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S3:E11 Catholic Playlist Show #122

Another new release from the Vigil Project

Catholic Playlist #122It’s wonderful to be back after a couple of weeks off, mostly due to hosting the Holy Family Radio annual pledge drive. All the prep and on air work involved with that event makes it a little tough to put together a great show. But that’s exactly what’s in store for you in playlist #122.

A new release from the Vigil Project headlines this episode of the Catholic Playlist. “I Have Seen The Lord” by John Finch is the latest from the Vigil Project and offers a passionate take on the Easter experience as seen from Mary Magdalene’s perspective. John offers more about the inspiration to the song to lead off the second segment of the show, which you can also watch right now:

Other great artists and songs heard this week include Matt Faley (“On My Own”), Matt Maher (“Deliverer”), Jaime Thietten (“Chasing Me”) and Donny Todd (“Heart”).

Sharing the joy of the Gospel through the power of music, listen now:

Here’s playlist #122, in no particular order:

John Finch (The Vigil Project) – “I Have Seen The Lord”
Matt Faley – “On My Own”
Josh Blakesley Band – “Sing Hallelujah”
Cody Roth – “Freedom Falls Like Rain”
Jaime Thietten – “Chasing Me”
Matt Maher – “Deliverer”
Benjamin Jude – “We Fix Our Eyes On You (Live)”
Marie Miller – “6’2”
Donny Todd – “Heart”
Hope and Justin – “Faith”
Dante Schmitz – “Shine on Me”
Chris Bray – “Go“


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S3:E5 Catholic Playlist Show #116

Spotlight on Lent Themed Music

Catholic Playlist #116The season of Lent is upon us and we hope and pray its been a fruitful one for you so far. This week’s episode is the first in a series of playlists with Lent-related music sprinkled throughout to mark the Lenten season. Some examples include Josh Blakesley Band’s “Here At The Cross”, Sarah Kroger’s “Run to the Cross” and Sarah Hart with “Be With Me, Lord (Ps 91)”. “One Dark Night” by Fr Kevin McGoldrick is another good song for lent, as is Audrey Assad’s “I Shall Not Want” from her album Fortunate Fall.

We’re always looking for some of the newest music to play, and this week we’re pleased to debut a new single from Teresa Peterson titled “He Makes All Things New”, which happens to be the name of her spring tour starting in February. Check out her website for dates and concert locations.

Last, but not least, Fr Rob Galea joins the playlist this week with “No Greater Love”. We think you’ll like his sound and is a solid addition to our roster of artists.

Enjoy!

Come back next week when we’ll have new music from Audrey Assad’s newest release, “Inheritance”.

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S3:E1 – Catholic Playlist & Worship

New Shows Kick Off 2016

The Catholic Playlist show returns in 2016 to continue the mission of playing the best and newest contemporary Christian music from Catholic artists. This marks our third season of shows, and we’ll be referring to them in Netflix fashion from now on and not by show number. So this show is Episode 1 of Season 3 or S3:E1. What do you think?

S3:E1 Catholic Playlist ShowA great playlist is in store for you in this episode as we have music from many new artists, like Jeremy & Ryan, Taylor Tripodi, Aly Aleigha, Fr Kevin McGoldrick and others such as Matt Maher, Greg&Lizzy, Josh Blakesley and more.

The biggest surprise in store for you leads off our second segment. Tom Wilson, the actor who plays Biff Tannen in the “Back to the Future” trilogy of movies, recorded a contemporary Christian music album in 2000 titled “In the Name of the Father.” Turns out that Tom is a devout Catholic and we couldn’t resist playing a track from the album. So if you want to know what Biff Tannen sounds like as a singer – singing Christian music – this show is your chance.

Catholic Playlist #42The Catholic Playlist Worship show returns in 2016 to continue playing many of the best and most loved Catholic hymns and traditional music. Episode #42 of the playlist features many of the artists you’re already familar with: Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist, Jackie Evancho, WLP Choir, Dan Schutte and others. We feature an original composition titled “Resolved” from James Rosenbloom in the playlist this week.



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Catholic Playlist #111 & Worship #41

Advent and Christmas Music Highlight Final Shows of 2015

Fourth Week of Advent 2015

We’ve reached the 4th Sunday of Advent which means that Christmas and the birth of Christ is very near. We wrap up our special Advent and Christmas music series with a great list of songs including some familiar favorites in these final episodes of Catholic Playlist and Catholic Playlist Worship for 2015.

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Catholic Playlist #110 & Worship #40

Music for the 3rd Week of Advent

Third Sunday of Advent 2015

We now move to the Third week of Advent and the anticipation is growing as the time winds down to the birth of our Savior. To help you get ready and into the spirit of this liturgical season, hear more sounds of the Advent and Christmas season in the latest episodes of the Catholic Playlist and Catholic Playlist Worship shows.

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Catholic Playlist #108

Special Advent and Christmas Music Edition

Catholic Playlist #108Sharing the joy of the Gospel through music – this is the Catholic Playlist show. Normally we’d be playing the best and some of the very newest contemporary Christian music from Catholic artists only. But this Sunday marks the start of the new Liturgical year and the Advent season, so instead for the next several weeks we’ll be playing the best and yes, some of the newest Advent and Christmas music available, including some brand new releases in the coming weeks.

Our playlist this features special music from Matt Maher (“Silent Night”), Josh Blakesley (“Love Has Captured the Night”), Sarah Hart (“Christ Is Lord”), Marian Grace, Ike Ndolo, Curtis Stephan, and The Boy’s Choir of St Paul’s Choir School sings “O Come All Ye Faithful” too. Enjoy!

Get all of the songs on this playlist from iTunes using these links:


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Catholic Playlist #106

NCYC 2015 Edition

Catholic Playlist #106It’s our NCYC Catholic Playlist show! NCYC 2015 is next week, November 19-21, 2015 in Indianapolis and all of the artists in the show this week will be performing! This is one of our favorite and easiest shows to produce each year because we can’t go wrong selecting songs from the best Catholic artists of contemporary Christian music. In past years we only knew of a small handful of artists so we couldn’t fill a whole show, but this year there are so many talented artists appearing at NCYC this year that we can’t include them all!

Appearing in the playlist this week are the co-hosts of NCYC 2015 Jackie Francois-Angel and Paul J Kim, along with an all star lineup of Matt Maher, Josh Blakesley, PJ Anderson, Audrey Assad, Jeremy & Ryan, Lee Roessler, Curtis Stephan, WAL, Steve Angrisano and Pasquale Talarico.

Stream the show now:

iTunes Playlist:


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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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#90 Catholic Playlist Show

Catholic Playlist #90

Welcome everyone to another Catholic Playlist show, where we play the best and the newest contemporary Christian music – music exclusively from Catholic artists. The beauty of this show is that we might play a great song from an artist you never heard anywhere else. We love finding new music and sharing it with you, and this week is no exception. We’ve got new songs from Greg & Lizzy and Matt Faley in the playlist this week, plus music from Collin Raye, Dave Moore, Donny Todd, Josh Blakesley, and Kara Klein. Cooper Ray leads off the playlist with “Every Day I Will Sing” and Alanna Boudreau finishes the playlist with “Satie Song”.

Here’s the iTunes playlist for those interested in adding some songs or albums to their personal collection: