NEW! 
News
2009
lots of new photos in the Italy Galleria.
13 November 2009The Korean Experience! and
last pictures from Jindo, Korea!
Reflections: 22nd November 1963
November 2009 Tosimies Lehti / Real Man Finnish Christian Men's Magazine pdf
The Oulu University EvangelisticOutreach Concert!
The Christian-Charles de Plicque Allstars Band! University Concert! Live! In Uleåborg / Oulu! FINLAND. 24th September!
4 September 2009Photos from the Karleby Newspaper interview about Korea.
22 August 2009New photo gallery!
12 August 2009 : Korea! JINDO International Christian Music Festival 2009...
Including Korean interview via e-mail with Christian-Charles de Plicque with English translation August 2009.
On Tour in Finland this month! "The Black Diamond Duo!" (English & Finnish translations) ....
The Black Diamond Duo - Runni Riverside Blues, Iisalmi Blues
Live! in Italy July 2009 de Plicque
Go Gospel
Alright Finland! Some good black gospel up here in the north! Go Gospel (pdf, 8mb.
6 August 2009 New Article: What's in a name?
28 July 2009 New article - Nigger President...
28 July 2009 The Black Press and Obama - Obama och den svarta pressen
2008
31 Dec 2008 photos from Christmas in Poland!
31 Dec 2008 photos of the Kokkolan Lauluveikot (The Old Singing Boys of Kokkola's Choir's) Christmas concert in our church the 16th December 2008
31 Dec 2008 de Plicque's Old Fashioned Slow Oven-Baked Christmas Rice Pudding (But good anytime of the year!)
6 Dec 2008
From Åbo/Turku and A & O Magazine December Edition. (pdf, 5Mb)
6 Dec
2008
New picture gallery for En konsert i mångfald - "Gospel meets blues"(A Concert With Great Variety) Ichtys Choir and De Plicque, november 2008.
2008
30 Nov
2008
New Kaamos Jazz picture gallery November 2008
22 Nov
2008
Lördag gospeldag i Österbotten
http://www.vasabladet.fi/story.aspx?storyID=30931
Det är lördag eftermiddag och medlemmarna i Ichtys samlas från olika orter i Österbotten till körövning i Elimkyrkan i Kvevlax. Framför dem står dirigenten Tomas Koskinen och vid pianot sitter Stefan Jansson.
Det är lördag eftermiddag och medlemmarna i Ichtys samlas från olika orter i Österbotten till körövning i Elimkyrkan i Kvevlax. Framför dem står dirigenten Tomas Koskinen och vid pianot sitter Stefan Jansson.
C.- C. de Plicque sjunger i stads-huset i Vasa....
Blanda en gospelkör, en bluesman och en dansare. Låt därtill Per Østern sätta sig framför ett piano. Då har du ingredienserna till den konsert kören Ichtys ger på lördag.
Tomas Koskinen har hållit på med gospel och körsång i nästan hela sitt liv. Först i ungdomskören i Sionförsamligen i Vasa under Eyvind Hagmans ledning. Sedan under många år som dirigent för Oikoumene.
Nu leder han sedan nästan tio år kören Ichtys, som övar i Kvevlax men har medlemmar från stora delar av Österbotten.
-Vi är sångare från 13 år och upp till 60-årsåldern, säger Marie Hjortell, som är en av dem som sjunger med i Ichtys.
På lördag ger kören konsert i stadshuset i Vasa tillsammans med den kristne bluessångaren Christian Charles de Plicque. Han är bosatt i Karleby, och har sitt arbetsfält på scener runt om i Finland och Europa.
Solister i kören under konserten är Daniel West, Elisa Keltto, Nicolina Koskinen, Susanne Granlund och Filip Koskinen. Stefan Jansson är kapellmästare, och kvällens speaker Jan "Jacke" Jacobson.
Konserten börjar klockan 19. Den ordnas i samarbete med Vasa körfestival.
Max-Ola Nordlund
Publicerad idag kl.
25 Oct
2008
Concert with the great Finnish Swedish-speaking Gospel Choir:
Ichtys!
Special Guest soloist:
Christian-Charles de Plicque
The Choir is under the direction of:Tomas Koskinen
Musical Director: Stefan Jansson
At the Vasa City's Main Hall
Time: 7 p.m. November 15, 2008
Special Guests:
Jennifer Åbacka, Dance
Per Ostein, Piano
Tickets for Adults: 15€
10€ Students
Under the age of 12 admission is free.
Ichtys Choir collaborates and works in conjunction with the Annual Vasa City Choir Festival
-Stefan
22 Nov
2008
Fuengirola Spain 2008 Standing Room Only! even more photos just added
25 Oct
2008
Update on the "Lively Movement at Summer Camp" in Pieksämäki! September 2008
4 Oct
2008
Gospel again in Lapland! For the 6th time, at Kaamos Jazz 2008!
Sat 22.11.
20.00 - 24.00
* JAZZIA HUIPULTA Christian-Charles de Plicque Duo
* Nybakat
* Arctic Swing Trio feat. Anthony Johnson
* George Haslam Quartet
Huippu Kaunispää Saariselkä 45 €
Sun 23.11.
11.00 - 12.00
* JÄÄHYVÄISGOSPEL Christian-Charles de Plicque Duo
Kappeli Saariselkä. 12 €
Sun 23.11.
20.00 - till late
* PÄÄTTÄJÄISJAMIT Arctic Swing Trio feat. Anthony Johnson
* Fabrice Eulry, piano
* Christian-Charles de Plicque Duo
* Nybakat
* Drop Four
* Jamsession by Rune
JAMSESSSION
Kieppi Saariselkä
20 Oct
2008
Upcoming Events! Concerts / Festivals 2008
4 Oct
2008
Gospel again in Lapland! For the 6th time, at Kaamos Jazz 2008!
JAZZIA HUIPULTA Christian-Charles de Plicque Duo
3 Oct
2008
Photos from the tour in Iceland! (Christian Charles de Plicque 14th-23rd September Tour in Iceland with Jouko Kantola, pianist)
UPDATE: all the pictures are there now!
16 Aug
2008
New photos ... and more in the Italy gallery
in the photo gallery
25 July
2008
THE NEW STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN BOOK 2008! "Day by Day, Night by Night"
25 July
2008
new article: Expiration date!
25 July
2008
New recipe:de Plicque's scrumptuous Gourmet Fresh Summer Strawberries with Italian Mature Aged Balsamic Vinegar!
16 July
2008
FINALLY! His cd release concert: Christian-Charles de Plicque and The Dynamite Band!! in Concert in Finland! Sponsored by: Finland's Dei Festival. August 16, 2008 Mark it on your calendar now!
Finally!
His first official record release concert for the cd:"Spirit In The Dark!"
Angel House Records Finland
www.deikauppa.fi
Christian-Charles de Plicque
and
The Dynamite Band!
Finishing a series of concerts during this night in this city... 7p.m.
at the Fine Concert Center in The city of Seinäjoki Finland!
16 July
2008
New article: History Being Made! and Swedish translation
9 July
2008
More photos added to the photos gallery 
17 Jun
2008
"Something MORE To Think About!" series: Why? Why? Why? and The Waiting
2 Jun
2008
The Christian Artist Magazine from Holland: March 2008 "Signs"
2 Apr
2008
Looking Back: Remembering Martin Luther King Jr.
12 Apr
2008
many new additions to the photo gallery page
6 Apr
2008
latest review of Spirit in the DarkAskel English translation: (Step) Finnish Christian Magazine April Edition 2008 Cd review
2 Apr
2008
In response to Bror Hagström wanting to start a debate on: Applauding In Church
28 Mar
2008
latest review of Spirit in the Dark: En väg tidning=(Magazine) interview (Våren)=Spring 2008
20 Mar
2008
new entry in the 'something else to think about' series.
20 Mar
2008
new article "What's In Your Mouth?!!"
16 Mar
2008
new article"Race and Politics"= De "okontrollerbara" anhängarna.
5 Mar
2008
Still selling strong today , even after 19 years! Available at: deikauppa (www.deikauppa.fi)
3 Mar
2008
new additions to the "Something MORE To Think About!" series
11 Feb
2008
new article: Brother Carl's Recipe for Making A Real Gourmet Black Gospel Cake!
16 Mar
2008
Music for Easter and the whole Year!
- Simon of Cyrene (Easter cd and video) "Simon Kyreneläinen" by Finland's prolific composer: Lasse Heikkila.
Listen to MP3's from the film.
2 Feb
2007
new article: Losing a Loved One
2 Feb
2007
Upcoming project: God's Trombones
2 Feb
2007
new article: Saint Valentine's First Love
note: also available in Swedish
2 Feb
2007
new link: www.christianartists.org
1 Feb
2007
"Spirit in the Dark" review: Gospelista valoa pimeyteen
Uusitie 17.1.200
24 Jan
2008
New mp3s in the mp3 downloads section
27 Jan
2008
new articles: Is America Ready for a Black President? and Obamania!!
10 Jan
2008
new article Epiphany also available in Swedish
2007
17 Dec
2007
spririt in the dark review: En väg 17.12.07
15 Dec
2007
'new' old song: In Everything, Give Him Thanks mp3
Recorded the day after my wife, Jean-Béatrice's funeral in 1982.The Dallas Symphony Orchestra and the Whitey Thomas Background Vocalist
6 Dec
2007
new article
Öb article: First advent (in Swedish, Söndag 2 december 2007. Österbottningen)
29 Nov
2007
PoriTidning, Karjalainen, Näky, Aamulehti valo & Aalloilla (reviews of Spirit in the Dark )
Christmas articles
22 Nov
2007
"The Twelve Days of Christmas"
The Story Behind This Traditional Christmas Song
12 Nov
2007
new article
mp3 Mainos/Radio Publicity: Radio Dei for: "Spirit In The Dark!"
Listen to the Radio Dei advert for the new cd or download the Radio Dei advert (953 kb)
Spirit in the Dark reviews:
3 Nov
2007
Finland's Blues News Magazine cd Review: November 2007
more reviews.
3 Oct
2007
Interview: Finland's Swedish Language Radio Vega sterbotten, October 3, 2007
Radio Vega sterbotten Interview (23.2 MB)
Christian-Charles de Plicques ny skiva!:"Spirit In The Dark!"
Interviewer: Anette Frsstrm, Karleby.
Hi
Friends in Central Europe, USA and other parts of Finland and
Scandinavia. I decided to respond in the interview in English so
that you guys could at least get an idea of what was being asked of me
by Anette. Hopefully I will do other interviews in English so that you
can hear what is happening! But Swedish is good for your ears!
"Crille" ("Risto-kalle"), Christian-Charles.
10 Oct
2007
Det här är bra hela vägen.
(This CD is great from start to finish.
)
27 Sep
2007
ÖB article
(click on the image for a larger version)
15 Sep
2007
News from Italy!
25 Aug
2007
Caracature by: Magnus Nygård;, Karleby, Finland.
30 Aug
2007
Latest newspaper article: August 26, 2007.
From my weekly daily newspaper column in Karlebys' Österbottningen tidning: The article is entitled: "Getting Older".
Who is Barack Obama?
(and why is everybody talking about him?)
Vem är denne Barack Obama?
OBAMA, Barack, a Senator from Illinois; born in Honolulu, Hawaii, August 4, 1961; obtained early education in Jakarta, Indonesia, and Hawaii; continued education at Occidental College, Los Angeles, Calif., and Columbia University, New York City; studied law at Harvard University, where he became the first African American president of the Harvard Law Review.
Barack Obama has dedicated his life to public service as a community organizer, civil rights attorney, and leader in the Illinois state Senate. Obama now continues his fight for working families following his recent election to the United States Senate.
Well, not quite everybody -- yet. But if there is a media darling in this year's election, it is the 42-year-old Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate from Illinois. Obama has been the subject of sympathetic profiles in the New Yorker and the New Republic, and more national attention is on its way. Already there's speculation that he may be the first African American president of the United States -- and he's only a state senator.
If you wanted to be cynical, you would accuse journalists of falling for the too-perfect story line about the biracial son of a Kenyan father and an white American mother. His dad disappears from his life when he is 2. He graduates from Columbia University and then works as a community organizer. He goes to Harvard Law School, where he's the first black president of the Law Review.
He gets elected to the Illinois state Senate, then loses a primary for a U.S. House seat. He stays at it, reaches for the big time and wins a sweeping victory in this year's Senate primary. He gets a big vote even in white wards where what's left of the legendary Democratic machine was, in theory at least, pushing for a candidate of its own.
Oh, yes, and he's a dad with two kids, ages 5 and 3. And are the first thing he wants to talk about.
But Obama would not be getting the ink and the swoons with only a great bio, or just by being very smart. Brainy guys often lose in politics. His is a political mind that can incorporate the opposition's best arguments into his own -- by way of answering them -- and then take clear and unequivocal positions.
Obama is someone who can make staunchly progressive positions sound moderate by being quietly reasonable. And he breaks with his own side's conventional wisdom not in search of a phony bipartisanship but to advance a stronger critique of the status quo.
Obama has said that the Democrats' main argument should not be about: "how we lost a certain number of jobs versus how we've now gained a certain number of jobs." Stimulating the economy with huge tax cuts was bound to produce some jobs eventually.
The numbers story can distract from the larger story Democrats need to tell. "Instead of having a set of policies that are equipping people for the globalization of the economy,"
he says: "we have policies that are accelerating the most destructive trends of the global economy."
"The only way the American economy sustains itself and the middle class is if we're able to train people for high-value-added jobs, and if we have policies that soften the edges"
of the competition, including "health care, better child care and better teachers in the schools."
By contrast, the administration's policies -- Obama attributes them to the "Club for Growth philosophy,"
after the conservative group that loves tax cuts for the rich -- only aggravate inequalities.
But Democrats are reluctant to talk about big things, he says, because they're so fearful that: "we'll be labeled tax-and-spend."
For Obama, reasonableness does not translate into timidity. If Democrats worry most about what Republicans will say about them, Obama says, they will be left with "this tepid, tired and rudderless message, one that can't move a lot of ordinary citizens who feel they're grinding it out, day in and day out, and not making any progress."
He frames the basic issue of our politics this way: "We need some balance between community and mutual obligation on the one side and the need for competitiveness and market incentives on the other. The biggest challenge for the Democrats is to articulate a plausible solution to this problem."
Most of the recent news about the Illinois Senate race focused on the seamy details of the recently released divorce records of Jack Ryan, Obama's wealthy Republican opponent.
Whether or not Ryan survives the revelations, the important story out of this race will be Obama, who already has a big lead in the polls. Is the guy for real? Consider: Obama worked hard in the Illinois legislature to get a bill passed to reform the state's death penalty system. Political opportunists don't challenge the death penalty. Obama is interested in people who are hurting and problems that are serious. That, even more than his biography, is why he'll hit the big time.
Christian-Charles de Plicque
Journalist: Österbottningen Tidning
Karleby Finland
07 June
2007
English translation The Price of Being Too Busy
05 May
2007
Quicktime movie: 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!
11 Feb
2007
Part one and two: Vet
en finländare något om
rasism?
Does A Finn REALLY Know
Anything...
About Racism?
Sunday's Österbottningen Daily Newspaper 11th February 2007.
27 Jan
2007
Svängig kristen musik!
25 Jan
2007
Article: Valentine's Day and Chocolate: What's love got to do with it?
26 Dec
2006
Starting in January 2007 Fat City! comes on Wednesday at kl. 23.00 (11 p.m.) and re-broadcasting time is the same on Saturday at kl. 22.00. (10 p.m.)
24 Nov
2006
new on the videos page, Quicktime movies:
- YWAM outreach. The Cultural House In Helsinki 1982
- 1983 Johannesburg South Africa, Christian-Charles de Plicque
- "If Heaven Never Was Promised To Me" New old stuff!
- Tell Them Finland 1981
