Now is the time of year that we are looking high and low for great new music to arrange for our group to learn. Do you have any suggestions? What are your favorite songs?
Any Ideas?
Wisconsin!
We left home Saturday morning, heading for Dubuque to spend several hours enjoying the town before leaving Iowa and driving into Platteville Wisconsin for our evening program. The Calico Bean in Cable Car Square, one of our stops, was home to a rainbow array of sprinkles of which they sell 500 pounds annually. Besides sprinkles, we looked at green bean chips, rows of spices, and hoards of candy, each of us children choosing a flavor of honey stick such as sour raspberry before leaving for another shop. Sampling Italian cuisine and finding a few keepers at a used book store were a couple more highlights of our afternoon. Our concert in Platteville went well Saturday evening.
Abigail playing “How Great Thou Art”
Silas and his flying fingers on his solo, “Rondo”
When we had lost our way on the trip home, we enjoyed the historic architecture, even if we happened to come across the same houses 3 or 4 times!
Ireton Cristian School Concert
We had a great time playing at the Ireton Cristian School Fundraiser that was held at Dort College.
Setting up beforehand...
Enjoying the music
The beautiful stage
The Farnum Family from Missouri also played.
South Dakota Trip
As you can see by the pictures, our trip to South Dakota was not uneventful. The two Saturday programs went well, but during Saturday night on into Sunday morning, there was an ice storm. Our Sunday morning church service was cancelled so our host spontaneously invited us to play at his church that morning. We played to a wonderful, although small, crowd of 9 or 10 people that braved the icy roads to come to church. The power couldn’t seem to decide whether it was going to stay on or go off, so we went ahead without our sound system and had a marvelous time just the same. Our evening concert went well too and we drove back, arriving home after 3 a.m.
Le Mars Bluegrass Festival
Come see us at the Bluegrass Festival in Le Mars, IA on September 3 and 4, 2011!Here are some photos from last year.
Enjoy some ice cream when taking a break from the festival!
Free ice cream on a hot day - We finished one concert
just in time to get some.
Who can pass it up?
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Praise ye the LORD. Praise God in his sanctuary:
praise him in the firmament of his power"...
"praise him with stringed instruments and organs."
Psalm 150:1 & 4b
A Few Pictures...
Looking Back...
Preparing for a program:
New Promotional Video!
Watch! Listen! Be entertained!
Click here to watch the video, The Johnson Strings in Concert - A Family Making Music!, on YouTube.
Click here to listen to a preview of our second CD, Heal the Land.
Click here to hear a bit of our first CD, Vision.
"Let every thing that hath breath praise the LORD. Praise ye the LORD."
Psalm 150:6
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