More on: Music

If you are part of a church community seeking to make the arts an authentic part of its life, you should know about Jeremy Begbie. As young Protestant and Evangelical churches discover and renew the place of stuff in worship—sounds, smells, movement, pigment, and clay—they need guides who can help them do more than dabble…

Claire Holley writes songs that are literary, playful, meditative, and earthy. A native of Mississippi, she owes much to the southern tradition of storytelling, and just as much to the southern tradition of charm, which is to say of knowing how much is too much and how much is enough, of finding just the right…

Husband and wife duo Karin Bergquist and Linford Detweiler have run the gamut of musical styles in their formidable career, from R&B to Americana and folk to jazz and cabaret. Karin’s voice offers a stunning mix of fragility and virtuosic power, and Linford’s piano is warm, meditative, and inventive. As master songwriters (they’ve released over…

The daughter of a Baptist preacher, Kate Campbell grew up in Sledge, Mississippi, listening to the harmonies of the choir and the stories in her dad’s sermons. Her music blends a variety of American styles—Gospel, soul, R&B, Celtic music—with a particular gift for storytelling. She was shaped by the civil rights movement, which she observed…

J.A.C. Redford is an equal opportunity composer. The music that flows from his mind and heart can take shape as a piano quartet, a Christmas oratorio, or a film score for The Mighty Ducks 3. Even in his film scores Redford refuses to be pigeon-holed, since he’s written music not only for family films but…

It’s late evening in Nashville, Tennessee. An ambulance has pulled up to the front of a club. The owner rushes out. The EMTs speak to her. She laughs and leads them over to Brooks Williams, who has just left the stage. While cruising around in the ambulance, they heard Brooks’ previous set live on the radio…

Beverly Taylor is a successful woman conductor in the male-dominated profession, but you won’t find her wallowing in self-pity or contemplating the meaning of victimhood. She’d rather discover new works by outstanding contemporary composers or find ways to improve her already stellar credentials as teacher and conductor. She’s even finding time to compose music these…

Jan Krist is a singer/songwriter whose 1993 recordingDecapitated Society was selected by Billboard magazine as that year’s best album in a (broadly defined) gospel genre. Her most recent CD is Love Big, us small (Silent Planet), a compilation of new and selected recordings. Other CDs include Curious and Wing and a Prayer. Some of Krist’s…