Posted Today at Holy Childhood Catholic School in Mascoutah, IL
It’s always a great joy of ours to visit Holy Childhood in Mascoutah, IL for Catholic Schools Week. Just such an engaged student body, and a joy to play with band-mates Rick and Dan, and today Dan’s girlfriend Katie on tambourine.
Two more concerts later this week – Happy Catholic Schools Week all!
Well, here ends another great year for Oddwalk Ministries. We had the opportunity to bring what we do to a lot of great places: Granite City, IL – Toledo, Ohio – Mascoutah, IL – Breese, IL – Belleville, IL – Davenport, IA – Washington DC – Buffalo, NY – Fairview Heights, IL – Hazelwood, MO…
Mostly due to the colossal blizzard that swept across the country, here’s a statistical wrap-up of our Catholic Schools Week in Toledo and Metro-East St. Louis: Shows successfully performed: 3 of 9 Flights rebooked: 4 States we visited, not expecting to: 2 (Indiana, Michigan) States we didn’t visit, expecting to: 1 (Texas) Airlines flown unexpectedly:…
The ABC affiliate in Toledo, OH, WTVG, featured our appearance Monday at St Pius School for Catholic Schools Week! We were in a little segment called “Newsreel” which showed the very opening of our concert, doing our little “I’m a little Teapot/We Will Rock You” mash-up. This school came prepared – we had met one…
What a Crazy Catholic Schools Week! 8 appearances (2 included mass) over 5 days, from Jefferson City MO to Breese, IL and various stops in-between. Perhaps the strangest day was Thursday, when Orin’s keyboard went completely dead 5 minutes into our second concert of the day. Pretty much without warning, and would not turn back…
While perhaps not our favorite slogan/logo (especially for the young folks), it’s not a bad theme to pray on, especially us adults: what dividends are you/we seeing from whatever sort of Catholic education, catechesis, study, etc. we received growing up? What are the dividends? It’s a busy week for us, 7 appearances in the greater…