*ATTENTION Texas Friends! We are scheduling a last minute Texas tour! We will be in Texas during March 12 - 20th - We have some dates open to schedule a concert at your church or event - let us know right away if you interested in hosting a concert!
Happy Birthday, Laura!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Laura!
(We are celebrating today because for some reason things get a little busy for us on Christmas Day) :) Your excellent cinematography has made our music videos positively sparkle! Thanks for you wonderful sweet spirit!
Laura has been very busy this last year with her portrait business, Laura Christine Portraits! Head over to her websitewww.LauraChristinePortraits.com to check out what she does!
Festive Fare...
During the Christmas season, we had a wonderful time enjoying quite a few banquets, dinners, and receptions at our concerts! We tried to capture most of them for you - here's a glimpse of some of the tasty food we were able to eat!
We started out with a wonderful hot soup supper in South Dakota for our kickoff Christmas performance! The choices included "Cheesy Bacon Potato", "Chicken Noodle", and "Chicken Gizzard"!
Next, we had our friends at Pickstown Community Church hosted a potluck after our performance!
Silas showing off the spread for our 3rd meal in South Dakota before the candlelight service at Wagner Community Church.
A couple of the decorated tables at the Treasures of Christmas Banquet and concert at Grace Baptist in Waterloo, IA...
O'Neil, Nebraska - they blessed us with pizza for supper and cookies for all afterwords!
Subway sandwiches in Belmond, Iowa at Trinity Lutheran - the first of our three performances that day!
Oak Grove Christian Church - soup, salad, and dessert!
Potato salad, turkey sandwich, coleslaw, and fresh, homemade ice cream with cookies!
The steak was perfectly grilled at Cedar Valley Community Church!
We didn't get a picture of the dessert bar at our performance in Denver, but we did meet this wonderful group of singing ladies - "Harmony Rocks"!
A make-your-own-sub sandwich station with all the fixins', then desert after our performance in White Oak.
Doughnuts and cookies after our performance in Cresco!
We ate before AND after our performance in Liscomb, IA! One unique way the concert coordinator advertised our performance was a personal pledge that if anyone came and didn't like our performance, he would eat his hat! Check out the edible bread hat he got made just for insurance - luckily he didn't have to give it a try!
Our friends in Hokah Minnesota laid out some wonderful goodies for after our performance! The sack lunches they sent with us on the road were amazing! Look at the size of the grapes compared to the croissant!
Lo and behold, we forgot to take a picture of our final Christmas performance meal in Minnesota! We'd like to give all the people and churches that made our Christmas tour possible a BIG THANK YOU! We'd love to see you all again at another performance!
Merry Christmas!
Minnesota!
We just arrived back from snowy Minnesota - we had a great time performing in Hokah, Bemidji, and Laporte! Once again we're getting ready to leave in a couple of days to wrap up our Christmas performance tour in Kansas on Christmas Eve!
CD Sale!
CD SALE! Check it out in our online store - use the coupon code 20offJS for 20% off all CD orders through December 31st, 2015! http://www.thejohnsonstrings.com/cd-catalog
$25 Amazon Gift Card Giveaway!
Amazon $25 Gift Card Christmas Giveaway! We'd like to give back to you as a special thanks for your year long support! Simply enter below in the giveaway box!
Christmas Concerts...
Christmas Concert #4 at Grace Baptist's Ladies Treasures of Christmas banquet and concert! We had a wonderful time performing for the great group of ladies! We have already performed more than half of our 22 Christmas concerts - don't miss this year's show - it's one of a kind!
Happy Birthday Luke!
Happy 21st Birthday, Luke! You spent the day working super hard - like usual. You make our lives a party every day, not to mention you're a fabulous violist and vocalist! (with love from your family)
We Three Kings Music Video!
Brand NEW Christmas Music Video!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7URsGRcD0Eo
Please Share! Merry Christmas!
Brand New Music Video Coming Soon!
Brand NEW Christmas Music Video coming THURSDAY! Keep an eye out for it, or better yet, subscribe to us on YouTube to get an email when we release it! Click https://goo.gl/UMkr3p to subscribe!
Christmas Concerts...
We had a great time in South Dakota kicking off our Christmas Concerts - three down and 19 more to go! Our wonderful friends Dale and Ruth Paulsen came to all three of them! We counted it up, and this Christmas season we will load and unload our equipment more than 80 TIMES! We will spend more than 2 compete 24 hr. days just moving our equipment and setting up. :)
An Evening with David Wheaton!
We had the amazing opportunity to hear the former tennis star David Wheaton speak on Saturday night! It was fascinating to hear David's story of tennis interwoven with his road to faith in Christ. David won the US Open junior title 1987 and was ranked No. 1 Junior player in the US. He went on to win the Grand Slam Cup in Munich and toured the world playing tennis!
At age 22, David came to a crossroads, choosing to pursue Christ first in his life. Continuing on in his tennis career, he ranked No. 12 nationally in singles, and won the senior doubles at Wimbledon! Thanks David for sharing with us!
The First Snowfall of the Winter!
A foot of snow...who would have guessed? Even for Iowa, that's a little much for the first snowfall of the year, but hey, who's complaining? The snow started to fall just as we were finishing up winterizing our farm. All the young fruit trees, blackberries, strawberries, and tender garden plants have been tucked in for the winter. Ready or not, welcome to winter!
Oh the first snowfall of the winter
Was a day that we all waited for
When it drifted to and fro
Why you should've seen the snow
It was near seven feet or more
By the old barn door
Oh the first snowfall of the winter
What a joy for a boy to behold
In each house you'll find a sleigh
That was waiting for this day
And of course, down the road a hill
For each Jack and Jill
A Mammoth Viola Bow!
Ever wanted to see a Mammoth Tusk in real life?? Well NOW you can at one of our performances! Luke's viola bow tip is REAL Mammoth Tusk - who would have ever guessed that a mammoth would be making music hundreds of years after it's death? :) Does that make Luke "Mammothly good"? :P
