My first prison concert experience two years ago left me “gloriously ruined” (Kay Warren term ) for traditional music events, but our recent visit with the women at Greenville Federal Correctional Institute (Greenville, IL) left me a bit speechless … I don’t mean to sound so dramatic, but I think a few of us departed [...]
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Hope Shows Up in Greenville (IL)
Hope Shows Presents Greenville FCI Prison Benefit, Wednesday, December 14, 2011 Hope Shows presents “Rehearse Hope: Girls Night Out @ Greenville College 4 Girls Night In @ Greenville FCI” benefit, featuring Jenny Simmons of Addison Road and special music by Greenville College Contemporary Christian Music (CCM) students, held on Wednesday, December 14, at 7:00 p.m. in the Wilson [...]
Family-Friendly WIBI Interviews Sara Groves
Family-Friendly Morning Show Hosts, Melody and Jeremiah, Interview Sara Groves About Hope Shows Prison Christmas Concert and FREE Live Recording of Event Transcript from Thursday, December 23, 2010. Listen to audio at www.melodyandjeremiah.com. View photos from the event at http://www.hopeshows.com/nggallery/page-776/album-1/gallery-2/. Jeremiah: You’ve got a brand new Christmas CD out that people can download and listen [...]
Coming Up Daisies
At his 3rd Annual “Love Your Neighbor” benefit concert this past Tuesday, songwriter Brandon Heath noted how so many people had stopped what they were doing to help their Nashville neighbors following the flood. Without having thought of it in those terms, I realized that’s what I had done as well. Stopped house cleaning, stopped [...]
