Hello again! A year has passed and we have not been using this blog to share what we are doing. But this December we are on tour together again and again we will be blogging.
Our Christmas CD which we announced to be released this year turns out to be an EP with four songs. Next year the full CD is available. Again it was circumstances with the record company that forced us to move slowly with the christmas recordings, but in one aspect we will have a three year long Praise Unit christmas, and we can't go wrong with that, right?
We started our tour yesterday at the legendary jazz club Fasching in Stockholm. It was the first time we performed our christmas repertoire and it felt great to premiere at Fasching with lots of friends and family in the audience. Now we are heading for Denmark. More about that later!
About Praise Unit
- Praise Unit
- Founded 2004 by Joakim Arenius who just left his position as director of Europe's oldest gospel choir, Joybells. The singers and musicians are united by the vision to spread the word about a loving and living God through music that is rooted in the old african american gospel music, but performed and inspired by the modern r'n'b you hear on radio, the funky grooves you nod your head to when you turn up your car stereo, the beautiful melodies you enjoy on a comforting CD and the wild beats you dance to in the urban clubs. The first CD "Whole" was released in 2006. In 2008 came the Live DVD "the Whole tour" which was filmed by German television during Praise Units touring in 2008. In June 2009 Praise Unit will release "the Mission Field". MUSICAL DIRECTOR: Joakim Arenius BAND: Tobias Grenholm (bass) Kristian Kraftling (keys) Filip Stenlund (guitar) Kristoffer Sjöberg (percussion) Simon Jonsson (drums) VOCALS: Jacob Alm Sara Björlemyr Felicia Brandström Maria Höglund Josefine Bäckrud Emilia Havsed Lina Häger Johannes Häger Julia Nilsson Jakob Wiborg
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