Praise the Lord and Pass the Concertina

[gcoover]

Just in time for your Christmas wish list, Steve Schulteis's wonderful musical offering of church hymns arranged in the harmonic style for C/G Anglo concertina - Praise the Lord and Pass the Concertina - is now available in paperback from Red Cow Music and Amazon!

 

All tunes have notation and tablature, along with full lyrics and QR code links to many of the tunes. A couple of the videos are already available on YouTube, like this one:

 

 

Steve is already playing some of these tunes in his church, so now you can too.

 

Here are the hymns you can now learn on the Anglo concertina: 

 

Abide With Me, Alas and Did My Savior Bleed, All Creatures of Our God and King, All Glory Laud, and Honor, Amazing Grace, An Evening Hymn, Angels From the Realms of Glory, As With Gladness Men of Old, Be Still My Soul, Be Thou My Vision, Beautiful Savior, Blessed Assurance, Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing, Come Thou Long Expected Jesus, Come to Calvary’s Holy Mountain, Come Ye Sinners Poor and Needy, Crown Him With Many Crowns, Doxology, Hark the Voice of Jesus Calling, Holy Holy Holy, How Can I Keep From Singing?, How Firm a Foundation, I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day, I Love to Tell the Story, I Need Thee Every Hour, Immortal Invisible, In the Cross of Christ I Glory, It Is Well With My Soul, Jesus Christ Is Risen Today, Just As I Am, Leaning On the Everlasting Arms, Lord Jesus Think on Me, Love Divine All Loves Excelling, Nearer My God to Thee, Nothing But the Blood, O For a Thousand Tongues, O God Our Help In Ages Past, O Holy Night, O Sacred Head Now Wounded, O Worship the King, Ride On Ride On In Majesty, Softly and Tenderly Jesus is Calling, Sweet Hour of Prayer, The Church’s One Foundation, The Law and Gospel, The Old Churchyard, Tis So Sweet to Trust in Jesus, What a Friend We Have in Jesus, When I Survey the Wondrous Cross, Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring.

 

A fabulous book, which will hopefully bless many players and congregations in the years to come!

 

Gary

 

 

Edited November 5 by gcoover

[Steve Schulteis]

Thanks, Gary! I'm thrilled to have finally finished this book and very pleased with how it turned out. Looking back, this project effectively began during covid and its aftermath, and it has often been a blessing to be immersed in these songs as I worked on my arrangements of them. I hope this book brings peace and joy to others as it has to me.

[Luke Hillman]

I think you've covered most of my favorites. I know what I'm doing next weekend!

[Dan Worrall]

What a great new book! Great work, Steve and Gary, to get this released. I look forward to reading it and playing some of the tunes.

 

With any luck, Steve will come again to our Palestine Texas concertina weekend in March next year. I'm sure his tunes will be a big hit. And we'll also have to schedule a Kimber tunes workshop (see my posting of today, elsewhere on the Forum), in addition to other things....

 

Cheers,

Dan

[Steve Schulteis]

22 minutes ago, Dan Worrall said:

What a great new book! Great work, Steve and Gary, to get this released. I look forward to reading it and playing some of the tunes.

 

With any luck, Steve will come again to our Palestine Texas concertina weekend in March next year. I'm sure his tunes will be a big hit. And we'll also have to schedule a Kimber tunes workshop (see my posting of today, elsewhere on the Forum), in addition to other things....

 

Thanks, Dan! I do plan to be at Old Pal, and I'll look forward to seeing you there!

[gtotani]

Congratulations, Steve and Gary for your Great work! Just what I wanted!

I have already ordered and amazon.co.jp is printing a copy for me right now.

 

Totani

[Anglo-Irishman]

What a wonderful collection of old favourites!

The title reminds me of my very first public "gig" with the concertina.

I must have been around 18 at the time, and when our church Youth Fellowship went to North Donegal for a summer camp, I took my recently acquired, 20-button, GDR-built Anglo with me. On the Sunday, our group got to lead the service in a small Presbyterrian church in the next village. And guess who was the "organist" - me! My concertina was introduced as a "mini-organ." A Scottish metrical psalm and a few Victorian hymns were required - great fun!

My favourite spiritual tunes at present are Crimond (to which the Scottish metrical Psalm 23, The Lord's my shepherd" is usually sung), By cool Siloam's shady rill, and Guide me O thou great Jehovah.

I must try some of the tunes in the book!

Cheers,

John