Blue Skies

Here we are - the Monday before Christmas! Yesterday we had our Christmas Music program here at Peakland UMC. Everything went really well and we had a pretty full sanctuary. I saw some old friends and some folks I hadn’t seen in a while, including our former associate Emma! If you missed the program, or if you were here and just would like to experience it again, the program was live-streamed on Youtube and Facebook. On Youtube, just search for Peakland UMC, and on Facebook, we are @peakumchurch. A special treat for me was my flugelhorn friend Lynn Nash and his wife Katie coming to the program. Lynn and I did our album version of Silent Night and then we played What Child Is this with the choir and our guest bassist Russ Hovda. Which leads me to todays Music Monday. It’s the last cut on the album and perhaps, from an orchestration standpoint, my favorite song on the album. I don’t usually do a lot of orchestration work on our projects we do together, but this medley of White Christmas and I’ll Be Home for