June 2012
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May 2012
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June: Hope Tour Commences
In June my summer tour “Hope” will commence and it begins in a familiar place, Scotland. So far I have dates in Scotland for living room type gigs, youth events, charity fundraiser and more. There are still available slots for bookings, please email contact@adambakermusic.co.uk
Whilst on the tour my wife and I will be sharing at various prayer groups, churches etc about Senegal. Its...
Olympic Torches and Open Top Buses
I will be joining the More than Gold team on their open top Praise Bus to sing some songs of my own as they travel Stranraer to Glasgow and Derby to Nottingham.
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Wooden Pick
I have recently been using a wooden plectrum it cost £3 and the salesman sold it to me telling about about the tones from each pick and the woods in great detail. I got it and really to be honest i can not tell the difference only that it may damage my guitar more…
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String Winders
I recently nought my first string winder, after years of doing it by hand I was fed up with the time it took to re-string a guitar. So after using I am very satisfied.
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Why Living Room Gigs?
Living room gigs for me are a great way of stripping everything back to just the music. It is one of the most purest forms of sharing that music. Whether there is house packed with 20 or 30 people or a living room with 10 these events are special.
Want to host an event? Email contact@adambakermusic.co.uk
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Living Room Gigs
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April 2012
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Dakar Diaries: Child's Play
Zech 8:5 “The city streets will be filled with boys and girls playing there.”
This is our prayer that the new Jerusalem would be filled with boys and girls from Senegal, Talibe’s and beggars and that they would be among a great multitude of other children too.
Street children here in Senegal do play, they may kick a bottle or a plastic bag as a football, or perhaps play a...
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Dakar Diaries: Santa Explained
Ok so it is mid april, we are in a majority Muslim country and Santa is on display in a local super market. It made us laugh.
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Dakar Diaries: Thies
Thies is one of the next biggest places after Dakar. We spent a couple of nights with a WEC family. There we visited 4 ministries to children at risk. We really enjoyed are time there and got a real sense of God’s call on us for Senegal and working with street children here who have been Talibe’s.
We are now back in Dakar at the guest house and will visit more of the city over the...
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Dakar Diaries: Obadiah
Today we visited a ministry called the Obadiah Project. We visited their school (abc), their drop in for street boys and their home for street boys. We then spent time with one of the missionaries, who spoke to us about the ministry and the phase 2 home for street boys.
It was great seeing what they are doing and getting an insight into how they started and grown.
At the school there are over...
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Dakar Diaries: Downtown
People. Everywhere. Traders and sellers, people praying, people begging, talibe’s, yellow taxi’s, a cafe on wheels, food served on the street, market stalls and people offering ‘you come with me, I take you to my shop, just look, no charge’ that is those who spoke English.
We enjoyed some traditional tea called ‘ataya’ a sweet, strong tea with peppermint...
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Dakar diaries: What's all that noise about?
Ok so we are coming up to a week now of being in Dakar and one thing that takes a fair bit of adjusting to is the noise. Its non stop, all day, every day. Its odd, having lived in Glasgow, near a motorway Dakar seems noisy. But it is different kind of noise. Its not so much cars, or music from clubs but it is horns, people, and the mosque. And it is constant!
Sleeping is not easy, the heat and...
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Dakar Diaries: Talibe
Talibe means disciple. Talibe’s are children as young as 4 years old who have are living in religious schools called Daara’s. the religious teacher known as the Marabout trains the disciple children in the qu’ran and sends them out to beg for money and food for the Daara’s. Seldom do the children see any of this money or food and it more than often ends up in the...
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Dakar Diaries: Hope
Today we have visited the House of Hope. We started off by visiting the older boys house. Here the boys have a tailoring workshop where we witnessed them working hard and saw some of their tempting items for sale.
Next we went to the girls house which functions as a drop in providing food and some education to girls that otherwise would be begging on the streets. These girls still have contact...
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Baaba maal - television →
Senegalese pop song
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Dakar Diaries: Meetings and Greetings
Today started with meeting the entire Dakar team. We observed and participated in their prayer time and team meeting.
In just a few minutes we will leave for the House of Hope to meet the team of workers there. The House of Hope is a project reaching out to street children in Senegal.
So we will be meeting more people today.
We also had our first experience ordering some food speaking only...
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Dakar Diaries: Getting Around
So here we are day number one. We have spent most of today getting to know the area in which we are staying, buying some food for our stay and eating our first local dish.
The traditional way to eat is to share from a bowl. Each person starts from their section working towards the middle of the bowl. The first spoonfuls are just rice. After these then a person can take meat/fish. Today we ate a...
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Dakar diaries; Airport
We have just left for the airport and will soon check in to fly to Dakar via Lisbon. I always prefer this outward journey perhaps because it is tangled up with excitement and anticipation.
We are excited about this trip where we will meet the WEC team and project workers that we hope to work with in Dakar. It is a significant trip for us.
We appreciate prayers and support at this time.
So we...
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Indie Magazines First Christian Artist Review?
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Indie Music Reviewer: Beyond the Sun
In a world filled with over-sharing and negativity, it is hard for a musician with an uplifting message to stay genuine. The world is polarized between those with faith and those without. What helps these people meet in the middle? It’s simple; it’s the belief they have in the music and how it touches our soul.
Christian music as a genre is one that focuses on the lyrics and works to deliver a...
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Free Music!
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Dakar Dream
Dakar a city of so much potential. The buzzing nightlife, the yellow taxi’s, a centre of religion, the smell of Ethiopian, Brazillian and other cuisines. However these are not the only things striking about the city. Children. Everywhere. Begging with their tomato tins, dirty and wearing rags.
What is the Dakar dream?
Is it the rally? Or is it Baaba Maal’s latest hit? Is it Islam?
My dream for...
March 2012
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Bonnie Scotland: Music, sofa's and prayer
Yes, we will be coming back to Scotland for a few weeks. We will be doing a few different things while we are there.
We will be around from 8th June to the end of the month.
Glasgow - WEC prayer groups and churches, music events
Aberdeen -music, youth event (dates to be confirmed), decide church.
Living Room Gigs: I am taking bookings for living room gigs across Scotland for more information...
Dakar
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Sarah and I are excited to announce we are visiting Senegal in April and we will be visiting the House of Hope…
Midlands Prayer Day
The Midlands Prayer Day
Praying for children at risk
On Saturday Sarah and I led a group of people in the midlands in prayer for street children in Senegal. We shared a little bit about what God has been doing in our lives and leading us towards.
In the prayer time we led the group through an exercise using real life stories of street children in Senegal to stir some discussion about the...
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Wish you all the best - Beyond the Sun