Why Am I Giving Away 10,000 Copies My Studio Recording of 'Amazing Grace' for FREE?
Hi
There,
Andy
Rogers here.
Let
me tell you the
story behind this version of 'Amazing
Grace'
and why I'm giving it away
for FREE.
Over the past few years, I’ve begun using a NEW unique version of Amazing Grace as part of my worship set and it always has a profound effect on congregations and audiences around the world.
To be honest I was becoming a little jaded with some of the well known old hymns and in the case of Amazing Grace I had stopped using it because I had gotten overly familiar with the traditional arrangement.
Kind of like an old friend that you take for granted!
That was until my good mate, and guitarist extraordinaire, Andy Young created an arrangement in a different time signature and using a different chord pattern that caught the attention of my ears again.
It has become fresh and contemporary but still retains the recognizable melody of the original.
Last summer, for example, I took a team to Nice in the south of France. We had been invited by a local church who were working with the local town council in providing music for 'La Fete de la Musique' (the French national day of music). This partnership in itself was amazing because 'religious activity', for want of a better term, cannot be seen to be endorsed by civic authorities there.
This gig was a cultural festival event and we needed to be sensitive in our performance and delivery of the songs.
However, as a worship leader I wanted to find a way to help folks experience the presence and goodness of God even though they may not articulate it in those terms or even realize what they are experiencing.
This version of Amazing Grace proved a perfect fit for our set.
It went down incredibly well - even with a spontaneous ad lib worship section in the middle!Yet, despite being asked many times for a recording of this arrangement it's only recently that I got to do it as part of an album project called Mercy Tracks Me Down.
So, why am I giving it away for FREE?
Ordinarily you'd have to buy the whole album at www.MercyTracksMeDown.com to get a copy but because I've already witnessed the effect this version of the song has when people hear it I wanted to try to get it out quickly to a wider audience.
Don't get me wrong, I like selling albums as much as the next guy but knowing the effect this song has had on others I'd love to hear your story too.
It was recorded in both Nashville and Northern Ireland for that album project but you can download it here for FREE.
(Of course it also helps folks discover my other music too!)
So this little project will get this guitar driven version of Amazing Grace out to you and others quickly without having to buy the album.
I've set myself a target of getting 10,000 folks to download their own free copy.
When you've downloaded your own copy I'll even show you how you or a charity or church could even get paid for sharing it with your friends.
Grab Your Copy Now!
Here's what you get...
Amazing
Grace mp3
Amazing Grace Power
Point
Presentation
To download your free mp3 of this version of Amazing Grace with the extras just Click Here for the download link.
God Bless
I hate spam too!
Andy
Rogers is a worship Leader and
songwriter from the Causeway Coast of Ireland with songs published and
recordings produced on EMI’s Kingsway label. An
artist on Kingsway’s original ‘New Celts’
album (along with Robin Mark, Brian Houston & Joanne Hogg) and
more recently on ‘Engage24’ with Ian Hannah, his
style has been described as ‘Ethno-Celt’ - a mix of
acoustic ethnic sounds fused with contemporary musical sensibilities. He
has been part of the pioneering team at Causeway
Coast Vineyard under the
leadership of Alan and Kathryn Scott
since 1999 and
continues to serve there with his wife and family. He
is also one of the founding members of the Coleraine House of Prayer
(C-HOP) team along with Ian Hannah. C-HOP
is an
intercessory worship gathering
in Coleraine, Northern Ireland that started life as a one-off 24hr
worship event back in May 2000 and continues to grow as a regular
gathering of worshipers and intercessors from various church
backgrounds. Worship
leading throughout Ireland and beyond, his music has taken
him to such diverse venues as churches and conferences to the
nightclubs of Eastern Europe and even the brothels of Thailand (you can
see video clips of that here).
He passionately believes that when people worship then God does amazing
things just like He promised - and it doesn’t have to be
‘in church’. He
has also created OpenSourceSongs.com,
a global worship songwriting collective where song writers and worship
leaders collaborate freely on an ‘open source’
basis with their ideas. Andy
lives in Coleraine with his wife, daughters and an old cat named
Tangles!
Who
on Earth is Andy Rogers Anyway?
|
‘I’ve known Andy for 18 years - both as a worship leader in the church I attended as a teenager, and then as a friend and co-leader as we grew a little older together. He is one of the most servant-hearted people I know. Few understand, and live out true worship like Andy - and I feel honored to serve with him because of it! If you ever get the chance to have him come and lead at your church - or to listen to the songs that he has been writing - or to input as he explores the whole idea of writing as an online community (OpenSourceSongs.com) - I cannot more highly recommend that you jump at it. Andy really is one in a million - he’s the real deal.’ - Kathryn Scott |
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