Amy Savin’s (http://www.amysavin.com/) debut CD Skylines led to a number of GMA Covenant Award nominations including Pop Contemporary Album of the Year and Female Vocalist of the Year.Amy eschews the “just write the big hit single” trend and focuses on creating a beautifully balanced project from the first to the last track on a CD.
Award-winning novelist, Deb Elkink (http://www.debelkink.com/) takes a look at how G.K. Chesterton uses the tree as a symbol in her new book Roots & Branches.
Tune in to Arts Connection each Monday at 9:30 p.m. ET on Faith FM 94.3 (Waterloo Region). You can also listen to the live webcast at www.faithfm.org.
Since opening in 2012, Hamilton’s Flagship Gallery (http://semaphore.ca/flagship-gallery) has been a home for art created by those who work from a “broadly conceived Christian worldview.” One of its recent exhibits, AXIS, features photography and poetry by James Tughan, one of those involved with the start-up of the gallery.
The role of the church is changing in Canadian society and tonight’s guests know how 40 churches across the country have responded to those changes. Award-winning journalists Patricia Paddey and Karen Stiller (http://karenstiller.com/tag/patricia-paddey) wrote Shifting Stats Shaking the Church: 40 Canadian Churches Respond (http://churches.worldvision.ca/resources/shifting-stats) which was recently published by World Vision Canada.
Trevor Dick is an award-winning jazz violinist whose style evokes the sound of Jean-Luc Ponty, the Trans-Siberian Orchestra’s Mark Wood and Canadian violin icon Hugh Marsh.