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Catholic Playlist #104

With new featured artist Aly Aleigha

Catholic Playlist #104Welcome to the show that plays the best and very newest contemporary Christian music from Catholic artists today – a little show we call the Catholic Playlist. This is great inspirational music that you won’t hear anywhere else, so get ready to discover new music and new artists that you never knew about until right now. In our playlist this week we have the new radio single from Matt Maher’s latest album, great selections from Taylor Tripodi, Greg & Lizzy, John Finch, Josh Blakesley, and Jeremy & Ryan. Plus we have new featured artist this week – Aly Aleigha.

Aly AleighaAly Aleigha is a recent graduate of Franciscan University of Steubenville and currently works at the University of Minnesota, Duluth Newman Center under Father Mike Schmitz. Aly’s debut EP “Jealous Love” was recorded at the end of her senior year at Franciscan and was released in June 2015. To learn more about Aly, her music, speaking and more, check out her website www.aly-aleigha.com.

Enjoy the show:

iTunes links to songs in playlist #104:


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Catholic Playlist #100

Catholic Playlist #100It’s our 100th episode! It’s been a joy to produce and host the Catholic Playlist from the beginning, and this week for our 100th playlist we take a look back and celebrate some of the best and newest contemporary Christian music from Catholic artists that we’ve discovered and enjoyed along the way. We start the playlist with some of the most familiar names in the industry and then transition to some of our favorite new artists that we’ve all come to enjoy – Tori Harris, Connor Flanagan, PJ Anderson, Matt Faley, Alverlis, Katy Blythe, Dante Schmitz, and Taylor Tripodi. We also celebrate the diversity of the music to be found these days as Catholic hip hop artist Pontifex, aka Fr Claude Burns, makes an appearance in the playlist.

Kevin McGoldrickPlus we are so excited to debut a song from our new featured artist this week, Fr Kevin McGoldrick. His new album “Square Peg, Round Hole” is available for pre-order right now on iTunes and Amazon and we highly recommend it to our listeners! It’s a bluesy and joyful work of art with 10 amazing songs that bring the true, the good and the beautiful right into your ears.

You know, when first started the Catholic Playlist we didn’t know of very many contemporary Catholic artists so those we did know were featured quited often in the early playlists, starting with Matt Maher, who really needs no introduction:

Here’s our playlist with links to iTunes:

And here are your playlist links to the music in Amazon:

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#99 Catholic Playlist Show

Catholic Playlist #99Just 1 more week until episode #100! But right now it’s playlist #99 for us this week as we continue to share the joy of the Gospel through the power of music. This week we feature performances from Adam Bitter, Ceili Rain, Luke Spehar, Sarah Hart, The Thirsting and others. The show starts with a set of songs from the performers at the Abbey Faith and Music Festival coming up on Saturday, September 19th at the Daylesford Abbey near Philadelphia. It’s a great music event! You can find out more about it at www.theabbeyfest.com and if you can’t go or live too far away, we give you a taste of the concert with 3 songs in a row from those performing. Up first is Marie Miller, then Ike Ndolo, and then wrapping up with Matt Maher.

Enjoy the show:

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#95 Catholic Playlist Show

Catholic Playlist #95Sharing the joy of the Gospel through the power of music is what we enjoy doing most with the Catholic Playlist show! And with the growing number of radio station playing the show and podcast listeners, we consider the Catholic Playlist show to be the most listened to Catholic contemporary Christian music show in America! It’s our mission to play the best and some of the very newest contemporary Christian music from Catholic artists only.

We’re really excited about the playlist this week because we have a ton of great songs to share from artists like Marie Miller, John Finch, Tori Harris, Ben Walther and Pasquale Talarico. We’ve got the latest from Adam Bitter, plus our new featured artist this week is Taylor Tripodi!

TripodiTaylor is a student at Franciscan University of Steubenville in Ohio and has just released her debut EP titled “Be Glorified”. As for why she wrote these songs and made this album, she says “I want the whole world to know Christ and experience His unfailing love. He is so worthy of our praise, and so, may the Lord truly “Be Glorified” in this music, and may all those who listen to these songs draw closer to His Sacred Heart, all for His Glory!”

Check her debut in our second segment of the show:

For those interested in adding to their own playlists, here is this week’s playlist in iTunes:

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#94 Catholic Playlist Show

Catholic Playlist #94It’s the 94th edition of the Catholic Playlist show and this week we have a stellar lineup of artists representing a wide variety of styles and sound. We have selections from Josh Blakesley Band, Collin Raye, Sarah Kroger, Shaun Garrison and Teresa Peterson, plus Lee Roessler who’s currently in the studio working on a new album. A request from a listener gave us our lead off track this week, which is Ike Ndolo and one of our very favorite songs “Wade In The Water”. Finally, we have a fun and playful song in the mix too – “Sing Along (Catholic Love Song)” by David Casper. Listen to the lyrics closely and see if it doesn’t have you smiling throughout!

This week we’re also pleased to announce that another radio station has added the Catholic Playlist to their schedule. Please join us in welcoming the listeners of Queen of Heaven and Earth Radio, KQHE 92.7FM in Fairbanks, Alaska to the show!

For those interested in adding some of the music you heard on this show to your personal playlists, here are the iTunes links to all of the songs:

Question: Does your local Catholic radio station broadcast the Catholic Playlist show yet? If they aren’t, let us know the station (ex WJTA 88.9FM or KJCR 1240AM) in the comments and we’ll contact them and let them know that some of their own listeners want to hear the Catholic Playlist!

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#92 Catholic Playlist Show

Catholic Playlist #92If you’ve never heard the show before you’re in for a real treat. This is great inspirational music that you won’t hear anywhere else, so get ready to discover new music and new artists that you never knew about until now. And it’s not only a great show, like always, but also a record breaker! We were able to somehow fit in 14 songs before our time is up, and we’ll be playing songs from Matt Faley, Ike Ndolo, Steve Angrisano, Katy Blythe, John Finch, Mikey Needleman, Matt Maher, and a brand new release from Adam Bitter. At the top of the playlist this week it’s last week’s new featured artist Jeremy and Ryan.

Here is the iTunes playlist to add them to your personal collection:

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#89 Catholic Playlist Show

Catholic Playlist #89Just in time for the Independence Day holiday in the US is the newest Catholic Playlist show. As always we invite you to discover the joy of the Gospel through the power of this music each week. Many listeners tells us they enjoy listening because they get a chance to discover new music and artists they can add to their own personal playlists.

This week we invite you to check out the brand new single “Memorial” from Ike Ndolo, along with music from Matt Faley, Joe Zambon, Shaun Garrison, Cody Roth, Sarah Hart, and Marie Miller returns to the playlist as well. Dante Schmitz starts it all off with “Everything”

Just want to get your hands on the music? Here’s the iTunes playlist with links directly to the songs in this show:

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#88 Catholic Playlist Show

Catholic Playlist #88You’ve come to expect the best and some of the very newest contemporary Christian music from Catholic artists only on the Catholic Playlist. And we continue to deliver great music from Catholic artists that you won’t hear on any other radio station or podcast.

In the playlist this week we have Dee Simone, John Finch, Matt Maher, Luke Spehar and Chris Bray. We play another song from last week’s featured new artist Hope and Justin, plus we have two songs from Ike Ndolo in the playlist too, including a new single recently released in April.

And this week we welcome the listeners of Billings Catholic Radio, KJCR 1240AM and 97.5FM to the Catholic Playlist show network! We’re happy to have them on board, and we decided to start this week’s show with a song from an artist who is from the region – Jaime Thietten – It’s A Good Day.

And here’s the iTunes playlist for your music discovery:

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#84 Catholic Playlist Show

Catholic Playlist #84The discovery and sharing of new music is both rewarding and fun. Who doesn’t like to tell their friends to listen to something that we like and are pretty sure they are going to like too? The fact that we get to discover and share new music with you through this show is nothing short of amazing.

So it’s with great anticipation that in this week’s show we’re debuting a brand new song from Fr Pontifex and his new album ‘The Invincibles’. The playlist also has music from Dee Simone, Audrey Assad, Ike Ndolo, Matt Faley, Kara Klein, Sarah Hart and a host of other great artists, including Dave Moore who gets the show started with “Swept Away”.

The second segment of the show is where you’ll find Fr Pontifex’s new song. Many of you may be asking – Who is “Fr Pontifex”? Well, Fr Pontifex is a priest in the diocese of Evansville, Indiana and he’s quite a talented Catholic hip hop artist who has now recorded 3 full length albums. You might be wondering why we’d play hip hop or ‘rap’ music on the Catholic Playlist, even if it is from a Catholic priest. The answer is that first this music is quite good, but second that this show is about discovering new music that carries the Catholic message – a message in a genre that’s attractive to our youth right now, and you need to know about it to be able to share it with others who might really enjoy it.

Pontifex-InvinciblesThe song we’ll be debuting is called “Ocean” and it’s the lead the single off of his new album “The Invincibles”. The song is about being called by God to the great adventure. One of the lines in the song – “Safer in your waters than these shores is what you promise” – encapsulates the meaning of this piece. God may call us to the deep waters, to the unknown and to place that is not comfortable but with that he promises his presence and grace. He walks with us and directs our steps.

Who are you going to discover and hear for the first time in this hour?

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#81 Catholic Playlist Show

Catholic Playlist #81Once again we are sharing the joy of the Gospel through the power of music by playing the best and the very newest contemporary Christian music from Catholic artists. This is music you won’t hear anywhere else on Christian radio. Today our playlist of songs features many of the names you’re hopefully familiar with by now – Tori Harris, Sarah Kroger, Matt Faley, Ike Ndolo, Steve Angrisano, and many others, including our featured new artist this week Donny Todd. Last week’s new featured artist Dante Schmitz kicks off this week’s playlist with “Uncovered”.