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S4:E9 Catholic Playlist Show – #160

New Release and Artist

Catholic Playlist #160

A new release from NOVUM and the debut of our latest new featured artist highlights this episode of the Catholic Playlist Show.

Episode #160 is pleased to debut a song from NOVUM’s new EP ‘From The Ground’, a 5 track compilation of their latest work. Also in the playlist are many of your favorite artists such as Tori Harris, Lee Roessler, E.P.I.C the Band, John Finch and a classic from Matt Maher. Leading off the second segment of the show is Ricky Vazquez, our new featured artist this week and a track from his EP ‘More Heart Than Sleeve’.

Song List
NOVUM – “Free” Amazon iTunes
Ricky Vazquez – “House of Cards” Amazon iTunes
John Finch – “Praise to You” Amazon iTunes
Lee Roessler – “How Sweet the Sound” Amazon iTunes
Alob & Emily Wilson – “Mercy Wins” Amazon iTunes
E.P.I.C. the Band – “Life” Amazon iTunes
Tori Harris – “Less of Me” Amazon iTunes
Dante Schmitz – “Shine on Me” Amazon iTunes
Army of Me – “White Flag Flies” Amazon iTunes
Matt Maher – “Hold Us Together” Amazon iTunes
PJ Anderson – “Mercy Mercy” Amazon iTunes
Rachel Ann & Cassandra Acree – “Still I Run” Amazon iTunes

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S4:E8 Catholic Playlist Show – #159

Irish Music for St Patrick's Day

Catholic Playlist #159

It’s a special treat for fans of Irish music this week on the Catholic Playlist Show!

In honor of St Patrick’s feast day on Friday, March 17th, our first segment of the show is filled with Irish music. We have Joe Zambon with ‘Irish Jig’, Sythian with ‘Jigsaw’ and Seasons with ‘King of the Faeries’. Of course Ceili Rain shows up too, with 2 songs that should be familiar with Catholic Playlist listeners. We round out the rest of the show with the likes of L’Angelus, Tom Booth, Josh Blakesley, Jackie Bissin and more.

Song List
Joe Zambon – “Irish Jig” Amazon iTunes
Scythian – “Jigsaw” Amazon iTunes
Seasons – “King of the Faeries” Amazon iTunes
Ceili Rain – “The King & I”, “Let Me Find a Way (To Find You)” Amazon iTunes
L’Angelus – “Ca C’est Bon” Amazon iTunes
Jackie Bissin – “Touch the Sky” Amazon iTunes
Sarah Hart – “Be With Me, Lord (PS 91)” Amazon iTunes
Katy Blythe – “I Thirst” Amazon iTunes
Mathias Michael – “Song of Grace” Amazon iTunes
Danielle Rose – “Sharing Calvary” Amazon iTunes
Josh Blakesley Band – “Here At The Cross” Amazon iTunes
Alanna Boudreau – “Dismantled by Love” iTunes
Tom Booth – “Sacred Silence” Amazon iTunes

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S4:E4-E7 Catholic Playlist Show – #155 thru #158

From Upbeat to Silence for Weeks...

Catholic Playlist Show

It figures. I play up a special episode featuring all ‘super upbeat’ songs, which proved really popular, and then I don’t post a new show for nearly 2 months. From upbeat to silence for weeks…how ironic.

New shows have been produced nearly every week since the upbeat show, and I’ll post some explanation as to why the posts have been delayed soon, but until then enjoy this catch up post featuring 4 shows:

#155
After releasing an “upbeat” theme show featuring all high energy songs, this week we take things a little slower, but only a little. Some of the music in the playlist includes “Coming Home” by Joe Zambon, “Even The Winter” by Audrey Assad, “Even In This” from Josh Blakesley and “Innocent” by Francis Cabildo. Other artists you’ll hear include Out of Darkness, Alob, Kara Klein, Tori Harris, Dave Moore and others.

#156
The process of selecting music for each playlist sometimes leads us to find songs on albums that we didn’t notice before. That’s the case this week as we realized that “Curls” from Katy Blythe’s debut EP ‘NEW’ was a really good song. Same goes for “All I Am Is Yours” by Benjamin Jude and “Lead Me To You” by John Trabbic. Catch these tracks plus more from NOVUM, Mikey Needleman, Taylor Tripodi, Jaime Thietten, Cooper Ray and more.

#157
Lent is underway in 2017 and while we won’t be playing songs with alleluia in the title or in the lyrics (but we might miss one here or there — please forgive!), we will keep playing the best and newest contemporary Christian music by Catholic artists. This week we have title track Undone from Danielle Noonan’s new EP, as well as songs from Alverlis, Kyle Sinkule, Dan Francis, Greg&Lizzy, Marie Miller and more.

#158
The latest release from Chris Bray highlights this episode of the Catholic Playlist show. We debut 2 songs from Chris’ album “Joy In My Heart” in the playlist – “King In His Kingdom” and “In The Name”, and surround them with great tracks from Stefania Elsmore, Dana Catherine, Ike Ndolo, Matt Maher and many more.

Song List
New songs heard in these 4 shows are found below. Otherwise, you can find links to the songs and artists in these show in previous episodes here on the website.

Cody Roth – “Colors Left Unseen” Amazon iTunes
EPIC The Band – “Agape” Amazon iTunes
Danielle Noonan – “Undone” Amazon iTunes
Chris Bray – “King in His Kingdom”, “In His Name” Amazon iTunes


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S4:E3 Catholic Playlist Show – #154

A Special 'Super Upbeat' Playlist!

Catholic Playlist #154

Each week we encourage listeners to send us their requests and we receive a number of submissions from artists eager to get their music on the show. But this week we received the following message:

I was disheartened when my husband commented that he would listen to more Christian/Catholic music, but found it “sad” or with an overriding down beat. Can you help my effort to have him discover the love of Christ by creating a super upbeat playlist? He regularly works out at the gym, and i’d love to infiltrate his current playlist with songs from your show! Let’s work together to take the Trinity to the treadmill!

With a request like that we had to do it! So this week the Catholic Playlist goes “super upbeat” with selections from Dan Francis, Delmore, John Finch, Kevin Heider, Matt Maher and our lone female artist in the playlist, Marie Miller.

Song List
Mathias Michael – “Amplified” Amazon iTunes
Dan Francis – “Sing” Amazon iTunes
Delmore – “Spirit Come” Amazon iTunes
Marie Miller – “This Side Of Paradise” Amazon iTunes
Kevin Heider – “All I Want (Love Come Alive)” Amazon iTunes
Bob Rice – “For That Is What We Are” Amazon iTunes
Dante Schmitz – “Uncovered” Amazon iTunes
Ben Walther – “Mighty to Save” Amazon iTunes
Connor Flanagan – “Strong Is Your Love” Amazon iTunes
John Finch – “Glorify You” Amazon
Matt Maher – “Shout Of The King” Amazon iTunes
Ike Ndolo – “Glorious” Amazon iTunes
Jacob and Matthew Band – “Give Glory” Amazon iTunes
Jeremy and Ryan – “Unstoppable”

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S4:E2 Catholic Playlist Show – #153

Catholic Playlist #153

One of great things about a show like the Catholic Playlist is that it features a diverse variety of music genres, from pop to rock to folk to country to even a little hip hop. A distinctly country sound can be found in the second segment of this week’s Catholic Playlist Show. That’s no surprise with songs from Matt Faley and Kyle Sinkule, but Ben Walther will surprise you with “To One”. Don’t miss it and other great music from the likes of Adam Bitter, Dana Catherine, Alanna Boudreau, John Finch and last week’s new featured artist Stefania Elsmore.

Song List
Adam Bitter – “Rest In God Alone” Amazon iTunes
Rebecca Roubion – “Anywhere I Go” Amazon iTunes
Dana Catherine – “My Savior in Me” Amazon iTunes
Greg&Lizzy – “I Won’t Settle” Amazon iTunes
Stefania Elsmore – “All There Is” Amazon iTunes
Ben Walther – “To One” Amazon iTunes
Noelle Garcia – “Wonderfully Made” Amazon iTunes
Emily Wilson – “Beautiful and Yours” Amazon iTunes
Kyle Sinkule – “Saul” Amazon iTunes
Aly Aleigha – “Wrestling Flames” Amazon iTunes
Alanna Boudreau – “Dismantled by Love” iTunes
Matt Faley – “On My Own” Amazon iTunes
John Finch – “Praise To You” Amazon iTunes

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S4:E1 Catholic Playlist Show #152

New Year, New Music to Discover

Catholic Playlist #152

A new year and a new show means lots of new music in this week’s show! Our last show before Advent was clear back in mid-November, and between then and now several new releases came out and we’ve got them all in the first show of season 4 of the Catholic Playlist show.

Stefania ElsmoreFirst, there are new singles from Out of Darkness (“Of the Father’s Love Begotten”), Mathias Michael (“Mystery”), Cody Roth (“Colors Left Unseen”) and Marie Miller (“This Side of Paradise”). We have songs from new albums released by Connor Flanagan (“Mountains”) and Danielle Noonan (“Undone”), plus our new featured artist this week is Stefania Elsmore. All this plus songs from Katy Blythe, Matt Maher, Sarah Hart and Taylor Tripodi help to make this playlist a great start for 2017!

Listen to the show here:

Song List
Stefania Elsmore – “Prodigal” Amazon iTunes
Out of Darkness – “Of the Father’s Love Begotten” Amazon iTunes
Mathias Michael – “Mystery”
Cody Roth – “Colors Left Unseen” Amazon iTunes
Marie Miller – “This Side of Paradise” Amazon iTunes
Connor Flanagan – “Strong Is Your Love” Amazon iTunes
Danielle Noonan – “The Road Less Traveled” Amazon iTunes
Katy Blythe – “Curls” Amazon iTunes
Sarah Hart – “Sounce and Yield” Amazon iTunes
Jackie Bissin – “Touch the Sky” Amazon iTunes
Lee Roessler – “How Sweet The Sound” Amazon iTunes
Taylor Tripodi – “Here I Am” Amazon iTunes
Matt Maher – “Alive Again” Amazon iTunes

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The Catholic Playlist for Advent and Christmas

The Complete Collection of 2016 Advent & Christmas Shows

Catholic Playlist Advent

As we shared in the previous post, we’re crunched for time when we reach Advent and the end of the calendar year. There is so much to do and try to wrap up in time to relax once Christmas arrives. One of the things moved down the priority list are the web postings for the latest Catholic Playlist shows. We know we’re not treating you well, our faithful listeners, as you get to miss out on some of the latest music specially written and composed for this season of preparation. One of our resolutions for the next season is to be better next year.

Instead of posting each show individually, we’re packaging them up here in one place to make is easy to find and listen to these special shows. All 4 Advent and Christmas episodes of the Catholic Playlist are right here to enjoy. In addition to the many ‘classics’ from your favorite artists we’re pleased to share some of the latest music!

Vigil Project Series 2The first major release is Series #2: Advent + Christmas by the Vigil Project. The new album features seven new songs (and accompanying videos) that invite you to “Keep Watch and Pray” for the coming of our Savior, Jesus Christ. You can hear the first 2 songs they released in playlist #149. Greg&Lizzy are featured in “Prepare Him Room” and John Finch leads us in “Savior of The World”, an upbeat song about the coming of the Messiah. Then in playlist #150, Andrea Thomas leads off the show with “In Need of a Savior”, and John Finch brings us “Silent Night” in playlist #151.

Jaime Thietten Joy of ChristmasNext is Jaime Thietten and her new Christmas album titled The Joy of Christmas. This collection of 17 songs has everything you want in a Christmas season album, and we got the album just in time to play 3 songs in playlist #151. Featuring a full orchestra, the sound is warm, rich and inviting and parallels any release you’d find from the major record labels. You won’t want to miss her duet with Vince Gill in “The First Noel / Angels We Have Heard on High” at the 26:30 mark!

Abigail Winzer RejoiceAbigail Winzer is a young new artist who released her first album titled Rejoice back in October. The album includes seven classic Advent and Christmas songs, and we found listening to it to be peaceful and relaxing. The distinct sound heard throughout the album is thanks to a unique instrument called the duduk, which creates a rich, haunting sound appropriate as we wait in the dark for the coming of the light of the world. Don’t miss her performance of “O Come O Come Emmanuel” in playlist #149!

Oh, and don’t forget that Matt Maher released a new Christmas single too – Glory (Let There Be Peace)!

Hopefully your wait to hear this music of the season was worth it!

Here is the complete song list for all four shows, from #148 to #151:
The Vigil Project – “Prepare Him Room (feat. Greg&Lizzy)”, “Savior of The World (feat. John Finch)”, “In Need of a Savior(feat. Andrea Thomas)”, “Silent Night (feat. John Finch)” Website
Jaime Thietten – “What Child Is This”, “The First Noel/Angels We Have Heard on High (ft. Vince Gill)”, “O Come O Come Emmanuel” – Website
Matt Maher – “Glory (Let There Be Peace)” Amazon iTunes
Abigail Winzer – “O Come O Come Emmanuel”, “God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen” Amazon iTunes

O Come Let Us Adore: A Christmas Collective Amazon iTunes

Tom Young & Emily Hackett – “Go Tell It On the Mountain”
Greg&Lizzy – “O Come All Ye Faithful”
PJ Anderson & Emily Hackett – “O Holy Night”
Sarah Kroger – “Let All Mortal Flesh”
Chris Cole – “Silent Night”
Josh Blakesley Band – “We Three Kings”
Alanna Boudreau – “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas”

Josh Blakesley Band – “The Kingdom Comes” Amazon iTunes
Matt Maher – “Silent Night (Emmanuel)” Amazon iTunes
Matt Maher – “Hark The Herald Angels Sing” Amazon iTunes
Marian Grace – “O Come O Come Emmanuel”, “Come Thou Long Expected Jesus”, “Creator of the Stars at Night”, “Hark The Herald Angels Sing” Amazon iTunes

Songs for Advent and Christmas Amazon

Steve Angrisano – “Emmanuel”
Chris Muglia – “Let It Be Done”
Curtis Stephan – “Ready the Way”
Ike Ndolo – “Awake, O Sleeper”
Sarah Hart, Robert Feduccia – “Christ the Lord”
Josh Blakesley – “Love Has Captured the Night”
Matt Maher, John Foley S.J. – “Come to the Water – I Will Run to You”

Boys of St Paul’s Choir School – “O Come All Ye Faithful” Amazon iTunes
Sarah Hart – “On a Night Like This” Amazon iTunes
Benedictines of Mary, Queen of the Apostles – “Gabriel’s Message” Amazon iTunes
Jaime Thietten – “A Cradle in Bethlehem”, “O Holy Night” Amazon iTunes
Collin Raye – “Angels We Have Heard On High”, “Away In A Manger” Amazon iTunes
L’Angelus – “O Little Town of Bethlehem”, “The First Noel” Amazon iTunes
Rebecca Roubion – “What Child Is This” Amazon iTunes

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S3:E36 Catholic Playlist – #147

Music for the King!

The Church ends its liturgical year by celebrating the Feast of Christ the King this coming Sunday, November 20, and we thought we’d have a little fun this week. We searched our library of music for songs with ‘king’ in the title and came up with a playlist theme for episode #147. You’ll enjoy songs like “King of Kings” from Tori Harris, “Shout Of The King” from Matt Maher and “Mighty King” from Steve Angrisano.

Plus we debut new music from Connor Flanagan and Danielle Noonan who are releasing new albums in December!

Song List
Danielle Noonan – “Road Less Traveled” Amazon iTunes
Connor Flanagan – “Strong Is Your Love”, “Waterfall” Amazon iTunes
Tori Harris – “King of Kings” Amazon iTunes
Ceili Rain – “The King & I” Amazon iTunes
The Glory Collective – “King of Love (feat Haylee Mitchell) Amazon iTunes
Ike Ndolo – “The King He Comes” Amazon iTunes
Jackie Francois – “Your Kingdom Is Glorious” Amazon iTunes
Matt Maher – “Shout Of The King” Amazon iTunes
Sarah Kroger – “The King of Love My Shepherd Is” Amazon iTunes
Steve Angrisano – “Mighty King” Amazon iTunes
Aly Aleigha – “Awestruck” Amazon iTunes

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S3:E35 Catholic Playlist – #146

New Single Debut from Marie Miller

A new single from Marie Miller headlines this episode of the Catholic Playlist show, along with another selection from E.P.I.C. the Band for you to enjoy. Other performers include Alob & Emily Wilson, John Finch, Josh Blakesley, Tori Harris, Francis Cabildo and more. We’re rapidly coming to the end of 2016 which means that Advent is right around the corner. As we do every year, each Catholic Playlist during the season will feature Advent and Christmas songs and hymns. With at least 3 new album releases for the season, we’ll have plenty of great new music to share.

Marie MillerIn this week’s playlist, Miller’s new single “This Side of Paradise” is a song that speaks about staying hopeful and resilient in times of difficulty. She says the song is “my invitation to bravery and acceptance, because no matter what happens, we’ve still got the moonlight.” You can read more about the story behind the song at her new blog, Surprised By Beauty.

And here is the video for “This Side of Paradise”:

Song List
Marie Miller – “This Side Of Paradise” Amazon iTunes
Epic Band – “Agape” Amazon iTunes
Alob & Emily Wilson – “Mercy Wins” Amazon iTunes
Francis Cabildo – “Wildfires” Amazon iTunes
Jaime Thietten – “It’s a Good Day” Amazon iTunes
John Finch – “Reach for the Sky” Amazon iTunes
Josh Blakesley – “You Are the Light” Amazon iTunes
Mike Mangione – “The Offerring” Amazon iTunes
NOVUM – “Welcome” Amazon iTunes
Sarah Kroger – “This Is My Story” Amazon iTunes
Rachel Ann & Cassandra Acree – “No Ordinary Mission” Amazon iTunes
New Name – “He Reigns” Amazon iTunes
Tori Harris – “Overcome the Grave” Amazon iTunes

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S3:E34 Catholic Playlist – #145

We’re back again this week sharing the joy of the Gospel through the power of music! The Catholic Playlist show is the most listened to Catholic contemporary Christian music show in America, and we thank all of our listeners on radio and our on demand podcast for making it happen. You can get the Catholic Playlist Show on demand right here at our website, on iTunes, our podcast page at Podbean, at acast or even at Stitcher.

Show #145 is another playlist of the best and some of the very newest contemporary Christian music from Catholic artists only. This week we have great music to share from artists like Kyle Sinkule, Matt Faley, Dan Francis and Dave Moore (who could use your help right now – check out this GoFundMe page and consider helping!). We’ve got the latest from Alanna Boudreau’s album ‘Champion’ and Joe Zambon too. Enjoy!

Song List
Chris Bray – “Beloved Child of God” Amazon iTunes
Dan Francis – “The Walls” Amazon iTunes
Shaun Garrison – “Exceeding” Amazon iTunes
Joe Zambon – “Jesus I Love You” Amazon iTunes
Dave Moore – “Knocking At Your Door” Amazon iTunes
Kara Klein – “Live” Amazon iTunes
Audrey Assad – “Love Is Moving” Amazon iTunes
Kyle Sinkule – “Saul” Amazon iTunes
Of The Tower – “Sacred Heart” iTunes
Fr Kevin McGoldrick – “Jesus You Are Beautiful” Amazon iTunes
Alanna Boudreau – “Dismantled by Love” iTunes
Matt Faley – “Here I Am” Amazon iTunes
Stephen Kirk – “Rising” Amazon iTunes