It has now been one year since I moved to Nashville. I am indeed having a wonderful life out here. There are enough musical activities going on around town every night to make a person’s head spin. If I took in every show that interested me, I’d probably need about 6 or 7 more hours added to my day to either sleep or catch up with myself. But instead, I have to set priorities.
I moved to Nashville from an area with a Southern Gospel drought. All we had every year were the Twin Cities Quartet Convention, the Gaither Homecoming concert on an 18 month rotation and a precious few independently promoted major Southern Gospel name act concerts. Nashville in comparison makes me feel like a kid in a candy store. Last summer I even had to make some tough choices in what to attend because there were so many shows scheduled in the same week. It’s a happy problem and one I don’t take for granted.
Here are some items that were on my calendar over the last 12 months: SoGospelNews.com Fan Fair concert series, Steve Hurst and Stamps-Baxter school concerts, Christ Church music school concert, GMA Southern Gospel showcase, Mark Lowry’s Senior Trip and Spring Fling, Harmony Honors awards, about 3 or 4 Buddy Greene shows…and did I mention I now live close enough to the National Quartet Convention to attend? I attended my first NQC last year and I’ll be back this year with hopefully more time to hear music and visit artist booths.
Whew. I’m sure I am probably missing something on this list. What a joy to have so much to look forward to in hearing these artists whose music I love so much in concert, and to be able to tell them personally when circumstances allow how much the music means to me.
I covered a few of these concert events in a blog I do called “Wendy V’s Nashville Blend”. I often sign it off with a phrase which is a sentiment I had since the day I first visited Nashville and is truer now than ever before: I love this town.
Wendy Vickers
http://www.wendyv.com
http://www.embraceencouragement.com
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Written: 05/04/2008
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Oh, Wendy, you make me very jealous. I, too, live in an area that has precious little SG. Most of the time if I want to hear SG I go to MO & OK & I can't afford to do that too often anymore.
God is good all the time & all the time God is good.
Elaine Harcourt
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