Cool Video: Hilary Hahn and Beardyman

The most unlikely, surprising collaboration--one of the best violinist in the world, American Hilary Hahn, improvising and jammin' with Beardyman, the Youtube beatboxing sensation from the UK.  Watch the two amazing videos below.  Impressive.

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Check out my new violin music website, MusicFountain.org!

I have just launched my new violin music website, Music Fountain.  You can view information on my music and descriptions of all my CDs there, plus access to purchase and download my MP3s.  Just go to www.musicfountain.org
See you there!
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Launching Music Fountain!

My friend Marilee and I are starting a new music venture, we're teaming up (violin & piano/keyboard) to launch Music Fountain, offering live performance of our spontaneous, improvisational instrumental music for events here in the Seattle area.
Check out our website at musicfountain.wordpress.com to learn more!

Video of Relissa and Dave T. playing at the Art Walk

On 5/21, Relissa, Dave Tiffany, and I played a 2 hour set at the Art Walk on Mercer Island, WA, outdoor in front of our friend Norma's The Island Salon and Spa.  It was a wonderful evening of live, spontaneous music, with Relissa on keyboard and vocals, Dave on flute and vocals, and me on electric violin, electric and acoustic guitar, and vocals.  We just switch back and forth in different combinations to create various "sounds."  I played a few of my own songs as well.
Below is a short video that I captured with my camera, near the end of our set, so you can hear a little bit of the cool music that Relissa and Dave were creating.  Check it out!

Iceland ministry trip coming up!

I will be heading to Iceland for an important ministry trip from 4/15 to 4/23.  I'll be bringing my electric violin and doing worship over there.  Details to come.  Please keep me in your prayers!

Guest violinist at IHOP-NW this past Mon.

 

This past Monday morning I was a guest electric violinist on IHOP-NW's (Int'l House of Prayer Northwest) very first intercession set in their new facility at Federal Way.  Check out the nice photo of the stage and team above.  God is moving in a mighty way here in the Seattle-Tacoma region!  Hopefully I'll upload more pics of the prayer room soon.

Violin Music Testimony

I was born in Taiwan and my family moved to California when I was 8 years old, and I started learning the violin in school when I was 10. I spend years studying classical music and playing in youth orchestras, but I never truly found my comfort zone in the classical arena. It was years later, in college, after I had quit playing, and never thought I would pick up the violin ever again, did I discover a different type of music that I was born to play and revel in.

My friend David was a talented musician (guitar, piano, bass, etc.) and an anointed worship leader at church. We were hanging out in my dorm room, and he had his guitar and was about to play some songs, when he spot my dusty violin case in the corner of the room. I had not played for over 3 years when he, in that moment, prodded me to take it out and jam with him. I protested, telling him that my skills had probably faded from lack of practice, and that I have never played with guitar or this style of music in my life.

He was stubborn, so I gave it a try. I could still recall the song that he started playing, "Meet with Me," and suddenly I find myself playing surprisingly in harmony to the music, (with no songsheet, just playing by ear). My fingers glided effortlessly on the violin; it seemed like they knew exactly what notes to hit. The Spirit of God was breathing all over our song, and even my friend David was surprised.

Ever since that night in 2001, Samuel musical life has been resurrected. Samuel is now jamming on a 5-string Vector electric violin, with creative improvisations to various contemporary musical styles (rock, pop, smooth jazz, folk, hip-hop, celtic, country, electronica, etc).

In recent years, Samuel had the opportunity to travel and play around the world. From in front of 40,000 in San Francisco (The Call SF), to a group of 20 at an underground church in Guangzhou, China, to remote mountain villages in the Philippines, it has been an exhilarating ride. Samuel states, "Every time I play, I know in my heart, that I am playing for the glory of God."

Back in Seattle!

I got back home Saturday late night. Flew from Nashville to SeaTac via Minneapolis. My friend Jeremy came to pick me up. Sunday morning, I played electric violin for worship at church and the presence of God came in a strong way. We didn't stop and continued to worship for close to 2 hours. People were getting physically healed in the worship. Praise the Lord!

Later, in the evening, we had a "Worship in the River" service with impartation from the people who went to the Florida Outpouring. I played for another 2 hours with the worship team, and it was really deep in the Spirit. After the worship, some people came up to share about their Florida revival experiences. There were a lot of powerful testimonies. Linda from church received total healing for her legs. No more pain, praise God!

Then, we had all the people who went to Lakeland, Florida come up to the front to pray and release the impartation to the people. I went up to pray for people as well (since I had gone to the revival in June). It was a wonderful time of ministry and impartation to the people, and praying for the sick. God is so good.