Make Plans for Labor Day

Hello Trust Friends! Did you think I'd forgotten you? Not on your life! The summer does involve quite a bit of other activities and not quite as much to really write about. But I'd never forget about you!

Here's some exciting news to share with you. Trust Quartet  has been invited, along with the Popcorn gang, Simple Faith and Gulf State, to participate in a God and Country Rally in Ocala on Labor Day. I'm attaching a link to the website that will tell you all about it. There will be some big names there and you'll want to be sure to consider making it a part of your holiday plans. It's a day of family fun and clean entertainment, but will also drive home the message of the Gospel! Oh, and it's FREE! Make your plans, pack the lawnchairs, and head to Ocala!

http://townleylabordaycelebration.com/

Update on Going Home Project

Trust Quartet went to the studio in June to begin work on their tenth recording project, Going Home. We are excited to tell you that we feel it will be our best project to this point. I know, all recording artists say that, and to a certain extent, if it were not the best project, what's the point of recording it? We always want to improve on the last one.

Because we want it to be the very best one yet, we have made sure the engineer / producer, Kevin Hunt, pulls and pushes every last bit of effort and talent out of us as possible. We want to be able to accomplish things that are unprecedented for Trust Quartet.

My recording experience is a bit varied. This is my fifth recording project, and all five have their own unique experiences. Two of the five were in Nashville recording studios that were choral in nature. They were done relatively quickly and while I experienced the whole, "Who rattled the paper? Now we have to do it over." thing, it was not the four people making music. It was more like 16-20 making music.

Another of the recordings was also in Nashville, but it was at my college alma mater where we did a "Gaither Homecoming-style" recording, bringing in 40-50 musicians from across our denomination to do a reunion type video / CD recording. That was fun, but again, it was different.

The fourth project I've done was Classics Made New; and while it was / is a great recording project, Going Home will be, we believe, more technically correct from start to finish. Not only will the music selections be more stylistically diverse, the equipment being used is a bit of a higher quality than previous projects.

That being said, we will not be giving any dates to expect Going Home to be available until we are more certain of its completion. There are so many variables and unknowns that happen along the recording process that it is difficult to predict an accurate release date at this point. What we will do is remind you that its coming, and to pray for us as we go back for another session, etc., but we want to make sure its ready before we start a big campaign for you to look for it at our concerts.

Thank you for your continued prayerful support as we endeavor to do the very best we can possibly do. I believe you'll enjoy the finished product!

Concerts Rescheduled

Wow, what a week! If you regularly keep up with this blog of Trust Quartet happenings, you'll remember that we spent the next to the last weekend  in June in the recording studio. I'll write a bit more about that in an update about the newest recording project, Going Home.

For my family, we're coming off a difficult week. In my best Ricky Ricardo imitation, "Let me 'splain." My wife was sick Tuesday night, so she took Wednesday off work. She didn't feel like she was getting any better, so she went to the doctor. Long story shortened, by Thursday evening, she was having surgery that hadn't been planned. I say it that way because it wasn't necessarily a life or death emergency surgery, but it was somewhat of an emergency surgery so that it would not become a life or death thing.

In any event, that caused a bit of an unplanned upheaval to our week. Realizing that I needed to take care of family matters here, Buzz contacted the churches in Hernando where we were to sing this weekend and everyone graciously consented to reschedule them.

As it turns out, it worked best for at least one of the two churches to reschedule and it does, in fact, work well for Trust to reschedule. We were going to be in that general area on Labor Day anyway, and now we're able to simply insert two more concerts into that weekend.

I tried to get out the word via this blog as soon as we knew about it, and I honestly hope no one was too inconvenienced with the change. Trust me when I say, it was not something we wanted to do. I do sincerely thank those involved in the decision, though.

Since I mentioned it, let me also thank you for praying for my wife. She is out of the hospital and on the mend, now. There will be a bit of an extensive recovery period, but we are grateful for a tremendous support system as well as brothers and sisters lifting her needs to the Ultimate Physician.

Be watching in the next day or so for an update to our recording project. Until then, my friend . . . keep on singing!