Oh, what a night.

Not sure where to even start.  Thursday’s night’s final Buckhead Music Project at Velvet Underground rocked.  Rudy Vaughn, James David Carter, and Jamie JAMM Portee all killed.

 

Rudy had a new bass player onstage with him, a good dude/good player named Wes Flowers, who plays for Butch Walker as well.  

 

(Sidenote: Butch Walker has a new record coming out and is playing at The Loft in Atlanta on November 10.  Read all about it here.  Many of you remember the Atlanta band he fronted, The Marvelous Three.  The other two-thirds of the Three (Jayce and Slug) are buddies of ours.  And my son is in the band Second Wave with bassist Holden Fincher; his dad is Jayce, Marvelous Three’s bassist.)

 

Rudy’s set ranged from Michael Jackson’s Beat It to original songs; also, for the first time, I saw Rudy play sax and he destroyed it - in a good way.  James David Carter was excellent, as usual.  Dude has insane falsetto.  JAMM and his band, complete with horns, capped the night off with some great funk/jazz/r&b fusion, or whatever they call it.  Chantae Cann joined him; she’s a background singer for India Arie and is an amazing, new voice on the Atlanta scene.  JAMM also brought both his wife Joni (also known as INOJ) and James David up on stage to do some guest vocals.  

 

Other friends of ONE Atlanta that were there: Michael Johnston of Smalltown Poets, a surprise attendance by original Smalltown Poets drummer Byron Goggin who lives in North Carolina, Moxie Davis with wife Clarissa, Big Snow (on turntables in between bands, doing his thang), Ryan Fitzgerald of theAMP, Casey Darnell, too many amazing musician friends to name, and a bunch of Buckhead Church staff - not the least of which is ‘Los Whittaker (thanks for the pics dude!)

 

 

Tonight’s the night.

Tonight at 7:30pm.  Buckhead Church.  Night of Worship.  Led by Casey Darnell, Seth Condrey, Eddie Kirkland, and Carlos Whittaker.  I’m on keys.  We’re expecting a ton of folks.  Please come.  

Time to get AMPed up.

Our friends at theAMP opened registration this past Friday for their first AMPsaturday, which is coming up Sep. 20th.  Read on for how you can get a 50% discount on this event.  

 

So, what’s theAMP?  They’re a new, non-profit organization based in Atlanta whose heart centers around equipping and connecting the next generation of worship leaders.  The way the vision plays out is primarily through two environments: their website and regular one-day conferences called AMPsaturdays. This fall they are hosting two AMPsaturdays in Atlanta - one on Sep. 20th and one on Nov. 8th.  Again, registration is now open.

Today at BC.

Today was a long day, but a good day, at Buckhead Church.  Carlos led well.  Rachel sang like a bird.  I didn’t knock over any computers.  I saw too many of you guys to name.  Thanks to Carlos for the pics!  (Better, Adam?)