New on the podcast today (10/15/15) – a bit of preview audio for our new CD, from the first two tracks:
“Mercy at Work” and “Come With Your Fire” – enjoy!
Category: music
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PreOrder Our New CD!
Friends! We’re coming out with a new CD later this fall, and are very excited to bring you 10 new tracks of music (and a couple bonus tracks of music) very soon!
We’d like to ask you to consider preordering the CD You’ll save some money off the eventual retail price, and be first in line to get your copy. We’ve set up a couple other perks, such as getting your new CD defaced with our signatures, buying bulk quantities, and even a couple ways to hire us for significantly less than our normal rates to support the CD.
For information on how to order or hire us, please visit our preorder page: oddwalkministries.com/mercyatwork and please share this link! Preorders must be in by November 15 – act now!
To see lyrics and hear sample clips of all tracks, click here!
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Playing Catchup
Hey folks – just a few updates for you, exciting things have been happening!
Any Given Sunday – Shannon had a reflection there recently for Divine Mercy Sunday, and Orin will in a couple weeks. Check out Shannon’s here.
Another Publication! – Orin has another piece in print at WLP, “The Lord Is My Shepherd” – a choral setting of Psalm 23 he wrote for his last Shrine mass about 3 years ago. Check out the sample score and listen to a bit of audio here.
Week of the Young Child Concert – For the 10th anniversary of this celebration, Orin joined Shannon and Chris & Isaiah Korte for a program in Kirksville MO, and we all were featured on the local news! Watch below.
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One Family
Welcome to the “One Family” Page! This song, written by Shannon Cerneka, is being used for prayer during the National Workshop Series for CMD (Center for Ministry Development) in 2015. Below, you can find some links we are pleased to make available at no cost! Download or listen to the mp3 of “One Family” here! Download…
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Another Publication! “An Advent Fantasia”
Orin learned today another piece of his is now in print, back at GIA for this one: “An Advent Fantasia” which combines several advent tunes and texts into what the cool kids a couple years ago called a mash-up. Seriously, it is a prayerful merging of musical and textual ideas, and could even be appropriate as a first prelude on Christmas Eve – you know, not this year, but probably next!
No samples (sheet music nor audio) are posted yet, but you can see the page for the piece and order it by clicking right here!
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NCCYM Netsourcing Slides
In addition to having a great time at the NCCYM Extravaganza, Oddwalk was also invited to present a netsourcing session on Thursday afternoon at NCCYM, on the topic of music and liturgy. These sessions are a bit different than other workshops: our role was to throw a few relevant details to the conversation out to the attendees, and then spend about half our time letting them engage in conversations with each other and with us. The session seemed well received, and several people were heard saying things – to each other – like “that’s a great idea” and “I had never thought of that,” so we must have done something right.
Click the picture of the title slide or the link below if you’d like a pdf of the slides we used that afternoon.
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Songs We Should Never Record – NCCYM 2014
Hello NPM 2021! Thanks for visiting. We had a great time at this year’s convention, and hope you did too, whether in person or virtually. Below is the webpage we set up when we debuted “Songs We Should Never Record” at NCCYM in 2014. Enjoy watching the video of that below!
You can also check out older videos of The Liturginerd Olympics and “May God Bless and Keep You” as well as the rest of our site of course. Thanks again for dropping in!
Hello everybody! Boy, did we have a blast at NCCYM in San Antonio this past weekend – we hope you did too. We’re happy to make available to our visitors, absolutely free, our small piece of the Friday Night Youth Ministry Extravaganza, “Songs We Should Never Record.”
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We also want to add a special word of thanks to our friend Mike Kivett, who penned the words to “There They Go, Lord.” Mike is a great live audio technician, he helped us with our first couple self-produced CDs, and most importantly is an all around good egg. When he heard some our silly stuff we were asking him to record, he shared with us his little creation, and we’re certainly glad he did. Thanks, Mike!
And thanks as well to the NFCYM for a great conference as always, and great NCYCs the other years. See you next fall in Indy!
PS – A couple people have asked us about the lyrics to the “Stand By Your Man” parody we sang as part of the finale of the night. Those words were written by Bob Rice, here they are:
Sometimes its hard to be a pastor,
Caring for all those ministries.
Absolving all those sins, the roof is caving in,
And the youth room needs a 55 inch flat screen high definition TV.
Stand by your man,
Give him an ear to listen.
It’s hard, he’s always giving,
And you are kind of needy.
Stand by your man,
And even if he’s awkward,
Make him look as cool as you can,
Baby! Stand by your man.
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“Gather at the Cross” Published by WLP!
Exciting news! A piece written by Orin for the Good Friday adoration of the cross has been published by World Library Publications! It’s titled “Gather at the Cross” and has been sung for the last few years at the Shrine of Our Lady of the Snows, and now at Sts. Joachim and Ann, where Orin is Director of Music Ministries. It’s also been featured in a pOddcast here before.
At WLP’s site, you can view sample pages and here a sample of Audio recorded by their in-house folks.
Here’s the page for the piece at WLP: Gather at the Cross
And here’s a direct link to the audio sample: audio
Or, just click the play button below to listen to the audio streaming from WLP’s site right here!
I (Orin) am grateful to begin this relationship with WLP, just as Oddwalk continues in relationship with GIA and the music and recordings we have through them. Stay tuned – a few more pieces of Orin’s are coming through the pipeline at both GIA and WLP, and we’ll let you know here when they are released.
PS – As part of the piece being published, we’ve had to remove the older audio from our pOddcast – so listen all you want at the link above!