SGM Radio Blog’s Top Ten: The Moore Family

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The Moore Family

We were born and raised in the hills of Eastern Kentucky. Group members include Jerry Moore singing lead, Elizabeth Moore on vocals and keyboards, and their son Noah Hamer also on vocals.

The Moore Family’s Top Ten

1. Please tell us the name of your latest recording and your favorite song from that CD. What is the message behind this song?
Our latest recording is “That’s Enough For Me”. As the title cut and our favorite song from the recording. “That’s Enough For Me”. I know that Jesus saved me and that’s all that will matter when this life is over is if His precious blood has been applied to your soul. Praise His Name forever.

2. What is one group highlight from the last 12 months?
There have been a lot of highlights from getting to open for the legendary Larry Sparks in a concert in March 2010, and some other great artists. But the greatest highlight is every soul we have been able to witness to and tell about Jesus. All the great services we been in and all those precious souls saved - that’s the biggest and best highlight for The Moore Family.

3. Where is your favorite place to eat on the road?
Any Family oriented restaurant that doesn’t serve alcohol. If they serve alcohol they don’t get our business and we will just starve. We would have to say Golden Corral as our favorite.

4. What is your favorite TV series rerun?
The Little House On the Prairie

5. What was the best decade for music? Favorite artist from that decade?
Would have to say the 1970’s. That’s when The Primitive Quartet got started and one of many of our favorite groups. They are still singing and we thank the Lord for them and their service for him.

6. Who is your favorite Christian author/teacher/evangelist?
Favorite Author: Paul who God inspired to write a lot of great books in the New Testament of His Holy Word. Teacher: Anyone that teaches being inspired by the Holy Spirit and being led by the Lord. Evangelist: Jacob Berry

7. What is one habit you would like to break?
Being able to sleep the whole night thru without waking several times.

8. Who is your most favorite Bible person/character?
Jerry’s-Daniel, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego they put their faith in God when death was almost certain and the Lord delivered them.
Elizabeth’s-Ruth

9. Name a song that once it gets stuck in your head you can’t get it out.
Amazing Grace

10. What is the last book you read?
Jerry-Genesis from the Old Testament
Elizabeth- The Shack

The Collingsworth Family at Gaither Studios

(New Richmond, OH) The Collingsworth Family are spending the week, working at Gaither Studios in Alexandria, IN, filming B-Roll and editing both the video and audio portions of their two brand new Video projects along with the coordinating Audio CDs. Filmed in High Definition in Flint, MI, all production work on these projects is being directed and coordinated by Gaither Productions of Alexandria, IN. Produced and directed under the skilled hand of one of Nashville's finest, Wayne Haun, the project includes The Collingsworth Family performing with a live band on stage consisting of Stan Whitmire on piano, Jeremy Medkiff on bass, and Mark Rout on drums. Also joining them in the production was a full live orchestra consisting of members of the Flint, Ann Arbor, and Detroit Symphony orchestras. Included in the two projects are two brand new piano/orchestra arrangements of THE HOLY CITY and MY TRIBUTE, personally arranged by Kim Collingsworth and famed Disney orchestrator, David Clydesdale. Titled FEAR NOT TOMORROW and A DECADE OF MEMORIES, both High Def DVDs will release on September 1.

Winners Announced for 2010 SGN Scoops Diamond Awards

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – (July 1, 2010) – The 2010 SGN Scoops Diamond Awards were handed out last night in Branson, Missouri as a part of the 2nd Annual Branson Gospel Music Convention. Eighteen awards were handed out at the awards presentation and several artists won multiple awards including the Gaither Vocal Band, Booth Brothers, Jason Crabb, and Jeff & Sheri Easter.

Rob Patz of Coastal Media Group (owners of SGN Scoops Digital and the Diamond Awards) said, “This year’s show was so much fun! We can’t believe that it is over. We feel like we’ve really made an impressive step forward in regards to the look, feel, and flow of the program.”

This year’s event featured a myriad of performers and special guests throughout the program. The Diamond Awards celebrated the 100th anniversary of Southern Gospel music with special performances by some of Gospel music’s most beloved performers. Several “scrap-iron” groups performed Southern Gospel favorites from the genres rich and varied history.

Members from groups like Beyond the Ashes, 2nd Generation, Dan Keeton Quartet, Sunday Edition, Crosspoint Quartet, The Williamsons, Ascension Quartet, McMillan & Life, The Roarks, Praise Incorporated and soloists Mike Allen, Kenny Bishop, Chris Hester, Rod Burton, and many more all were a part of the All Star groups.

In addition, the evening featured performances from Young Harmony, Christy Sutherland, and Dove Award winner Gerald Crabb. Springfield Missouri’s Broadway Baptist Church Choir opened the program.

Other artists and industry professionals made appearances including Ann Downing, AbsolutelyGospel.com’s Deon Unthank, Dustin & Kaila, Hearts of Faith, GospelGigs.com’s Greg Inman, Gospel Music Today’s Ken & Jean Grady, State of the Ozarks’ Joshua Heston, Branson Radio Live’s Karen Berka, KWFC’s Jonathan Edwards, and many more.

This year’s hosts were Johnathan Bond (of Dove Award nominated group Young Harmony) and Christy Sutherland.

For more information on The SGN Scoops Diamond Awards – visit http://www.diamondawardsonline.com .

2010 SGN SCOOPS DIAMOND AWARD WINNERS:

J.D. SUMNER LIVING LEGEND AWARD: LuLu Roman

QUARTET OF THE YEAR: Gaither Vocal Band

MIXED GROUP OF THE YEAR: The Isaacs

TRIO OF THE YEAR: Booth Brothers

DUET OF THE YEAR: Aaron & Amanda Crabb

FEMALE SOLOIST OF THE YEAR: Janet Paschal

MALE SOLOIST OF THE YEAR: Jason Crabb

SUNRISE AWARD: 2nd Generation

SONG OF THE YEAR: “Mercy Leads” – Sisters (written by Sue C. Smith, Kenna West, and Stephanie Boosahda)

ALBUM OF THE YEAR: Almost Morning – The Perrys (produced by Wayne Haun)

ANTHONY BURGER INSTRUMENTALIST OF THE YEAR: Gordon Mote

DOTTIE RAMBO SONGWRITER OF THE YEAR: Gerald Crabb

CHRISTIAN COUNTRY GROUP OF THE YEAR: Jeff & Sheri Easter

CHRISTIAN COUNTRY FEMALE ARTIST OF THE YEAR: Christy Sutherland

CHRISTIAN COUNTRY MALE ARTIST OF THE YEAR: Jason Crabb

BLUEGRASS GOSPEL ARTIST OF THE YEAR: Jeff & Sheri Easter

VIDEO/DVD OF THE YEAR: Reunion – Gaither Vocal Band

FAVORITE ARTIST WEBSITE: BoothBrothers.com (Booth Brothers)

FAVORITE INDUSTRY WEBSITE: GospelGigs.com

LOU HILDRETH AWARD: Bill Traylor

PAUL HEIL AWARD IN BROADCASTING: Les Butler, Solid Gospel 105

About the Diamond Awards
The Diamond Awards were transferred over to the SGN Scoops Digital several years ago after the original home for the awards, the Gospel Voice Magazine, folded. The Diamond Awards are a fan-based award that allows the fans to choose the nominees as well as the winners each year. The awards show is held during the Branson Gospel Music Convention every summer.

Happy Canada Day

All You Ever Wanted To Know About CANADA DAY!
From Wikipedia

Canada Day (French: Fête du Canada), formerly Dominion Day (French: Le Jour de la Confédération), is Canada's national day, a federal statutory holiday celebrating the anniversary of the July 1, 1867, enactment of the British North America Act (today called the Constitution Act, 1867), which united two British colonies and a province of the British Empire into a single country called Canada. Canada Day observances take place throughout Canada as well as internationally.

Frequently referred to as "Canada's birthday", particularly in the popular press,[1][2][3] the occasion marks the joining of the British North American colonies of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and the Province of Canada into a federation of four provinces (the Province of Canada being divided, in the process, into Ontario and Quebec) on July 1, 1867. Canada became a kingdom in its own right on that date,[4][5][6] but the British Parliament kept limited rights of political control over the new country that were shed by stages over the years until the last vestiges were surrendered in 1982 when the Constitution Act patriated the Canadian constitution.

For more, see Wikipedia.

Posted by Lorraine Walker

I am Canadian and proud of it. I love our American neighbours, but Canada is my home and in my opinion, the best Country to live in. We are known as the peacekeepers, the land that welcomes all nations, and the home of the 2010 Olympics. During the last recession we had the strongest economy. Our health care system is one of the best - though even it needs reform. We have our problems like all nations and we don't always get along. We are fortunate that images like burning cars in the middle of Toronto are a rarity.
Canadians cannot be generalized; we are as diverse as our land. We have the freedom to speak as we please, to go where we want and to worship in the way we prefer. I love that our coat of arms has the motto: 'From Sea To Sea', and this is also echoed in the etchings on our buildings in Ottawa, our nation's capital, which read: "He shall have dominion from sea to sea"...from Psalm 72:8. Our nation was founded on Biblical principals and I pray one day we shall return to them.
Happy Canada Day.

2010 SGN Scoops Diamond Awards to Take Place Tomorrow at Branson Gospel Music Convention

Event to Celebrate 100th Anniversary of Southern Gospel Music

Appearances by Springfield’s Broadway Baptist Church Choir, Senator Jack Goodman, and Other Branson Favorites!

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – (June 30, 2010) – Coastal Media Group and SGN Scoops Digital will present the 2010 Diamond Awards tomorrow evening, July 1, 2010, as a part of the 2nd Annual Branson Gospel Music Convention.

This year’s event will feature a myriad of performers and special guests throughout the program. The Diamond Awards will celebrate the 100th anniversary of Southern Gospel music with special performances by some of Gospel music’s most beloved performers. Several “scrap-iron” groups will perform Southern Gospel favorites from the genres rich and varied history.

Members from groups like Beyond the Ashes, 2nd Generation, Blackwood Quartet, Sunday Edition, Crosspoint Quartet, The Williamsons, Ascension Quartet, McMillan & Life, The Roarks, Praise Incorporated and soloists Mike Allen, Kenny Bishop, Chris Hester, Rod Burton, and many more will be a part of the All Star groups.

In addition, the evening will feature performances from Young Harmony, Christy Sutherland, and Dove Award winner Gerald Crabb. Springfield Missouri’s Broadway Baptist Church Choir will also open the program.

Other artists and industry professionals scheduled to make appearances include Ann Downing, AbsolutelyGospel.com’s Deon Unthank, Dustin & Kaila, Hearts of Faith, GospelGigs.com’s Greg Inman, Gospel Music Today’s Ken & Jean Grady, State of the Ozarks’ Joshua Heston, Branson Radio Live’s Karen Berka, songwriters Stephanie Boosahda and Amy Marie Unthank, KWFC’s Jonathan Edwards, and many more.

Senator Jack Goodman (R-Missouri) will be making an appearance as well at the beginning of the program.

This year’s hosts are Johnathan Bond (of Dove Award nominated group Young Harmony) and Christy Sutherland.

Rob Patz of Coastal Media Group (owner of the SGN Scoops Diamond Awards) said, “There’s a lot of excitement in the air here this week. The Diamond Awards are going to be bigger and better than ever this year, and we can’t wait for show tomorrow night!”

The Diamond Awards are presented annually by SGN Scoops Digital at the Branson Gospel Music Convention. The nominees and winners are chosen by readers of the magazine.

For more information on the Diamond Awards – visit the SGN Scoops Digital website at http://www.sgnscoops.com .

About the Diamond Awards
The Diamond Awards were transferred over to the SGN Scoops Digital several years ago after the original home for the awards, the Gospel Voice Magazine, folded. The Diamond Awards are a fan-based award that allows the fans to choose the nominees as well as the winners each year. The awards show is held during the Branson Gospel Music Convention every summer.