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Available CDs "Gloryland", "Mary Had a Baby", and "Hundredfold" each may be purchased at PasteMusic |
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| Mary Had a Baby (2003) |
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| Hundredfold (2001) |
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| On Company Time (1999) |
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| Upcoming Schedule January 21, Monday @ 7:00p MLK Birthday Concert of Appreciation for Cox Elementary with Rev Roland Pollard and Friends Creekside Community Church 951 MacArthur, San Leandro Free Admission contact - Kathy Greer (510) 430-0607 February 8, Friday @ 8:15p San Francisco Bluegrass and Old-Time Festival at the Noe Valley Ministry with the Wronglers and Jackstraw 1021 Sanchez, San Francisco $18 advance / $20 door contact - Noe Valley Ministry (415) 454-5238 November 29, Saturday @ 7:00p Christmas Benefit Concert for the Table of Plenty St. Thomas More Catholic Church 767 Elliot Road, Paradise free admission contact - Stephanie Gregorio (530) xxx-xxxx |
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| Rich Ferguson's Good Old Gospel Bluegrass Band |
| Christian ministry to prisoners, their families, and their victims throughout the world |
| Max and Rachel Butler's Honky-Tonking Gospel Band |
| Creekside Community Church |
| "A safe place to hear a dangerous message", our church home in San Leandro |
| Music magazine and on-line distribution of independent music |
| Victory Outreach |
| Christian ministry for the restoration from substance abuse |
| Campus Crusade's ministry and service to our military and their families |
| An association of the families of our country's military |
| Blue Star Moms |
| Christmas Reviews |
| On-line reviewer and promoter of all kinds of Christmas amusic |
| Churches and community groups ministering to the inner city youth of the East Bay |
| An on-line reviewer of Americana music from the Netherlands |
| Joni Eareckson's Christian ministry to the disabled |
| Our other home church in Oakland, seeking to glorify God's name, through God's people, locally and globally |
We play, what could be called Americana gospel, the old-time roots music from the traditions of the black and white rural American churches. It's the "farmer formal" sacred songs from the Emancipation to the Depression, as well as some of our own. It's the music of our grandfathers and great-grandmothers, when they were fiery and young, and had to endure their hardships trusting only in Jesus. It's the songs of the old saints who were well acquainted with suffering, for some were in chains, or at the Freedmans Bureau, or in company towns, on failing farms, or at the graveside. It's a uniquely American expression of the cross and shed blood, of sin and salvation, of grace and mercy, and of repentenance and forgiveness. It's the music for times of trouble, when nothing but the unadorned full gospel of Jesus will do. And it's steely-eyed encouragement by the old songwriters in the power of the Holy Ghost to keep walking on out in Jesus name, to keep leaning on the everlasting arms, to finally lay your burdens down. We have been at it together since 1994 performing 20 to 25 times per year. We've never sought music industry sucess but rather filled up our dance card with prison gigs, rescue missions, funerals, church services, and benefit concerts for groups doing good like the Blue Star Moms. We've self-produced five CDs. We return all band proceeds to charity, primarily into prison ministries. As our most noteworthy accomplishment, the prison chaplain once said we were "the inmates' favorite band inside San Quentin". A great complement for us and for old-time roots gospel, in our estimation. Nevertheless, it is our prayer, when it is all said and done, when we have all gone on to our reward like our fathers before us, that we were somehow out of the way of the songs themselves so that the only gospel there is, the old-time full gospel of Jesus, was clearly heard. May the One who has overcome this mean old world, the Lord and Savior of sinners like us, be glorified in all of you. |
| The Fret Not Gospel Band |
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| Band Members |
| Spiro Tsingaris fiddle vocal Brian Smith banjo Rachel Butler vocal Greg V. Arthur mando vocal Max Butler lead guitar vocal Rich Ferguson banjo dobro vocal Reed Sutton bass Lori Arthur guitar lead vocal |
| All monetary procedes from the sale of CDs are returned to charities -- primarily to the prison ministry at Dueul Vocational Institution in Tracy to buy Bibles, anger management workbooks, audio-visual equipment, and whatever else the prison chaplain.requests. |
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| A great festival hosted in numerous excellent venues over 8 days in February |