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Sing Hallelujah, I'm Walkin' With The King

 

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Saturday 17th May - St John the Baptist Church. High St, Epping Essex CM16 5DN

featuring John Petters New Orleans All- Stars with Allen Beechey, cornet, Brian White, clarinet, Mike Pointon, trombone, Tim Phillips, banjo & Keith Donald, bass. Tickets £10

Saturday 6th September - St Peter's Church, wisbech, Cambs @ 7:30PM

Friday 27th February 2009 - St Luke's Church, Cranham Essex

Above - Barton Mills Church 2005  & the first performance withTuba fats Lacen & Lady Linda in Wisbech 1995

The highly successful, foot tapping, hand-clapping concert of Spirituals, Hymns, and Gospel Music, New Orleans Style

.In 1994 I put a handpicked band together to record a CD of Spirituals. "Walkin' With The King" featured Ken Sims, cornet, Barry Palser, trombone, Dave Bailey , clarinet, Louis Lince, banjo and Tim Phillips, bass, we got the session down in just a few hours. We recorded in the village hall in Great Hallingbury, Essex, and using only two microphones, direct to digital stereo, we captured the authentic echoey New Orleans sound of the 1940's.

George Buck of Jazzology Records, New Orleans, heard the CD and bought the American rights Subsequent dates have been played all over the UK.

I started producing a series of concerts in Churches in 1995 - the first being at St. Peter's Church in Wisbech. We had two distinguished guests - the late Lady Linda Young and Tuba Fats Lacen from New Orleans.

In November 1997 a second album of hymns and Spirituals, "Its Me O Lord", was recorded in Our Lady & St. Charles RC Church, Wisbech. The band was augmented by pianist Mike Kemp and vocalist, Stella Goodey. For this album a variety of material was selected, including two catholic hymns, "Hail Glorious St. Patrick" and "Bring Flowers of the Rarest", as well as New Orleans styled versions of "Abide with Me" & "The Lord's My Shepherd".

Bringing "Walkin' With The King" into churches has a two fold benefit. They encourage church goers, who are not necessarily Jazz fans, to go to a Jazz concert and jazz fans, not noted for being particularly religious, to attend, what is after all, a service of praise.

Click here to read a review of this show by Mike Nash.

 

John Petters at Saffron Walden Baptist Church

John Petters @ Saffron walden Baptist Church 2005

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Walkin' With The King at Camberley