Chapel Concert #1: September 22, 2011

A Night of Original Music with Parke Cottrell, Adam Whipple, and the McCoys

The Cedar Springs Music Academy is excited to present the first concert of the 2011-2012 Chapel Concert Series, A Night of Original Music with Parke Cottrell, Adam Whipple, and the McCoys. All of these musicians are gifted singers and songwriters.  You might even recognize them!  They can be heard sharing their gifts regularly at Knoxville area churches, jazz clubs, and coffee shops.  Come join us on Thursday, September 22, at 6:30pm!  Coffee will be provided before, during, and after the concert!

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Good worship is like unto good breathing – when you do it well, you barely register the methodology.  I believe it is a conversation built when the story of each one of us joins, by our reverent thought, with the one Story, the only Story, the one from which all stories and paradigms are drawn:  the Story of Yahweh the Hero coming to rescue his lost Maiden.

And so, I love to tell stories.

Through music, photography, and the occasional poem or paragraph, I hope to bring stories which resonate with Beauty and Truth.  I grew up in a musical family, buried beneath a pile of literature and surrounded at whiles by my father’s vigilant camera.  Knoxville, Tennessee, where I live in a house called Sinclair’s Eve with my beautiful wife and two sunshine rays for daughters, has provided the backdrop for crafting an intricate and informed amalgamation of folk music and long-travelled photographs that unearth the human expressions by which the Gospel is told.

This art is all made in community, and would be myopic and impoverished without the help of dear and talented friends whom I am never able to thank enough.  We would love to bring it to you.  We relish the chance to step out of the way and let the songs and the stories tear the roofs off our hearts.

-Adam Whipple

 

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Parke Cottrell

Andrew and Emily McCoy

Adam Whipple