Christmas Eve

We're doing the Christmas eve service again this year. This year's service will start at 6 PM. Outside of candles and Silent Night, we're open to your suggestions about what we should do.

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Christmas Party Time

We're having a Christmas party on Saturday, December 20 from 6PM to whenever. We'll hang out, eat, listen to music, watch a Christmas classic and exchange gifts.

Here's the catch. You can't buy a gift. You have to bring a gift, but it has to be something you already have, something you want to re-gift or something you make. If you make a gift, you have to already have the supplies to make the gift. You can also give a gift of your time or...I don't know. Get creative. You just can't spend any money on the gift.

If you have suggestions for an appropriate Christmas movie to watch, shoot me an email or leave a comment.

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NoiseTrade

NoiseTrade has made it through to the finals of the Open Web Awards in the music category against two popular online music services, Pandora and Last.fm. I'd really love to see NoiseTrade win because I love co-founder Derek Webb, I think it's a great concept and it's been implemented really well. NoiseTrade is innovative, and they haven't stopped innovating.

NoiseTrade is a great company co-founded by musician Derek Webb after he gave away over 80,000 copies of his Mockingbird album online in an effort to generate new fans. NoiseTrade allows you to download albums for free by telling five friends about the album or by paying whatever you think the album is worth. Neither NoiseTrade or the artist keep your friend's email address. NoiseTrade just sends them an email and lets the music do the talking.


So, please go vote for NoiseTrade. You can use this handy widget to vote. After you vote, make sure to post it to Facebook, MySpace or Twitter.

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About NoiseTrade

Artists want to know, connect with, and be supported by music fans. Music fans want high-quality, free (or variably priced) music and to be rewarded, not punished, for sharing the music they love with their friends. We believe that if artists and fans work together, everyone can get what they want.

"A great record is its own best marketing tool," says Derek Webb, singer/songwriter and Co-Founder of NoiseTrade. "All the marketing dollars in the world can't accomplish what one great record can, especially if it's set free to roam around and connect with the right people." In 2006 Webb gave away his ‘Mockingbird' record for free online, asking in return for a little information (name, email address, and postal code), and as part of the process, for fans to invite their friends to download as well.

In three month's time Webb gave away over 80,000 full downloads of his record and collected valuable information for as many new fans. In addition, Derek has since seen many sold out shows and increased merchandise and record sales, including a curious spike in sales of the very record that was given for free.

It was the massive success of this experiment that inspired Webb, with the help of a few trusted friends, to start NoiseTrade. Now any artist can freely distribute their music online, via NoiseTrade's remarkable and embeddable widget, offering fans the choice to tell 5 friends or to pay any amount in exchange for an immediate download.

"Who needs peer-to-peer when you can have artist-to-fan?" Derek concludes, "If artists and fans realized how they could help each other and started making direct connections, without a middleman, the whole industry would change overnight. It would start a revolution."

Go to NoiseTrade.

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Ringing Bells

We'll be singing and ringing to support the Salvation Army's Red Kettle Drive on Wednesday, December 10 from 6-8 PM in front of Tops by the Ithaca Mall.

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