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\nWe Can Do Anything? featuring Lucy Stimpson- Maynard -piano and voice\u00a0and Robbie Richardson – clarinet from album “Precious.” recorded and\u00a0produced by Ross Gill.<\/p>\nSo we are pretty much coming up to date now with this story of the music behind Risen! – The Musical.\u00a0 When will the double CD be released? \u00a0Well \u00a0Joffy and I have been working on this project for four years now but we are, I think, on the \u201cfinal straight.\u201d Joffy \u00a0still has lots of work to do before it\u2019s finished, including recording\u00a0 a string quartet, mixing and mastering.\u00a0 Although the CD is a \u201cstand alone\u201d project we have a vision for Risen!- to be so much more. We are looking for churches nationally or even internationally to produce Risen! themselves. They could do this either as a full stage production, or in concert form as we did ourselves at Holy Rood church in 2012 and 2014 (see blog May 8th) In order to do this we need a full written score and an \u201call singing and dancing website.\u201d This of course will cost money and so we are hoping to soon launch a fund raiser entitled \u201cCheerful Giver\u201d invented by my dear friend Darren Bovis – Coulter (see blog September 4th)\u00a0 We would also love to put on one more production of Risen! ourselves – the three productions at Holy Rood have only \u00a0really been works in progress.-We now have a much revised script which includes the addition of three more characters – Susanna, Judas and James the brother of John. \u00a0There are also new songs and I trust the script has fully addressed the helpful and positive criticisms that some made of the 2012 stage production- criticisms for which we are most thankful. I am currently speaking with CWR, the publishers of \u201cEvery Day With Jesus\u201d who marketed many of our previous CDs- in the hope that they may be interested in helping us also market Risen!<\/p>\n
You may be thinking that it is a bit far -fetched for us to have a vision of Risen! being produced internationally but nothing is impossible with God and He has been behind this project from the very start – in fact He started it by giving me the gift of making \u00a0up songs \u201cin my head.\u201d Then look at the talented people He has given me the privilege to work with. Initially\u00a0 Lucy Stimpson- Maynard, John Hodgkinson, Ross Gill, Lucy Rutherford and now the fantastic Joffy \u00a0Girling – who not only plays keys, guitar, sax and drums but who also has \u00a0a Degree \u00a0First in Sound Engineering and Production at Birmingham University.\u00a0 In addition to four years of hard work fitting Risen! work into his University commitments Joffy has now given up the last four\u00a0 months to work on Risen! pretty much\u00a0 full time.<\/p>\n
Then there is the array of brilliant singers we have been blessed to record on the double Risen! CD including \u00a0– Ben Morris (Jesus) trained at Mountview\u00a0 Academy of Theatre Arts and now in \u201cPhantom of the Opera.\u201d Lyndsey Gardiner (Susanna) also trained at Moutview and in \u201c Phantom.\u201d \u00a0Nicola Poustie (Mary Magdalene) also \u00a0Mountview\u00a0 trained who toured with \u201cWe Will Rock You.\u201d\u00a0 Alex Knox (John) with a Degree First from Guildhall School Of Music and Drama. \u00a0Paul Clement (Judas) with an MA in Musical Theatre from the Guildford School of Acting. Tom Millen (James) trained at Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts) Chloe Brokenshire (Mary sister of Martha and Lazarus) trained at London Studio Centre. Jan Moll (Mary Mother of Jesus) trained at Dundee University and \u201cRock Choir\u201d Leader. \u00a0Mariatu Conteh (Mary wife of Clopas) BA Hons Contemporary Music at The Academy of Contemporary Music, and member of ACM Gospel Choir.<\/p>\n
We have also used professional musicians including\u00a0 Guitar -Gareth Matthews.\u00a0 Bass -Gareth Matthews and Greg Taplin.\u00a0 Drums -Josh Eaves. Trumpet – Stuart Fowler. Saxophone – Robbie Richardson and Tim Downs. Flute – Robbie Richardson.\u00a0 Violin -Kirstie Richardson and Elizabeth Peskett- – Viola –\u00a0 Ruth McGibbon and Cello- Fiona Murphy<\/p>\n
So what next? The answer is \u00a0the fund raiser. As I said we need to raise money to finance the completion of the double CD, which includes mixing, mastering, and replication. Also the writing of a score, production of a website and the production of a full stage production. How \u201cCheerful Giver\u201d \u00a0can do this \u00a0I will share with you next week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Mary wife of Cleopas (Mariatu Conteh) and Mary Mother of Jesus (Jan Moll) rejoice in production of Risen! performed at Holy Rood Church 2013. We Can Do Anything? featuring Lucy Stimpson- Maynard -piano and voice\u00a0and Robbie Richardson – clarinet from album “Precious.” recorded and\u00a0produced by Ross Gill. So we are pretty much coming up to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ken-shearsmiths-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=351"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":356,"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351\/revisions\/356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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