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What Is This? 1987 (8 MB)

From the forgotten tv video vaults!

1987

Finland's' MTV Channel 3

Song duration: 5 minutes 29 seconds

The Annual April Jazz Festival in Espoo (Helsinki)
Clip taken from a one hour performance.

Christian-Charles de Plicque Gospel Quintet
Anssi Nykänen, Drums
Jarkka Rissanen, Guitar
Max Tabell, Piano and Organ
Heikki Keskinen, Sax
Harri Merilahti, Bass

Sorry for the bad sound quality!

"You'll Be Around!" (mp3 5.46Mb) featured on new Youth Music DVD

One of the featured songs in this new DVD to be released the 9th December, just in time for Christmas was written: "You'll Be Around", by Christian-Charles de Plicque (lyrics) and music by the talented musician Robert Näse. It was performed, along with other wonderful songs, last summer 2005, in the production: "Eitta leikasi". This was also released on DVD last year.

This song along with additional music will be performed tonight and tomorrow in the Kronoby Church by the Youth Choir of Kronoby, under the direction of Iselin Strandvall.

The DVD project consultants are Youth leader Tom Wiklund and Kronoby Church Organist Kristina Klingenberg.

The DVD was filmed by: Tomas Forsblom.

The filming took place on the island of Tankar, in a café in Karleby, on the seaside resort of Pörkenäs and on Fagerbacka in Purmo.

The DVD project was funded the Finnish Swedish Cultural Foundation and the Kronnoby Folkschool.

The ungdomarnas MUSIKVIDEO - som utkommer på lördag - "You will be arround" - som Robert Näse tonsatte för Eitta leikasi sommaren 2005 will be presented on DVD this lördag och ikväll också i Kronoby!

Vocals and piano: Robert Näse

Music: Robert Näse
Lyrics: Christian-Charles de Plicque

©2006 Teosto Finland

From the DVD: "Tid att tillbe" =(Time To Worship)

Angel House International Missions Ministries Association
Karleby Finland

24 Nov
2006

Quicktime movie: 11.5 MB: YWAM outreach. The Cultural House In Helsinki 1982 (6 / 7)

This begins with me Interviewing a young finnish sister during the final meeting I had for Youth With A Mission in Helsinki at the famed Cultural House. I did not know her at all. But when I am tired from weeks of non-stop ministry, as I was on that final evening, I would often look for someone in the audience to come up on the stage and sing with me. This would liven things up a bit!

After asking a few folk in the audience, and they kindly refused, suddenly I notice this young woman who happily agreed to come up and sing with me. It was a great time! She was so open as you see on this homemade video that someone was kind enough to send to me at home in Paris after I returned to France.

We had given around 30 concerts and meetings in less than 2 weeks. Out on the streets in snow blizzards, sharing Christ with the team and just ministering with a Finnish brother on acoustic guitar and me singing... At schools speaking at 7 a.m. each morning and it was outreach all over that city and I think we were at every church in Helsinki!

After my concert, we showed the great film: "The Hiding Place" (Corrie Ten Boom). Then we gave an invitation for people to come to receive Jesus. And it was mindblowing how many came.

You cannot see on this part of the video just how many people were there in the balcony and way in the back of this concert hall, but it was full, with the exception of up front on the left side of the seats. Over 200 people gave their hearts to Christ (not that numbers matter), but the Holy Spirit moved in a powerful way.

I will always remember this night. You could feel the presence of God in that place. The amazing thing was that this was free to all to come, no admission fee, and the YWAM team, was out in the snow, passing out tracks about the concert and we had no idea who would come or not. But it was a full house and God was lifted high!

Anja, who was my faithful translator for all those meetings from early morning until after midnight was amazing. She was student at the university of Helsinki in those days. She is now a doctor, married and mother.

I hope someday you will come to visit so you can see all of this video. It is one of the rare videos I have from those days, with full finnish translation. I give my testimony, which many might not have heard and it makes a difference of course when you can hear it in our own language. That was way back in 1982. I had no idea in those days, that I would ever leave Paris to live here. But God knew...

That next morning, the leader of Perjantai Kristukselle r.y. =Friday For Christ Organisation, Tapani Suonto, sadly said to me: "Christian-Charles, we have no money to give you for your hard work, but here is a First Class Cabin ticket, on the Finnjet Cruise ship, from Helsinki to Germany. Also we want to bless you with a First Class train ticket with private compartment from Germany to Paris." I didn't come to Finland for money anyway. But that trip back across the sea was awesome! And my cabin, first class, with all that great food. Man! I was in Heaven! (Well almost!)

Serve the Lord. There is no great blessing, than to see people come to the Foot of the Cross.

Shalom!

"Risto-Kalle" (Christian-Charles

www.deplicque.net

24 Nov
2006

Quicktime Movie: "If Heaven Never Was Promised To Me" New old stuff!

1981 Christian-Charles de Plicque, Åbo/Turku Finlan,d YLE Television

"If Heaven Never Was Promised To Me" (Andraé Crouch Composition)
Vocal is: "Live" Music is playback. Recorded at 6 a.m. in a parking lot!
Angel House International Missions Ministries Association
www.deplicque.net
(c) 2007

22 Nov
2006

Quicktime Movie 1983 Johannesburg South Africa Christian-Charles de Plicque

1983  Johannesburg, South Africa (Quicktime Movie 2.2 MB) Christian-Charles de Plicque & Mixed Race South Africa Band; Zulu Television.

During my time working in South Africa during Apartheid. Music is playback from my first European LP:  "This Is The Hour" Lead vocal on the program is "live".

www.deplicque.net

Angel House International Missions Ministries Association
(c) 2007

22 Nov
2006

Tell Them Finland 1981

(Quicktime. 9.83 MB. 3 minutes 51 seconds.)

Flash from the past!

This was filmed in 1981, by the Finnish YLE television station in a parking lot at 5 a.m. in the morning in winter in the southern city of Åbo (Turku). I was singing "live" with playback music. In those days I knew no musicians in Finland and was still living in Paris. Not always in perfect pitch singing on this one, but the message is clear... We've got to "Tell Them", that Jesus loves them!

Angel House International Missions Ministries Association
www.deplicque.net
2006

20 Mar
2006

 

 

Swedish flag På svenska dvd cover - The Story of Gospel Music

Angel House International DVD video Review
English Version

"The Story Of Gospel Music: The Power In The Voice!"

Produced by: The BBC England. Warner Brothers | 90 minutes | 4:3 Stereo

This DVD is a "must" for any music documentary collection of secular music or Gospel music. It gives the history of Black Gospel from the roots to today's Songs of Praise. You will see the legendary Tramaine Hawkins "live", singing the great John Newton classic hymn: "Amazing Grace" for example. Newton was a very rich man and a slave owner...

This active: "shoutin" or: "gettin' happy" as we say in the black church, comes from our roots in Africa in fact. The genius of the Black people is that we have never let the influence of the western culture, rob us of our enthusiasm and our worship.

I think what has made White christianity (in the States for example in those days) so sterile, is that somehow they bought into the idea that being emotional was un-intellectual... which is simply not true.

In 1921 in America, the first book of Gospel songs, written by 4 black composers, was published by the National Baptist Convention. The leaders of the convention during this period, decided to accept "Black Gospel" "on a certain level" at least. It was entitled: "Gospel Pearls!"

One of the most well-known of these four, was a man named Thomas Dorsey. He was originally a blues singer that went by the name of: "Georgia Tom". In the 1920's he sang a lot of "off-colored" blues. But suddenly one day, he experienced an epiphany or a revelation, in that he lost a lot of money. Dorsey took this as some kind of sign from Heaven and turned his considerable song writing talents for the purpose of proclaiming the Gospel.

Mahalia (Jackson), who you will see and hear, from her 1964 concert also on this DVD, Jackson sings one of Dorsey's many gospel songs. She came to Chicago when she was only 16 years of age. Mahalia and Dorsey traveled all over the USA, performing his songs from his songbooks for Black churches and large conventions. Later Mahalia became the woman responsible for introducing Gospel music, to the wider world in those days.

Sister Rosetta Thorpe came from what we call: "The Sanctified Church" (Pentecostal). She was a black woman with blonde hair and in those days, that was rather shocking in itself. On top of that, she was the first and only woman that we know of, that played an electric guitar in the church in the '30's and 40's.

Sister Rosetta was a "megastar" and the most controversial. You'll see what I mean when you see this DVD. Singing the Gospel, she pulled in literally thousands to her concerts, did television and movie appearances, which was truly rare for any Black at that time. You have to see her in the documentary.

Also in this wonderful historical production, are the Fabulous Clara Ward Singers, appearing at the Newport Jazz Festival in 1958. Never before had any Gospel music been presented at a jazz festival, with only a White audience. It was ground breaking back then, for today we hear the Gospel all the time at such events.

James Cleveland is another great artist on this production. He was called "The Prince of Gospel". I had a chance to sing in his choir as a teenager and will never forget this experience. He was a true motivator for any singer. He was a master of this Art the Lord had given him and one of the very first dynamic and energetic choir directors ever. James could sing! He and Aretha were great friends and performed often together.

The Edwin Hawkins Singers are likewise featured on this DVD. They are performing the classic: "Oh Happy Day!" live, on British Television. The song went to Number One on the British secular Charts (A Gospel Song!) Even in 2005 do we rarely, if ever hear of such a thing... But when they returned to the States, after a triumphant tour in England, the song was considered "too worldly" by Black American believers. Now everybody around the world is singing it.

The music of the African American religious experience has been the primary element that has bound Black life together in the obstacles that it has faced: racism; segregation; lynchings...you name it.

And had it not been for the cohesive character of our African Sacred music and also can I say for discussion, likewise secular music, I don't think that Blacks would have made it on the North American continent.

It (Black Gospel), has been the primary ingredient that has bound us together as a surviving people.

The audiences "get happy" with Cissy Houston (Whitney's mom); The Dixie Hummingbirds, Vanessa Bell Armstrong; The Clark Sisters; John P. Kee (A remarkable performance!); the great evangelist, Grammy- winning singing sister, Shirley Caesar (her first UK performance in 1984) etc. From the passionate devotion of Harlem's ARC Choir, to the clear tones of the famous Fisk University Jubilee Singers, Gospel's greatests are still spreading the Good News.

In my opinion, this is an exceptionally fine documentary about American Black Gospel Music. This is a story of a redemptive spirit that heals communities and flows through generations. This DVD traces the path of this life-changing music from West Africa to the inner city of America, while definitive performances of Gospel classics fill the story with sound.

My advice: Get this DVD and be blessed!

Christian-Charles de Plicque,
March 2005.
This Article in addition to Swedish is also available in French.

www.kyrkpressen.fi
www.radiodei.fi
www.deplicque.net

Swedish flag 15 May 2005

Kyrkpressen: Mångsidigt om svart gospel

Mångsidigt om svart gospel Kyrkpressen: torsdag 12.5.05

dvd cover - The Story of Gospel MusicDVD The Story Of Gospel Music: The Power In The Voice! Warner Brothers, 2005 Det här är en dvd-skiva som är ett måste för varje samling musikdomkumentärer inom profan musik eller gospel. Skivan presenterar den svarta gospelns historia, från rötterna till dagens lovsånger. Du kan t.ex. se den legendariska Tramaine Hawkins liveinspelning av John Newtons klassiger Amazing Grace. Den första boken med gospelsånger skrevs av fyra svarta kompositörer och publicerades 1921 i America av the National Baptist Convention. Ledarna av konventet beslutade sig för att acceptera svart gospel, åtminstone i en viss utsträckning. Boken hette Gospel Pearls.

En av de mest kända av de fyra kompositörerna hette Thomas Dorsey. Han var ursprungligen en bluessångare som kallades Georgia Tom. På 1920-talet sjöng han mycket ”OFF-COLORED” eller...oinspirerad blues. Plöstligt en dag fick han en uppenbarelse där han förlorade mycket pengar. Dorsey tog detta som ett tecken från ovan och började använda sina kompositörstalanger för att sprida evangeliet.

Syster Rosetta Thorpe kom från vad vi kallar The Sanctified Church (en pingstkyrka). Hon var en blond, svart kvinna vilket på den tiden var chockerande i sig. Dessutom var hon den första och enda kvinnan som vi känner till som spelade elgitarr i kyrkan på 1930- och 1940-talen. Syster Rosetta var en megastjärna, en mycket kontroversiell sådan.

Med på den här historiska produktionen finns också The Fabulous Clara Ward Singers, inspelade på ett uppträdande på Newport Jazzfestival 1958. Aldrig tidigare hade gospelmusik presenterats på en jazzfestival med bara vita i publiken. Det var banbrytande på den tiden; i dag spelas gospel ofta på liknande evenemang.

Också the Edwin Hawkins singers presenteras på skivan. De framför den klassiska Oh Happy Day! live på brittisk tv. Sången toppade de profana brittiska musiklistorna (en gospelsång!). Fortfarande i dag är det sällan sådant händer. När Edwin Hawkins singers återvände till Amerika efter framgångsrik turné i England ansågs troende svarta i USA att var sången för värdslig. Nu är sången känd runt hela världen.

Den religiösa afroamerikanska musiken har varit det element som primärt har förenat svarta genom alla prövningar de har varit tvungna att möta: rasism, segregation, lynchningar och mycket annat. Om det inte hade varit för den afrikanska religiösa musikens samlande karaktär tror jag inte att de svarta hade klarat sig på den nordamerikanska kontinenten. Svart gospel har varit den primära ingrediensen som har knutit ihop oss som släkte.

Den här dvd-skivan är ett exeptionellt fint dokument över amerikansk svart gospel. Det är en berättelse om en försonande kraft som helar sämhälle och flödar genom generationerna. Dvd:n följer den här livsomvälvande musiken i spåren, från Västafrika till innerstäderna i USA, medan mästerliga framföranden av gospelklassiker fyller berättelsen med ljud. Skaffa den och bli välsignad!

Christian-Charles de Plicque, Journalist Kyrkpressen 12 maj 2005

www.kyrkpressen.fi

7 December 2004

New DVD!DVD: Song of Songs Festival 2004

At last it has arrived this December!

The Annual Song of songs Festival in Torun, POLAND

and so many others!

June 2004. Produced by Poland's Channel TV2

23 July 2004  

Short video from the Polish TV coverage of The Annual Ecumenical Song of Songs (SOS)

Gospel Festival in Torun Poland: 25-26th June 2004.

PolishTV2.mpeg (12.3MB, QuickTime recommended for viewing)

List of videos:

Christian-Charles Milton de Plicque
Project Coordinator/Consultant

Angel House International Missions Ministriesrf.(c) 2003
www.deplicque.net

 

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