royalty administrators and distributors pulled together to ensure that CompassionArt's first batch of songs will generate as much money as they possibly can to alleviate poverty around the world. WH Smith have announced that they will be stocking the CompassionArt album in most of their 486 stores across the UK from November 24th. Conceived by MARTIN & ANNA SMITH, the CD/DVD CompassionArt has already created a stir, even before the album and book (The Art of Compassion – Hodder & Stoughton UK) have been released. paulsmith@compassionart.tv From the USA, BARRY MCGUIRE writes, “Bill Hampson in England is in the process of organizing a May/June 2009 uk tour for us to promote the Epiphany Trust, a ministry that he and his wife oversee for a number of different missions from orphans-in-Romania to handicapped-folks there in England and Wales. It's a great ministry. Also we hope to generate some sponsors for third world children. Just keep an eye on our www.trippinthesixties.com tour page from time to time and it would be great to see you while we're over your way. Blessings on you my friend!” USA tenor, DAVID PHELPS is in Bangor, Northern Ireland next month. The hugely popular singer who has won multiple Grammy and Dove awards will give a concert at Bangor Elim Conference Centre on Saturday 15 November at 8.00pm. www.heaven-bound.co.uk The latest additions to the NCM Weekend are YAZZ coming from Spain, KAREN LAFFERTY ((MUSICIANS FOR MISSIONS - USA), BIG STREET (SWEDEN), HERMANN LAMMERS MEYER (GERMANY) & ALASTAIR McDONALD (SCOTLAND) LL Records announced the entry of LOU LOLLIO Praise and Worship Vol. 2 for the ballot in the 51st Annual Grammy Awards Nominations Field 11 - Gospel Category 55 - Best Southern, Country, Or Bluegrass Gospel Album. "What an honour it is to be recognized as a Recording Academy Member and as a candidate. I am really blessed and have so many people to thank," said Lollio in Los Angeles California. This is Lollio's first ballot entry. You can hear a preview of the CD at Itunes.com or http://www.LOLLIO.com Congratulations to Lollio. Enquiries; 310 402-0065 thesoundandmusic@aol.com THE SONFLOWERZ songs are doing so well on NCMll! The girls were recently ‘signed’ to a label distributed by Provident-Integrity and are currently planning to come to the UK for a tour in June 2008. DJ’s or promoters, or youth leaders interested in having The Sonflowerz at church or event contact Don Leander www.Sonflowerz.com 001-719-266-0234 Please kindly diarise (& come if you can) to the following UKCMA MEETINGS 2008 (general invitation to trustees, members & friends involved in NCM WEEKEND, UKCMA YEARBOOK etc). (VENUE: VANDYKE SCHOOL, LEIGHTON BUZZARD). 4pm SUN 14 DEC (followed at 6pm by evening with GEORGE HAMILTON IV (Nashville, Tennessee, USA)) 4pm SUN 11 JAN (followed at 6pm by evening with ROB ASH (Wales)) GUS EYRE DATES November 20th Marton, B'pool 1/23rd AofE Prayer Partners Weekend 27th Oak Hill College, talking about prison work 30th Clayton le Woods preaching December 6th' The Well', B'pool 7th Brynn C.F. preaching 13th 'Helping Hand', B'pool 16/17th Prison Carol Services 22nd 'Soup Kitchen', B'pool The annual PAUL POULTON Project Christmas tour dates 29 Nov The House, Scunthorpe, Brumby Wood Lane. 30 Marsh Lane Church, Stone Cross, West Bromwich. 5 Dec William Lovell School, Boston Lincs 6 Little Lane LEP 7 St Albans, Elim, Unity Works, Lyon Way. (AM & PM) 12 Darlington, The Education Village. 13 Herringthorpe URC 14 Elm Ridge Methodist Church 14 North Point Church, Bell Green, Coventry 18 Stevenage AOG (tbc) 19 Didcot King's Church (tbc) 20 Brixham Baptist Church 21 Stratton Green, Swindon Baptist Church 21 Chalford Baptist Church (tbc) 31 St Michael le Belfrey, York MICHAEL J RAMPLIN & FRIENDS (MARTIN DAWSON & ADELE PROCTER) dates. michael.ramplin@cwctv.net Colne Parish Church 28th Nov at 7-30 pm with George Hamilton IV. Watch out this year for the new book by NCM's PAUL DAVIS entitled "Gospel Music Times - The Authorised Biography of GEORGE BEVERLY SHEA". The main solist for Billy Graham for over 60years, Bev celebrates his 100th birthday next February. SIR CLIFF RICHARD says, “A 100th birthday is always a fantastic achievement, even more so when the centenarian is still commanding a public stage . The first time that I ever heard George Beverly Shea sing was in the Sixties at a Billy Graham crusade. I was really amazed and, if I’m really honest, slightly envious. He stood there and this voice came out that sounded so confident, rich and resonant. What also really amazed me was it didn’t matter whether he sang something ancient or modern. With the passage of time, things haven’t changed. He still sounds confident, rich, and resonant today, a century since his birth.” DR. JESSY DIXON (Chicago, Illinois, USA) writes, “It was my great pleasure and thrill to work with Dr. Billy Graham and George Beverly Shea and observe firsthand their dedication to the extension of God’s Kingdom. Without hesitation, I say that the experience is one of the highlights of my career. As a truly historic singer throughout almost all the 20th Century, George Beverly Shea is an icon in Gospel Music who has no equal in his interpretation of whatever gospel song he performs. I speak for all gospel singers past-and-present when I say that it is to your advantage to read Paul Davis’ great book." HERMANN LAMMERS MEYER (Germany's international singing DJ) informs NCM that he has recorded WES DAVIS' "Small Packages" for Christmas. www.wesdavis.co.uk www.newmusicenterprises.com GEORGE HAMILTON IV UK LOCAL CHURCH TOUR - AVAILABLE FOR BOOKING T 24 FEB Margate Baptist , Kent . Mike Swales mmswales@btinternet.com 01843 294276 W 25 available for booking enq@newmusicenterprises.com T 26 Stowmarket, Suffolk (01 252 677396) gwen.wills49@yahoo.co.uk F 27 Southend , Keith Brown pastorkeith@hiscomingministries.com 01702 462782 S 28 Christ Church, Worksop P.NunwickK@sky.com 01909 478732 S 1 MAR St Andrew's, Isleham, Cambridgeshire. nick@carverfamily.org.uk M 2 available for booking enq@newmusicenterprises.com T 3 available for booking enq@newmusicenterprises.com W 4 available for booking enq@newmusicenterprises.com T 5 St Denys Church, Sleaford, Lincs r.abbott097@btinternet.com 01526 833437 F 6 New Day Baptist, High Street, Morton, Lincs, davidandrosie@btinternet.com 01778-570656 S 7- S8 NCM Weekend (Leighton Buzzard) enq@newmusicenterprises.com 01525 237700 TRICIA & NOEL RICHARDS are joining a small team that is moving from the UK to be based in Mallorca, Spain in November for 3 months. Tour dates are: November 14th – Hamburg, Germany / November 15th – Hannover, Germany Inspired by GARTH HEWITT’s song, Amos Trust's 2008 Christmas card is now available for purchase on the Amos Trust website featuring Father Christmas walking near the Separation Wall in Bethlehem: http://www.amostrust.org/shop/index.php. NCM WEEKEND - 1-2 MAR 08 PHOTOS A DVD of nearly 500 photos of the 2008 NCM Awards Weekend is available for sale at only £25 (including postage). This includes stage appearances, award presentations, plus informal moments. Make cheque to:- NEW MUSIC ENTERPRISES, PO Box 6207, Leighton Buzzard, Beds. LU7 OWQ, England. (see "NCM WEEKEND 08 PHOTOS" on www.newmusicenterprises.com for Paypal) NCM WEEKEND 1-2 MAR O8 DVDs Four DVDs of nearly 10 hours of the 2008 NCM Awards Weekend are available for sale at only £15 each (plus £1 postage UK / £2 Europe / £3 Rest Of The World) for each DVD). DVDs includes stage appearances, award presentations, plus informal moments. (CONCERT#1, CONCERT#2, CONCERT#3, CONCERT#4 ) Make cheque to:- STV VIDEOS, PO Box 299, Bromley, Kent. BR2 9XB, England. www.stvvideos.co.uk phone 020 8464 4287 DAVE CLEMO & JERRY ARHELGER UK TOUR MAY 2009 dave.clemo dave@daveclemo.co.uk Dave Clemo says, "If you are interested please let me know as soon as possible. We can finalise details a little closer to the date. GEORGE HAMILTON IV UK tour … INTERNATIONAL AMBASSADOR enq@newmusicenterprises.com T25 NOV 08 BBC TV Songs of Praise recording W 26 NOV 08 (AM) Bawtrey School, Yorks Rev. Strickland 01 302 710298 jandjstrickland@btinternet.com W 26 (PM) School, Doncaster, Yorks (Al Moir) lariom@blueyonder.co.uk 01302 325984 T 27 (AM) School, Assembly Doncaster, Yorks (Al Moir) lariom@blueyonder.co.uk 01302 325984 T 27 (PM) St Helena Church, Austerfield, Yorks Rev. Strickland 01 302 710298 jandjstrickland@btinternet.com F28 (AM) Recording (Michael Ramplin / Brook Trickett) michael.ramplin@cwctv.net F28 (PM) Colne Parish Church, Church St, Colne, Lancs. michael.ramplin@cwctv.net 01282 699633 S 29 Lower Wyke Moravian Church, Yorks. Kenneth Evans 01924 496967 k.evans10@ntlworld.com S 30 Ormskirk, Maghull Baptist Church/ David Stuckey 01695 423470 david@cardtimes.co.uk M 1 DEC ?N.Ireland with LIVE ISSUE samuel.purdy@btopenworld.com 02892 628513 T 2 Gracehill Moravian Ch, NI with LIVE ISSUE samuel.purdy@btopenworld.com 02892 628513 W 3 Newmills Presby’n Ch NI with LIVE ISSUE samuel.purdy@btopenworld.com 02892 628513 T 4 Chantmaile Christian Centre, Dorset rogermccolm@talktalk.net 01305 826864 F 5 Holtwood Meth., near Wimborne, Dorset, Peter Aston, (01258) 840844 peter@peter-aston.co.uk S 6 FreeChurch, Frinton, Essex paulnwatkins@gmail.com 01255 851581 S 7 5pm Birchfield church Yeovil pastor.kelton@tiscali.co.uk Kelton Black 07712013314 M 8 Filey - Evron Centre 01723 518003 with Paul Wheater bylands-24@lineone.net T 9 Stourbridge, Tony Stone / tstone@wfcsmail.com 01384 392566 W 10 N. Wales Bob Searle IGO@oasisdwygyfylchi.freeserve.co.uk 0845 2267027 T 11 Anglesey Bob Searle IGO@oasisdwygyfylchi.freeserve.co.uk 0845 2267027 F 12 Hopton (Nr Diss) - High Street Chapel - 01359 221582, with Paul Wheater bylands-24@lineone.net S 13 St Helens CofE Selston, Notts. darren.mangold@ntlworld.com 07913 673603 S 14 DEC LCF, Vandyke School Theatre, Leighton Buzzard, www.lcf.uk.net 01525 237700 M 15 Ipswich Wendy Clarke charlieclarke@homecall.co.uk 01473 211585 / 01473 748772 T 16 Maidstone, Kent (St Philips) - Ken Hope 01622 674005 kenhope1@tallktalk.net W 17 (AM) Maidstone - Recording Studio – Clive Lever clive.lever@tiscali.co.uk W 17 (PM) Uckfield, Sussex , NIigel Gibson, 71 Hunters Way, Uckfield, TN222BB T 18 FLYS OUT Ireland’s JAMES BELL says he I have stepped out in faith and taken on the role of director of Drop Inn Ministries Canada. “We have bought a Outreach Center in Nova Scotia and are about to open our first store and outreach office. Keep our ministry in your prayers and I will see you in March at the NCM Weekend. Drop Inn Ministries in Ireland have booked THE ISAACS for five events in March 2009 in Ireland and Scotland.” Now available to radio stations worldwide for only £25 per year (see www.ncmradioshow.com ) is the unlimited use of the NCM Radio Show (presented by PAUL DAVIS & ANDY HUMPHRIES (interviews by DARREN MANGOLD) produced by GOOD NEWS BROADCASTING ASSOCIATION. Also featured are special interview & music shows with celebrities such as ELECTRALYTE, DELIRIOUS?, VERRA CRUZ. JACI VELASQUEZ, , PAT BOONE, SIR CLIFF RICHARD, DON FRANCISCO, LUIS PALAU, GEORGE BEVERLY SHEA, HELEN SHAPIRO, MORRIS CHAPMAN, WES DAVIS, A.G & KATE, PAUL OVERSTREET, JIMMY SNOW, PETER HONOUR, VERNON OXFORD, BILL DRAKE, JOHN PANTRY, GLEN CAMPBELL , GEORGE HAMILTON IV, DANA, DANIEL ODONNELL , LAURENCE SINGLEHURST (YWAM), BARBARA FAIRCHILD, ROY MORRIS, AL GORDON, JON FOREMAN etc. For Easter is a 3 hour radio show with SIR CLIFF RICHARD and Paul Davis (DJ). NCM Radio Show is now broadcasting on about 310 radio stations worldwide incl.:- CMR Nashville Radio on www.cmrnashville.net on Sun 8-10 am (UK time) SonRise Radio on www.sonriseradio.com on Sun 9- 11 pm & Wed 11 am- 1pm (UK time) The New Christian Music Radio Show just keeps on growing. DJ Andy Humphries explains, "The demand for NCM shows has become so great that we have had to quadruple our disc space on the website. We have recently gone from 1GB to 4GB's of ready to use radio shows. That means that currently we have over 125 shows to choose from. We think that for only £25 per year for unlimited access - this deal is not only good for subscribing music stations, it might also be attractive to artists who want to hear the broadcast standard mp3's of their songs getting played on air. This is because the show plays all artists who appear on the NCM discs. Filling a radio schedule 24/7 is never easy, we hope that anyone interested will go to www.ncmradioshow and at least download our two free shows, any maybe, come on board with approx. 300 radio stations around the world who are now part of the NCM radio show family". A quick note to DJs & journalists about filling in the NCM Reaction Sheets… Please make sure you include your name and details (radio station, publications, countries broadcast-to, etc) on the form so we can pass your comments on to artists – it makes such a difference to the artists to hear what you think of their work. Also make sure you fill in a score for each song regardless of genre – use your professional judgement rather than personal genre preferences. Failure to return the sheets for 3 months in succession will mean deletion from the circulation list The NCMdisc is now available to all bone-fide DJs, journalists, music industry persons, & NCM artistes on download on www.newchristianmusic.co.uk The codes this month (NCM#58) are:- USER: gospel & PASSWORD: sharp Click NCM Media Downloads Then click on the button once you are in the website. You'll get next month's codes when you return this month's Reaction Sheet. And Finally…SUBMITTED BY PETER HONOUR (Orpington, Kent, England) This will make you realise just how intelligent you are! RTE RADIO 2FM ( IRELAND ) Presenter: What is the name of the long- running TV comedy show about pensioners: ‘Last Of The . . .’? Caller: Mohicans. PHIL WOOD SHOW (BBC RADIO MANCHESTER ) Phil: What's 11 squared? Contestant: I don't know. Phil: I'll give you a clue. It's two ones with a two in the Middle. Contestant: Is it five? RICHARD AND JUDY Q: Which American actor is married to Nicole Kidman? A: Forrest Gump. RICHARD AND JUDY Leslie: On which street did Sherlock Holmes live? Contestant: Er . . . Leslie: He makes bread . . . Contestant: Er . . . Leslie: He makes cakes . . . Contestant: Kipling Street ? NCM News 256 24 OCTOBER 2008 HOT NEWS FOR NCM ARTISTS!! ... Under the auspices of the UKCMA & NCM, NCM artists are invited to perform at the National Christian Resources Exhibition that takes place at the Exeter(Devon) on 29 - 31 January 2009 and Sandown (south of London) on 12 - 15 May 2009. To date, planning to attend Exeter are: LAWSON SPILLER, ROB ASH, MATT GILES, SUE & WES DAVIS, LIZ DOYLE (USA), BIG STREET (Sweden), & PAUL DAVIS (MC). To date, planning to attend Sandown are DAVE CLEMO, JERRY ARHELGER (USA), LIZ DOYLE (USA), MATT McCHERY, MICHAEL J RAMPLIN, MARTIN DAWSON, ADELE PROCTER, JOHN WILSON, CHARLES TIMBERLAKE & PAUL DAVIS (MC). There is already huge interest throughout England for the events. If you would like to be included the NCM Sharing Show, you are warmly invited. enq@newmusicenterprises.com asap. Celebrate Life Concert with AFRICAN CHILDREN’S CHOIR & YOUTH MUSIC THEATRE UK in aid of cancer relief & abandoned African children. Sat 25 Oct Vineyard Centre, St Albans. celebratelife@btinternet.com phone 0207 153 5378 JOHN HEAVENS reports on his NCM duet partner.”Our man JAHAZIEL scoops up ‘best gospel’ act at the Mobo awards ceremony at Wembley arena. His acceptance message to the thousands there was full on thanks to our Lord. Praise God!!” www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/search/?uri=%2Fiplayer%2F&go=toolbar&q=Mobo+Awards LL Records announced the entry of LOU LOLLIO Praise and Worship Vol. 2 for the ballot in the 51st Annual Grammy Awards Nominations Field 11 - Gospel Category 55 - Best Southern, Country, Or Bluegrass Gospel Album. "What an honour it is to be recognized as a Recording Academy Member and as a candidate. I am really blessed and have so many people to thank," said Lollio in Los Angeles California. This is Lollio's first ballot entry. You can hear a preview of the CD at Itunes.com or http://www.LOLLIO.com Congratulations to Lollio. Enquiries; 310 402-0065 thesoundandmusic@aol.com THE SONFLOWERZ songs doing so we on NCMll! The girls were recently ‘signed’ to a label distributed by Provident-Integrity and are currently planning to come to the UK for a tour in June 2008. DJ’s or promoters, or youth leaders interested in having The Sonflowerz at church or event contact Don Leander www.Sonflowerz.com 001-719-266-0234 Please kindly diarise (& come if you can) to the following UKCMA MEETINGS 2008 (general invitation to trustees, members & friends involved in NCM WEEKEND, UKCMA YEARBOOK etc). (VENUE: VANDYKE SCHOOL, LEIGHTON BUZZARD). 4pm SUN 14 DEC (followed at 6pm by evening with GEORGE HAMILTON IV (Nashville, Tennessee, USA)) 4pm SUN 11 JAN (followed at 6pm by evening with ROB ASH (Wales)) GUS EYRE DATES 24/25th Oct Faversham Gospel Mission, concert & preaching November 1/2nd Bethel Evangelical Church Warrington 3rd St Annes, Lunch Club 5th Drug rehab, concert 9th Marton, Blackpool, preaching 10th/16th Mission Northwich, Cheshire 20th Marton, B'pool 1/23rd AofE Prayer Partners Weekend 27th Oak Hill College, talking about prison work 30th Clayton le Woods preaching December 6th' The Well', B'pool 7th Brynn C.F. preaching 13th 'Helping Hand', B'pool 16/17th Prison Carol Services 22nd 'Soup Kitchen', B'pool The annual PAUL POULTON Project Christmas tour dates 29 Nov The House, Scunthorpe, Brumby Wood Lane. 30 Marsh Lane Church, Stone Cross, West Bromwich. 5 Dec William Lovell School, Boston Lincs 6 Little Lane LEP 7 St Albans, Elim, Unity Works, Lyon Way. (AM & PM) 12 Darlington, The Education Village. 13 Herringthorpe URC 14 Elm Ridge Methodist Church 14 North Point Church, Bell Green, Coventry 18 Stevenage AOG (tbc) 19 Didcot King's Church (tbc) 20 Brixham Baptist Church 21 Stratton Green, Swindon Baptist Church 21 Chalford Baptist Church (tbc) 31 St Michael le Belfrey, York MICHAEL J RAMPLIN & FRIENDS (MARTIN DAWSON & ADELE PROCTER) dates. michael.ramplin@cwctv.net 24th Oct Brierfield Community Centre, Brierfield, Nr Nelson, Lancs. & Colne Parish Church 28th Nov at 7-30 pm with George Hamilton IV. JEAN WATSON UK TOUR noel.donaldson@ntlworld.com Sat 1.11.08 Roomfield Baptist Church Todmorden 7.30 Sun 2.11.08 Halifax Elim Church 10.30 Sun 2.11.08 New Springs Loughborough 6.00 pm Tue 4.11.08 Honley Elim Church Huddersfield 7.30 thur 6.11.08 Shipley Baptist Church Shipley 7.30 Fri 7.11.08 Elim Pentecostal Church Braintree Essex 7.30 at 8.11.08 Ladies meeting Newbury 10 - 4 Sun 9.11.08 Bell Green Life Centre Coventry 10.00 Sun 9.11.08 Bell Green Coventry 6.30 Watch out this year for the new book by NCM's PAUL DAVIS entitled "Gospel Music Times - The Authorised Biography of GEORGE BEVERLY SHEA" (Ambassador Books). The main solist for Billy Graham for over 60years, Bev celebrates his 100th birthday next February. SIR CLIFF RICHARD says, “A 100th birthday is always a fantastic achievement, even more so when the centenarian is still commanding a public stage . The first time that I ever heard George Beverly Shea sing was in the Sixties at a Billy Graham crusade. I was really amazed and, if I’m really honest, slightly envious. He stood there and this voice came out that sounded so confident, rich and resonant. What also really amazed me was it didn’t matter whether he sang something ancient or modern. With the passage of time, things haven’t changed. He still sounds confident, rich, and resonant today, a century since his birth.” DR. JESSY DIXON (Chicago, Illinois, USA) writes, “It was my great pleasure and thrill to work with Dr. Billy Graham and George Beverly Shea and observe firsthand their dedication to the extension of God’s Kingdom. Without hesitation, I say that the experience is one of the highlights of my career. As a truly historic singer throughout almost all the 20th Century, George Beverly Shea is an icon in Gospel Music who has no equal in his interpretation of whatever gospel song he performs. I speak for all gospel singers past-and-present when I say that it is to your advantage to read Paul Davis’ great book." HERMANN LAMMERS MEYER (Germany's international singing DJ) informs NCM that he has recorded WES DAVIS' "Small Packages" for Christmas. www.wesdavis.co.uk www.newmusicenterprises.com GEORGE HAMILTON IV UK LOCAL CHURCH TOUR - AVAILABLE FOR BOOKING T 24 FEB Margate Baptist , Kent . Mike Swales mmswales@btinternet.com 01843 294276 W 25 available for booking enq@newmusicenterprises.com T 26 available for booking enq@newmusicenterprises.com F 27 Southend , Keith Brown pastorkeith@hiscomingministries.com 01702 462782 S 28 Christ Church, Worksop P.NunwickK@sky.com 01909 478732 S 1 MAR St Andrew's, Isleham nick@carverfamily.org.uk M 2 available for booking enq@newmusicenterprises.com T 3 available for booking enq@newmusicenterprises.com W 4 available for booking enq@newmusicenterprises.com T 5 St Denys Church, Sleaford, Lincs r.abbott097@btinternet.com 01526 833437 F 6 New Day Baptist h, High Street, Morton, Lincs, davidandrosie@btinternet.com 01778-570656 S 7- S8 NCM Weekend (Leighton Buzzard) enq@newmusicenterprises.com 01525 237700 WANTED: New IDs for the NCM RADIO SHOW by NCM artists. Promote the show and& promote yourself too. ww.newchristianmusic.co.uk for scripts. CHARLIE LANDSBOROUGH - Autumn UK Tour 2008 24/10/2008 Peterborough The Cresset 26/10/2008 Felixstowe Spa Pavilion 01394 282 126 28/10/2008 Glasgow Royal Concert Hall 01413 538 000 /29/10/2008 Aberdeen Music Halls 01224 641 122 / 31/10/2008 Glenrothes Rothes Hall 01592 611 101 / 01/11/2008 Billingham Forum Theatre 01642 522 663 / 02/11/2008 Blackburn King George's Hall 0844 847 1664 04/11/2008 Stockport Plaza Theatre 0161 477 7779 / 05/11/2008 Dunstable Grove Theatre 01582 60 20 80 / 06/11/2008 Worthing Pavilion Theatre 01903 206 206 / 07/11/2008 Bedford Corn Exchange 01234 269 519 / 08/11/2008 Stoke-o-Trent Victoria Hall 0870 060 6649 15/11/2008 Liverpool Philharmonic 0151 709 3789 TRICIA & NOEL RICHARDS are joining a small team that is moving from the UK to be based in Mallorca, Spain in November for 3 months. Tour dates are: October 19th – Coronet Theatre, London, UK /October 25th/26th – Frinton Free Church, Essex, UK /November 7th – Zwickau, Germany November 8th – Chemnitz, Germany / November 14th – Hamburg, Germany / ovember 15th – Hannover, Germany If you would like to be added to the first class “Bluegrass & More” Newsletter mailing list - contact deehallett@btopenworld.com NCM WEEKEND - 1-2 MAR 08 PHOTOS A DVD of nearly 500 photos of the 2008 NCM Awards Weekend is available for sale at only £25 (including postage). This includes stage appearances, award presentations, plus informal moments. Make cheque to:- NEW MUSIC ENTERPRISES, PO Box 6207, Leighton Buzzard, Beds. LU7 OWQ, England. (see "NCM WEEKEND 08 PHOTOS" on www.newmusicenterprises.com for Paypal) NCM WEEKEND 1-2 MAR O8 DVDs Four DVDs of nearly 10 hours of the 2008 NCM Awards Weekend are available for sale at only £15 each (plus £1 postage UK / £2 Europe / £3 Rest Of The World) for each DVD). DVDs includes stage appearances, award presentations, plus informal moments. (CONCERT#1, CONCERT#2, CONCERT#3, CONCERT#4 ) Make cheque to:- STV VIDEOS, PO Box 299, Bromley, Kent. BR2 9XB, England. www.stvvideos.co.uk phone 020 8464 4287 DAVE CLEMO & JERRY ARHELGER UK TOUR MAY 2009 dave.clemo dave@daveclemo.co.uk Dave Clemo says, "If you are interested please let me know as soon as possible. We can finalise details a little closer to the date. GEORGE HAMILTON IV UK tour … INTERNATIONAL AMBASSADOR enq@newmusicenterprises.com T25 NOV 08 BBC Songs of Praise / recording at Chedder Gorge, Somerset W 26 NOV 08 (AM) Bawtrey School, Yorks Rev. Strickland 01 302 710298 jandjstrickland@btinternet.com W 26 (PM) School, Doncaster, Yorks (Al Moir) lariom@blueyonder.co.uk 01302 325984 T 27 (AM) School, Assembly Doncaster, Yorks (Al Moir) lariom@blueyonder.co.uk 01302 325984 T 27 (PM) St Helena Church, Austerfield, Yorks Rev. Strickland 01 302 710298 jandjstrickland@btinternet.com F28 (AM) Recording (Michael Ramplin / Brook Trickett) michael.ramplin@cwctv.net F28 (PM) Colne Parish Church, Church St, Colne, Lancs. michael.ramplin@cwctv.net 01282 699633 S 29 Lower Wyke Moravian Church, Yorks. Kenneth Evans 01924 496967 k.evans10@ntlworld.com S 30 Ormskirk, Maghull Baptist Church/ David Stuckey 01695 423470 david@cardtimes.co.uk M 1 DEC ?N.Ireland with LIVE ISSUE samuel.purdy@btopenworld.com 02892 628513 T 2 Gracehill Moravian Ch, NI with LIVE ISSUE samuel.purdy@btopenworld.com 02892 628513 W 3 Newmills Presby’n Ch NI with LIVE ISSUE samuel.purdy@btopenworld.com 02892 628513 T 4 Chantmaile Christian Centre, Dorset rogermccolm@talktalk.net 01305 826864 F 5 Holtwood Meth., near Wimborne, Dorset, Peter Aston, (01258) 840844 peter@peter-aston.co.uk S 6 FreeChurch, Frinton, Essex paulnwatkins@gmail.com 01255 851581 S 7 5pm Birchfield church Yeovil pastor.kelton@tiscali.co.uk Kelton Black 07712013314 M 8 Filey - Evron Centre 01723 518003 with Paul Wheater bylands-24@lineone.net T 9 Stourbridge, Tony Stone / tstone@wfcsmail.com 01384 392566 W 10 N. Wales Bob Searle IGO@oasisdwygyfylchi.freeserve.co.uk 0845 2267027 T 11 Anglesey Bob Searle IGO@oasisdwygyfylchi.freeserve.co.uk 0845 2267027 F 12 Hopton (Nr Diss) - High Street Chapel - 01359 221582, with Paul Wheater bylands-24@lineone.net S 13 St Helens CofE Selston, Notts. darren.mangold@ntlworld.com 07913 673603 S 14 DEC LCF, Vandyke School Theatre, Leighton Buzzard, www.lcf.uk.net 01525 237700 M 15 Ipswich Wendy Clarke charlieclarke@homecall.co.uk 01473 211585 / 01473 748772 T 16 Maidstone, Kent (St Philips) - Ken Hope 01622 674005 kenhope1@tallktalk.net W 17 (AM) Maidstone - Recording Studio – Clive Lever clive.lever@tiscali.co.uk W 17 (PM) Uckfield, Sussex , NIigel Gibson, 71 Hunters Way, Uckfield, TN222BB T 18 FLYS OUT MIKE BARTHOLOMEW-BIGGS (poet) will be reading from his new poetry collection "Tell it Like it Might Be" Thurs Nov 13th Lauderdale House, Highgate Hill, N6 5HG, 8 pm (with Sascha Aurora Akhtar, Naomi Foyle and Nii Ayikwei Parkes) http://www.lauderdalehouse.co.uk , 7.30 pm (with Hugh Underhill) Sat Nov 15th at Poetry in the Crypt, St Mary's Church, Upper Street, Islington, 7.30 pm (with Hugh Underhill and Graham Kings) November 20th Putnoe Library, Bedford, MK41 8HQ Tel: 01234 276462 (if going contact first) Sun Nov 30th at the Torriano Reading Rooms, 99 Torriano Avenue, NW5 2RX, 7.30 pm http://www.hearingeye.org/ www.poetrypf.co.uk Now available to radio stations worldwide for only £25 per year (see www.ncmradioshow.com ) is the unlimited use of the NCM Radio Show (presented by PAUL DAVIS & ANDY HUMPHRIES (interviews by DARREN MANGOLD) produced by GOOD NEWS BROADCASTING ASSOCIATION. Also featured are special interview & music shows with celebrities such as ELECTRALYTE, DELIRIOUS?, VERRA CRUZ. JACI VELASQUEZ, , PAT BOONE, SIR CLIFF RICHARD, DON FRANCISCO, LUIS PALAU, GEORGE BEVERLY SHEA, HELEN SHAPIRO, MORRIS CHAPMAN, WES DAVIS, A.G & KATE, PAUL OVERSTREET, JIMMY SNOW, PETER HONOUR, VERNON OXFORD, BILL DRAKE, JOHN PANTRY, GLEN CAMPBELL , GEORGE HAMILTON IV, DANA, DANIEL ODONNELL , LAURENCE SINGLEHURST (YWAM), BARBARA FAIRCHILD, ROY MORRIS, AL GORDON, JON FOREMAN etc. For Easter is a 3 hour radio show with SIR CLIFF RICHARD and Paul Davis (DJ). NCM Radio Show is now broadcasting on about 310 radio stations worldwide incl.:- CMR Nashville Radio on www.cmrnashville.net on Sun 8-10 am (UK time) SonRise Radio on www.sonriseradio.com on Sun 9- 11 pm & Wed 11 am- 1pm (UK time) Revival FM 100.8 in west-central Scotland and online at http://revival.fm Live365 Radio http://www.live365.com/stations/kenmann123 (see www.ncmradioshow.com ) Latest UK radio staions are Branch FM , Flame FM & Fusemix.com The New Christian Music Radio Show just keeps on growing. DJ Andy Humphries explains, "The demand for NCM shows has become so great that we have had to quadruple our disc space on the website. We have recently gone from 1GB to 4GB's of ready to use radio shows. That means that currently we have over 125 shows to choose from. We think that for only £25 per year for unlimited access - this deal is not only good for subscribing music stations, it might also be attractive to artists who want to hear the broadcast standard mp3's of their songs getting played on air. This is because the show plays all artists who appear on the NCM discs. Filling a radio schedule 24/7 is never easy, we hope that anyone interested will go to www.ncmradioshow and at least download our two free shows, any maybe, come on board with approx. 300 radio stations around the world who are now part of the NCM radio show family". A quick note to DJs & journalists about filling in the NCM Reaction Sheets… Please make sure you include your name and details (radio station, publications, countries broadcast-to, etc) on the form so we can pass your comments on to artists – it makes such a difference to the artists to hear what you think of their work. Also make sure you fill in a score for each song regardless of genre – use your professional judgement rather than personal genre preferences. Failure to return the sheets for 3 months in succession will mean deletion from the circulation list The NCMdisc is now available to all bone-fide DJs, journalists, music industry persons, & NCM artistes on download on www.newchristianmusic.co.uk The codes this month (NCM#56) are:- USER: gospel & PASSWORD: yellow Click NCM Media Downloads Then click on the button once you are in the website. You'll get next month's codes when you return this month's Reaction Sheet. And Finally…SUBMITTED BY PETER HONOUR (Orpington, Kent, England) This will make you realise just how intelligent you are! UNIVERSITY CHALLENGE (BBC2) Jeremy Paxman: What is another name for 'cherrypickers' and ‘cheesemongers'? Contestant: Homosexuals. Paxman: No. They're regiments in the British Army who will be very upset with you. BEG, BORROW OR STEAL (BBC2) Jamie Theakston: Where do you think Cambridge University is? Contestant: Geography isn't my strong point. Theakston: There's a clue in the title. Contestant: Leicester . BBC NORFOLK Stewart White: Who had a worldwide hit with ‘What A Wonderful World’? Contestant: I don't know. White: I'll give you some clues: what do you call the part between your hand and your elbow? Contestant: Arm. White: Correct-and if you're not weak, you're . . . ? Contestant: Strong. White: Correct - and what was Lord Mountbatten's first name? Contestant: Louis. White: Well, there we are then. So who had a worldwide hit with the song ‘What A Wonderful World’? Contestant: Frank Sinatra? LATE SHOW (BBC MIDLANDS ) Alex Trelinski: What is the capital of Italy ? Contestant: France . . Trelinski: France is another country. Try again. Contestant: Oh, um, Benidorm. Trelinski: Wrong, sorry, let's try another question. In which country is the Parthenon? Contestant: Sorry, I don't know. Trelinski: Just guess a country then. Contestant: Paris . . . ? NCM News 254 10 OCTOBER 2008 HOT NEWS FOR NCM ARTISTS!! ... Under the auspices of the UKCMA & NCM, NCM artists are invited to perform at the National Christian Resources Exhibition that takes place at the Exeter(Devon) on 29 - 31 January 2009 and Sandown (south of London) on 12 - 15 May 2009. There is already huge interest throughout England for the events. If you would like to be included the NCM Sharing Show, you are warmly invited. enq@newmusicenterprises.com asap. Ahead of their 21st October album release, the Award Winning duo MARY MARY will be in London for Hillsong's London Conference at ExCel. The son of TENNESSEE ERNIE FORD recalls his dad in a new book AMY GRANT, partnered with Soles4Souls, the international charity dedicated to providing free footwear to those in desperate need in the United States and around the world, to distribute shoes and perform for more than 350 homeless people for The Bridge Ministry in Nashville, Tennessee. SONYA ISAACS, a member of popular Gaither recording artist The Isaacs, provided harmony vocals. Bridge ministry founder CANDY CHRISTMAS commented: "Amy Grant has a heart of gold. It is wonderful to see someone use their notoriety to help relieve the suffering of the homeless.." The Bridge Ministry feeds, hands out clothing and has a church service under the bridge for homeless people living in Nashville. The ministry was founded by Candy in November 2004. The ministry is a faith-based, team of more than 75 volunteers work each week bagging groceries, packing trucks, setting up meetings, preparing meals and gathering clothes to aid over 350 homeless individuals and families every Tuesday and Thursday night. www.bridgeministry.org www.candychristmas.com : www.soles4souls.org Amy Grant: www.amygrant.com ROY & BARBARA FAIRCHILD write, “Just wanted to drop you a line and let you know we've been busy in Branson this year doing a Sunday Morning worship service at the Lawrence Welk Theater and road dates. We've also opened a small Diner here in Branson; just getting started this week. Thanks for all NCM does.” AMY GRANT, in partnership with Philosophy, is embarking on an initiative to raise money for women’s cancer research. In conjunction with Breast Cancer Awareness Month (October), Amy has recorded a new song “She Colors My Day.” This song is a celebration of the mother/daughter relationship, and Amy is making it available as a digital download with all proceeds being donated to the Women’s Cancer Research Fund. Click here to hear the song and download it for a very worthy cause. Go to AmyGrant.com or SheColorsMyDay.com for additional information. Also look for Amy’s music video for the song in just a few weeks! Legendary songwriter HANK COCHRAN received good news late last week, when he was given an "all clear" on his most recent CT scan. Cochran, who was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in June and underwent surgery in July, says, "This was the best news we could hope for." Hank begins a round of chemotherapy tomorrow and sends his thanks to the many friends and fans who supported him through prayer. "It's what's kept me going." Best known for hits like "Make The World Go Away," "I Fall To Pieces," etc. Hank has enjoyed cuts by Elvis, Merle Haggard, Willie Nelson, Strait, Ronstadt, and many others. www.MySpace.com/songwritersingerhankcochran. Please pray for GLENN DOUGLAS TUBB whose wife passed away several weeks ago. He writes, “We had 46 years together. It's a new world without her and I'm having a hard time grabbing hold of it. Please pray that God will continue to hold me up and get me through this.” There is a new live album from MOYA BRENNAN this month (her first ever live project) entitled 'Heart Strings'. Recorded with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and including 3 songs from Moya's Clannad days. www.fiercedistribution.com The annual PAUL POULTON Project Christmas tour dates 29 Nov The House, Scunthorpe, Brumby Wood Lane. 30 Marsh Lane Church, Stone Cross, West Bromwich. 5 Dec William Lovell School, Boston Lincs 6 Little Lane LEP 7 St Albans, Elim, Unity Works, Lyon Way. (AM & PM) 12 Darlington, The Education Village. 13 Herringthorpe URC 14 Elm Ridge Methodist Church 14 North Point Church, Bell Green, Coventry 18 Stevenage AOG (tbc) 19 Didcot King's Church (tbc) 20 Brixham Baptist Church 21 Stratton Green, Swindon Baptist Church 21 Chalford Baptist Church (tbc) 31 St Michael le Belfrey, York GUS EYRE DATES 24/25th Oct Faversham Gospel Mission, concert & preaching November 1/2nd Bethel Evangelical Church Warrington 3rd St Annes, Lunch Club 5th Drug rehab, concert 9th Marton, Blackpool, preaching 10th/16th Mission Northwich, Cheshire 20th Marton, B'pool 1/23rd AofE Prayer Partners Weekend 27th Oak Hill College, talking about prison work 30th Clayton le Woods preaching December 6th' The Well', B'pool 7th Brynn C.F. preaching 13th 'Helping Hand', B'pool 16/17th Prison Carol Services 22nd 'Soup Kitchen', B'pool NCM is now finalising bookings for NCM#58 - to be released 1 November and NCM#58. If you have a recording that you would like to include? Please inform me asap. NCM is proving to be an EASY, ECONOMIC & EFFECTIVE way to obtain AIRPLAY, MARKETING & PROMOTION at home & abroad. This month, as well as bookings from the UK and USA, we have Bahamas, Canada, Sweden, New Zealand, Malta, Italy and the Faroes. DON'T MISS THIS PROMOTIONAL & MARKETING OPPORTUNITY -The airplay and promotion generated by the NCM promo-disc increases with each month. It is cheap and effective. You can't do the job cheaper. We are currently in the process of preparing for the release of NCM#57 that goes to the media (RADIO, PRESS ETC) on 1 Oct. If you would like a song included, please contact asap as it will soon be full. MICHAEL J RAMPLIN & FRIENDS (MARTIN DAWSON & ADELE) dates. michael.ramplin@cwctv.net 11th Oct Southend Full Gospel Church, St Annes Rd, Southend, Essex 7-30 pm 12th Oct Rayleigh Elim Church, Rayleigh, Essex. 7-30pm 19th available (weekend) michael.ramplin@cwctv.net 24th Oct Brierfield Community Centre, Brierfield, Nr Nelson, Lancs. Colne Parish Church 28th Nov at 7-30 pm with George Hamilton IV. JEAN WATSON UK TOUR noel.donaldson@ntlworld.com Sat 1.11.08 Roomfield Baptist Church Todmorden 7.30 Sun 2.11.08 Halifax Elim Church 10.30 Sun 2.11.08 New Springs Loughborough 6.00 pm Tue 4.11.08 Honley Elim Church Huddersfield 7.30 thur 6.11.08 Shipley Baptist Church Shipley 7.30 Fri 7.11.08 Elim Pentecostal Church Braintree Essex 7.30 at 8.11.08 Ladies meeting Newbury 10 - 4 Sun 9.11.08 Bell Green Life Centre Coventry 10.00 Sun 9.11.08 Bell Green Coventry 6.30 YAZZ will appear on BBC Songs Of Praise on 12th October, the second of two programmes from Spain which also feature GRAHAM KENDRICK. Yazz will be in the UK immediately after the programme is shown and will be performing and conducting interviews. Watch out this year for the new book by NCM's PAUL DAVIS entitled "Gospel Music Times - The Authorised Biography of GEORGE BEVERLY SHEA" (Ambassador Books). The main solist for Billy Graham for over 60years, Bev celebrates his 100th birthday next February. SIR CLIFF RICHARD says, “A 100th birthday is always a fantastic achievement, even more so when the centenarian is still commanding a public stage . The first time that I ever heard George Beverly Shea sing was in the Sixties at a Billy Graham crusade. I was really amazed and, if I’m really honest, slightly envious. He stood there and this voice came out that sounded so confident, rich and resonant. What also really amazed me was it didn’t matter whether he sang something ancient or modern. With the passage of time, things haven’t changed. He still sounds confident, rich, and resonant today, a century since his birth.” DR. JESSY DIXON (Chicago, Illinois, USA) writes, “It was my great pleasure and thrill to work with Dr. Billy Graham and George Beverly Shea and observe firsthand their dedication to the extension of God’s Kingdom. Without hesitation, I say that the experience is one of the highlights of my career. As a truly historic singer throughout almost all the 20th Century, George Beverly Shea is an icon in Gospel Music who has no equal in his interpretation of whatever gospel song he performs. I speak for all gospel singers past-and-present when I say that it is to your advantage to read Paul Davis’ great book." WES DAVIS says that his new website is live & would like folks to have a look. www.wesdavis.co.uk GEORGE HAMILTON IV UK LOCAL CHURCH TOUR - AVAILABLE FOR BOOKING W 25 FEB 2009 available for booking enq@newmusicenterprises.com T 26 available for booking enq@newmusicenterprises.com F 27 Southend , Keith Brown pastorkeith@hiscomingministries.com 01702 462782 S 28 Christ Church, Worksop / P.NUNWICK@sky.com 01909 478732 S 1 MAR available for booking enq@newmusicenterprises.com M 2 available for booking enq@newmusicenterprises.com T 3 available for booking enq@newmusicenterprises.com W 4 available for booking enq@newmusicenterprises.com T 5 available for booking enq@newmusicenterprises.com F 6 MAR New Day Baptist h, High Street, Morton, Lincs, davidandrosie@btinternet.com 01778-570656 S 7- S8 NCM Weekend (Leighton Buzzard) enq@newmusicenterprises.com 01525 237700 WANTED: New IDs for the NCM RADIO SHOW by NCM artists. Promote the show and you promote yourself too. See ww.newchristianmusic.co.uk for scripts. CHARLIE LANDSBOROUGH - Autumn UK Tour 2008 12/10/2008 Wolverhampton Wulfrun Hall 0807 320 7000 / 13/10/2008 Norwich Theatre Royal 01603 630 000 14/10/2008 Chesterfield Winding Wheel 01246 345 333 / 16/10/2008 Truro Hall for Cornwall 01872 262 466 /17/10/2008 Torquay Princess Theatre 0844 847 2315 /18/10/2008 Barnstaple Queens Theatre 0127324242 / 19/10/2008 Weston-S-Mare Playhouse Theat 01934 645 544 / 21/10/2008 Llandudno Venue Cymru 01492 872 000 / 22/10/2008 Kings Lynn Corn Exchange 01553 764 864 24/10/2008 Peterborough The Cresset 26/10/2008 Felixstowe Spa Pavilion 01394 282 126 28/10/2008 Glasgow Royal Concert Hall 01413 538 000 /29/10/2008 Aberdeen Music Halls 01224 641 122 / 31/10/2008 Glenrothes Rothes Hall 01592 611 101 / 01/11/2008 Billingham Forum Theatre 01642 522 663 / 02/11/2008 Blackburn King George's Hall 0844 847 1664 04/11/2008 Stockport Plaza Theatre 0161 477 7779 / 05/11/2008 Dunstable Grove Theatre 01582 60 20 80 / 06/11/2008 Worthing Pavilion Theatre 01903 206 206 / 07/11/2008 Bedford Corn Exchange 01234 269 519 / 08/11/2008 Stoke-o-Trent Victoria Hall 0870 060 6649 15/11/2008 Liverpool Philharmonic 0151 709 3789 Please kindly diarise (& come if you can) to the following UKCMA MEETINGS 2008 (general invitation to trustees, members & friends involved in NCM WEEKEND, UKCMA YEARBOOK etc). (VENUE: VANDYKE SCHOOL, LEIGHTON BUZZARD). 4pm SUN 14 DEC (followed at 6pm by evening with GEORGE HAMILTON IV (Nashville, Tennessee, USA)) 4pm SUN 11 JAN (followed at 6pm by evening with ROB ASH (Wales)) Hull Worship Leader ANGIE LENDON is on tour to promote her new album From Hull With Love. Some dates available. angie@newlifehull.org www.angielendon.com Huddersfield / 24th Oct From Hull With Love Tour Willaim Lovell School Skegness /26th Wrenthorpe Mission Wakefield If you would like to be added to the first class “Bluegrass & More” Newsletter mailing list - contact deehallett@btopenworld.com NCM WEEKEND - 1-2 MAR 08 PHOTOS A DVD of nearly 500 photos of the 2008 NCM Awards Weekend is available for sale at only £25 (including postage). This includes stage appearances, award presentations, plus informal moments. Make cheque to:- NEW MUSIC ENTERPRISES, PO Box 6207, Leighton Buzzard, Beds. LU7 OWQ, England. (see "NCM WEEKEND 08 PHOTOS" on www.newmusicenterprises.com for Paypal) NCM WEEKEND 1-2 MAR O8 DVDs Four DVDs of nearly 10 hours of the 2008 NCM Awards Weekend are available for sale at only £15 each (plus £1 postage UK / £2 Europe / £3 Rest Of The World) for each DVD). DVDs includes stage appearances, award presentations, plus informal moments. (CONCERT#1, CONCERT#2, CONCERT#3, CONCERT#4 ) Make cheque to:- STV VIDEOS, PO Box 299, Bromley, Kent. BR2 9XB, England. www.stvvideos.co.uk phone 020 8464 4287 DAVE CLEMO & JERRY ARHELGER UK TOUR MAY 2009 dave.clemo dave@daveclemo.co.uk Dave Clemo says, "If you are interested please let me know as soon as possible. We can finalise details a little closer to the date. Now available to radio stations worldwide for only £25 per year (see www.ncmradioshow.com ) is the unlimited use of the NCM Radio Show (presented by PAUL DAVIS & ANDY HUMPHRIES (interviews by DARREN MANGOLD) produced by GOOD NEWS BROADCASTING ASSOCIATION. Also featured are special interview & music shows with celebrities such as ELECTRALYTE, DELIRIOUS?, VERRA CRUZ. JACI VELASQUEZ, , PAT BOONE, SIR CLIFF RICHARD, DON FRANCISCO, LUIS PALAU, GEORGE BEVERLY SHEA, HELEN SHAPIRO, MORRIS CHAPMAN, WES DAVIS, A.G & KATE, PAUL OVERSTREET, JIMMY SNOW, PETER HONOUR, VERNON OXFORD, BILL DRAKE, JOHN PANTRY, GLEN CAMPBELL , GEORGE HAMILTON IV, DANA, DANIEL ODONNELL , LAURENCE SINGLEHURST (YWAM), BARBARA FAIRCHILD, ROY MORRIS, AL GORDON, JON FOREMAN etc. For Easter is a 3 hour radio show with SIR CLIFF RICHARD and Paul Davis (DJ). NCM Radio Show is now broadcasting on about 310 radio stations worldwide incl.:- CMR Nashville Radio on www.cmrnashville.net on Sun 8-10 am (UK time) SonRise Radio on www.sonriseradio.com on Sun 9- 11 pm & Wed 11 am- 1pm (UK time) Revival FM 100.8 in west-central Scotland and online at http://revival.fm Live365 Radio http://www.live365.com/stations/kenmann123 (see www.ncmradioshow.com ) Latest UK radio staions are Branch FM , Flame FM & Fusemix.com The New Christian Music Radio Show just keeps on growing. DJ Andy Humphries explains, "The demand for NCM shows has become so great that we have had to quadruple our disc space on the website. We have recently gone from 1GB to 4GB's of ready to use radio shows. That means that currently we have over 125 shows to choose from. We think that for only £25 per year for unlimited access - this deal is not only good for subscribing music stations, it might also be attractive to artists who want to hear the broadcast standard mp3's of their songs getting played on air. This is because the show plays all artists who appear on the NCM discs. Filling a radio schedule 24/7 is never easy, we hope that anyone interested will go to www.ncmradioshow and at least download our two free shows, any maybe, come on board with approx. 300 radio stations around the world who are now part of the NCM radio show family". A quick note to DJs & journalists about filling in the NCM Reaction Sheets… Please make sure you include your name and details (radio station, publications, countries broadcast-to, etc) on the form so we can pass your comments on to artists – it makes such a difference to the artists to hear what you think of their work. Also make sure you fill in a score for each song regardless of genre – use your professional judgement rather than personal genre preferences. Failure to return the sheets for 3 months in succession will mean deletion from the circulation list The NCMdisc is now available to all bone-fide DJs, journalists, music industry persons, & NCM artistes on download on www.newchristianmusic.co.uk The codes this month (NCM#56) are:- USER: gospel & PASSWORD: yellow Click NCM Media Downloads Then click on the button once you are in the website. You'll get next month's codes when you return this month's Reaction Sheet. And Finally… SOMEBODY'S RAISING THEIR KID RIGHT! (submitted by Dottie Snow, Nashville, Tennessee ) One day a 6 year old girl was sitting in a classroom. The teacher was going to explain evolution to the children. The teacher asked a little boy: “Tommy do you see the tree outside?” TOMMY: Yes. TEACHER: Tommy, do you see the grass outside? TOMMY: Yes. TEACHER: Go outside and look up and see if you can see the sky. TOMMY: Okay. (He returned a few minutes later) Yes, I saw the sky. TEACHER: Did you see God up there? TOMMY: No. TEACHER: That's my point. We can't see God because he isn't there. Possibly he just doesn't exist. A little girl spoke up and wanted to ask the boy some questions. The teacher agreed and the little girl asked the boy: “Tommy, do you see the tree outside?” TOMMY: Yes. LITTLE GIRL: Tommy do you see the grass outside? TOMMY: Yessssss! LITTLE GIRL: Did you see the sky? TOMMY: Yessssss! LITTLE GIRL: Tommy, do you see the teacher? TOMMY: Yes LITTLE GIRL: Do you see her brain? TOMMY: No LITTLE GIRL: Then according to what we were taught today in school, she possibly may not even have one! ***** FOR WE WALK BY FAITH, NOT BY SIGHT' (II COR. 5:7) ***** NCM News 253 3 OCTOBER 2008 HOT NEWS FOR NCM ARTISTS!! ... Under the auspices of the UKCMA & NCM, NCM artists are invited to perform at the National Christian Resources Exhibition that takes place at the Exeter(Devon) on 29 - 31 January 2009 and Sandown (south of London) on 12 - 15 May 2009. There is already huge interest throughout England for the events. If you would like to be included the NCM Sharing Show, you are warmly invited. enq@newmusicenterprises.com asap. "New Christian Music (NCM) & UKCMA showcased a galaxy of different styles of music from soul, pop, country, P&W, to southern-gospel, something for all tastes. The four inspiring acts PAUL WHEATER, MARVA NELSON, LIZ DOYLE, SUE & WES DAVIS created a great atmosphere where many people commented on how impressed they were with the outstanding Christian musical talent on display. A big thanks goes to NATIONAL CHRISTIAN RESOURCES EXHIBITION for hosting the event. We are all looking forward to next year's events." PAUL DAVIS (Chairman of the UKCMA) "A big thank you to both NCM & the UKCMA for the support you have given CRE in the past few days in Harrogate, Yorkshire. I have had so many encouraging comments back about how much people appreciated your music, uplifting and inspiring. Each afternoon I made a point of being on the door as visitors left to ask if they enjoyed the event. The response was warm and encouraging and many made comment on how much they enjoyed the music and worship over the lunchtime. For your encouragement 1300 people visited the exhibition on Thursday and together I do believe we have equipped the church with resources and renewed vision." STEVE BRIARS (ORGANISER-MANAGER, NCRE UK) "Thank you for including me in your showcase of NCM artistes at the Harrogate NCRE event. The NCM & UKCMA stand and the presentation of myself and fellow artistes was up to the usual high standards of NCM that we have come to expect. The Harrogate event itself seemed very well planned and something that anyone involved with Christian activities should consider attending in the future. God Bless. PAUL WHEATER " (WHITBY, YORKSHIRE) "It was a pleasure to sing at the National Christian Resources event in Harrogate. It was a warm, friendly receptive atmosphere and I enjoyed and appreciated the support of Paul Davis and my 'fellow' singers – Paul Wheater, Liz Doyle, Sue & Wes Davis . It was the first time I had sung at this event and this made it easier. The feedback has been positive and I feel satisfied to know that people were not just entertained but uplifted." MARVA NELSON (BRADFORD, YORKSHIRE) "It was such a great privilege to attend and be a part - along with my fellow NCM/UKCMA artistes - of the Harrogate CRE. The event is a well organised and very well attended event and it is very useful for anyone involved in Christian activities. It has a wide selection of products (church signs, puppets, books, staging, sound systems, tables and chairs etc...) and has many main organisations/charities/missions represented. It also has various daily activities (which included our NCM/UKCMA lunchtime concert) and is overall a very useful and much needed event in the church calendar". WES DAVIS (LEIGHTON BUZZARD, BEDS.) JARROD COOPER new album, 'Beautiful River', through Authentic Music well known worship songs like "Famous One" and "At The Foot Of The Cross", some new Cooper compositions and a stripped back acoustic version of Cooper's best known song "King Of Kings, Majesty". “Evolved”, the new album from MARTYN JOSEPH new recordings of some of Martyn`s finest songs of the past 16 years, making it a real career defining addition to his catalogue. Songs listed include ‘Kiss the World Beautiful’, ‘Sing to my Soul’ and ‘Proud Valley Boy’. Three time Grammy Award Winner and 15 time Grammy nominated, JAMES INGRAM will release his first inspirational album "STAND" (In The Light) on Intering Records/Music One, distributed by WEA. Ingram's first single "MERCY" an original collaboration with award winning Debbie Allen and James Ingram is the inspiration for this l project. Encounter Worship Vol 3 from Fierce! Distribution is a collection of contemporary worship classics. Eighteen tracks, ‘Encounter Worship Three’ is a veritable international who’s who of contemporary worship songwriters: Hillsong are there with Joel Houston’s ‘From The Inside Out’, Reuben Morgan’s ‘Mighty To Save’ and Brooke Frazer’s ‘Hosanna’. Brits come in the form of Matt Redman’s ‘Beautiful News’, Tim Hughes’ ‘Happy Day’ and ‘We Must Go (God Of Justice)’ as well as Ben Cantelon’s ‘I Found A Love.’ MOYA BRENNAN’s live shows, with trademark intimacy and power, should be recorded and made available. ‘Heart Strings’ is Moya’s first ever live solo recording and features the prodigious talents of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Recorded at the Liverpool Philarmonic Hall and in Germany in October 2007, the fourteen tracks include three classic songs from Moya’s days as the voice of Clannad, including ‘Harry’s Game’, ‘I Will Find You’ and ‘In A Lifetime’. Drawing on Moya’s recent solo work with tracks like ‘Tapestry’ and ‘Sailing Away’- tracks that showcase both her skill at crafting evocative moments and her prodigious band’s skilful musicianship - the live show recording underlines just why Moya is known as the First Lady of Celtic music. Created by New Zealand's high-energy worship songwriters, PARACHUTE BAND announces their latest CD ‘Technicolor’ which will be released in the UK in October. ‘Technicolor’ captures the electrifying and energetic sounds and songs of the New Zealand church. The songs were written with a deep passion about transforming one's life to that of a Christian. From "Come to the River" to "Living Rain," the songs express liberty in being washed in the revitalizing and refreshing water of God. ‘It's Time’, is a collection of favourites and two new songs from award-winning songwriter and worship artist BRIAN DOERKSEN. The 15-track album features newly-recorded, guitar-driven versions of Doerksen's popular songs such as "Hallelujah (Your Love is Amazing)" and "Come, Now is the Time to Worship" delivered with a "classic rock" twist from producers Philip Janz and Brian Thiessen. The new arrangements of his better-known songs will once again capture the hearts of worshippers while breathing new life into these modern hymns. In addition, the album offers two new Doerksen-penned songs - - "Broken and Beautiful" and "It's Time for the Reign of God," from which the title was taken. DAVE CLEMO reports that he is “getting on with the album that contains 12 songs including two co-written with JERRY ARHELGER, one co-written with Jamie Jones and two cover versions. It's provisionally titled "Rise of the Nouveaux Poor" and once complete will be available from iTunes etc, plus selected indie record stores and direct from Dave himself. Ahead of their 21st October album release, the Award Winning duo MARY MARY will be in London for Hillsong's London Conference at ExCel. WOODY WRIGHT reports, “ Vonnie and I hit the ground running and found ourselves singing and sharing in five countries! After fun filled opportunities this Spring in Ontario, Canada with our Salvation Army friends, the Alexandria Men's Prayer Breakfast, a stop at the Crown Room in Brownsburg, Indiana, an Andrew Phipps TV taping, Ohio, Michigan, and Illinois trips and the Mark Lowry Senior Trip in Nashville - we really started traveling! The end of May and the first part of June took us to Norway for a half dozen stops. Martin, Jan Kare and Kolborn of the Gaither Music Club Finsland arranged for us sing to packed houses of Gospel Music fans in that lovely country. We had time to see the beautiful countryside and make many lifelong friends in Norway. We barely had time to unpack from that trip and repack for the Shiloh cruise to Alaska the next weekend. Vonnie and I, along with my Mother and a dear friend of hers enjoyed the Gospel cruise with Shiloh and Southern Charm. The very next week we traveled to Southern Indiana and Middle Tennessee for concerts with Stephen Hill, Mike Allen, Ben Speer and Reggie & Ladyelove Smith. Then the last weekend of June, Stephen Hill and I made our way to Amsterdam for concerts there! July's schedule was filled with concerts in Indiana, Pennsylvania, and Kentucky. At the Alexandria, Indiana 4-H Fair where Stephen Hill, Vonnie and I performed, we were visited onstage by Bill Gaither. He brought his video camera and along with him came the Vocal Band, Ernie Haase and Signature Sound, Gordon Mote and THE OAK RIDGE BOYS! www.woodywright.net GORDON MOTE joined a stellar cast of artists in the first Academy of Country Music Honors concert held at the Musicians Hall of Fame in Nashville Wednesday, September 17th. He honored his friend, the late PORTER WAGONER, by performing some of his signature songs in the tribute to the Country Music Hall of Fame member, who was awarded the Cliffie Stone Pioneer Award posthumously.� Other artists appearing included LeAnn Rimes, Amy Grant, Joe Nichols and Connie Smith. Gaither Homecoming audiences are familiar with Gordon Mote's spot-on imitation of the Wagoner, and he relayed stories, cracked jokes and sang songs in Porter Wagoner's voice, including his trademark hisses. His songs included "Satisfied Mind," "Carroll County Accident" and "Green, Green Grass of Home." JOHN HEAVENS was featured on the BBC talking with Jazz broadcaster Linley Hamilton. http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00dmh9b/ STEWART SMITH & his wife left New Zealand for the UK. After 10 years of missionary service with Operation Mobilisation (1998-2008), he joins a smaller missionary society called David Livingstone, Inc. The work involves orphanages in southeast Asia. “Based in Somerset, we'll continue to be involved with outreach in Britain. Performances will include a 'Keith Green tribute' set of Keith Green songs.It's important for the music of Keith Green to be carried forward into the next generation of young Christians. 01823-660868 (phone) stewart1991.om@hotmail.com The annual PAUL POULTON Project Christmas tour dates 29 Nov The House, Scunthorpe, Brumby Wood Lane. 30 Marsh Lane Church, Stone Cross, West Bromwich. 5 Dec William Lovell School, Boston Lincs 6 Little Lane LEP 7 St Albans, Elim, Unity Works, Lyon Way. (AM & PM) 12 Darlington, The Education Village. 13 Herringthorpe URC 14 Elm Ridge Methodist Church 14 North Point Church, Bell Green, Coventry 18 Stevenage AOG (tbc) 19 Didcot King's Church (tbc) 20 Brixham Baptist Church 21 Stratton Green, Swindon Baptist Church 21 Chalford Baptist Church (tbc) 31 St Michael le Belfrey, York JEAN WATSON UK TOUR noel.donaldson@ntlworld.com Sat 1.11.08 Roomfield Baptist Church Todmorden 7.30 Sun 2.11.08 Halifax Elim Church 10.30 Sun 2.11.08 New Springs Loughborough 6.00 pm Tue 4.11.08 Honley Elim Church Huddersfield 7.30 thur 6.11.08 Shipley Baptist Church Shipley 7.30 Fri 7.11.08 Elim Pentecostal Church Braintree Essex 7.30 at 8.11.08 Ladies meeting Newbury 10 - 4 Sun 9.11.08 Bell Green Life Centre Coventry 10.00 Sun 9.11.08 Bell Green Coventry 6.30 AMY GRANT & VINCE GILL will embark on a 15-date Christmas With Amy & Vince Tour on December 4, in Manchester, NH, and bring it home Dec. 22 and 23 with two shows in Nashville at the Ryman Auditorium. In their two hour program of cherished standards and newer seasonal fare, the Grammy-winning husband-and-wife team will be backed by a 12-piece band that features a horn section and two harmony singers, one of whom is Gill’s daughter, Jenny. “Some of our earlier Christmas tours were with a symphony orchestra,” Gill notes. “This time, though, we wanted to create more of an intimate, living room feel.” Plans are underway to work with local charities in order to give back to these communities. On Sept. 30, Grant will release her first new Christmas album in nine years. Called The Christmas Collection, it is made up of selections from her three earlier Christmas CDs—plus four new tunes, including “Baby It’s Christmas,” a song Grant and Gill wrote together. Keeping with the festive mood, Grant will tape on Nov. 11 an NBC-TV special, Holiday Celebration On Ice. It co-stars Michael W. Smith and a corps of world-famous skating champions and will air Nov. 30. One of the most beloved and respected performers in American music, Gill was inducted last year into the Country Music Hall of Fame. He is a long-time member of the Grand Ole Opry and winner of 19 Grammy awards. Gill boasts three best-selling Christmas albums of his own: Let There Be Peace On Earth, Breath Of Heaven and Christmas Collection. A recent poll from Rajar states that 8.1 million people in the UK alone listen to Internet Radio making this delivery of radio a major player. All mobile phones that can access the Internet can now receive CMR Nashville (with the NCM Radio Show every Sunday morning) anywhere in the world. Links to download the software can be found on CMR Nashville Home Page. With Bluetooth technology you can also listen via your car radio. The stand alone Internet Radios are also becoming the king of the portable radios with over 40 models on sale around the world from as little as £40 UK. contact Lee Williams lee@cmrnashville.net Tel: +44(0)1252 514549 Mob: +44(0)7956 888587 www.cmrnashville.net GUS EYRE DATES 29th Sep/ 20th October Poland & Hungary, schools drug awareness programmes, concerts & preaching 24/25th Oct Faversham Gospel Mission, concert & preaching November 1/2nd Bethel Evangelical Church Warrington 3rd St Annes, Lunch Club 5th Drug rehab, concert 9th Marton, Blackpool, preaching 10th/16th Mission Northwich, Cheshire 20th Marton, B'pool 1/23rd AofE Prayer Partners Weekend 27th Oak Hill College, talking about prison work 30th Clayton le Woods preaching December 6th' The Well', B'pool 7th Brynn C.F. preaching 13th 'Helping Hand', B'pool 16/17th Prison Carol Services 22nd 'Soup Kitchen', B'pool NCM is now finalising bookings for NCM#58 - to be released 1 November and NCM#58. If you have a recording that you would like to include? Please inform me asap. NCM is proving to be an EASY, ECONOMIC & EFFECTIVE way to obtain AIRPLAY, MARKETING & PROMOTION at home & abroad. This month, as well as bookings from the UK and USA, we have Bahamas, Canada, Sweden, New Zealand, Malta, Italy and the Faroes. DON'T MISS THIS PROMOTIONAL & MARKETING OPPORTUNITY -The airplay and promotion generated by the NCM promo-disc increases with each month. It is cheap and effective. You can't do the job cheaper. We are currently in the process of preparing for the release of NCM#57 that goes to the media (RADIO, PRESS ETC) on 1 Oct. If you would like a song included, please contact asap as it will soon be full. MICHAEL J RAMPLIN & FRIENDS (MARTIN DAWSON & ADELE) dates. michael.ramplin@cwctv.net 11th Oct Southend Full Gospel Church, St Annes Rd, Southend, Essex 7-30 pm 12th Oct Rayleigh Elim Church, Rayleigh, Essex. 7-30pm 19th available (weekend) michael.ramplin@cwctv.net 24th Oct Brierfield Community Centre, Brierfield, Nr Nelson, Lancs. Colne Parish Church 28th Nov at 7-30 pm with George Hamilton IV. alive Ministry Autumn Tour with Scotland's JOHN WILSON aliveministry@hotmail.co.uk 5th Oct Dumfries Baptist Church, Dumfries 6th Oct Flame FM, Liverpool 7th Oct West Derby Evangelical, Liverpool 8th Oct Crosshill Parish Church, Motherwell 9th Oct Date Available 10th Oct Skipton Christian Fellowship 12th Oct Inverness Bible Fellowship YAZZ will appear on BBC Songs Of Praise on 12th October, the second of two programmes from Spain which also feature GRAHAM KENDRICK. Yazz will be in the UK immediately after the programme is shown and will be performing and conducting interviews. Watch out this year for the new book by NCM's PAUL DAVIS entitled "Gospel Music Times - The Authorised Biography of GEORGE BEVERLY SHEA" (Ambassador Books). The main solist for Billy Graham for over 60years, Bev celebrates his 100th birthday next February. SIR CLIFF RICHARD says, “A 100th birthday is always a fantastic achievement, even more so when the centenarian is still commanding a public stage . The first time that I ever heard George Beverly Shea sing was in the Sixties at a Billy Graham crusade. I was really amazed and, if I’m really honest, slightly envious. He stood there and this voice came out that sounded so confident, rich and resonant. What also really amazed me was it didn’t matter whether he sang something ancient or modern. With the passage of time, things haven’t changed. He still sounds confident, rich, and resonant today, a century since his birth.” DR. JESSY DIXON (Chicago, Illinois, USA) writes, “It was my great pleasure and thrill to work with Dr. Billy Graham and George Beverly Shea and observe firsthand their dedication to the extension of God’s Kingdom. Without hesitation, I say that the experience is one of the highlights of my career. As a truly historic singer throughout almost all the 20th Century, George Beverly Shea is an icon in Gospel Music who has no equal in his interpretation of whatever gospel song he performs. I speak for all gospel singers past-and-present when I say that it is to your advantage to read Paul Davis’ great book." WES DAVIS says that his new website is live & would like folks to have a look. www.wesdavis.co.uk GEORGE HAMILTON IV UK LOCAL CHURCH TOUR - AVAILABLE FOR BOOKING W 25 FEB 2009 available for booking enq@newmusicenterprises.com T 26 available for booking enq@newmusicenterprises.com F 27 Southend , Keith Brown pastorkeith@hiscomingministries.com 01702 462782 S 28 Christ Church, Worksop / P.NUNWICK@sky.com 01909 478732 S 1 MAR available for booking enq@newmusicenterprises.com M 2 available for booking enq@newmusicenterprises.com T 3 available for booking enq@newmusicenterprises.com W 4 available for booking enq@newmusicenterprises.com T 5 available for booking enq@newmusicenterprises.com F 6 MAR New Day Baptist h, High Street, Morton, Lincs, davidandrosie@btinternet.com 01778-570656 S 7- S8 NCM Weekend (Leighton Buzzard) enq@newmusicenterprises.com 01525 237700 WANTED: New IDs for the NCM RADIO SHOW by NCM artists. Promote the show and you promote yourself too. See ww.newchristianmusic.co.uk for scripts. CHARLIE LANDSBOROUGH - Autumn UK Tour 2008 12/10/2008 Wolverhampton Wulfrun Hall 0807 320 7000 / 13/10/2008 Norwich Theatre Royal 01603 630 000 14/10/2008 Chesterfield Winding Wheel 01246 345 333 / 16/10/2008 Truro Hall for Cornwall 01872 262 466 /17/10/2008 Torquay Princess Theatre 0844 847 2315 /18/10/2008 Barnstaple Queens Theatre 0127324242 / 19/10/2008 Weston-S-Mare Playhouse Theat 01934 645 544 / 21/10/2008 Llandudno Venue Cymru 01492 872 000 / 22/10/2008 Kings Lynn Corn Exchange 01553 764 864 24/10/2008 Peterborough The Cresset 26/10/2008 Felixstowe Spa Pavilion 01394 282 126 28/10/2008 Glasgow Royal Concert Hall 01413 538 000 /29/10/2008 Aberdeen Music Halls 01224 641 122 / 31/10/2008 Glenrothes Rothes Hall 01592 611 101 / 01/11/2008 Billingham Forum Theatre 01642 522 663 / 02/11/2008 Blackburn King George's Hall 0844 847 1664 04/11/2008 Stockport Plaza Theatre 0161 477 7779 / 05/11/2008 Dunstable Grove Theatre 01582 60 20 80 / 06/11/2008 Worthing Pavilion Theatre 01903 206 206 / 07/11/2008 Bedford Corn Exchange 01234 269 519 / 08/11/2008 Stoke-o-Trent Victoria Hall 0870 060 6649 15/11/2008 Liverpool Philharmonic 0151 709 3789 Radio ace, Jack Knowlson tells us that two more radio stations are soon to broadcast the NCM Radio Show. Radio Waddensee based in the Netherlands runs a Dutch language service 0700-1900 http://www.radiowaddenzee.nl/ and from the same transmitter Radio Seagull an English language service 1900-0700 that serves listeners in East Anglia, Norfolk and as far North as Tyneside http://www.radioseagull.com/ NCM News 252 19 September 2008 HOT NEWS!! ... Under the auspices of the UKCMA & NCM, WES DAVIS, MARVA NELSON & PAUL WHEATER (MC:PAUL DAVIS) are to perform at the National Christian Resources Exhibition that takes place at the YEC, Harrogate (Yorkshire) at noon on Thurs. 25 September 2008. There is already huge interest throughout the north of England for the event. enq@newmusicenterprises.com asap. LIZ & SYD DOYLE will be traveling to the UK to work with the Centre for Contemporary Ministries In Harrogate where they will promoting evangelism as a part of the Sharing Show at the Christian Resources Exhibition. After 6 years of being licensed ministers, Syd & Liz will both be ordained by the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Oct. 28 at the Great Lakes Regional Conference. One of our supporting churches, Life Bridge, in Ft. Wayne, IN will be the host of the event. Pastor Jack Hayford will be present for the Conference. 508 864 6145. London’s ROSALIND ANGLIN (originally from Sierra Leone) has a new website. www.todgmm.co.uk From the USA, LYNN BECKMAN writes, “ Allow me this opportunity to thank NCM and all of the wonderful DJs and music colleagues throughout the world for helping me honour the memory of country music legend Billy Walker by making my 'TRIBUTE TO BILLY WALKER' song number one (week of Sept. 19) on both the NCM Euro and Country NCM Charts. The song comes from my newest CD released last month, "LOOKIN' DOWN THE ROAD." I offer thanks to HotDisc too for making the song #13 on the HotDisc Chart last week as well. Also, to those who have expressed an interest, I just finished recording a bluegrass Gospel project with Ronnie Reno and The Reno Tradition at the Hilltop Studios in Nashville for release in early 2009. It will feature 13 inspirational songs ranging from some old-time favorites to some exciting newly-written tunes with some great acoustic musicians and spirit-filled arrangements. www.lynnbeckman.com JEAN WATSON UK TOUR noel.donaldson@ntlworld.com Sat 1.11.08 Roomfield Baptist Church Todmorden 7.30 Sun 2.11.08 Halifax Elim Church 10.30 Sun 2.11.08 New Springs Loughborough 6.00 pm Tue 4.11.08 Honley Elim Church Huddersfield 7.30 Thur 6.11.08 Shipley Baptist Church Shipley 7.30 Fri 7.11.08 Elim Pentecostal Church Braintree Essex 7.30 Sat 8.11.08 Ladies meeting Newbury 10 - 4 Sun 9.11.08 Bell Green Life Centre Coventry 10.00 Sun 9.11.08 Bell Green Coventry 6.30 CMR Nashville is now celebrating its first year broadcasting 24/7, featuring over 20 presenters from around the world including the NCM Radio Show. The station prides itself on covering all styles of music and reflects the popularity from various parts of the world with programmes from their studios in the USA, England, Ireland, Canada, Australia, Germany, France, Brazil and Scotland. CMR Nashville Broadcasts 24/7 over the internet at www.cmrnashville.net Hail to the King, the new album from HILLSONG LONDON, will premiere on Wednesday 24 September at 8.00 pm at The Princess Anne Theatre, 195 Piccadilly, London, W1J 9LN. The event will feature an advance screening of the Hail to the King DVD Over 100 UK church leaders from all denominations will gather on Monday 22nd September for a day conference to discover more about the ongoing crisis in the Holy Land and how this affects the Christian community. "More and more UK churches are wanting to find out more about the situation for Christians in the Holy Land. They are telling us that they want to be able to talk about it confidently in their churches and want to have information to pass on to congregations. Whilst Christians in Bethlehem are calling for Christians in the U.K. to hear them.... " said GARTH HEWITT, Director of the Amos Trust and one of the speakers at the conference. ww.amostrust.org Following the success of They've Cancelled Christmas in Bethlehem (The Wall Must Fall) GARTH HEWITT releases a new EP, ‘Bethlehem Palestine’ in November. The mini-album will feature this song among a collection. Inspired by Garth’s travels and interviews with those living in this ‘little town’ GUS EYRE DATES September 20th Brighouse Evangelical Church, concert 21st Boston Spa, preaching 29th Sep/ 20th October Poland & Hungary, schools drug awareness programmes, concerts & preaching 24/25th Oct Faversham Gospel Mission, concert & preaching November 1/2nd Bethel Evangelical Church Warrington 3rd St Annes, Lunch Club 5th Drug rehab, concert 9th Marton, Blackpool, preaching 10th/16th Mission Northwich, Cheshire 20th Marton, B'pool 21/23rd AofE Prayer Partners Weekend 27th Oak Hill College, talking about prison work 30th Clayton le Woods preaching December 6th' The Well', B'pool 7th Brynn C.F. preaching 13th 'Helping Hand', B'pool 16/17th Prison Carol Services 22nd 'Soup Kitchen', B'pool NCM is now finalising bookings for NCM#58 - to be released 1 November and NCM#58. If you have a recording that you would like to include? Please inform me asap. NCM is proving to be an EASY, ECONOMIC & EFFECTIVE way to obtain AIRPLAY, MARKETING & PROMOTION at home & abroad. This month, as well as bookings from the UK and USA, we have Bahamas, Canada, Sweden, New Zealand, Malta, Italy and the Faroes. DON'T MISS THIS PROMOTIONAL & MARKETING OPPORTUNITY -The airplay and promotion generated by the NCM promo-disc increases with each month. It is cheap and effective. You can't do the job cheaper. We are currently in the process of preparing for the release of NCM#57 that goes to the media (RADIO, PRESS ETC) on 1 Oct. If you would like a song included, please contact asap as it will soon be full. MICHAEL J RAMPLIN & FRIENDS (MARTIN DAWSON & ADELE) dates. michael.ramplin@cwctv.net 11th Oct Southend Full Gospel Church, St Annes Rd, Southend, Essex 7-30 pm 12th Oct Rayleigh Elim Church, Rayleigh, Essex. 7-30pm 19th available (weekend) michael.ramplin@cwctv.net 24th Oct Brierfield Community Centre, Brierfield, Nr Nelson, Lancs. Colne Parish Church 28th Nov at 7-30 pm with George Hamilton IV. alive Ministry Autumn Tour with Scotland's JOHN WILSON aliveministry@hotmail.co.uk 20th Sep St Marys Westwood, Nottingham 21st Sep Oasis Family Church, Witney, Oxfordshire 23rd Sep Christ Church of England, Worksop 24th Sep Heanor Baptist Church, Derbyshire 25th Sep Hope FM, Bournemouth 26th Sep Sonrise Church, Southampton 27th Sep St Wulstans, Worcester 28th Sep New Hope Community Church, Southampton 3rd Oct Private Function 5th Oct Dumfries Baptist Church, Dumfries 6th Oct Flame FM, Liverpool 7th Oct West Derby Evangelical, Liverpool 8th Oct Crosshill Parish Church, Motherwell 9th Oct Date Available 10th Oct Skipton Christian Fellowship 12th Oct Inverness Bible Fellowship YAZZ will appear on BBC Songs Of Praise on 12th October, the second of two programmes from Spain which also feature GRAHAM KENDRICK. Yazz will be in the UK immediately after the programme is shown and will be performing and conducting interviews. Watch out this year for the new book by NCM's PAUL DAVIS entitled "Gospel Music Times - The Authorised Biography of GEORGE BEVERLY SHEA" (Ambassador Books). The main solist for Billy Graham for over 60years, Bev celebrates his 100th birthday next February. SIR CLIFF RICHARD says, “A 100th birthday is always a fantastic achievement, even more so when the centenarian is still commanding a public stage . The first time that I ever heard George Beverly Shea sing was in the Sixties at a Billy Graham crusade. I was really amazed and, if I’m really honest, slightly envious. He stood there and this voice came out that sounded so confident, rich and resonant. What also really amazed me was it didn’t matter whether he sang something ancient or modern. With the passage of time, things haven’t changed. He still sounds confident, rich, and resonant today, a century since his birth.” DR. JESSY DIXON (Chicago, Illinois, USA) writes, “It was my great pleasure and thrill to work with Dr. Billy Graham and George Beverly Shea and observe firsthand their dedication to the extension of God’s Kingdom. Without hesitation, I say that the experience is one of the highlights of my career. As a truly historic singer throughout almost all the 20th Century, George Beverly Shea is an icon in Gospel Music who has no equal in his interpretation of whatever gospel song he performs. I speak for all gospel singers past-and-present when I say that it is to your advantage to read Paul Davis’ great book." WES DAVIS says that his new website is live & would like folks to have a look. www.wesdavis.co.uk 55 years ago, GEORGE HAMILTON IV had a monster Number 1 hit with the cowboy tune "Abilene" which became an instant country-pop classic. Now this summer, the Grand Ole Opry legend has recorded a new, timely version called "Gasoline" along with some help from his friends "the Oil Spots" (aka The Moody Brothers). The single has just been released to all country music stations across the country. With recent audience reactions when George performs the song at the Opry, in churches and music festivals around the world, this new version may also be on its way of becoming a classic. The song appears next month on Hot Disc Rush Release. Here's UK Tour details:- T25 NOV BBC Songs of Praise / recording at Chedder Gorge, Somerset W 26 NOV 08 (AM) Bawtrey School, Yorks Rev. Strickland 01 302 710298 jandjstrickland@btinternet.com W 26 (PM) School, Doncaster, Yorks (Al Moir) lariom@blueyonder.co.uk 01302 325984 T 27 (AM) School, Assembly Doncaster, Yorks (Al Moir) lariom@blueyonder.co.uk 01302 325984 T 27 (PM) St Helena Church, Austerfield, Yorks Rev. Strickland 01 302 710298 jandjstrickland@btinternet.com F28 (AM) Recording (Michael Ramplin / Brook Trickett) michael.ramplin@cwctv.net F28 (PM) Nelson, Lancs. michael.ramplin@cwctv.net 01282 699633 S 29 Lower Wyke Moravian Church, Yorks. Kenneth Evans 01924 496967 k.evans10@ntlworld.com S 30 Ormskirk, Maghull Baptist Church/ David Stuckey 01695 423470 david@cardtimes.co.uk M 1 DEC ?N.Ireland with LIVE ISSUE samuel.purdy@btopenworld.com 02892 628513 T 2 Gracehill Moravian Ch, NI with LIVE ISSUE samuel.purdy@btopenworld.com 02892 628513 W 3 Newmills Presby’n Ch NI with LIVE ISSUE samuel.purdy@btopenworld.com 02892 628513 T 4 Chantmaile Christian Centre, Dorset rogermccolm@talktalk.net 01305 826864 F 5 Holtwood Meth., near Wimborne, Dorset, Peter Aston, (01258) 840844 peter@peter-aston.co.uk S 6 FreeChurch, Frinton, Essex paulnwatkins@gmail.com 01255 851581 S 7 5pm Birchfield church Yeovil pastor.kelton@tiscali.co.uk Kelton Black 07712013314 M 8 Filey - Evron Centre 01723 518003 with Paul Wheater bylands-24@lineone.net T 9 Stourbridge, Tony Stone / tstone@wfcsmail.com 01384 392566 W 10 N. Wales Bob Searle IGO@oasisdwygyfylchi.freeserve.co.uk 0845 2267027 T 11 Anglesey Bob Searle IGO@oasisdwygyfylchi.freeserve.co.uk 0845 2267027 F 12 Hopton (Nr Diss) - High Street Chapel - 01359 221582, with Paul Wheater bylands-24@lineone.net S 13 St Helens CofE Selston, Notts. darren.mangold@ntlworld.com 07913 673603 S 14 DEC LCF, Vandyke School Theatre, Leighton Buzzard, www.lcf.uk.net 01525 237700 M 15 Ipswich Wendy Clarke charlieclarke@homecall.co.uk 01473 211585 / 01473 748772 T 16 Maidstone, Kent (St Philips) - Ken Hope 01622 674005 kenhope1@tallktalk.net W 17 (AM) Maidstone - Recording Studio – Clive Lever clive.lever@tiscali.co.uk W 17 (PM) Uckfield, Sussex , NIigel Gibson, 71 Hunters Way, Uckfield, TN222BB T 24 available for booking enq@newmusicenterprises.com W 25 available for booking enq@newmusicenterprises.com T 26 available for booking enq@newmusicenterprises.com F 27 Southend , Keith Brown pastorkeith@hiscomingministries.com 01702 462782 S 28 Christ Church, Worksop / P.NUNWICK@sky.com 01909 478732 S 1 MAR available for booking enq@newmusicenterprises.com M 2 available for booking enq@newmusicenterprises.com T 3 available for booking enq@newmusicenterprises.com W 4 available for booking enq@newmusicenterprises.com T 5 available for booking enq@newmusicenterprises.com F 6 MAR New Day Baptist h, High Street, Morton, Lincs, davidandrosie@btinternet.com 01778-570656 S 7- S8 NCM Weekend (Leighton Buzzard) enq@newmusicenterprises.com 01525 237700 WANTED: New IDs for the NCM RADIO SHOW by NCM artists. Promote the show and you promote yourself too. See ww.newchristianmusic.co.uk for scripts. CHARLIE LANDSBOROUGH - Autumn UK Tour 2008 12/10/2008 Wolverhampton Wulfrun Hall 0807 320 7000 13/10/2008 Norwich Theatre Royal 01603 630 000 14/10/2008 Chesterfield Winding Wheel 01246 345 333 16/10/2008 Truro Hall for Cornwall 01872 262 466 17/10/2008 Torquay Princess Theatre 0844 847 2315 18/10/2008 Barnstaple Queens Theatre 0127324242 19/10/2008 Weston-S-Mare Playhouse Theat 01934 645 544 21/10/2008 Llandudno Venue Cymru 01492 872 000 22/10/2008 Kings Lynn Corn Exchange 01553 764 864 24/10/2008 Peterborough The Cresset 26/10/2008 Felixstowe Spa Pavilion 01394 282 126 28/10/2008 Glasgow Royal Concert Hall 01413 538 000 29/10/2008 Aberdeen Music Halls 01224 641 122 31/10/2008 Glenrothes Rothes Hall 01592 611 101 01/11/2008 Billingham Forum Theatre 01642 522 663 02/11/2008 Blackburn King George's Hall 0844 847 1664 04/11/2008 Stockport Plaza Theatre 0161 477 7779 05/11/2008 Dunstable Grove Theatre 01582 60 20 80 06/11/2008 Worthing Pavilion Theatre 01903 206 206 07/11/2008 Bedford Corn Exchange 01234 269 519 08/11/2008 Stoke-o-Trent Victoria Hall 0870 060 6649 15/11/2008 Liverpool Philharmonic 0151 709 3789 MATT GILES has the following bookings for the year and would welcome invitations for further concerts, services and events, either solo or with his praise & worship / rock band: : vince@honeycombmusic.co.uk Sep 26 Lantern Arts Centre, Raynes Park, London - Solo Please kindly diarise (& come if you can) to the following UKCMA MEETINGS 2008 (general invitation to trustees, members & friends involved in NCM WEEKEND, UKCMA YEARBOOK etc). (VENUE: VANDYKE SCHOOL, LEIGHTON BUZZARD). 4pm SUN 14 DEC (followed at 6pm by evening with GEORGE HAMILTON IV (Nashville, Tennessee, USA)) 4pm SUN 11 JAN (followed at 6pm by evening with ROB ASH (Wales)) Hull Worship Leader ANGIE LENDON is on tour to promote her new album From Hull With Love. Some dates available. angie@newlifehull.org www.angielendon.com 20th Concert New Life Church, Hull 28th From Hull With Love Tour AM Charis Life Church Nottingham 5th Oct From Hull With Love Tour Huddersfield Details to follow 24th From Hull With Love Tour Willaim Lovell School Skegness 26th From Hull With Love Tour Wrenthorpe Mission Wakefield RUTH FAZEL appears in Harlington, Bedfordshire England on 26 Sep iglandon@talktalk.net NCM WEEKEND - 1-2 MAR 08 PHOTOS A DVD of nearly 500 photos of the 2008 NCM Awards Weekend is available for sale at only £25 (including postage). This includes stage appearances, award presentations, plus informal moments. Make cheque to:- NEW MUSIC ENTERPRISES, PO Box 6207, Leighton Buzzard, Beds. LU7 OWQ, England. (see "NCM WEEKEND 08 PHOTOS" on www.newmusicenterprises.com for Paypal) NCM WEEKEND 1-2 MAR O8 DVDs Four DVDs of nearly 10 hours of the 2008 NCM Awards Weekend are available for sale at only £15 each (plus £1 postage UK / £2 Europe / £3 Rest Of The World) for each DVD). DVDs includes stage appearances, award presentations, plus informal moments. (CONCERT#1, CONCERT#2, CONCERT#3, CONCERT#4 ) Make cheque to:- STV VIDEOS, PO Box 299, Bromley, Kent. BR2 9XB, England. www.stvvideos.co.uk phone 020 8464 4287 DAVE CLEMO & JERRY ARHELGER UK TOUR MAY 2009 www.daveclemo.blogspot.com Dave Clemo says, "If you are interested please let me know as soon as possible. We can finalise details a little closer to the date. Now available to radio stations worldwide for only £25 per year (see www.ncmradioshow.com ) is the unlimited use of the NCM Radio Show (presented by PAUL DAVIS & ANDY HUMPHRIES (interviews by DARREN MANGOLD) produced by GOOD NEWS BROADCASTING ASSOCIATION. Also featured are special interview & music shows with celebrities such as ELECTRALYTE, DELIRIOUS?, VERRA CRUZ. JACI VELASQUEZ, , PAT BOONE, SIR CLIFF RICHARD, DON FRANCISCO, LUIS PALAU, GEORGE BEVERLY SHEA, HELEN SHAPIRO, MORRIS CHAPMAN, WES DAVIS, A.G & KATE, PAUL OVERSTREET, JIMMY SNOW, PETER HONOUR, VERNON OXFORD, BILL DRAKE, JOHN PANTRY, GLEN CAMPBELL , GEORGE HAMILTON IV, DANA, DANIEL ODONNELL , LAURENCE SINGLEHURST (YWAM), BARBARA FAIRCHILD, ROY MORRIS, AL GORDON, JON FOREMAN etc. For Easter is a 3 hour radio show with SIR CLIFF RICHARD and Paul Davis (DJ). NCM Radio Show is now broadcasting on about 310 radio stations worldwide incl.:- CMR Nashville Radio on www.cmrnashville.net on Sun 8-10 am (UK time) SonRise Radio on www.sonriseradio.com on Sun 9- 11 pm & Wed 11 am- 1pm (UK time) Revival FM 100.8 in west-central Scotland and online at http://revival.fm Live365 Radio http://www.live365.com/stations/kenmann123 (see www.ncmradioshow.com ) Latest UK radio staions are Branch FM , Flame FM & Fusemix.com The New Christian Music Radio Show just keeps on growing. DJ Andy Humphries explains, "The demand for NCM shows has become so great that we have had to quadruple our disc space on the website. We have recently gone from 1GB to 4GB's of ready to use radio shows. That means that currently we have over 125 shows to choose from. We think that for only £25 per year for unlimited access - this deal is not only good for subscribing music stations, it might also be attractive to artists who want to hear the broadcast standard mp3's of their songs getting played on air. This is because the show plays all artists who appear on the NCM discs. Filling a radio schedule 24/7 is never easy, we hope that anyone interested will go to www.ncmradioshow and at least download our two free shows, any maybe, come on board with approx. 300 radio stations around the world who are now part of the NCM radio show family". A quick note to DJs & journalists about filling in the NCM Reaction Sheets… Please make sure you include your name and details (radio station, publications, countries broadcast-to, etc) on the form so we can pass your comments on to artists – it makes such a difference to the artists to hear what you think of their work. Also make sure you fill in a score for each song regardless of genre – use your professional judgement rather than personal genre preferences. Failure to return the sheets for 3 months in succession will mean deletion from the circulation list The NCMdisc is now available to all bone-fide DJs, journalists, music industry persons, & NCM artistes on download on www.newchristianmusic.co.uk The codes this month (NCM#56) are:- USER: gospel & PASSWORD: heart Click NCM Media Downloads Then click on the button once you are in the website. You'll get next month's codes when you return this month's Reaction Sheet. And Finally… Submitted by Darren Mangold (Broadcaster/England) James O.Fraser was a remarkable man who became largely forgotten as he laboured for many years in isolation behind the great mountain ranges of China’s far west. His work was amongst the unreached Lisu tribes people. In areas steeped in witchcraft, he fasted and prayed for years with hardly any tangible spiritual fruit. Through dark times he contemplated suicide, but clung on to God’s promises, until the day came when he knew he had reached the place of victory. The battle in prayer had been won. In God’s time there was a massive outpouring of the Holy Spirit in revival power, and in village after village where previously the inhabitants had been hardened to the Gospel, families responded en masse. Fraser reflected on his work and concluded the following: “I used to think that prayer should have the first place and teaching the second. I now feel that prayer should have the first, second and third place, and teaching the fourth.” From the book ‘For what it’s Worth’ by Simon Guillebaud. www.greatlakesoutreach.org NCM News 251 12 September 2008 Contemp-jazz artist, JOHN HEAVENS (London) writes, “Thanks for NCM media feedback sheets. It’s always humbling from time-to-time but more importantly it acts as a ‘virtual barometer’ which cuts through guess-work about ones career path in this malaise called - music business. I am encouraged and thank NCM for the work to connect all the parts together, a kind of Godly tapestry maker! One commentator’s on a feedback sheet made the point that the lyrics were not consistent with the Christian ethic, ‘a fair cop’ Having spent years trying to make get a worship leading and CCM career to take off, I soon came to the conclusion that the good Lord wanted me in some other part of His mission. It was only when I started to explore the mainstream that things started to happen for me. I now have the privilege of working (and witnessing) to some of the UK’s top musicians , even Jools (Holland). All need to hear about what grace of God is really like as opposed the warped ‘Christian bashing’ message that our current British me, my culture advocates. I am sure that I would have not been able to make these connections otherwise. The Big City Calling project brings together the best of British Jazz & Gospel in a 12 piece band so please pray for times of blessing as we start to work together.” john@bigvmusic.co.uk DATES: Fri 12 Sep. The Junction, Cambridge (for Indian Orphanage charity) www.junction.co.uk // Sun. 21 Sep. Pizza Express Jazz Club, London’s Soho (album launch) www.pizzaexpressive.co.uk Following the success of They've Cancelled Christmas in Bethlehem (The Wall Must Fall) GARTH HEWITT releases a new EP, ‘Bethlehem Palestine’ in November. The mini-album will feature this song among a collection. Inspired by Garth’s travels and interviews with those living in this ‘little town’ GUS EYRE DATES September 13th/14th Lawshall, Suffolk, concert & preaching 20th Brighouse Evangelical Church, concert 21st Boston Spa, preaching 29th Sep/ 20th October Poland & Hungary, schools drug awareness programmes, concerts & preaching 24/25th Oct Faversham Gospel Mission, concert & preaching November 1/2nd Bethel Evangelical Church Warrington 3rd St Annes, Lunch Club 5th Drug rehab, concert 9th Marton, Blackpool, preaching 10th/16th Mission Northwich, Cheshire 20th Marton, B'pool 21/23rd AofE Prayer Partners Weekend 27th Oak Hill College, talking about prison work 30th Clayton le Woods preaching December 6th' The Well', B'pool 7th Brynn C.F. preaching 13th 'Helping Hand', B'pool 16/17th Prison Carol Services 22nd 'Soup Kitchen', B'pool NCM is now finalising bookings for NCM#57 - to be released 1 October and NCM#58. If you have a recording that you would like to include? Please inform me asap. NCM is proving to be an EASY, ECONOMIC & EFFECTIVE way to obtain AIRPLAY, MARKETING & PROMOTION at home & abroad. This month, as well as bookings from the UK and USA, we have Bahamas, Canada, Sweden, New Zealand, Malta, Italy and the Faroes. DON'T MISS THIS PROMOTIONAL & MARKETING OPPORTUNITY -The airplay and promotion generated by the NCM promo-disc increases with each month. It is cheap and effective. You can't do the job cheaper. We are currently in the process of preparing for the release of NCM#57 that goes to the media (RADIO, PRESS ETC) on 1 Oct. If you would like a song included, please contact asap as it will soon be full. HOT NEWS!! ... Under the auspices of the UKCMA & NCM, WES DAVIS, MARVA NELSON & PAUL WHEATER are to perform at the National Christian Resources Exhibition that takes place at the YEC, Harrogate (Yorkshire) at noon on Thurs. 25 September 2008. There is already huge interest throughout the north of England for the event. enq@newmusicenterprises.com asap. MICHAEL J RAMPLIN & FRIENDS (MARTIN DAWSON & ADELE) dates. michael.ramplin@cwctv.net Rockferry Salvation Army Sunday Sept 7th at 5pm. 20th Sept. Wadsley Church, Worrall Rd. Sheffield. 7-30pm 27th Available michael.ramplin@cwctv.net 11th Oct Southend Full Gospel Church, St Annes Rd, Southend, Essex 7-30 pm 12th Oct Rayleigh Elim Church, Rayleigh, Essex. 7-30pm 19th available (weekend) michael.ramplin@cwctv.net 24th Oct Brierfield Community Centre, Brierfield, Nr Nelson, Lancs. Colne Parish Church 28th Nov at 7-30 pm with George Hamilton IV. alive Ministry Autumn Tour with Scotland's JOHN WILSON aliveministry@hotmail.co.uk 5th Sep Dingwall Baptist Church, Dingwall 7th Sep Dingwall Baptist Church, Dingwall 12th Sep Alness Baptist Church, Alness 13th Sep Denny Baptist Church, Denny 14th Sep(am) Meadow Way Community Centre, Leighton Buzzard 14th Sep (pm) Leighton Christian Fellowship, Leighton Buzzard 16th Sep Date Available 17th Sep Coningsby Baptist, Lincolnshire 18th Sep Nene Family Church, Peterborough 19th Sep Nottingham 20th Sep St Marys Westwood, Nottingham 21st Sep Oasis Family Church, Witney, Oxfordshire 23rd Sep Christ Church of England, Worksop 24th Sep Heanor Baptist Church, Derbyshire 25th Sep Hope FM, Bournemouth 26th Sep Sonrise Church, Southampton 27th Sep St Wulstans, Worcester 28th Sep New Hope Community Church, Southampton 3rd Oct Private Function 5th Oct Dumfries Baptist Church, Dumfries 6th Oct Flame FM, Liverpool 7th Oct West Derby Evangelical, Liverpool 8th Oct Crosshill Parish Church, Motherwell 9th Oct Date Available 10th Oct Skipton Christian Fellowship 12th Oct Inverness Bible Fellowship YAZZ will appear on BBC Songs Of Praise on 12th October, the second of two programmes from Spain which also feature GRAHAM KENDRICK. Yazz will be in the UK immediately after the programme is shown and will be performing and conducting interviews. Watch out this year for the new book by NCM's PAUL DAVIS entitled "Gospel Music Times - The Authorised Biography of GEORGE BEVERLY SHEA" (Ambassador Books). The main solist for Billy Graham for over 60years, Bev celebrates his 100th birthday next February. SIR CLIFF RICHARD says, “A 100th birthday is always a fantastic achievement, even more so when the centenarian is still commanding a public stage . The first time that I ever heard George Beverly Shea sing was in the Sixties at a Billy Graham crusade. I was really amazed and, if I’m really honest, slightly envious. He stood there and this voice came out that sounded so confident, rich and resonant. What also really amazed me was it didn’t matter whether he sang something ancient or modern. With the passage of time, things haven’t changed. He still sounds confident, rich, and resonant today, a century since his birth.” DR. JESSY DIXON (Chicago, Illinois, USA) writes, “It was my great pleasure and thrill to work with Dr. Billy Graham and George Beverly Shea and observe firsthand their dedication to the extension of God’s Kingdom. Without hesitation, I say that the experience is one of the highlights of my career. As a truly historic singer throughout almost all the 20th Century, George Beverly Shea is an icon in Gospel Music who has no equal in his interpretation of whatever gospel song he performs. I speak for all gospel singers past-and-present when I say that it is to your advantage to read Paul Davis’ great book." WES DAVIS says that his new website is live & would like folks to have a look. www.wesdavis.co.uk On September 16th, as part of the Worship Central UK Tour, TIM HUGHES will be recording a Live CD & DVD from the legendary Shepherds Bush Empire in London. The night will involve a recording of classic old songs, with an exciting batch of new unreleased tunes. Mike Pilavachi will be making a guest appearance, sharing a few thoughts on Worship. The DVD is being directed by Andy Hutch (Delirious?, Passion, Van Morrison. www.worshipcentral.org 55 years ago, GEORGE HAMILTON IV had a monster Number 1 hit with the cowboy tune "Abilene" which became an instant country classic. Now this summer, the Grand Ole Opry legend has recorded a new, timely version called "Gasoline" along with some help from his friends "the Oil Spots" (aka The Moody Brothers). The single has just been released to all country music stations across the country. With recent audience reactions when George performs the song at the Opry, in churches and music festivals around the world, this new version may also be on its way of becoming a classic. The song appears next month on Hot Disc. Here's UK Tour deatails:- T25 NOV BBC Songs of Praise / recording at Chedder Gorge, Somerset W 26 NOV 08 (AM) Bawtrey School, Yorks Rev. Strickland 01 302 710298 jandjstrickland@btinternet.com W 26 (PM) School, Doncaster, Yorks (Al Moir) lariom@blueyonder.co.uk 01302 325984 T 27 (AM) School, Assembly Doncaster, Yorks (Al Moir) lariom@blueyonder.co.uk 01302 325984 T 27 (PM) St Helena Church, Austerfield, Yorks Rev. Strickland 01 302 710298 jandjstrickland@btinternet.com F28 (AM) Recording (Michael Ramplin / Brook Trickett) michael.ramplin@cwctv.net F28 (PM) Nelson, Lancs. michael.ramplin@cwctv.net 01282 699633 S 29 Lower Wyke Moravian Church, Yorks. Kenneth Evans 01924 496967 k.evans10@ntlworld.com S 30 Ormskirk, Maghull Baptist Church/ David Stuckey 01695 423470 david@cardtimes.co.uk M 1 DEC ?N.Ireland with LiveIssue samuel.purdy@btopenworld.com 02892 628513 T 2 Gracehill Moravian Ch, NI with LIVE ISSUE samuel.purdy@btopenworld.com 02892 628513 W 3 Newmills Presby’n Ch NI with LIVE ISSUE samuel.purdy@btopenworld.com 02892 628513 T 4 available for booking enq@newmusicenterprises.com F 5 Holtwood Meth., near Wimborne, Dorset, Peter Aston, (01258) 840844 peter@peter-aston.co.uk S 6 FreeChurch, Frinton, Essex paulnwatkins@gmail.com 01255 851581 S 7 5pm Birchfield church Yeovil pastor.kelton@tiscali.co.uk Kelton Black 07712013314 M 8 England, with Paul Wheater bylands-24@lineone.net T 9 Stourbridge, Tony Stone / tstone@wfcsmail.com 01384 392566 W 10 N. Wales Bob Searle IGO@oasisdwygyfylchi.freeserve.co.uk 0845 2267027 T 11 Anglesey Bob Searle IGO@oasisdwygyfylchi.freeserve.co.uk 0845 2267027 F 12 England, with Paul Wheater bylands-24@lineone.net S 13 St Helens CofE Selston, Notts. darren.mangold@ntlworld.com 07913 673603 S 14 DEC LCF, Vandyke School Theatre, Leighton Buzzard, www.lcf.uk.net 01525 237700 M 15 Ipswich Wendy Clarke charlieclarke@homecall.co.uk 01473 211585 / 01473 748772 T 16 Maidstone, Kent (St Philips) - Ken Hope 01622 674005 kenhope1@tallktalk.net W 17 (AM) Maidstone - Recording Studio – Clive Lever clive.lever@tiscali.co.uk W 17 (PM) Uckfield, Sussex , NIigel Gibson, 71 Hunters Way, Uckfield, TN222BB T 24 FEB- T 5 MAR 09 available for booking enq@newmusicenterprises.com F 6 MAR New Day Baptist Church, Morton, Lincolnshire S 7- S8 NCM Weekend (Leighton Buzzard) enq@newmusicenterprises.com 01525 237700 WANTED: New IDs for the NCM RADIO SHOW by NCM artists. Promote the show and you promote yourself too. See ww.newchristianmusic.co.uk for scripts. CHARLIE LANDSBOROUGH - Autumn UK Tour 2008 12/10/2008 Wolverhampton Wulfrun Hall 0807 320 7000 13/10/2008 Norwich Theatre Royal 01603 630 000 14/10/2008 Chesterfield Winding Wheel 01246 345 333 16/10/2008 Truro Hall for Cornwall 01872 262 466 17/10/2008 Torquay Princess Theatre 0844 847 2315 18/10/2008 Barnstaple Queens Theatre 0127324242 19/10/2008 Weston-S-Mare Playhouse Theat 01934 645 544 21/10/2008 Llandudno Venue Cymru 01492 872 000 22/10/2008 Kings Lynn Corn Exchange 01553 764 864 24/10/2008 Peterborough The Cresset 26/10/2008 Felixstowe Spa Pavilion 01394 282 126 28/10/2008 Glasgow Royal Concert Hall 01413 538 000 29/10/2008 Aberdeen Music Halls 01224 641 122 31/10/2008 Glenrothes Rothes Hall 01592 611 101 01/11/2008 Billingham Forum Theatre 01642 522 663 02/11/2008 Blackburn King George's Hall 0844 847 1664 04/11/2008 Stockport Plaza Theatre 0161 477 7779 05/11/2008 Dunstable Grove Theatre 01582 60 20 80 06/11/2008 Worthing Pavilion Theatre 01903 206 206 07/11/2008 Bedford Corn Exchange 01234 269 519 08/11/2008 Stoke-o-Trent Victoria Hall 0870 060 6649 15/11/2008 Liverpool Philharmonic 0151 709 3789 MANS YOUSUF (born in Pakistan) -will be preaching & teaching : 14 SEP 2008 LCF Leighton Buzzard Beds ....10.30am www.fullnessoflife.co.uk mansyousuf@surf3.net MATT GILES has the following bookings for the year and would welcome invitations for further concerts, services and events, either solo or with his praise & worship / rock band: : vince@honeycombmusic.co.uk Sep 26 Lantern Arts Centre, Raynes Park, London - Solo Please kindly diarise (& come if you can) to the following UKCMA MEETINGS 2008 (general invitation to trustees, members & friends involved in NCM WEEKEND, UKCMA YEARBOOK etc). (VENUE: VANDYKE SCHOOL, LEIGHTON BUZZARD). 4pm SUN 14 SEP (followed at 6pm by concert with JOHN WILSON (Scotland)) 4pm SUN 14 DEC (followed at 6pm by evening with GEORGE HAMILTON IV (Nashville, Tennessee, USA)) 4pm SUN 11 JAN (followed at 6pm by evening with ROB ASH (Wales)) Hull Worship Leader ANGIE LENDON is on tour to promote her new album From Hull With Love. Some dates available. angie@newlifehull.org www.angielendon.com 14th Sep From Hull With Love Tour Christian Cntr Briton Ferry Wales 18th From Hull With Love Tour Bethel Full Gospel, Hastings 20th Concert New Life Church, Hull 28th From Hull With Love Tour AM Charis Life Church Nottingham 5th Oct From Hull With Love Tour Huddersfield Details to follow 24th From Hull With Love Tour Willaim Lovell School Skegness 26th From Hull With Love Tour Wrenthorpe Mission Wakefield RUTH FAZEL appears in Harlington, Bedfordshire England on 26 Sep iglandon@talktalk.net NCM WEEKEND - 1-2 MAR 08 PHOTOS A DVD of nearly 500 photos of the 2008 NCM Awards Weekend is available for sale at only £25 (including postage). This includes stage appearances, award presentations, plus informal moments. Make cheque to:- NEW MUSIC ENTERPRISES, PO Box 6207, Leighton Buzzard, Beds. LU7 OWQ, England. (see "NCM WEEKEND 08 PHOTOS" on www.newmusicenterprises.com for Paypal) NCM WEEKEND 1-2 MAR O8 DVDs Four DVDs of nearly 10 hours of the 2008 NCM Awards Weekend are available for sale at only £15 each (plus £1 postage UK / £2 Europe / £3 Rest Of The World) for each DVD). DVDs includes stage appearances, award presentations, plus informal moments. (CONCERT#1, CONCERT#2, CONCERT#3, CONCERT#4 ) Make cheque to:- STV VIDEOS, PO Box 299, Bromley, Kent. BR2 9XB, England. www.stvvideos.co.uk phone 020 8464 4287 JEAN WATSON 2008 UK TOUR noel.donaldson@ntlworld.com Saturday 1st Nov Available Sunday 2nd Halifax Elim AM Sunday 2nd New Springs Loughborough PM Monday 3rd Available Tuesday 4th Available Wednesday 5th Available Thursday 6th Available Friday 7th Available Saturday 8th Available Sunday 9th Coventry AM Sunday 9th Bell Green Coventry PM DAVE CLEMO & JERRY ARHELGER UK TOUR MAY 2009 www.daveclemo.blogspot.com Dave Clemo says, "If you are interested please let me know as soon as possible. We can finalise details a little closer to the date. Now available to radio stations worldwide for only £25 per year (see www.ncmradioshow.com ) is the unlimited use of the NCM Radio Show (presented by PAUL DAVIS & ANDY HUMPHRIES (interviews by DARREN MANGOLD) produced by GOOD NEWS BROADCASTING ASSOCIATION. Also featured are special interview & music shows with celebrities such as ELECTRALYTE, DELIRIOUS?, VERRA CRUZ. JACI VELASQUEZ, , PAT BOONE, SIR CLIFF RICHARD, DON FRANCISCO, LUIS PALAU, GEORGE BEVERLY SHEA, HELEN SHAPIRO, MORRIS CHAPMAN, WES DAVIS, A.G & KATE, PAUL OVERSTREET, JIMMY SNOW, PETER HONOUR, VERNON OXFORD, BILL DRAKE, JOHN PANTRY, GLEN CAMPBELL , GEORGE HAMILTON IV, DANA, DANIEL ODONNELL , LAURENCE SINGLEHURST (YWAM), BARBARA FAIRCHILD, ROY MORRIS, AL GORDON, JON FOREMAN etc. For Easter is a 3 hour radio show with SIR CLIFF RICHARD and Paul Davis (DJ). NCM Radio Show is now broadcasting on about 310 radio stations worldwide incl.:- CMR Nashville Radio on www.cmrnashville.net on Sun 8-10 am (UK time) SonRise Radio on www.sonriseradio.com on Sun 9- 11 pm & Wed 11 am- 1pm (UK time) Revival FM 100.8 in west-central Scotland and online at http://revival.fm Live365 Radio http://www.live365.com/stations/kenmann123 (see www.ncmradioshow.com ) Latest UK radio staions are Branch FM , Flame FM & Fusemix.com The New Christian Music Radio Show just keeps on growing. DJ Andy Humphries explains, "The demand for NCM shows has become so great that we have had to quadruple our disc space on the website. We have recently gone from 1GB to 4GB's of ready to use radio shows. That means that currently we have over 125 shows to choose from. We think that for only £25 per year for unlimited access - this deal is not only good for subscribing music stations, it might also be attractive to artists who want to hear the broadcast standard mp3's of their songs getting played on air. This is because the show plays all artists who appear on the NCM discs. Filling a radio schedule 24/7 is never easy, we hope that anyone interested will go to www.ncmradioshow and at least download our two free shows, any maybe, come on board with approx. 300 radio stations around the world who are now part of the NCM radio show family". A quick note to DJs & journalists about filling in the NCM Reaction Sheets… Please make sure you include your name and details (radio station, publications, countries broadcast-to, etc) on the form so we can pass your comments on to artists – it makes such a difference to the artists to hear what you think of their work. Also make sure you fill in a score for each song regardless of genre – use your professional judgement rather than personal genre preferences. Failure to return the sheets for 3 months in succession will mean deletion from the circulation list The NCMdisc is now available to all bone-fide DJs, journalists, music industry persons, & NCM artistes on download on www.newchristianmusic.co.uk The codes this month (NCM#56) are:- USER: gospel & PASSWORD: heart Click NCM Media Downloads Then click on the button once you are in the website. You'll get next month's codes when you return this month's Reaction Sheet. And Finally… Submitted by PETER HONOUR (Kent, England) MEDICAL DICTIONARY FOR STARTERS:- Artery......................... The study of paintings. Bacteria....................... Back door to cafeteria. Barium........................ What doctors do when patients die. Benign........................ ..What you be, after you be eight. Caesarean Section...............A neighbourhood in Rome . Catscan........................ Searching for Kitty. Cauterize...................... Made eye contact with her. Colic.......................... A sheep dog. Coma........................... A punctuation mark. Dilate......................... To live long. Enema.......................... Not a friend. Fester......................... Quicker than someone else. Fibula....................... A small lie. Impotent...................... Distinguished, well known. Labour Pain...Getting hurt at work. Medical Staff.................. A Doctor's cane. Morbid......................... A higher offer. Nitrates....................... Cheaper than day rates. Node........................... I knew it. Outpatient..................... A person who has fainted. Pelvis......................... Second cousin to Elvis. Post Operative................. A letter carrier. Recovery Room.................. Place to do upholstery. Rectum......................... Nearly killed him. Secretion...................... Hiding something. Seizure........................ Roman emperor. Tablet......................... A small table. Terminal Illness............... Getting sick at the airport. Tumour..............One plus one more. Urine......... Opposite of you're out. NCM News 250 6 September 2008 JERRY REED, star of stage, studio and screen, has died. Born Jerry Reed Hubbard, he suffered from emphysema and was in hospice care. He was 71. Asked by NCM’s Paul Davis to account for his versatility, talent and success, he sets aside his joking for awhile and Jerry’s reply is philosophical. “I’ll tell you what I tell everybody else. I was never formally trained as a guitarist, a singer, songwriter or actor; but I did them all in my fifty one years in show business and, I think, been kinda successful. So, I know in my heart that God sends us all here with certain gifts, and I believe He determines the course of one’s life. I’m sure He provides whatever time and desire one needs to accomplish one’s dreams! The gospel song – ‘A Brand New Me’ is absolutely biographical. I’m happy to say that I’m now well-grounded in my faith and love for Jesus Christ.” The song is featured on the next NCM Following the success of They've Cancelled Christmas in Bethlehem (The Wall Must Fall) GARTH HEWITT releases a new EP, ‘Bethleh |