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The Dameans were a group of Catholic musicians who rose to prominence in the folk music era of the 1970s. [2] They began as seminarians at Notre Dame Seminary in New Orleans, Louisiana, having formed circa 1967. [3] The group was composed mainly of Darryl Ducote, Mike Balhoff, Dave Baker, Buddy Ceasar, and Gary Ault.
Michael Card (born April 11, 1957) is an American Christian singer-songwriter, musician, author, and radio host from Franklin, Tennessee. He is best known for his contributions in contemporary Christian music, which combine folk-style melodies and instrumentation with an in-depth study of the Bible.
Don Francisco (musician) Don Francisco (born February 28, 1946) is an independent American singer, songwriter, and musician, specializing in the field of contemporary Christian music. He has won two Dove awards, 1980 song of the year (for "He's Alive"), and 1980 Songwriter of the year. [1]
"On Eagle's Wings" is a devotional hymn composed by Michael Joncas.Its words are based on Psalm 91, [1] Book of Exodus 19, and Matthew 13. [2] Joncas wrote the piece in either 1976 [3] or 1979, [1] [4] after he and his friend, Douglas Hall, returned from a meal to learn that Hall's father had died of a heart attack. [5]
Psalm 145 is an alphabetic acrostic, the initial letter of each verse being the Hebrew alphabet in sequence. For this purpose, the usual Hebrew numbering of verse 1, which begins with the title, "A Psalm of David", is ignored in favor of the non-Hebrew numbering which treats verse 1 as beginning ארוממך (Aromimkha, "I will exalt You").
Reed Arvin. " Awesome God " is a contemporary worship song written by Rich Mullins and first recorded on his 1988 album, Winds of Heaven, Stuff of Earth. It was the first single from the album and rose to the number one spot on Christian radio and subsequently became a popular congregational song. [1] Its title is inspired by a biblical ...
Phil Wickham. Philip David Wickham[1] (born April 5, 1984) [4][5] is an American contemporary Christian singer, musician and songwriter from San Diego, California. He has released ten worship albums: Give You My World in 2003, a self-titled album in 2006, Cannons in 2007, Singalong in 2008, Heaven & Earth in 2009, Response in 2011, Singalong 2 ...
Contemporary Catholic liturgical music encompasses a comprehensive variety of styles of music for Catholic liturgy that grew both before and after the reforms of the Second Vatican Council (Vatican II). The dominant style in English-speaking Canada and the United States began as Gregorian chant and folk hymns, superseded after the 1970s by a ...