S3:E27 Catholic Playlist Show #138

AbbeyFest Concert Preview Special

It’s a special AbbeyFest concert preview show this week on the Catholic Playlist! Hear a set of at least 3 songs in a row from each of the artists appearing at the 2016 Abbey Fest – Teresa Peterson, Aly Aleigha and Josh Blakesley Band. The two most recent New Featured Artists open up our special concert show – Dana Catherine and Kyle Sinkule.

Song List
Dana Catherine – “My Savoir in Me” Amazon iTunes
Kyle Sinkule – “Saul” Amazon iTunes
Teresa Peterson – “Freely, Fully”, “He Makes All Things New”, “Calling Me Higher” Amazon iTunes
Aly Aleigha – “You Are”, “Jealous Love”, “Race Along”, “Visitation Song” Amazon iTunes
Josh Blakesley – “You Are the Light”, “Hosanna”, “How Great is Our God”, “Grateful” Amazon iTunes

S3:E26 Catholic Playlist #137

It’s the time of year when the kids head back to school (I’ve got 3 in school, 1 in college and 2 married off), football season is upon us (yes!!), the weather begins to cool down just a bit as we see the fall season coming soon and in no time we’ll be seeing pumpkin spice flavored stuff advertised everywhere. Whether or not you like pumpkin spice lattes, which I don’t (I can’t stand coffee), you’ll like the music we’ve picked for the playlist in show #137. Catch performances by John Finch, Katy Blythe, Teresa Peterson, Connor Flanagan, Dave Moore, Fr Kevin McGoldrick and many others, including “Joy In These Bones” from Sarah Hart’s new album Till the Song is Sung.

Join us next week as we prepare our Abbey Faith & Music Festival show special featuring the artists and music from this great event happening Sept 24th in Paoli, PA. Artists appearing include Aly Aleigha, Teresa Peterson and Josh Blakesley Band! Click here for info and get tickets! Plus we’ll be there too!

Song List
Aly Aleigha – “You Are” Amazon iTunes
Alob – “Resurrection” Amazon iTunes
Connor Flanagan – “Beggarman” Amazon iTunes
Dave Moore – “Promise Land” Amazon iTunes
Fr. Kevin McGoldrick – “Jesus You Are Beautiful” Amazon iTunes
Jaime Thietten – “It’s A Good Day” Amazon iTunes
John Finch – “Praise To You” Amazon iTunes
Katy Blythe – “New and Free” Amazon iTunes
Luke Spehar – “The Promise” Amazon iTunes
Sarah Hart – “Joy In These Bones” Amazon iTunes
New Name – “Live to Worship (Acoustic)” Amazon iTunes
Teresa Peterson – “He Makes All Things New” Amazon iTunes
Tori Harris – “Fields of Gold” Amazon iTunes

Join Us At AbbeyFest!

AbbeyFest

We’re very excited to announce that the Catholic Playlist will be an information vendor at the AbbeyFest this year!

In just three short years, AbbeyFest has grown from a free concert in the St. Norbert Parish gym into a full day outdoor Catholic faith, music and family festival with close to 3,000 people this past September 2015.

Held at Daylesford Abbey in Paoli, PA, the grounds are transformed into a festival atmosphere featuring dozens of Catholic vendors along with food trucks, family and kid-friendly activities, pickup Frisbee, soccer and touch football games and dozens of Archdiocesan, Norbertine, and other order priests hearing confessions throughout the day and evening along with prayer and healing teams.

We’ll be there to meet and greet all of the fans attending the event and also capture photos and videos of the performances of Aly Aleigha, Teresa Peterson and the Josh Blakesley Band!

Get your tickets now!

S3:E19 Catholic Playlist Show #130

Back with a Mix of Old and New

We’re back after an unscheduled 3 week hiatus and so happy to be picking some of the best and newest contemporary Christian music from Catholic artists for playlist #130! This week’s edition has a mix of songs that are new and old – and my ‘old’ we mean stuff that’s more than a year or two old. For example of the new, we have new singles from Sarah Kroger and Andrea Thomas and newer songs by Josh Blakesley and FOCUS Worship. And for the old we have ‘classics’ from Connor Flanagan, Ike Ndolo, Marie Miller and New Name. All together this playlist of 13 songs offers a nice variety music to please almost any listener. Enjoy!

Song List
Andrea Thomas – “He Rose Again” Amazon iTunes
Benjamin Jude – “Flicker (Live)” Amazon iTunes
Connor Flanagan – “Hello Hey” Amazon iTunes
FOCUS Worship – “God Alone” Amazon iTunes
Ike Ndolo – “Crooked Soul” Amazon iTunes
Josh Blakesley – “Even In This” Amazon iTunes
L’Angelus – “Love Don’t Care” Amazon iTunes
Marie Miller – “You’re Not Alone” Amazon iTunes
NOVUM – “Made Your Way” Amazon iTunes
Sarah Kroger – “This Is My Story” Amazon iTunes
New Name – “He Reigns” Amazon iTunes
Teresa Peterson – “He Makes All Things New” Amazon iTunes
Tori Harris – “King of Kings” Amazon iTunes

S3:E13 Catholic Playlist Show #124

Catch Two New Releases This Week

Catholic Playlist #124Two new releases highlight Episode #124 of the Catholic Playlist show this week. First, it’s one of the latest releases from The Vigil Project. Greg&Lizzy return with a new song titled “Seeking + Saving” and give us the story behind the writing of the song.

The Light - Extraordinary Mission MusicAnd we’re pleased to debut a single from a new album titled “The Light” from Rachel Ann & Cassandra Acree. The duo was formerly known as SimplyRC, but now they unite for a new EP of music featured in Extraordinary Mission events led by Dr John Wood. The single is titled “Fill Up My Darkenss” and Cassandra offers us some insight into what inspired her to write this song.

Other music in playlist comes from Taylor Tripodi, Kevin Heider, Kara Klein, Teresa Peterson, Ceili Rain, and Michael James Mette returns to the playlist with his song “The Beat Goes On”.

Here’s your playlist for this episode:

Greg&Lizzy – “Seeking + Saving
Rachel Ann & Cassandra Acree – “Fill Up My Darkness
Teresa Peterson – “He Makes All Things New
Sarah Kroger – “This Is My Story
Taylor Tripodi – “Here I Am
Kevin Heider – “All I Want (Love Come Alive)
Kara Klein – “Way Maker
Alverlis – “You Give Me Peace
Ceili Rain – “The King & I
Of The Tower – “Follow You
Michael James Mette – “The Beat Goes On
Stephen Kirk – “Rising


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”.

S3:E4 Catholic Playlist Show #115

Catholic Playlist #115After 2 weeks off the Catholic Playlist show returns with great contemporary Christian music from Catholic artists. We have the debut of 2 new singles in the playlist, one from PJ Anderson, the other from Jeremy & Ryan. Also in the playlist is Teresa Peterson, who’s going to be touring the midwest in March and April, Emily Wilson, Tori Harris, Ben Walther, Steve Angrisano, and Out of Darkness.

The debut from PJ Anderson titled “Love Will Heal” leads off our playlist. It was released this in conjunction with his appearance at the March for Life Youth Rally and Mass in 2016. Enjoy!

Join us next week as we’ll have a new Lenten song from Josh Blakesley and something from Audrey Assad’s new album, “Inheritance”.

Catholic Playlist #101

Catholic Playlist #100September 29 happened to be National Coffee Day. ‘Coffee’ also happens to be the first radio single from Fr Kevin McGoldrick’s new albulm ‘Square Peg, Round Hole’ (pre-order here or here). Inspired by these facts, we decided to open this week’s playlist episode with a set of songs that set the tone for a great day. So if you’ve been looking for some ‘wake up’ morning music to get you inspired to take on the day, pay close attention to our first segment of the show.

Performers in this week’s playlist include Sarah Kroger, Kevin Heider, Rebecca Roubion, Steve Angrisano, Donny Todd, and Kara Klein. Stick around to the end of the show too as the last segment of the show features an eclectic mix of music that includes tracks from ooberfuse, Delmore and Benedictio. Enjoy!

This week’s playlist in iTunes:

And for those who prefer Amazon:

#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!

#87 Catholic Playlist Show

Catholic Playlist #87The Catholic Playlist show is a showcase of some of the best and very newest music released today by Catholic artists. We have a new featured artist this week – Hope and Justin – and we have cool mix of new and previously unplayed music in the playlist, with songs from Katy Blythe, PJ Anderson, Dante Schmitz, Connor Flanagan, Alverlis, Greg & Lizzy and Of The Tower. We have two songs from Josh Blakesley Band in the playlist too, including the first song “Revive Us” from their latest album “Even In This”.

Hope and JustinOur featured new artist this week is Hope & Justin. Hope and Justin have been playing music together since the first night they met, which was over 10 years ago now, but they are still at it and are joined by what they say are “incredibly talented friends”. They describe their music as homegrown music with lots of soul: everything you loved about 70’s folk and bluegrass with a modern vibe. In 2013 they released their second album titled “Eastern Bound”, and they’ve been rewarded for their hard work and talent, having been selected as “New Folk Finalists” in the Texas Kerrville Folk Festival, semi-finalists in the International Songwriting Competition (chosen among 20,000 contestants), and awarded “Best Folk Song” in the West Coast Songwriter’s Competition. Hope & Justin are making their Catholic Playlist debut with “St Michael’s VW” from their latest album “Eastern Bound”.

And making a return to our blog posts here for each show, here are links in iTunes of all the songs in this week’s playlist.