Now on Facebook

Facebook and CDBaby have teamed up to allow for direct streaming and purchase from Facebook.  Go to facebook.com/musicbyevan  to find it!  You can listen to clips of Healing Waters, see the Healing Waters music video, make comments and mark the ones that you like.  Hope to see you there!

Merch Available

I finally got Zazzle to re-post my t-shirt, featuring the Healing Waters cd cover art, front and back.  You can find it here:  zazzle.com/musicbyevan.  There's also a mug, bumper sticker and a t-shirt with "Music By Evan" on it.  Hope you like them.


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Musings and Dreams

After such a successful day at Messiah, the dream is alight in me again.  The latest musing?

Set up a month-long road trip, hitting churches all along the way.

It would take a lot of work and planning, but it's otherwise a simple idea.  Many churches have services serveral days a week, so I wouldn't be stuck with only Sundays.  I could stop at one church on a Wednesday, move on and see the next one on a Friday, followed by a Saturday and a Sunday.  If I planned it appropriately, I might even see some of the same churches more than once and visit one of their other services.

How would it work with each church?
- I would play one or two highlight songs, especially my arrangement of Amazing Grace.
- I would not ask to be paid for my time, just for the opportunity to promote and sell my CD.
- I would ask that the church announce that I was coming a week or two in advance to assist with this process, as the CDs will cover my gas and food expenses.
- I would give 10-20% of the CD sales back to each respective church.

As I can can think of them, here's a list of needs:
- A booking agent to plan this whole trip and make it work as well as come along and help on the trip.
- Places to stay along the way.  Many churches can provide this amenity.
- Each church would need to have it's own piano (rare to not have one, I suppose)
- A plan to have clean clothes through the whole trip.

I'm drawing a blank for now, but I'm sure I'll revisit this later.

Church of the Messiah

I just recently returned from playing in two of the traditional services at the Church of the Messiah United Methodist in Westerville, Ohio.  A few months after the release of "Healing Waters" I spoke with the pastor, Jim, about playing a couple pieces at his church to help promote my CD.  We know each other from when he was the pastor at a church I attended when living in Troy.  He was excited to have me come by.

The end result was a huge success.  The response was very positive and a great start to what I hope is a continuing relationship with the church.

Silas

Many of you may already know this information from Facebook or another means of contact.  I lost my youngest nephew, Silas.  As you might imagine, there are many mixed feelings.  I am in awe of the response from all of the friends and family surrounding Silas.

In the meantime, I turned to my piano and asked the spirits of creativity to give me Silas, if even for a moment, so that I could put in music what I could never describe in words about how I feel.  There is a link on the right side of this page that will allow you to hear, "For Silas."

Hold your family close.

RSS Feed updated

I have put only the commission pieces on my feed for now.  There's a brand new one up that was commissioned by Team G(race) for an upcoming YouTube Ad they will be promoting soon.  I had two inspirations in writing this piece:  One, it needed to have a beat that you could run to and two, I decided to start the piece with a minor key and transition it to a major key to give the impression of accomplishment.  Comments are welcome!

Team G(race) spaghetti dinner

I had the honor of playing the dinner music for a Team G(race) event last night.  The turnout was impressive, the food was great and the atmosphere was tangible.  Congratulations, Brett, on a successful evening.

Thank you to everyone who came out to support me as well as this event and Team G(race).