With seven GMA Canada Covenant Awards and a Juno Award nomination to his credit, tonight’s guest’s latest CD, The Light in Us, chronicles a season of healing and restoration. Singer/songwriter Jon Bauer describes the music on the CD as an outcome of “a healing journey I have been on the last couple of years as I have leaned on the faithfulness of God even when I have not felt Him near.”.
Formed a couple of years ago, the Shiyr (sheer) Poets (https://theshiyrpoets.com/) goal was to breathe new life into the ancient Psalms. Two CDs and 20 Psalms later the group comprising veteran musicians Brian Doerksen, Calum Rees, Brian Thiessen and Teresa Trask have gone in a completely different direction with their newest CD: Recover.
In Janis Cox’ latest book, we hear the tale of a doll maker who learns what success really means. Jan is a writer, a watercolour artist and a person with many fingers in many pies. The retired teacher is on the phone with us talk about her latest project: a children’s book called The Kingdom of Thrim.
Tonight’s guest has been writing and recording music since 1999 which has, in the intervening years, garnered five GMA Covenant Award nominations and a Western Canadian Music Award Nomination.
The art of tonight’s guest can be seen in churches and public spaces in Europe and North America. St. Jacob’s sculptor, Timothy P.