Pictures located on my Flickr site
Caedmon’s Call at Church of the Apostles, June 4, 2006
In Gym Class in High School
Lead of Love
Before There Was Time
Walk With Me
The World Will Sing
Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes
Share the Well
Bombay Rain
I Did Not Catch Her Name
40 Acres
This World
‘Tis So Sweet to Trust in Jesus
God of Wonders
I Will Sing / Hope to Carry On
Hands of the Potter
Dalit Hymn [encore]
I was pretty excited when I heard they were going to play at Church of the Apostles because it’s such a beautiful sanctuary. It’s a really large church, too, the sanctuary easily holds a couple thousand. I was afraid that since the concert was announced with such short notice that it would be a small crowd, but the lower section was about 3/4ths full and there were a couple people in the balcony. It probably helped that they played that morning during the worship service and encouraged some of the church goers to come out for the show.
The show was opened by Mandy Mann who was accompanied by her husband Kevin Mann who is the band’s road manager (and provided us with humorous impersonations of each band member as he checked their mics). Mann had a sweet voice and was quite pleasant, not so much my style, but she fulfilled the minimum standard for an opener (i.e. don’t make me angry or bore me) and looked very cute with her butterfly wings when she sang her song about butterfly wings.
The concert started with Andy’s intro song to his new album “In Gym Class In High School” which I thought was pretty cool and went straight into …. “Lead of Love”, I think? (Geof will be able to correct on this one.) They only played one song from the new album (“The World Will Sing”) and four from Share the Well, “Share The Well”, “Bombay Rain”, “Dalit Hymn”, and by request “All I Need (I Did Not Catch Her Name)” which Danielle and Andy did as a duet. It was the first time they had ever done the song live before (in fact, they had to run through it right before the show as it was a last second addition.) and it was quite beautiful. They did the Paul Simon cover “Diamonds In The Soles of Her Shoes” and Andy did a solo version of his new song “Early In The Morning” They closed the main set with “God of Wonders”, a particularly lively version of “I Will Sing/Hope To Carry On” and “Hands of the Potter” where Andy even jumped on the drum kit for the percussion coda. The encore song was “Dalit Hymn”
All in all, it was a great show. Jeff Miller was back with the band and while I’ve never seen Trip Wamsley play before (I’d like to) it really felt like everyone in the band was glad to all be there together again and it showed.
I took quite a lot of photos of the show and I provided a link to my Flickr site above. The stained glass behind the band was beautiful and made for some incredible photographs (even if it was referred to as “the Jesus clock” a couple times, hee hee) of the band.