Alliance for Unity Food Drive

Congregations of all denominations will join together to donate food to the food banks throughout Utah on Saturday, December 6th. The goal this year is more than one million pounds of food.

Members of church congregations will organize the food drive in their own area, collect the donations and deliver them to designated drop off points. To find out the location of your community’s food bank and their drop off locations go to www.FoodBanksofUtah.org.

The food banks in Utah are thankful for the generosity of their communities. The need is greater than ever. Food banks throughout Utah are experiencing a 20% to 50% increase in those seeking help since last year.

In these tough times we can give thanks for the many things we have – family, friends, home and caring neighbors. The food banks are thankful for the community’s past support. Because the need is great, please give generously to the food drive on December 6th. If each one gives a bit more then many more can be helped.

Individual family donations are being accepted at all Jiffy Lube and Smith Food King locations throughout the holiday season.

Utah Chocolate Show a Success!

The Utah Chocolate Show was amazing this year. Every year it just gets better and better and better. The cake decorating contest brings in professionals from all over the nation and their cakes were amazing things of beauty and physics defied. And yes, there is chocolate dipped everything! I promise. Mel Henderson and Michele Stevenett, who happen to be the sisters of author, Annette Lyon, are the ones behind the show. And every year, they do a fantastic job. This show is always so fun, upbeat and enjoyable. For both vendors and attendees. Every year I participate I just love it more and more. Even if I had no booth, I’d still go and have a blast.

yourLDSneighborhood sponsored a booth there and we promoted our new venture, www.positivemusicanddownloads.com, the iTunes of clean music. In other words, you will find no explicit lyrics or scantily clad women anywhere near our site. PositiveMusicandDowloads is much easier to navigate as well. We sold CD's, let people listen to music through Bose headphones which blocked out the background noise of the show and had a blast interacting with those wandering by.

It was fun. I was, however, working the booth with nothing but Utes! I was the lone Cougar in a sea of red. I tried to give extra discounts to Cougar fans but my boss laughingly put the kibosh on that! Good thing I like the guy.

We tried to watch the game on the internet, but the MTN doesn’t allow that, so Brock , one of my coworkers and a good friend, pulled up something called ESPN game cast. As we worked, we would look at the web and see, play by play, what was happening on the field. It was very cool, although we couldn’t actually see the game.

The show was so much fun! Gaylen and Denise Rust, the owners of yourLDSneighborhood, joined us at the booth along with Julie Boye, Curt Rust and Brock Arnold. We had a rockin' booth, I have to tell you!

We ended both nights of the Utah Chocolate Show with concerts sponsored by PositiveMusicandDownloads.com. Daniel Beck was the headliner and he rocked the house. What an astounding voice and his new CD has become my brand new favorite. To quote my boss, "I'm waiting to see how many times I can listen to it without getting tired of it." Hasn't happened yet. His new CD "Love Like That" more than lives up to its billing.

yourLDSneighborhood has a record label called Our Legacy. Dan’s CD is our first release. Holy Cow! That man can sing! I mean really, really sing. Warm, powerful voice that just pulls you into the song.

I bought the CD and I can’t stop listening to it. You have to take a listen. Go to www.positivemusicanddownloads.com and check him out him. I think he’s my new favorite singer. I’m buying three more CDs today to give to my family. Think Josh Groban without the nasally sound. Also, Josh is a 2nd tenor and Dan’s more of a 1st. Really loved being surrounded by great music the whole weekend.

We have some exciting plans for the Utah Chocolate Show next year. Stay posted to this blog because musicians and authors around the world are want to going to participate. Give us 3 months to nail down the details and we'll issues a press release with all the details.

In the meantime, if you didn't make it to the Utah Chocolate Show you really missed out. Good thing it comes around once a year.

Don't forget Dan Beck's next concert is coming up on the 25th of November. Rose Wagner Theater! You buy the tickets online at ArtTix. You better believe my husband and I will be front and center.

Return to the Neighborhood.

Daniel Beck releases "Love Like That"

CONTACT: Jan Hemming

JKH Associates
801.582.2799
jkhassociates@burgoyne.com

PositiveMusicandDownloads.com will promote and launch Daniel Beck’s first CD Love Like That; Solo album by the 33-year old Utah tenor will be released mid-November online and will be in retail stores by Thanksgiving; Songs are a collection of intensely moving contemporary music consisting of powerful ballads and upbeat tunes.

Salt Lake City, Utah 1 November 2008 - PositiveMusicandDownloads.com, a new premier online site for ordering CDs and downloading songs that emphasize positive music, announced today it will promote and launch Love Like That, the first CD released by Utah tenor, Daniel Beck, later this month.

Beck, who has performed and acted in films, concerts and on stage for the past 16 years, “is one of Utah’s best kept secrets,” according to Greg Hansen, director of music for PositiveMusicandDownloads.com. “He has a Josh Groban-like range and appeal,” said Hansen. “When people hear him sing they are going to be amazed.”

Love Like That, produced by well-known Utah performer and composer Kenneth Cope, includes 10 songs – five original tunes by Cope and several other song writers as well as popular favorites like The Impossible Dream and Homeward Bound. The music is a collection of intensely moving music consisting of powerful ballads and upbeat tunes with an adult contemporary sound. The title song Love Like That, is a new original piece written by Tyler Castleton and Staci Peters.

A launch release concert is planned:

November 25th
Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center
138 West 300 South
Salt Lake City, UT
801-355-2787
Purchase Tickets at ArtTix

According to Hansen, Beck will be accompanied by a string orchestra and a live band. Concert guests are asked to bring blankets, gloves, coats, hats and other clothing items that will be donated to The Road Home. Also, $1 from the sale of each Love Like That CD through Christmas will be donated to The Road Home. Tickets are available at Capitol Theatre, Abravanel Hall and Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center ticket offices and at selected ArtTix outlets. Or call 355-ARTS (2787) or toll-free 1-888-451-ARTS (2787).

Beck has played major roles in several musicals such as The Scarlett Pimpernel at the Hale Centre Theater and Oklahoma at Salt Lake Community College. He has also starred in several DVD productions featuring adaptations of scripture stories known as the Liken the Scripture series, created by Lightstone Pictures. He performs a duet with popular Utah singing artist Jessie Clark Funk on her current album Everything Speaks His Name and has solo tracks on two Especially for Youth CDs – the 2007 release Purity in Power and the 2008 release Steady and Sure.

Beck said when he and Cope met in 2006 to discuss his first CD “the very album that’s being released is the one we both envisioned. We were on the same page at our first lunch meeting.”

PositiveMusicandDownloads.com is a new online sales and distribution company. It was launched to promote music that embraces positive lyrics and tunes. While positive music can be found in many musical styles – from blue grass to pop and rock – according to Hansen, “by creating a new category that leaves no doubt about the content of the words and the music being played, we hope it will be hub for artists and music listeners to celebrate this brand of music.”

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Return to the Neighborhood.

Radio You Have Been Looking For

Looking for a lift? Yourldsradio.com hits the internet airwaves on Monday, November 3. It's a 24-hour, seven-days-a-week internet radio station dedicated to the music Latter-Day-Saints love. Wherever they are, and whenever they're connected to the internet, people who love LDS music can tune in for the best in uplifting inspirational music by their favorite Latter-Day-Saint artists.

The station brings together the talents of some of the LDS music industry's finest, including composer, playwright and radio broadcaster Steven Kapp Perry, long-time arranger and producer Greg Hansen, poet and songwriter Sam Payne, and former ops manager for "The Glenn Beck Program," David Dalley.

In addition to an always-on radio stream of great contemporary LDS music, visitors to yourldsradio.com can enjoy weekly audio segments like Steven Kapp Perry's "Cricket and Seagull fireside chat" (featuring interviews with prominent Latter-Day-Saint authors, artists, personalities, and more), the "Radio Family Journal with Sam Payne" (featuring two minutes of hometown wit and wisdom), and Greg Hansen's "New Artist Show" (featuring brief interviews with new faces in the LDS music community). Sunday listening options include a one- hour program of peaceful sacred music--just right for the Sabbath day.

With a built-in discussion board, yourldsradio.com provides a place where people can request songs, meet other LDS music aficionados, or comment on the music they hear.

Gaylen Rust, founder of yourldsradio.com, sees the internet as the perfect place for great LDS music to be introduced and enjoyed. “The beauty of an online radio station," he says, is that "it can be heard anytime, anywhere." With the world increasingly turning to the internet for news, information, and entertainment, chances are you spend some time in front of a computer screen. Anytime you're connected, enjoy the best in music for Latter-Day-Saints.

24-hours a day of the best in Latter-Day-Saint contemporary music: if you've been looking, you've found it! Make yourldsradio.com a part of your day.