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Getty Music exists to create and curate hymns for the 21st century church. Our passion has always been to join rich theology, timeless artistry, and vibrant singing for the whole family of God in churches around the globe, a work that is expressed through multiple endeavors.
Getty Music Publishing, built initially on the Getty catalog, is now home for a collection of hymns and a team of songwriters who share the vision for richer congregational singing, including Keith and Kristyn Getty, Tommy Bailey, Matt Boswell, Jordan Kauflin, Matt Merker, Matt Papa, Skye Peterson, Ben Shive, and Laura Story.
Getty Music is committed to education, primarily through the annual SING! Conference in Nashville. Other initiatives include the Hymn Writing Collective (a series of classes and workshops to equip hymn writers led by the Getty writing team) and SingGlobal.com, an online portal for enjoying the SING! conference 365 days a year, all helping churches around the world better prepare for worship each Sunday.
Getty Music Touring produces two major tours each year. The annual hymn tour, currently titled “Christ Our Hope in Life and Death,” will visit churches and arenas from fall 2022 through spring 2023. The annual Christmas tour plays iconic concert venues, including performances in The Kennedy Center and Carnegie Hall.
Getty Music Label creates audio and video recordings by Keith and Kristyn Getty, Matt Boswell and Matt Papa, the Sing! Live series, and the Getty Kids Hymnal, along with songbooks and sheet music to help churches sing. The label works in partnership with Capitol Christian Music Group and with broadcasters and print publishers around the world from PBS and BBC to TBN.
Getty Music is also very excited to announce the forthcoming Sing! Hymnal, an expansive new hymnal to be realized in a diverse set of materials, from pew editions and other physical versions to digital resources. Prepared in partnership with our friends at Crossway, look for the Sing Hymnal in 2024 and 2025.
Keith and Kristyn Getty also recently established a separate not-for-profit organization, the Getty Music Foundation, as an initiative that seeks to educate, with a particular emphasis on underresourced parts of the world. In 2021 the Foundation supported the translation of SING! Conference sessions into 12 different languages around the globe.
ABOUT THE GETTY MUSIC BAND
DEBORAH KLEMME (Director of Touring Company, Band Music Supervisor, Violin) Deborah Klemme is an accomplished classical violinist who has performed on many of the world’s greatest stages as a soloist, chamber player, and orchestral musician. For the past fifteen years, she has traveled the world performing, recording, and serving as Director of Touring for Keith and Kristyn Getty’s Touring Company. She and her husband, conductor Benjamin Klemme, live in Wheaton, Illinois with their three children.
FIONÁN DE BARRA (Music Director, Acoustic Guitar) Dublin-born Fionán de Barra started playing guitar professionally as the lead guitarist of Riverdance on Broadway in 1999. Since then, as multi- instrumentalist, producer, engineer, and music director, Fionán has worked with numerous notable artists from Ireland and abroad including Clannad, Rodrigo y Gabriella, The Chieftains, The Corrs, Solas, Eileen Ivers, and Moya Brennan. He won a Dove Award in 2019 for Producer on Keith & Kristyn Getty’s North Coast Sessions. Now a Philadelphia resident, Fionán is the founding member of the multi-award winning CelticRoots group “RUNA” with his wife, Shannon Lambert-Ryan.
WENDELL HENRY (Percussion)
Wendell Henry is a drummer and percussionist from Trinidad & Tobago who now lives in Nashville, Tennessee. He grew up studying jazz and world percussion rhythms which shaped his style and sound, making him a very versatile musician. He has performed as a drummer and/or percussionist for Stanley Jordan, Kirk Whalurn, Toby Mac, Mandisa, Michael W Smith, Michael McDonald, Abraham La Boriel, Halfway To Hazard and The Minnesota Orchestra, just to name a few. He also does music production and has been a music director at a church for 5 years. SHELLY JUSTICE (Vocal Contractor, Backing Vocals) Shelly Justice is a background vocalist from Nashville, Tennessee. She has sung on various artist projects such as: Don Henley, OneRepublic, Cece Winans, Natalie Grant, Jeremy Camp and many others. You can also hear Shelly at various Disney Parks including Florida, California, Shangai, Tokyo and Paris. Shelly is married to drummer Garth Justice and they have a 18-year-old son, Trey.
GARY MONTGOMERY (Irish Whistles, Flute) A native of Northern Ireland, Gary follows a strong Northern Irish tradition in playing classical flute. He was a member of Ballyclare Victoria Flute Band, recording for both radio and television, and winning the World Flute Band Championships on 8 occasions before pursuing a career in business. Combining his love for music and his experience in the business world, Gary recently joined the Getty Music organisation as CEO. He is fulfilling a life-long ambition to return to musical performance with the Gettys’ Band. DAN NEEDHAM (Drums)
Originally from upstate New York, Dan moved to Nashville to pursue a career in Christian music. After graduating Belmont University, he fell into the recording industry and has been heavily involved recording, producing and writing for over 20 years. His career has led him all over the world and beyond Christian music into many genres. Dan has toured with Amy Grant, Peter Cetera, Michael McDonald, and Natalie Grant. He has recorded with hundreds of artists including Michael W. Smith, Marc Broussard, Steven Curtis Chapman, Jonny Lang, ChrisTomlin, Andrae’ Crouch, Nick Jonas, CeCe Winans, Israel Houghton, Phil Keaggy, Josh Groban, Francesca Barristelli, Jeremy Camp, Natalie Hemby and The Gettys.
JERMAINE PURIFOY (Background Vocals) Jermaine Purifory of Cleveland, TN was a contestant on FOX’s competition series “American Idol” season 9. Post-Idol he joined Christian artist Michael W. Smith for his U.S. & Canada tour. He continues to tour with several bands & artists throughout the country. Most recently he was the lead vocalist for 60’s soul Hall of Fame group The Impressions for their farewell tour with dates in the U.S., London, Blackpool, & ending the tour in Japan.
DAVID RODGERS (Accordion, Piano, Keyboard, Hammond B-3) Pianist and composer David Rodgers has toured or performed alongside artists including Keb’ Mo’, Taj Mahal, David Phelps, & Jeff Coffin and has also recorded on numerous records including Keb’ Mo’s Grammy-winning Oklahoma (2019). He has performed worldwide at the Montreux & North Sea jazz festivals among others. His compositions and arrangements span multiple genres, have been performed internationally, and have aired on network television including ESPN and the SEC Network. David holds a bachelor of music degree from Vanderbilt University’s Blair School of Music where he pursued both classical and jazz piano performance, and a masters degree from Belmont University where he studied commercial composition. He has released two albums as a leader, Songs For A Generation (2017) & Doorways (2019).
LUKE SULLIVANT (Electric and Upright Bass) Luke Sullivant is a studio and touring guitarist, bassist and multi-instrumentalist who has been based in Nashville for the last 15 years. He has recorded and toured as a session musician and sideman for a very wide variety of artists. In addition to his work with The Gettys, Luke has played for: Kelly Clarkson, Gwen Stefani, Mandisa, Lauren Daigle, Danny Gokey, Toby Mac, Matt Maher, Matthew West, Laura Story, Brandon Heath, Casting Crowns, Jeremy Camp, Nicole C. Mullen, Jeremy Rosado, Terrian, Jon Reddick, Chris McClarney, Blessing Offor, Mark Schultz, and many others.Luke has also scored original music for full-length films, documentaries; and commercials.He also often partners in leading worship alongside his wife Rebekah at the local church they attend in Nashville. Amidst a busy musical career, Luke has always felt drawn to serve the church at large, and has made an effort to keep it central in his family’s life.
MAGGIE WHITE (Fiddle, Mandolin, Irish Dance) Maggie White is an accomplished fiddler “…completely comfortable handling anything from classical to bluegrass, country to Celtic” (Matt Merta, Fiddler Magazine) who also brings mandolin, singing, and dancing to her energizing performances. She has performed multiple times with artists on the Grand Ole Opry, and was a part of the Young American Bluegrass Idols in addition to placing in the National Old Time Fiddler Competition. During her time in the Celtic band RUNA she was nominated for Irish fiddler of the year. Before graduating Belmont University, she was awarded the Presser Scholarship and was a winner of the Classical Performers Concerto Competition. Originally from Kentucky, Maggie now resides in Nashville, TN. She has toured extensively with Peter Mayer Group and currently tours with Keith and Kristyn Getty. In spring of 2019, she and her husband Zach released their first EP together as a duo, Zach & Maggie. Look for their newest album coming in 2022.
ZACH WHITE (Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Banjo, Dobro) White is a multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, and songwriter based in Nashville, TN. Born and raised in the Midwest, Zach’s determination to teach himself the staples of guitar at a young age, eventually blossomed into pursuing a degree in commercial guitar from Belmont University, where he met his wife, Maggie. In this environment, he was quickly added to the regular rotations of the Nashville Folk music scene, playing locally and nationally with various bands, providing a strong degree of character styles. Known for playing a variety of instruments he specializes in acoustic guitar techniques found in Folk music, such as Bluegrass flatpicking, Country thumb picking, or rapid-fire Irish rhythm guitar, including utilizing a clear baritone voice working for both a strong lead and rich harmony. His most unique feature has become his style of songwriting, able to blend catchy, heart-grabbing melodies with witty lyrics. For over 15 years he has held leadership positions at his local churches serving as a full or part-time music director and is often asked to guest lead at churches and events. He and his wife Maggie have played together in multiple bands including Vickie Vaughn Band, RUNA, and Keith & Kristyn Getty. They have also recently begun a new venture of writing and performing as a duo under their names, Zach & Maggie. Their first full-length record is set to begin releasing September 2022.
MALCOLM GUITE
POET IN RESIDENCE
Poet-Priest Malcolm Guite was Chaplain for 20 years at Girton College, Cambridge and remains Supernumerary Fellow. He teaches at the Faculty of Divinity at the University of Cambridge, and lectures widely in England and North America on Theology and Literature. His books include: Love, Remember (2017); Mariner, a spiritual biography of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2017); Parable and Paradox (2016); The Singing Bowl (2013); Sounding the Seasons (2012); Theology and the Poetic Imagination (2010) and Faith Hope and Poetry (2006). Malcolm has edited two poetry anthologies for Lent and Advent: The Word in the Wilderness (2014) and Waiting on the Word (2015). After Prayer, Malcolm’s poetic response to George Herbert’s poem Prayer was published in 2019. David’s Crown, Malcolm’s poetic response to all the Psalms, was published in spring 2021. Malcolm has a particular interest in the imagination as a truth-bearing faculty and continues to reflect deeply on how poetry can stimulate and re-awaken our prayer life.
LAUDATE DOMINUM
Malcolm Guite
For buried seeds the time has come to flower, To blossom into victory and praise. So praise God in his firmament of power
Whose only power is love: the power to raise The dead to life, the power to restore The lost, and turn our long lament to praise.
Oh praise him in his noble acts and for His great redemption. Praise him with the sound Of trumpets. Tune your music at the door
He is about to open. Beat the ground With light and loosened feet, for all his ways Are glory, and all places hallowed ground.
So come and bring him all your nights and days, And come into his courts with joyful song, Come to the place where every breath is praise.
Used with permission. A response to Psalm 150. Published in David’s Crown: Sounding the Psalms (Norwich, UK: Canterbury Press, 2021).
JOAN MURRAY
ARTIST IN RESIDENCE
Born in Northern Ireland, Joan studied textiles at Belfast, Winchester and the Royal College of Art, London. She married Chris Murray and moved north to Skipton in Yorkshire, where Joan teaches fashion and textiles, creates garments to commission and exhibits her weaving, paintings, prints and garments regularly. Joan’s textile work has been purchased by The Victoria and Albert Museum, London; The Whitworth Museum, Manchester; and Hove Museum in Sussex. She continually refreshes her work by studying and drawing the created world, and her faith in Jesus Christ as Lord of all is woven into everything she does.
My themes for the Sing! woven panels are centered around “liturgy,” which is simply the way we shape our communal response and participation in praise and thanksgiving. As words set to music direct our minds and emotions together in corporate worship, so we can also unite in using our eyes and the work of our hands. The ancient craft of weaving continues to be significant in every culture, and the basic concept of warp and weft yarns woven together is a powerful symbol of our gathering together to sing praise to the One who gives us all things bright and beautiful. God’s instructions for the beautiful tabernacle, his dwelling among his Old Testament people, are detailed and delightful. Bezalel was filled with the Spirit “to devise artistic designs” and to instruct others in the creative work, including curtains of “finely twisted linen and blue and purple and crimson yarns, with cherubim, the work of a skilled craftsman” (Exod 31:4, 36:8). Sing! 2022 has a palette of colors relating to the theme for each day. I set up the warp on a four-shaft floor loom with threads of fine wool, silk, and cotton, dip-dyed in the themed colors, thinking about the patterns of our worship here in Nashville as I prepared a panel for each session. -Joan Murray
LITURGY AND THE FAMILY In this panel we celebrate and support the differences in character and personality of our family members. At the same time our family structure provides boundaries and a clear, safe and unified sense of direction.
LITURGY AND PRAYER I thought of Jacob wrestling with the angel and started to inlay shapes like overlapping wings. Jesus taught us to pray for God’s will to be done on the earth and to ask for our daily bread. The darker side of the dipped warp, like rain, reminded me of how a rainbow symbolizes God’s covenant mercy and blessing.
Photographs by Alessandra Bowditch
LITURGY AND THE GATHERING This panel with my technique of inlaying simple rhomboid shapes refers to the many groups of people gathering for this event, as we also all gather weekly with our local churches. A rich red wool on a background of dip-dyed cottons emphasizes the structure of the weave—our strength in being joined together.
LITURGY AND BEAUTY I found this the most challenging theme, as so much of what we call beauty is fleeting and relates to our personal taste. Isaiah mentions the “beautiful feet” of him who brings good news. Solomon sang about the beautiful union of the Beloved and his Bride. For this panel I chose red for jasper, from the beautiful description in Revelation of the King on the throne, and then the wall and foundations of the New Jerusalem. We can all agree that heaven is a place of everlasting beauty! LITURGY AND SONG Looking at medieval music manuscripts, the notation with a quill pen was echoed in these panels. As we are singing God’s praises today, we can look back over centuries of music and words written and performed to God’s glory, and look forward to praising him in the New Creation for all eternity.
LITURGY AND CHRIST OUR HOPE IN LIFE AND DEATH Our hope is “built on nothing less than Jesus’ blood and righteousness.” This panel has a sense of the empty cross and a foreshadowing of Christ’s glorious return. Weaving this piece, I started to see the shape of the cross in many places—the shadow of windowpanes, a mend in the road surface, a woman with outstretched arms—and I felt very aware that the world we see around us is full of meaning, seen and unseen, the transcendent in the ordinary... the warp and weft of our created lives.
Warp and Weft
KRISTYN GETTY
‘I’m a weaver, a master weaver, I’ve got a loom where the best cloth’s made.
Plain cloth, twill, brocade or satin, I’m the master of my trade. Shed the warp and swing the shuttle, Beat the reed, the weft is laid.’
-Old English folk song
Each year at the Sing! Conference we invite a friend who is a visual artist to illuminate the themes and ideas we are sharing. After several years of wonderful fine art pieces, this year we are trying something different: the art of weaving.
The textile industry, particularly linen, holds a significant place in the history of our home country, Northern Ireland. In fact, Keith’s grandfather began a handkerchief business in the 1950s which grew into one of the largest textile factories in Ireland. As a little boy Keith’s mum would take him to visit the busy factory floor which had hundreds of sewing machines and in later years huge mechanisms for warp knitting and printing.
For those who are not familiar with weaving, traditionally a warp is prepared on a loom by connecting vertical taut threads to hold the tension. This becomes the backbone of the weave. It is into this warp that the horizontal threads, the weft, are woven over and under to produce the form and design of the fabric.
We can easily see how this age-old practice suggests many layers of metaphorical significance to how our lives are lived together! Here are some of the ways the symbolism of weaving has inspired us when it comes to congregational life, particularly our sung worship.
We are woven into a life story that
did not begin with us. God has reached down to us and gathered us in to know Him, supremely through Christ. He is the beginning, like the sturdy vertical threads in which the weft is set. He is the great weaver (Psalm 139) and He has woven himself into the tapestry. Then, as we look, we see that we are threaded into something that began thousands of years before us, and the edges of the warp are still unfinished until the weaver finishes the story. As we sing together it is in the name of the Lord who has gathered us into His plan and has made us part of a great company we could not number.
Without each thread connecting and interacting with one another,
there is no weave. We are linked to one another, part of the whole picture, bound together. Congregational singing is one of the most beautiful ways God calls us to reflect this reality. The true nature of the church is revealed in the gathering of his people, living gospel life together, individual voices sounding in community. When we pull away from the whole, we are loose threads— vulnerable to losing sight of our greater purpose.
The art of weaving and the art of
language are connected. Text and textile come from the same Latin word, texere, which means to weave. At a physical level this makes sense: fabric has played a huge part in the communication and presentation of the written word throughout history. As the writer Kassia St. Clair put it, “the language of textiles is like the ticking of a clock in a room: inescapable once known.” We borrow
the terms of weaving to describe so many other things. From early on in time weaving was a close part of life in a way that most of us are now quite distant from.
At a spiritual level, understanding words as woven threads reveals the profound impact they have in the design and patterns of our lives. The Word we read together, the lyrics we sing, the creeds we share, the prayers we pray, the sermons we hear, all shape us and connect our lives with others. As we gather, we want our services to be filled with the life-giving Scriptures and the truth of the gospel that the Lord might more beautifully and more tightly knit us together with him and with one another.
Last year I was introduced to Joan Murray by our mutual artist friend Ross Wilson (he has painted several pieces for previous Sing! Conferences). Joan is a bright and beautiful person who loves the Lord, loves the church and loves the art of weaving! Over several decades she has studied and mastered and taught the craft extensively. For this conference she created several woven pieces to correspond with each session. We encourage you to go to the page that explains that work and to visit her at her loom to learn more. •
Keith with his grandfather who worked in the textile industry
-John Piper
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SING! CONFERENCE STAFF AND CREW
GETTY MUSIC STAFF
James Ainscough: Getty Music Foundation Beverly Bartsch: Sr. Accountant Nathan Carpenter: Customer Experience Manager Heidi Davis: Financial Controller Judy Getty: Executive Director of Technology and Data Sarah Graves: Personal Assistant Ashleigh Houser: Sr. Manager Social Media Brand Development Ken Johnson: Production Manager/A&R Admin. Deborah Klemme Touring Executive Director Greg McNey: Senior Advisor Matt Merker: Executive Director/Creative Resources and Training Gary Montgomery: Interim CEO John Moran: Marketing and Sales Admin. Kristin Pierson: Deputy to the CEO Sam Pierson: Executive Assistant to Keith Getty Cameron Russell: Creative Content Manager Mark Slezinger: Data Marketing Specialist Grant Soderberg: Director of Marketing Sarah Spaniolo: Conference Executive Producer Josh Sutton: Chief Strategy Officer Elizabeth Tomyn: Personal Assistant
CSI DMC - DESTINATION & EVENT MANAGEMENT
Terrie Aldridge: Volunteer Manager Tara Henderson: Event Manager Sari Hill: Senior Account Executive Mona Warren: Staffing Manager
STREAMLINE EVENT AGENCY TEAM
Anne-Marie Detherage: Senior Project Manager Lauren Hamilton: Executive Producer Sydney Hampton: Associate Producer Chad Lambert: Director of Production Dustin O’Neill: Production Manager Christine Schroyer: Project Manager Caroline Rives: Creative Manager Justin Zebell: CEO, Streamline Hein Zaayman: Animator/Designer
WEBEX TEAM
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FREEMAN EXHIBIT HALL DECORATORS
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SING! 2022 PROGRAM BOOK
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