Hi Folks,

Here’s what’s happening musically with our musician friends.

Sunday at the chapel: World class mandolin player Don Stiernberg will lead a bluegrass quartet at the Chapel! The band will include Chris Walz on guitar, Jon Peik on banjo & Christian Dillingham on bass. Don’t miss this special music service. Later that day our blues friends “The Housewreckers” will be playing Rocktoberfest at St. Giles Episcopal Church in Northbrook, starting at 2 pm.

Mark Your Calendars:

October 13: Suede, Dave & Lynette will be at Harley-Davidson in Libertyville playing the 4th Annual Cocktail Paw-ty for Noah’s Rest starting at 5 pm. For more information on this worthy cause, and to purchase tickets, go to noahsrest.org

November 9: Don Stiernberg Quartet: Live at Studio5 Performing Arts Center in Evanston, 8 pm. For more information on that and other events go to http://www.studio5.dance/calendar/

Coming up at the Chapel:
September 30: Don Stiernberg Bluegrass Quartet
October 7: Soul Message with Hammond B3 master Chris Foreman and drummer Greg Rockingham!
October 14: Jazzilla jazz quintet featuring the original music of Hunter Prendergast.
October 21: Well known singer/songwriter Pierce Pettis
October 28: The Dancing Bohemian Ukulele Team
November 4: Vocalist Amy Susan Heard from Michigan and lyricist Linda Taylor. We’ll be featuring a special song about Auguste D, the first person ever diagnosed with Alzheimer’s.
November 11: Christina Trulio with a special musical tribute to veterans.
November 18: Nic Barnum band featuring the music of Paul Simon
November 25: Ken, Elliott and friends.
December 9: Special Three Fiddlers Christmas service with fiddlers Tom Bowling, Bob Hasty and Jordi Kleiner, plus a backup band.
December 23: Dancing Bohemian Ukulele team and the annual Christmas pageant.
December 24: Christmas Eve service with special guests TBA.




Friday Farmers Market in Lake Bluff: Terry Moran and Elliott Delman will be alternating Fridays at your pleasure while you shop the Farmers Market on the Village Green. They’ll play better if you stop by and listen and let them know how much you appreciate their music!
Always inspiring: the opening address to the 1964 Berlin Jazz Festival by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

God has wrought many things out of oppression. He has endowed his creatures with the capacity to create—and from this capacity has flowed the sweet songs of sorrow and joy that have allowed man to cope with his environment and many different situations.
Jazz speaks for life. The Blues tell the story of life's difficulties, and if you think for a moment, you will realize that they take the hardest realities of life and put them into music, only to come out with some new hope or sense of triumph.
This is triumphant music.
Modern jazz has continued in this tradition, singing the songs of a more complicated urban existence. When life itself offers no order and meaning, the musician creates an order and meaning from the sounds of the earth which flow through his instrument.
It is no wonder that so much of the search for identity among American Negroes was championed by Jazz musicians. Long before the modern essayists and scholars wrote of racial identity as a problem for a multiracial world, musicians were returning to their roots to affirm that which was stirring within their souls.
Much of the power of our Freedom Movement in the United States has come from this music. It has strengthened us with its sweet rhythms when courage began to fail. It has calmed us with its rich harmonies when spirits were down.
And now, Jazz is exported to the world. For in the particular struggle of the Negro in America there is something akin to the universal struggle of modern man. Everybody has the Blues. Everybody longs for meaning. Everybody needs to love and be loved. Everybody needs to clap hands and be happy. Everybody longs for faith.
In music, especially this broad category called Jazz, there is a stepping stone towards all of these.

-Ken
Terry reacts to Kenny's music
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Hi folks.
Recently, after hearing Eva B Ross and company rehearsing, Christine, who is involved in the music business for a living and has been worshiping with us asked me, “Where do you find all these wonderful musicians”? I’ve often thought about that and I would like to highlight a couple reasons. Number one is Fred Koch! He is kind of like the Tree that all the branches have grown from. I met Fred when my kids were toddlers attending
“Lil’ Cow Band” concerts and since then he has introduced me to a countless number of amazing musicians. Those musicians introduced me to more amazing musicians, and so on. If you see Fred, please say thank you for what he has done. I couldn’t be more grateful for his unselfish support through the years. Number two is all of you! When any musician plays for people that, as Eva put it last Sunday, is “a good listening crowd” and ever so appreciative, that not only affects the performance, but naturally makes them want to come back. So thank you all for the love and support you’ve shown the musicians who have come to share their talents! The beauty is that the branches of the tree are still growing and you all nurture that.  
Fred Koch

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MUSICIANS: I regularly check out Facebook and your home pages to see where you all are playing, but often I miss or don’t get the information in time for the newsletter. If you’d like me to advertise your gigs, please let me know where you're playing.