More LA Congress Photos

Hey Everyone! Here are some pictures lifted from recongress.org, the official site for the L.A. Religious Ed Congress:

This picture comes from our workshop presentation at Youth Day. Apparently, Shannon is making some soul-stirring point:

These pictues come from the liturgy we helped with on Saturday evening. This liturgy featured the music of Chris De Silva and Paul Melley, two relatively new GIA artists like us.

LA Congress Concert Photos

Here are a couple photos of Oddwalk in concert with Paul Melley Sunday at LA Congress.  Thanks to new Oddwalk friend (and concert backup singer) Katie Mojica!

The whole spread.  That's Paul, left & singing, Chris de Silva at the piano, Gary Daigle behind Shannon, then Orin, next Katie (red skirt), and another backup singer who we think has a first name that begins with K (Katherine?) and we think her last last is Firestone.  Fire-something.  We should be better at this than we are.  I'm sure someone will help us out.  UPDATE - Kristin Firestone.  Got it!  Thanks, Katie.

Paul rocking the house with one of his house-rocking numbers.

Matilda the Gorilla - LA Congress

Last one for a while - Matilda the Gorilla!

Dance in the Sight of the Lord - LA Congress

Still snowing.  Staying in, getting a lot done.  Here's a video from our Youth Day workshops!

pOddcast - Oddwalk on the Radio

Oddwalk's new CD "Walk Away Different" was featured on KUCR (Univ. of California - Riverside) on March 1.  Several of our songs were played without interruption. Here's the host's (Teri Seipel) intro and outro to those pieces. We met her while exhibiting at the LA Congress, and she put our music right on the air!  Find the pOddcast in the usual places.

Get It Together - LA Congress

Here's the first quick video from LA Congress, the Sunday lunchtime concert in Hall B.  More to follow from both the concert and the Youth Day workshops.

Home Safe

But tell us this: why was it snowing when we left, it's going to snow now that we're back, and why was it warmer here than it was in LA while we were there?

LA Congress Update 3

Lots of pics -

A couple pics of how GIA is featuring us this weekend at their large display.

Guess who else is here this weekend? Mary Rice Hopkins, composer of Matilda the Gorilla! Shannon had a chance to meet her and get a CD autographed.

We sang in a choir for mass featuring the music of Chris de Silva and Paul Melley. The pic is the view of the gathering congregation just before mass.

We also got on the radio on the campus of UC-Riverside saturday morning - more on that later.

Today is or big lunchtime concert and returning home. We are tired but doing very well. See you all back home!

LA Congress Update 2

So, I'm not sure which photo will show up where, hopefully you can tell them apart. One is Shannon showing off our booth in the exhibit hall, the other is the main arena (which seats about 8,000) from the perspective of the choir risers just before the opening prayer ceremony.

After that service, we sent a lot of time at the booth, saw some old friends, met many new, sold a few CDs, etc. We were also part of a really nice peace prayer choir with Tony Alonso and Marty Haugen.

Saturday means a lotbof time again at the booth, helping at a mass with GIA friends Gary, Chris, Paul and others, and dinner with another friend Michal.

More later!

LA Congress Update 1

Emailing this from Orin's phone - let's see how this works...

Oddwalk had a very successful day 1 - youth day. We played for about 500 people totalm had a great time, and got out a good message (we think) about vocations. We got our exhibit hall booth mostly set up, rehearsed for the opening prayer today, and had a visit with Orin's friends Jade and Scott, heading to the ESPNzone in Downtown Disney. Today is the opening prayer, lots of time at the booth, and a rehearsal for a Peace Prayer sponsored by GIA.

More news, pics, and video later!

Big, Big Day!

So, not only does Oddwalk fly out to LA today to attend and perform and exhibit at the LA Religious Education Congress for the first time (and hopefully make a big impression on the west coast), but it's also the first preseason game for the Cardinals today (so what if it's against St. Louis University?)!

Oh, and it's snowing, at least right now, in St. Louis.  (It's pretty fierce.  Anyone?  Anyone?)

We'll be sure to keep you updated on the latest LA Congress news, and hopefully have some pictures and video to show you later too!  Please pray for safe travels and a successful trip - this is a potentially big occasion for Oddwalk!