Are You Ready For A Miracle--Golgota Gospel Korus Christmas '08

It was an honor to sing this duet with Timea Vass and The Golgota Gospel Korus in Budapest, Hungary's MOM Muvhaz before 700 people. Unfortunately, the battery ran out before the reprise at the end. Thanks to my son who struggled to keep this digital camera still. He was excited for his Dad.

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[ShoutHard]

"DEAD"? Have you seen the ratings on this video!!??

I think that's a terrible overstatement! Obviously you don't know the Hungarian culture. If you did, you would be amazed at this! They may not be as demonstrative as other choirs, but they are unpaid volunteers in a culture as far away from Brooklyn or Atlanta as they can be.

[Julika9290]

This was amazing! I am so glad you got to do that. You sounded great! :)  Miss you!

[Andyjzr]

That's brilliant. Amazing the stuff you find on You Tube. Love it.

[jimdivax]

It's my observation that critics of 'white' gospel invariably have little real Christian faith. They enjoy gospel music for its form only and have little time for its true substance...the celebration of Christ,.. which even the 'blackest' of true believers would agree is what this music's all about. I recently had a conversation where someone said....'I love gospel music...I just hate all that religious claptrap that comes with it'. They entirely miss the point!

[viera1963]

@ShoutHard O.k.-got you...nice talking to you. Keep on singing!

[ShoutHard]

@viera1963, I agree. It's not my intention to suggest that it's a black/white thing. I'm only pointing out that there is a genre of music one might call "Black Gospel" that mostly grew in black-dominant churches of the US South. I agree. I think it's not an issue of race at all, but of culture and "personality" to some extent.

[viera1963]

@ShoutHard If you go down south you'd find the same at a lot of 'white' churches. I've seen it in Tennesee-white choirs jumping & clapping, etc. So how do you define 'culture'? It's not a 'black' culture thing. It's not a country culture thing-we're not influenced by Atlanta yet if you came to some churches here you'd think you were in Atlanta. I think I know what you mean to a degree, but I don't really understand what culture has to do with this because you see joyful ppl. in ALL cultures.

[viera1963]

@ShoutHard One last thing-you've mentioned Atlanta & the black culture. I don't necessarily think it's a black thing-although black people may put more life into it for the most part. It's not even an American thing. Denomination has a lot to do with it. I'm from Bermuda which is mostly Anglican & black people are quiet in church. My church was Pentecostal and TONS of white people were jumping up & down, clapping, getting in the spirit, etc. so I don't think it's a black or white thing.

[ShoutHard]

@viera1963, Thank you for that. No, it's not my intent to portray my friends as "dead." But Hungary is distinctly "Hungarian" and "Atlanta" is distinctly "Atlanta" (or any other other city with a black, Gospel choir). Cultures do have distinctions. That's all I'm trying to say. I know some seriously amazing dancers in this choir. I also know that many are rhythmically challenged. Mark Zeeman has a HUGE challenge. Watch a few more of their songs and I think you'll see that it's no one's fault.

[viera1963]

@ShoutHard You know, I had another look and it wasn't THAT bad...some of them were moving in the front. They really weren't that stiff so I don't think it's fair of me to say that. I guess I can understand that it's not their thing to jump up and down and clap and all that-to each his own.

You sounded really good, by the way.

[viera1963]

@ShoutHard I hear what you're saying but Hungarian ppl. must be like the walking dead. I don't know of ANY culture that doesn't clap/move to music-even primal tribes. I think the music director made a bad choice in choosing this song for them-why choose an uptempo song for a bunch of stiff robots? They should have sang Amazing Grace or something that would have suited them better. Not to be critical but facts are facts & you put yourself out there by posting this-you have to expect feedback :-(

[ShoutHard]

@viera1963, "that other guy" is me...the one singing solo in this song. I appreciate your thoughts, but in some cultures around the world, clapping and moving mean completely different things. Trust me, we did everything in our power to get these folks to move. It just doesn't come naturally and frankly, sometimes it was hilarious and pretty distracting. You should have seen them try to dance a salsa! They weren't always still. You can see that in other samples online.