Podcast: Music

The Springmans

The Springmans are the Canadian equivalent of the Travelling Von Trapp family! Their first album, Happy Beach, was produced by, and co-written with, multi Grammy© and Dove Award winner Mark Heimermann. (dcTalk, Michael W. Smith, Newsboys)  Happy Beach won a number of awards including the Parents’ Choice Award, NPPA Award, and the GMA Canada Covenant Award for “Children’s Album Of The Year.”  In this interview we hear about how Perry came to Christ after being raised in a Jewish Family, and we hear about their love for Australia!

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Jon Seccombe

Jon Seccombe is an Aussie Singer/songwriter who trained in music at the NSW State Conservatorium of Music and studied English Lit and Ancient History with an Honours degree in New Testament History from Sydney’s Macquarie University. He has been a Head of Department and teacher of English and History for three decades. Jon plays piano, trumpet, saxophone, flute, pipe organ and has stretched to playing oboe in a school musical. He has been the music director at a number of Sydney churches and the musical director for secular stage shows. Listen in to his story!

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Chuck Girard

Chuck Girard is a Singer/Songwriter, Author and Worship Leader. He is one of the Pioneers of Contemporary Christian Music, during the Jesus Movement, and is Co-Founder of the band ‘LOVE SONG.’

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Tom Mottershead

Tom Mottershead is a singer-songwriter and producer based in Brisbane Australia. Originally from the UK and then New Zealand, Tom shares how his own mental health and faith journey has inspired him to write gospel-centered songs based on scripture to bring hope to those struggling with anxiety and depression.

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Liesl Field

Leisl Field is an Author and a Singer/Songwriter based in Melbourne, Australia. Originally from South Africa, Leisl shares about her faith journey and about her passion for writing songs that impact people. She also shares about the pain she’s endured after suffering a miscarriage, and how the Lord has strengthened her and helped her through her trials.

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Eloise Robertson

Eloise Robertson is a Singer/songwriter from the Gold Coast. She’s worked in various bands and duos and has also travelled with the Southern Gospel Choir to the US in 2012. She is a Pop/R’n’B/Soul singer but love blues rock and jazz too. In this interview she shares about her faith journey and her new projects she’s working on. I first saw her on Facebook singing worship songs on the street while she was busking, and I thought what an amazing voice! Listen in to her story!

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Steve and Ainsley Apirana

Steve and Ainsley Apirana are Singer/Songwriters based in the Sunshine Coast, Australia. Steve’s music career began in the band Butler who shared the stage with bands like Black Sabbath back in the seventies. It was during his days in Butler that he found faith in Jesus and began his career as a soloist. Nowadays he shares the stage with his wife Ainsley, who writes her own songs, has recorded two albums and plays rhythm guitar, whistles and flutes. Together they aim to encourage, uplift and inspire audiences through their stories and songs through their personal experience of 40 odd years of marriage, of life on the road, and of life as a Christian. Steve and Ainsley play anywhere they are invited and are used to a wide variety of audiences from school classes to prisons to the various denominations of churches, to festivals, house concerts, cafes and pubs. Listen in to their story!

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Namila Davui

Namila Davui (aka Myshon Kyd) was born in Lautoka, Fiji. He’s played Rugby League for the Parramatta Eels, the Canterbury Bulldogs and Fiji, playing a handful of test matches and was chosen in the squad for the Fiji Bati in the 2008 Rugby League World Cup. He’s also hip hop artist, and is training to be a minister in the Uniting Church. He is the Director of Davui Productions, who specialise in youth development programs and consultation in the Brisbane region. Listen in to his story!

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Faith Sosene

Faith Sosene is a Samoan-Australian singer who made it to the top 4 of The Voice Australia season 11. She has the voice of an angel, and has a stage presence that has wowed people all over the world! Listen in to her testimony and the inspiration behind her music.

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Peter Shurley

Peter Shurley is one of Australia’s most popular and sought after Gospel artists. This multi- award winning singer, songwriter and instrumentalist continues a busy international touring schedule based from his home in northern Tasmania. Not only are his live performances and recordings highly acclaimed, he is also much sought after as a Christian communicator. This also brings an inspirational, challenging and often humorous dimension to his concerts that is quite unique. As Founding Pastor of Life Christian Church and a family of 5 children, life for Peter is full. Two of his greatest passions are to inspire the next generation of Christian leaders and as an ambassador for the work of Compassion, excite people towards world mission. Listen in to his story!

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