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A’postrophe Records artist Jaci Velasquez announced today that she will be releasing a 3 track Christmas/New Year’s EP titled Open House on October 30th.

This EP includes 1 well-known popular Christmas song “It Came Upon a Midnight Clear,” 1 original Christmas song titled “Quiet Christmas Night” and also Velasquez sings a version of “Auld Lang Syne” which is the song that everyone hears at New Year’s. Many people know the melody and I’m sure we are all guilty of trying to sing it, but many people don’t know the words or message behind the song. The Scottish song is generally credited to a man named Robert Burns, but earlier versions of this ballad precede his time. The song reminisces about friendships of long ago and good memories. Jaci’s version eloquently expresses these thoughts. Need help remembering it? Here is the first line that should help: “Should auld acquaintance be forgot?”

For more information visit www.jacivelasquez.com.

Inhabited’s new CD ‘LOVE’ will be out next month. In the meantime, here’s a little video of them jamming to ‘Are You With Me?’…

This video can also be downloaded from iTunes.

Canadian trio Carried Away snagged four nominations last night for GMA Canada’s 29th Annual Covenant Awards to be held October 26th in Calgary, Alberta. Carried Away took a break from their current North American tour with JUMP5 to help announce the nominations in Brampton, Ontario on September 11th.

The group was nominated for Pop/Contemporary Song of the Year (”I Want You”), Song of the Year (”Mystery”), Seasonal Song of the Year (”Soaring Trough the Sky”) and Group of the Year, alongside downhere, High Valley, Relient K and Starfield.

Carried Away is currently touring North America with JUMP5’s “Hello & Goodbye Tour,” which runs through the end of the year. Their most recent album, I Want You, was released August 28th by Canadian-based record label Glide Records, with distribution through Infinity Music Distribution (USA) and CMC Canada. Their debut album, Closer To You (Word Distribution), was Canada’s best selling debut for 2005, and earned the group two Covenant Awards in 2005 for Song of the Year (”I know”) and Pop/Contemporary Album of the Year.

The 29th Annual Covenant Awards will be handed out as part of GMA Canada Week to be held October 24th-26th in Calgary, Alberta. Carried Away has been confirmed to perform at the awards show. For more information on GMA Canada Week visit www.gmacanada.ca.

For more information on Carried Away, please visit the official website at www.carriedaway.ca.

Check it out. Alathea’s new CD ‘My Roots Grow Deeper’ is now available for downloading …

Head on over to Alathea’s MySpace Music page and leave them a comment and tell them what you think of the new music…

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DAY OF FIRE is one of the best rock and roll bands on the planet. They sounded great as they closed out the Godstock 2007 festival in a driving wind and rain - rockin’ the crowd who weathered the storm to an amazing performance.

We’ve got lots of videos and pics to come including DecembeRadio, Sarah Kelly, Shaun Groves, and more!

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