Announcing the release of...
Momentary Saints!
Linnea Good's 10th and finest album of songs
from the centre of life - "Her best work yet!"
Momentary Saints Nominated for Award!
Linnea David and Family in Atlantic Canada July 2010 (PDF File)
Heard there: “Linnea's concert in Bathurst, NB on Thursday night was amazing - just amazing. I loved the new music, and I loved the old music, I loved Linnea, and I loved David, I loved their children - and I had a great, great time getting' into the groove! I almost took flight when Linnea did ‘I'll Fly Away’!”
Catholic Press Association awards Linnea Good and Nancy Reeves 3rd place for Best Column in North America!
Linnea and Nancy are delighted to announce that they have been awarded 3rd place among all North American Catholic Magazines, for their “Children Celebrate” column in the Canadian liturgical publication Celebrate! (Toronto, Ontario). Judges’ comments were: “Nancy Reeves and Linnea Good pack a lot of good advice into provocative columns whose theme is the celebration of children. An example is unflinching advice centered around the startling headline: “Why Did Jesus Kill Grandma?” Talking about death with children, they conclude, may be one of the hardest challenges adults face. They provide parents with a roadmap for dealing with this subject in talking to their children. Celebrate Magazine, “known as the liturgical magazine with the pastoral heart” can be viewed online at The Catholic Press.
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Linnea Good – CD Launch: Momentary Saints
Linnea Good’s soaring celtic melodies and jazz-laced psalm-blues have taken her around the continent and world. Now (suddenly) celebrating her 20th anniversary in the singing business, Linnea and a deliciously expanded Good Company Band are launching her tenth album: Momentary Saints.
Join us in the studio to see the making of the Momentary Saints Album.
Listen to portions of some of the new songs including:
Rain on Snow
Stand On The Rock
Linnea’s gift is in writing music that is at the once new and old. In Momentary Saints, Welsh hymns become love songs, Irish folk tunes sing laments of the faithful, global warming takes a jazz stride, a gospel story goes latin. She plays a powerful and evocative piano, accompanied by the tasty drumming of David Jonsson, and the locked-in groove of Bruce Harding’s bass. They are joined by some of Canada's finest studio musicians: David Sinclair, Michael Creber, Finn Manniche, Henry Lee, Mark Ferris, Terry Townson, Steve Hilliam, Rod Murray, Ed Johnson. With Paul Gitlitz’s Juno award-winning production skills, these songs of the spirit soar.
Included in the album: the free-flying gospel-feel Stand on the Rock, Rivers of Memory: Linnea’s powerful rendition of ‘by the rivers of Babylon’, accompanied by Bruce Harding’s heart-stopping flute choreography, Rain on Snow – accompanied by Terry Townson’s mournful flugel horn and David Golden’s now-famous comedic dig at church choirs: The Three Tenors.
Linnea Good has been a singer-songwriter, musical animator and educator in the Christian Church and community for 20 years. Her passion lies in creating music that helps souls to sing, that builds bridges between generations, that leads to the transformation of our world.
Linnea has a very full life – a young family, a touring schedule that takes her and drummer-spouse, David Jonsson, on the road much of the year, numerous CDs of her original music of faith, a new album Momentary Saints, and an online subscription group of fast-breaking sheet music and worship resources.
Linnea is available to join you and your community in worship, in concert or in a workshop setting.
ANNOUNCING: At the annual Canadian Church Press Awards in Winnipeg, May 2009, Linnea Good and Nancy Reeves’ column, “Children Celebrate!”, won third place for Best Column.
In addition, Celebrate Magazine - the publication for which Linnea and Nancy write the column - was awarded First Prize for General Excellence in the Specialized Magazines category. The judge wrote:
“Celebrate is the perfect example of how a so-called "specialized" church publication can demonstrate that its particular mission is profoundly linked to the wholeness of our lives as believers. Celebrate makes this abundantly clear through its thoughtfully-pitched features and columns.... outstanding layout, typography and design. If liturgy is the meeting of art and worship, then Celebrate captures this connection in every page.”
Canadian Church Press Awards are:
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