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On the Street 1  (Canada Day 2009)

On the Street 2  (Canada Day 2009)

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Canada Day 2011 after the parade still rockin'

Canada Day 2011 in the parade

 

New recording coming soon!

"Waiting For Abraham" Produced by Brett Ziegler, is now being mixed by Chris Michel.

 

Kapipal - crowd funding for the new recording

 

2011 Events

December 4 Rogers Santa Claus Parade Vancouver

September 17 SFU

August Anvil Island

August Keats camp

Canada Day Vancouver

April - Banff

Studio Mid January to mid March

2010 Events

December 10th "O Night Divine" Maple Ridge Baptist

December 5 Rogers Santa Claus Parade Vancouver

December 3 YWAM 50th Jubilee in Kona Hawaii

September 18 Worship Invasion, Simon Fraser University, BC

September 12 YWAM 50th Anniversary, River's Edge Camp North of Calgary, AB

August 29 South Delta Bapt weekend, Saltspring Island, BC

August 26, 28 Party on the Hill, White Rock, BC

August 21 - The 360 Youth Conference New Westminster, BC

July 26 -30 In the Studio

July 13 Prince George, BC First Baptist Church 7:30PM

July 12 Burns Lake, BC Spirit Square 7PM

July 9 -11 Kitimat, BC  Journey of Freedom Outdoor Festival

July 8th Houston, BC Arts Education Centre 7:30PM

July 7th 108 Mile Ranch, Heritage Site

July 3rd Arts and Culture Night at Trinity Baptist Church 49th and Granville 7PM with This Old Mountain, Ezra Kwizera, and the Dance Barn Dancers

July 1st Canada Day Parade Georgia Street Vancouver, BC 7PM start Fireworks follow

PARADE PICS

June 11 - 13 Forgiven Summit, Ottawa ON

 

Pleased to partner with

Duncan Africa Guitars

 

 
 

 


 

 

Something New and Old

While we're all waiting for

the completion of the Plowman recording

here's a collection of Audio Memories

from our 20 years of soul tracking.

It's a 14 song anthology

packed with great memories

and meaningful moments from the seasons of our lives.

Buy CD

 

Pre-Order New  Recording and view Photos

 

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Russ's 1st 3 CDs with the group Rise Up are now on iTunes

Wind of the Spirit, Coming Clean and Dancing in a Field

Rise Up & Russ Rosen

 

 

 

Buy CD

down load "Oil"

Russ Rosen Band - Oil - Watchmen

Critics love Oil

listen to the title track

Listen to audio clips

 

 

Author and friend
Mark Buchanan

“How good and pleasant it,” the Psalmist exclaimed, “when brothers dwell together in unity.” And then he evokes an image whose appeal, at first blush, is hard for us to grasp: “It’s like oil,” he says, oil poured over a man’s head, running down his beard, soaking into his clothes. Isn’t that what they do at stag parties and hazing rites? But this is an image of priestly anointing – being set apart for God, marked out for His purposes.
Oil, the newest Russ Rosen CD, is a fitting tribute to the image. As “musician-aries,” Russ and his team over the last 10 years have travelled across Canada and around the world, bringing Christ’s message of reconciliation. How good and pleasant it is when brothers dwell together in unity. But how difficult, too. Apart from the oil of anointing, apart from the priestly acts of mercy and forgiveness and sacrifice, apart from the active work of the Spirit convicting and consoling, apart from the cross, all reconciliation falls woefully short.
The new CD grows out of the band’s wounds and prayers and victories in that ministry. The songs have to them the rawness and freshness of testimony. They are like desperate prayers, like dispatches from the front lines. From the rolling war drums of the opening track “Watchmen,” to the battle cries and urgent rhythm of “Warriors,” to the bluesy sassy rocker “Something’s Rattlin’,” to the serene perfection of “Radiant Beauty,” these songs themselves seem anointed, drenched and glistening and fragrant with oil. Russ has an earthy voice. Sometimes he moans with an aching like Jeremiah must have had when he saw Jerusalem plundered. Sometimes he hollers like David must have done when he ran toward Goliath. That voice, and his wife’s Sandy’s richly textured background vocals, and Kathleen Nisbet’s dazzling fiddle work – all add to the unguent quality of the whole.
The title track is particularly effective. Opening with a mournful harmonica riff like a distant train’s whistle, gathering steam with Russ’s percussive guitar, and building into one of Kathleen’s wild dizzying Irish reels breaking free like a runaway caboose, the song is at once both wistful and brimful of promise. By the end, you feel like you’re running headlong to catch that train, the wind with you.
The Russ Rosen Band manages to combine sounds at once festive and combative, a dancer’s jig, a warrior’s cry. This is music for a party or a battle. Or both. Which is exactly what it takes - a battle, a party - to see the Kingdom come.
Feeling a bit rusty? Get Oil, and use liberally.

 

 

Book by

Sandy Rosen

Off The Map: a book by Sandy Rosen

 

 

the Northern Combine Tour in our bus Hector. Graham Ord and I travelled north from Vancouver to Fort Nelson with Callum Rees on Drums, John Bews on Bass, Brett Ziegler on Keys and Dave Vanderkwaak behind the wheel.

 



 

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