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New Featured Artist: Emily Wilson

Emily Wilson Christian Singer

This week on the Catholic Playlist our new featured artist is Emily Wilson. Emily is a young, energetic, and charismatic Catholic musician and speaker who travels the world sharing her faith through witness and worship. It’s interesting to note that while she was attending Arizona State University, Emily began leading worship with Ike Ndolo, a Catholic Playlist favorite, who after hearing her voice and seeing her passion to lead others, invited her to tour with his band. Together they have attended conferences and events all over the country.

The heart of Emily’s ministry though is offering encouragement to young women in their search for their true identity. She is on a mission to draw others to Christ through her speaking and her music that is both prayerful and powerful. In the summer of 2014, Emily released her debut EP entitled “Joy Will be Yours” and with prayerful songwriting, pure vocals, and piano melodies, Emily conveys a message of redemption, worship, and hope.

In Catholic Playlist #55 we’ll be playing the song “Beautiful and Yours”.

To learn more about Emily and her music, go to www.emwilsonmusic.com or here on iTunes:

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#1 – Catholic Playlist Worship – NEW

Catholic Playlist Worship Show

We are very excited to announce the release of our very first episode of Catholic Playlist Worship, a new show that features some of the best and newest time-honored sacred and liturgical music. It is the perfect complement to the current Catholic Playlist show that plays contemporary music!

Following the same structure and quality production as the current Catholic Playlist, this new weekly 60 minute program will play music from new and established artists like the Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist & the Benedictines of Mary, Queen of the Apostles who record for DeMontfort Music, Kitty Cleveland, Jon Sarta, Andrea Bocelli, Benedictio, L’Angelus, The Priests, and many, many more.

This is truly some of the most beautiful music available today.

Enjoy and please share with your friends who would appreciate this music!

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Song of the Week – Sep 15, 2014

Ben Walther - Catholic Playlist Song of the Week

Welcome to the Catholic Playlist Song of the Week! Our song for the week of September 15th 2014 is “You Are Mine” from Ben Walther. Ben is a singer, songwriter, worship leader, husband and a father who calls Ohio home. Making music for more than 15 years, Ben travels across the country to lead worship and share his gifts with God’s people. He’s co-written songs with Christian music greats like Matt Maher and released his latest album “Make Your Home In Me” last year. “You Are Mine” is one of many great songs on the album, and it’s our Catholic Playlist Song of the Week:

If you like this song, get it now or check out his other great music on iTunes:

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Crowdfunding: James Rosenbloom

Catholic music artist James Rosenbloom

If you’ve listened to the music on the Catholic Playlist show or followed many of the artists that we’ve had on the show, chances are pretty good you’ve heard or seen James Rosenbloom in the background. He’s performed with PJ Anderson, Greg & Lizzy, Alanna-Marie Boudreau, Tori Harris, Kevin Heider and many, many more. As a performer on the cello, upright bass, bass guitar, acoustic guitar, mandolin, banjo, lap dulcimer, sitar, piano, as well as background and lead vocals, his versatility and talent can really bring value to his fellow artists.

And now James is looking step out of the background and record his own collection of both instrumental and sacred hymns which he’s composed over the course of the last ten years or so. But this can only happen if he reaches his goal by Oct 1, 2014. Please consider supporting his Kickstarter project today!

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Song of the Week – Sep 8, 2014

Jaime Thietten

Welcome to the Catholic Playlist Song of the Week! Our song for the week of September 8th 2014 is “It’s A Good Day” from Jaime Thietten. Jaime was raised in Twin Falls, Idaho, the second of three siblings. She discovered that through song, not only could she find meaning for her own life, but also inspire and encourage others. Jaime has recorded a total of 7 albums and her latest contemporary CD, Love Along The Way, is where you’ll find “It’s A Good Day”. About the song, Jaime recounts how she “only had one day left to write and record the last song for the record.” She prayed that God would help her to sleep so she could be rested for the next day and also to bring the perfect song. And well, let’s just say that it was a good day, and our Catholic Playlist Song of the Week:

If you like this song, get it here on iTunes and check out her other music too:

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#54 – Catholic Playlist Show

Catholic Playlist #54

Welcome to the show that plays the best and the newest contemporary Christian music – music exclusively from Catholic artists. Be sure to listen to the entire show because we just might play a great song from an artist you never heard before. That’s the beauty of this show.

Lot of great music in the playlist this week – our playlist lineup includes music from Brian Flynn, Delmore, Ike Ndolo, Joe Zambon, Paul J Kim, The Roca Band and more. Michael James Mette stopped by our studio this week and we’ll have excerpts from an interview with him as well as song. Plus Alanna-Marie Boudreau has just released her new album titled ‘Hints & Guesses’ this week and we’ll play one of her brand new songs after our first break.

Here’s the full playlist of songs in this week’s show from iTunes:

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New Release: Alanna Boudreau

Alanna Boudreau

Alanna Boudreau is set to release her new full length album “Hints & Guesses” tomorrow, Thursday September 4, 2014. The 12 song album was made possible through a successful Kickstarter campaign earlier this year. We are pleased to be able to debut the first song on the album titled ‘Davey’ in this week’s Catholic Playlist show (#54).

Here is a great video interview with Alanna about her new album:

You can learn more about Alanna and buy her music at her website – www.alannamariemusic.com.

Order her new album here in iTunes:

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Crowdfunding: Benjamin Brekke

Benjamin Brekke

One of the more enjoyable aspects of the rising popularity of the Catholic Playlist is that we can help artists pursue their dreams of recording music. One such artist is Benjamin Brekke, who is hoping to raise $2,000 on Kickstarter by September 4 to finish his project. He’s close to the finish line, but could use a little more help. Please prayerfully consider pledging some support for Benjamin’s project.

For a great story about Benjamin and his music, check out this article in The Catholic Spirit from the Archdiocese of St Paul & Minneapolis.

For details of the his project and to pledge, go to his Kickstarter page.

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#53 – Catholic Playlist Show

Catholic Playlist #53

Welcome to the Catholic Playlist show, where we bring you the joy of the Gospel through music – by finding and playing the best and some of the very newest contemporary Christian music from Catholic artists. We have a lot of great music in store for you today – the playlist lineup includes music from Jaime Thietten, Andrea Thomas, Marie Miller, Tori Harris, Greg Andrews, Connor Flanagan and a few others. And if you are a fan of soul and jazz, you’re going to really enjoy our featured new artist this week, Sam Rocha.

Sam’s debut album, titled “Late to Love”, is an original concept album that performs a reading of Augustine’s Confessions through soul music. It is not a generic ode to a saint or holy person, nor it is a neutral and uncontroversial celebration of an important ancient book. From beginning to end Sam offers a bold and fresh reading of Augustine’s Confessions where the form is the content, where melody and verse take the place of assertions and argument. This music is truly something totally new and original.

Here’s an iTunes playlist of the songs included in the show so you can quickly sample and identify songs (and albums!) you want in your personal collection. Please note that some songs may not be available in iTunes.

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New Featured Artist: Sam Rocha

Sam Rocha

This week on the Catholic Playlist our new featured artist is Sam Rocha. Sam began playing guitar at the age of 5, and began singing soon thereafter. His musical influences cover a wide range of genres from folk, Latin, funk, soul, hip-hop, and jazz, but he claims his roots are in church music and the Mexican folk tradition. Over the past ten years, he’s performed with various ensembles playing everything from gospel and contemporary Christian music, blues, pop, neo-soul/nu jazz, Latin folk, and Latin jazz.

His debut collection of music, titled “Late to Love” and available on Aug 28, 2014, is musically inspired by the genealogy of soul music that scans the genres of spirituals, folk, gospel, country, R&B, blues, funk, jazz, hip-hop, neo-soul and nu-jazz. Artists such as T-Bone Walker, Ray Charles, Gil Scott Heron, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, Bill Withers, and Curtis Mayfield—with dashes of Willie Nelson and Pat Metheny—serve as the “old” foundation for something entirely new: Augustinian soul music.

“Late to Love” is an original concept album that performs a reading of Augustine’s Confessions through soul music. It’s not a generic ode to a saint or holy person, nor it is a neutral and uncontroversial celebration of an important ancient book. From beginning to end Sam offers a bold and fresh reading of Augustine’s Confessions where the form is the content, where melody and verse take the place of assertions and argument. This music is truly something totally new and original.

In Catholic Playlist #53 we’ll be playing the title track “Late to Love”, where the chorus sings, “Late / have I loved you / beauty so old / beauty so new,” adapted from Augustine’s Confessions.

You can learn more about Sam Rocha and his new album here at Wiseblood Books.

You can sample the songs and perhaps pick up the brand new album starting on Aug 28, 2014 here on iTunes:

Please join us in welcoming Sam Rocha to the Catholic Playlist Show!

Interesting Factoid: Sam is musically illiterate – he doesn’t read or write music, despite having a PhD in philosophy of education.