Triumphant Quartet had just finished sound check as I slipped into the Ladies Room before the doors opened for the evening concert. With a cart of cleaning supplies sitting outside the door, I expected to find a staff member inside making sure the place was clean and fresh…what I didn’t expect was a slightly off…
It’s finally here! I have to admit, this give-a-way took a little longer to put together than planned. Usually, this post is up the first Friday of every month…not the second! But I hope you understand, I spent the 4th of July weekend in Gatlinburg, Tennessee on a little vacation and the hotel I…
At 4:30 PM each day, the doors opened for the Memphis Quartet Show. On Thursday night, I stood behind the product table of Brian Free and Assurance as fans began to trickle in and browse around the vendor’s booths. How much time had passed, I couldn’t be sure, but soon a lady wearing one of…
“Excuse me, sir, are these seats taken?” I asked a gentlemen sitting on the front row Thursday afternoon at the Memphis Quartet Show. After shaking his head no, I turned to Melissa (my dear friend who drove up from Mississippi) having a pretty good idea of what her answer would be when I asked…
While riding up the escalator that took us to the walkway level, I pulled out the tickets from my purse for the Memphis Quartet Show. Just around the corner was the entrance to the room that would fill with music, Gospel quartets, fans and vendors for the following three days. A blue banner with…
It was one of those bright, sunny, cheery days…fluffy white clouds floated along in the sky and though it was a little humid, it was still a day that could bring a smile to your face. Children laughed and bounced around the playground as the breeze tugged on the plastic table cloths at the church…
Tell you what, when the map on your phone tells you the arrival time for a 6PM concert is 5:57…it means you’ll get there at 5:57! Well, that happens when road construction is afoot. The most important thing is we did get to the Bethlehem Baptist Church in Springfield, Tennessee in time to see…
Drops of rain chased me into the church doors of Fellowship Baptist Church of Cape Girardeau in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. This was the last concert in our “May Madness SGM Mini Marathon”…one we weren’t really sure we’d make it out to. A few days previous (at that time) the F5 tornado went through Moore,…
In honor of Father’s Day, some of Southern Gospel Music’s favorite “fathers” have been very gracious to sit down and pen a few stories and words of encouragement for us this weekend. The paragraphs below are written by Brian Free, one who not only holds the title of Southern Gospel’s most awarded tenor, but husband,…
The Gift By: Chris Allman With Father’s Day on the horizon, I feel compelled to post a little testimony that, I believe, will change somebody’s life. That relationship between father and son can be glorious but at the same time cumbersome. I have four children of my own, two of them boys, so I relate…
