National Quartet Convention
 

Anyone going to the NQC in Pigeon Forge?

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Wish I could!! :D
Do you know if it will it be streamed on anything?

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It is streamed on the NQC website when you sign up...last night was free.

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Is this a Oneness event or one with those fake christians?

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Cute... :foottap

The NQC was started many years ago by James Blackwood and JD Sumner as a means for all the groups to congregate for a week to meet fans and perform. Today it is not just open to quartets but is to all groups who fall under the Southern Gospel banner.

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Ahhh......those dreaded trinitarians. I am ashamed of you for promoting such a gathering of three god believers!:icecream

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I don't know any "3 god believers"...do you? :happydance

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Seriously, I wonder if Bro. Mike Flemming is there...doesn't he have a SG radio broadcast?

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Of course not but that is besides the point! When has that ever stopped that narrative!!!! (when I pointed this out to a friend at General Conference last week his response was that he thought maybe the 3 god accusation came out of a response to hard core Roman Catholicism in the early years of Oneness Pentecost. I was thinking that if that is by the time I was a child it had spread to accusing all trinitarian denominations of believing in three gods)

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Ugh. Southern Gospel Quartet music. Same song sung with different lyrics. I can't imagine an entire convention of it. Predictable lyrics and predictable music structure.

Prediction: every song will end with the tenor hitting a high note and the bass dropping as low as he can go.

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Really?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8dOyQyWFCo

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Here's another good SG song, Deac...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEi2d57-zHU

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One more...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-24kkrKp1Y

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Barb,

Quartet singing is one of those things that I enjoy and appreciate in person every great once in a while but I would never buy a CD or listen on a daily basis. I feel the same way about bluegrass music. I can appreciate the talent and enjoy a few songs if they are not too nasally but have never bought a bluegrass CD.

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'Quartet music' is not what it once was...the stereotype Deac gave re this is ridiculous.

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Me thinks you have not listened to southern gospel music lately? Sis Barb added a few nice selections. :) but everybody has their preferences.

What is yours?

Myself, I enjoy many kinds.....from southern gospel, some contemporary,
bluegrass gospel, church choirs, and I love instrumentals!

It's good we have a selection huh? :D

But.....one type of music I just can't take a liking too is anything
called rap, or Christian rock, or Christian metal?

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When I think of Southern Gospel quartets I think of deep theological songs like this one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qibZldN-A_8

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We do have our preferences, and I guess the old gospel choir sound is mine.

However, the new changes in SG have brought me back to my roots. SG just isn't the 4-part harmony, swinging on a mic stand sound of the Blackwoods, Statesmen, or Cathedrals.

Even the family sound of the Speers and Goodmans has been replaced by the Collingsworth Family, the Crabb family, and the Wilbanks family. Trios like the Booth Brothers, Jim Brady Trio, Greater Vision...they have a great sound, YET they fall under the banner of southern gospel.

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I know what you mean! Oh my word I loved the Happy Goodmans and the original Hinsons. My daddy watched the Gospel Singing Jubilee faithfully every Sunday morning when I was a child coming up. That's where I grew fond of that music, listening to those great old groups sing! :nod

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When we moved to Nashville we went to church with Vestal Goodman for a few years at Christ Church until her untimely death.

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Wow. :)

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We sat in the balcony and you could spot her in a instant because of her size and her unique (and big) hair! LOL She sat close to the front down on the left. Its funny how you remember the oddest things. Vestel and Howard are buried behind the church in the church cemetery.

I did not get to go to her funeral at the church because of work but years later did attend Dottie Rambo's funeral at Christ Church and it was pretty amazing. Some of the best music at a home going service I have ever heard. There is a DVD of most of the service that is good but doesn't do it justice.