Creation Fest 09

I leave tomorrow for Creation East!  I’m so excited to interview tons and tons of great artists – and see old friends!  You will be able to see videos from Creation over the course of the next several weeks and in the meantime, to get you ready for summer festivals, you can watch our videos from last year on hearitfirst.com/creation!

We want to hear about your favorite summer festival memories!  Did anything crazy ever happen to you at a festival?  Does somehing memorable stand out for you?  Tell us in the comments!

The Grammy’s are this weekend!

Check out the Grammy Nominations on hearitfirst.com and comment with your Grammy predictions!

monday monday

We just finished up at JOY-FM in Tampa!  Carmen, Dave, and Bill interviewed all 5 “new faces” and I filmed it – I will work on the video when we get back on the bus so you can see what’s happening!  We’re about to go to cracker barrel – yum!

we are finally rolling!

Phil and Michael just got here and we are finally rolling – it is so strange being in a GIANT moving vehicle and knowing the world is zooming by and not really beine able to see it — and being on the internet!

On the bus!

We are on the bus – so far, Josh Wilson, Britt Nicole, and Sarah Reeves are here.  The west coast boys are running late – I think their flights were delayed.  We are waiting for Danyew and Michael from Above the Golden State.   This bus is so great – we are hanging out in the back lounge right now and Josh is playing mandolin.

The back lounge is so great – we are all gathered back here and hanging out.. I’m going to start filming soon and capture all this so you guys can see!

A perfect Monday morning!

It was hard to come back from a long holiday weekend, I will admit that… but I am watching it gently snow out my window and listening to Nat King Cole Christmas music!  (And sipping my coffee lightly flavored with French Vanilla, yum!)

I hope everyone had a happy Thanksgiving!  We are kicking into full Christmas gear around here — I am so excited to bring you a lot of great Christmas videos with your favorite artists!  I’ve literally been asking artists about Christmas since April, so you can imagine that we have a LOT of footage!!

Check out the new videos as well as some from last year on http://www.hearitfirst.com/Christmas.

Ahhh, I just heard the first lines of “Chestnuts roasting on an open fire…” coming from my iPod… So classic.  Better get back to work instead of daydreaming about Christmas. 

Superchick – cross the line video

So a few weeks ago, we went to the Superchick video shoot and filmed behind the scenes… you won’t see the video until January, but here is a photo from the shoot!!

Encouragement

I asked in the newsletter to share what scripture is encouraging you today…. let us know in the comments!

Personally, I’m digging Romans 8. 

Mystery guests!

We had mystery guests visit our office last week -  I’m not at liberty to say WHO just yet because it’s a surprise… There is a very famous artist from the 90s that has come to faith in the past several years and she is now doing Christian music with another singer-songwriter.  We are filming the whole process of their career development and will be bringing you those videos in the future.  Let’s just say that I was SUPER excited to meet her and she even sang one of her hits a cappella during the interview and we looooooved it!

Here is a photo of me and Mark with the duo.  We loved hanging out with them – they are awesome!

Costumes are the Greatest!

Hey!  Leslie – aka Les Nessman – here!  As we all know, today is Halloween, and what better way to have fun around the office on this day than to dress up!  I came to work as my all-time favorite alternate identity of a pirate… 

Check out those cool temporary tattoos!  I even have my sword with me that I got from Spain!  I’m such a cool pirate =)

Jamie dressed up as Bobby Soxer, basically a girl from the 50’s with a poodle skirt and everything!  It was an awesome costume…

Cool Keds, eh!  We did a photo shoot with Crystal, one of the hif interns, so enjoy and have a safe and happy Halloween!