Praise & Worship Format

[PraiseWorshipradio]

Doing some research for a radio station that's currently carrying a satellite praise & worship format, and is exploring taking the programming in-house, and cutting the sat. cable. Any tips on where to begin looking for a library for the format? It's not one you can buy from TM century...

Thanks All!

 

[rbrucecarter5]

Doing some research for a radio station that's currently carrying a satellite praise & worship format, and is exploring taking the programming in-house, and cutting the sat. cable. Any tips on where to begin looking for a library for the format? It's not one you can buy from TM century...

Thanks All!

Just cherry pick the songs you want from the playlist of the average CCM station, which is mostly praise and worship anyway. Your audience will never know the difference.

 

[gr8oldies]

I get you're not a fan of praise and worship, but I believe the gentleman was looking for a source for obtaining a music library. I'd probably get ahold of a P&W station in another market for ideas.
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Just cherry pick the songs you want from the playlist of the average CCM station, which is mostly praise and worship anyway. Your audience will never know the difference.

 

[xmusicmatt]

There is not a library specific for a P&W format.. You could try to get a list of songs played by your satellite PW format and then work to obtain those.

Christian AC is NOT P&W... If you look at the playlist of Salem's Word In Praise -- It has very few songs currently on CCM Radio. Just like CCM has a target audience which is why they don't play Rock and Hip-hop you won't find a great deal of CCM (Christian AC) songs on a true P&W station.

 

[rbrucecarter5]

I get you're not a fan of praise and worship, but I believe the gentleman was looking for a source for obtaining a music library. I'd probably get ahold of a P&W station in another market for ideas.
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When it sounds exactly the same - it IS exactly the same. No use pretending otherwise - nobody is being fooled.

 

[Goat Rodeo Cowboy]

The Original Poster needs to come back and clarify the actual task.

I read the questions this way: We are broadcasting P&W music. We want to disconnect from our programming source. We don't want to go through the mechanics of tracking down "X" number of tracks/recordings and the mechanics of physically installing them into an automation machine. Is there a provider, a vendor who will make it possible for us to receive a hard-drive with the programming content in-place so without turning the world upside down withing our own staff and facility, disconnect the satellite and turn on the local machine.

Spell out for us what you are actually looking for, and spell out what you are actually looking to avoid.

Who knows. Maybe they have the resources to gather up all the individual pieces of music and install them but management doesn't want the internal dog-fight over which songs make the cut and which song get left out. Real easy to explain to folks: We bought an existing library. "Those Folks" over at the library company made the choices. Not me.

 

[Avid Listener]

The Original Poster needs to come back and clarify the actual task.

I read the questions this way: We are broadcasting P&W music. We want to disconnect from our programming source. We don't want to go through the mechanics of tracking down "X" number of tracks/recordings and the mechanics of physically installing them into an automation machine. Is there a provider, a vendor who will make it possible for us to receive a hard-drive with the programming content in-place so without turning the world upside down withing our own staff and facility, disconnect the satellite and turn on the local machine.

Spell out for us what you are actually looking for, and spell out what you are actually looking to avoid.

Who knows. Maybe they have the resources to gather up all the individual pieces of music and install them but management doesn't want the internal dog-fight over which songs make the cut and which song get left out. Real easy to explain to folks: We bought an existing library. "Those Folks" over at the library company made the choices. Not me.

Yep, that about nails it. Among the various Christian faith traditions (aka "denominations"), "Praise and Worship" music has many, many different connotations. To some Christian faith traditions, CCM pop music is "Praise and Worship" music. To others, "Praise and Worship" music is traditional hymns sung by choirs and accompanied by pipe organs. To others, it's what the rest of us call "Gospel". Those are only three examples, there are many, many more. There are only two things that all the different kinds of music have in common. They're all about "Praise and Worship" and they're all good.

 

[Goat Rodeo Cowboy]

Yep, that about nails it. Among the various Christian faith traditions (aka "denominations"), "Praise and Worship" music has many, many different connotations. To some Christian faith traditions, CCM pop music is "Praise and Worship" music. To others, "Praise and Worship" music is traditional hymns sung by choirs and accompanied by pipe organs. To others, it's what the rest of us call "Gospel". Those are only three examples, there are many, many more. There are only two things that all the different kinds of music have in common. They're all about "Praise and Worship" and they're all good.

Except for that small cadré of folks who see ALL music in the church as something of a nuisance.

As pastors in that group will remind you: All church problems, all church splits, ALWAYS begin in the Music Committee or the choir!

Revised version of what that group will remind you: Well, church problems and splits kind of start with the folks listening to Christian radio!

 

[Avid Listener]

As pastors in that group will remind you: All church problems, all church splits, ALWAYS begin in the Music Committee or the choir!

As a lay preacher and active member of a congregation, I can confirm what you said. However, though the problems almost always start there, they often are unrelated to the music! It seems, at least in my faith tradition, that the members mostly likely to be in the center of any controversy are the most active members, and the most active members are usually in either the Worship and Music Committee and/or the Choir or band. However, though usually it's choir or band practice or else committee meetings when those folks gather together, the things they'll start squabbling over cover the whole gamut of church issues.

When the pastor convinced the Altar Guild to change from using leavened bread over to pita bread for communion, you'd have thought he had nailed 95 theses to the church door! The arguments started in choir practice, but soon spilled over to the entire congregation.

That's why I'd also agree that since the most active or engaged people in a church are the most likely to listen to Christian radio outside of church, and they're the ones who care enough to make issues of of things that bother them, it's those folks churchmen have to watch out for.

 

[Goat Rodeo Cowboy]

That's why I'd also agree that since the most active or engaged people in a church are the most likely to listen to Christian radio outside of church, and they're the ones who care enough to make issues of of things that bother them, it's those folks churchmen have to watch out for.

We could probably take your paragraph and start a whole new thread around it.

There are some "flavors" of congregations where that would be true. The more active, the more committed the member, the more likely it is the person will be listening to some radio station that fits into the broad, broad category of Christian Radio.

There are some other "flavors" of congregations where that would NOT be true. In those congregations that adhere to a belief system that is not in the "evangelical" mode, the more committed to the congregation the member is, the LESS likely it is the person will be listening to "Christian Radio".

There is something in the water-systems of America that makes us a unique nation on how we connect to religious thought. I recently asked a Buddhist if they had the equivalent of "denominations" within their community. Only In America was the answer. There may be more kinds of Buddhists here than there are kinds of Baptists. But in the rest of the world, there is much, much less dividing and splintering.... both for Buddhists, and for Christian groups.

 

[vchimpanzee]

As a lay preacher and active member of a congregation, I can confirm what you said. However, though the problems almost always start there, they often are unrelated to the music! It seems, at least in my faith tradition, that the members mostly likely to be in the center of any controversy are the most active members, and the most active members are usually in either the Worship and Music Committee and/or the Choir or band. However, though usually it's choir or band practice or else committee meetings when those folks gather together, the things they'll start squabbling over cover the whole gamut of church issues.

When the pastor convinced the Altar Guild to change from using leavened bread over to pita bread for communion, you'd have thought he had nailed 95 theses to the church door! The arguments started in choir practice, but soon spilled over to the entire congregation.

That's why I'd also agree that since the most active or engaged people in a church are the most likely to listen to Christian radio outside of church, and they're the ones who care enough to make issues of of things that bother them, it's those folks churchmen have to watch out for.

We don't have arguments in my church (or if we do I'm not aware of them), and certainly not at choir practice.

We haven't had choir practice in a long time, and this worries me. The director goes on vacation this week because she teaches at the local college and doesn't have summer classes. She just picks something we can do if enough show up on Sunday morning, and if we have enogh, and know it well enough, we can do it.

I haven't mentioned being in the choir, but if there is a soloist or a group other than the choir singing, it means I can't sing. Now I could possibly fill in as an usher, or read scripture, but they've usually picked the people who are going to do those things. If I know in advance that the choir won't be singing, I can go somewhere else. If my aunt's family is getting together, that's an opportunity to visit them.

This is one reason I'm not open to new music at my church. If I refuse to be in the building for that noise, I certainly won't help them sing it.

 

[vchimpanzee]

To others, "Praise and Worship" music is traditional hymns sung by choirs and accompanied by pipe organs.

That's what I like, on Sunday morning, or if I happen to turn on a Christian radio station.

I don't like the term because the first time I ever heard it was when I went to a relative's church and during the Sunday school hour was annoying by this loud rock music coming from somewhere. I went in the sanctuary at 11 and the instruments were still there. I took off. I had a nice walk around the cemetery and nearby neighborhood. Once it was over and the service was back to normal, I sneaked in the back. I avoided coming to that church at all for a long time and came in late when I had the courage to go at all. They tried a contemporary service but there wasn't enough interest. But they didn't put that kind of music in the 11:00 service (much) even after that.

 

[R.D.P.]

To the OP, I would contact the labels and singers and see if they could assist me.

I'm going to do some P&W music and that's what I'm doing.

So far, it's working.

Dan <><

 

[Avid Listener]

We don't have arguments in my church (or if we do I'm not aware of them), and certainly not at choir practice.

Obviously, you aren't a Lutheran. There was a Lutheran once stranded on a desert Island. When a rescue party found him, they also found three grass huts. They asked him why three. He said, "One is where I live, and one is where I go to church. The other is where I used to go to church."

As to modern music in church, there's a wide range of different musical styles that all fall under the umbrella of "contemporary". At my church, we rotate between traditional organ based music and what would be best described as "folk-rock" if you had to nail it down. The band is a piano, a bass, and two guitars -- lead and rhythm. No drums. Half the hymns we use are standard hymns from the regular hymnal that we also sing accompanied by the organ. To put it in radio terms, it's more AC than CHR. The liturgy we most often use is Marty Haugen's "Now the Feast and Celebration", which isn't available to listen to online with a good quality recording. I think the music from it would go over very nicely on a radio station that played P&W music.

Of course, if I was listening to Praise and Worship music on the radio, my #1 choice would be A Mighty Fortress, sung by a 100 voice choir, accompanied by a full pipe organ, played and sung fortissimo!