Nearer my God to Thee (for 9 cellos)

Hello my friends,

I just wanted to share with you an incredible cellist and his music.  We found this video of Mr. Steven Sharp Nelson yesterday and watched it about five times.  The undercurrent of motion with the melody soaring above gives one the chills…it is so very beautiful and praiseworthy!  Enjoy.

 

On a lighter note, this is a more humorous video and a parody on Bach’s Cello Suite.  Notice how Mr. Nelson weaves in Ave Maria!  My little brothers love the part in the middle where he spins his cello and catches a bow that is thrown across the room.

 

For all you fortunate people with high speed internet, Mr. Nelson has many more videos which you can watch on Youtube.  Enjoy the music and have a great day,

~Garrett Stowe

 

 

Repairing the Breach Newsletter

Hello All,

For quite some time now I have been meaning to upload the back-issues of our newsletter, Repairing the Breach onto this site; hopefully, this is the first of many issues I’ll post here. Eventually, they will be moved to a dedicated page with all the issues for easy downloading but for now, here is a sample from last year.  We’d love to hear what you think!  Have a blessed evening and week,

~Garrett Stowe

Repairing the Breach newsletter 1

Click the above link to download…please let me know if you have any difficulties and I will do my best to fix them!

God bless us every one!

Greetings and Merry Christmas to you all,

I saw this video earlier in the afternoon after getting home from our final Christmas Concert of the season and thought you all might enjoy it.  Click here to view

Perhaps we’ll do somethings like this next year…we’ll see.  So, in closing, “God bless us, every one!”

~Garrett Stowe

 

Christmas Sale!

Hello there,

Just thought I’d let you all know that until Christmas, the English Country Dancing DVD’s are on sale for $10 with free s&H! The PayPal button on the right-hand sidebar will reflect the sale price. Thank you all for your continued interest and support! Have a great day and I look forward to hearing from you.

Merry Christmas,
~Garrett

Overruled: Government Invasion of Parental Rights

Hello all,

HSLDA sent out information regarding this video and thought I’d share the link with you all.  Please do watch this; it will give you a whole new understanding on just how endangered are our parental rights.

Striving to Repair the Breach,

~Garrett

Updates ‘n such

Hello my friends,

Thank you all for your continued interest in the English Country Dancing DVD. Reading your feedback is so exciting and very encouraging; thank you!  Those of you that have watched the DVD, please consider passing on the word to your friends and family.  As you may have noticed, purchasing a DVD is now even easier;  you can purchase directly from this site by clicking the Buy it Now button on the right.  Follow the directions and your copy of English Country Dancing will be in the mail!  These DVD’s would make a great Christmas gift for your family or anyone else in your life.

Stay tuned for updates, there are several new projects nearing completion and this will be the first place to read about them!  Thank you for your support.

God bless,

~Garrett

English Country Dancing DVD

Hello there,

Today was a very exciting day for me.  I received a box containing the finished product of my first film.  Since April, with the help of my family and a few friends, I have been creating an instructional/documentary DVD on English country dances.  Since moving here we have all enjoyed learning the dances from the Civil War era; dances which are now enjoyed at barn dances and reenactments across the country.  It is such fun for the whole family – even Meredith does a great job keeping up with us – and just yesterday we taught my grandmother the Virginia Reel.  With so many nonproductive, anti-family activities out there, these dances are a wonderful way to have good old fashioned fun!

In this 30 minute film I cover 6 old fashioned dances complete with step by step instructions, dance excerpts from a barndance—with dancers in period costume—and historical information on etiquette and customs of the day.  You can click here to see some postings I have on a filmmakers forum and check out some pictures taken during the filming…

And if by chance you’d like to purchase a copy for your very own, you can email me directly for now at gstowe@hughes.net   I hope to sell them on ebay and eventually get a website up and running but work and the needs of the farm are more pressing at the moment! For the present, the DVD cost is $10 + s&h of $3. Thanks so much for your interest.

God bless,
Garrett Stowe