For Christmas my wife bought me tickets to the Blind Boys of Alabama concert at the Walton Arts Center. The concert was this week and all this week we’ve had snow and ice and we wondered if it would happen. But last night we ventured out in the ice (the streets really weren’t that bad) and went to the concert. All I can say is wow – what a wonderful and powerful night of worship!
The night started out great when our good friends John and Jane Ray ran into us as we were entering in. It turns out we both had seats in “row P” so we sat down together. It got better when the staff there told us the place wasn’t full due to weather and we could move down if we wanted. And boy did we move down! 3rd row from the stage! What a view! When singer Jimmy Carter came down into the audience we could reach out and touch him. When the singers urged us to clap our hands if felt like we were sitting right with the band members worshiping together.
If you don’t know the Blind Boys of Alabama you need to check them out. They started out in 1939 at a school for the blind in Alabama. Some of the members have changed over the years but for all these years these men have been singing incredible Gospel music that will make anyone sing out Hallelujah!
A new song for me was "Perfect Peace" (you can here it at their website www.blindboys.com). A great message. I wanted the song to keep going because it’s a message we need so bad in our world. It also fits Fellowships philosophy of Community Groups. Very cool.
They sang their unique and trademark version of "Amazing Grace" that had the audience standing and praising God’s grace.
Another highlight for was when they sang “Spirit in the Sky”. I’ve always felt this song had great overdriven guitars but the singing lack soul to match the guitars. The Blind Boys put that soul in the song! I’ve been humming this song ever since.
Bottom line – we all had a great night of worship in the Walton Arts Center. Thank you Blind Boys!
And thank you Cynthia for such a great Christmas gift!
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