I just play to worship. Music is a great way to give thanks, I have this gift and I want bring back something to my creator. In subscribing here I hope to get to talk with people and share this passion.

Raised in Ohio, Becca is a poet. singer-songwriter, activist, and writing instructor. Her children's choral music can be found through Heritage Press (Dayton). Rossiter's songs have been called "... the rarest treat in [a] collection...at the crossroads of pop song styling, classical training, perfect vocal phrasing, and poetic imagery" (Manaseh Records). Besides doing Mennonite Voluntary Service in Seattle, her passion for peace and justice has also taken her to England, Northern Ireland, Honduras, and Liberia.

Adam Shenk was barely old enough to weigh in on his career options when destiny determined his calling. After his parents observed their 3-year-old singing original songs into a tape recorder, he earned a slot at Princeton, N.J.’s prestigious American Boychoir School. Not a bad initiation for a teen-ager born in Indiana and growing up in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley.

I've been playing for 20 years. I'm an amateur, but I play quite a bit and I like to make excellent music. Most important for me is to have fun with the rest of the musicians.

Rocking the world through reflection on creatures the Anabaptist Bestiary Project is a ten piece alternative rock ensemble under the creative direction of Trevor Bechtel that combines the influence of such diverse bands as Rush, Belle and Sebastian, The Story and The Smiths. The ABP collects vocal and instrumental musicians from Bluffton University to delve into the artistic and literary heritage of the spirituality of creatureliness.

andi and i performs a substantive body of original "funked-up folk," interrupted by the occasional well-chosen cover tune. Al Tauber's lyrics, ranging from intensely thoughtful to patently absurd (sometimes within the same song), are well served by his dexterous and creative guitar playing and Andi Tauber's whisper-to-roar vocals. As one venue operator has noted, "It's often difficult to believe that so much music is coming from two voices and a guitar."

A singer-songwriter for the past 20 years, Elkhart, Indiana.

Andrea (Annie), Jamie (James), Henry and Jonathan make up Annie James Project. They are based in the region of Waterloo, and play music from various genres: rock, folk, celtic, fiddle, bluegrass, blues, celtic rock, church and worship. They love to blend their voices in rich harmonies, and to use as many instruments per concert as possible, just to confuse the sound guy. Their joy is to play and sing tunes that are known and loved, as well as less known tunes they think will be loved; music from the secular as well as church tradition.

Music was an important facet of Ben Brown's childhood on a rural Midwestern farm. It had always been a vital part of his Cherokee, Irish and African American heritage; his mother commonly expressed her thoughts and feelings through song. His parents' appreciation for the music of the big bands, jazz, country-western and the music of so many other cultures exposed him to a great variety of musical styles and interpretations. His first exposure to the harp was Harpo Marx playing boogie-woogie and jazz.

Years later, in a harp world dominated by orchestral pedal harps and classical music, Ben singlehandedly reintroduced and helped repopularize a singular variety of folk harp which had been obsolete for close to 100 years with only three or four original European examples still in existence. He has proven this harp to be uniquely suited to the jazz, blues and improvisational music of his youth.

Twenty years after Ben Brown's reintroduction of the cross strung into the American folk harp world, the instrument boasts several hundred players and growing.