My husband’s band, Harken, has a couple of music videos posted on YouTube, but they were hard to find via the search engine so I’m posting them below for easy access. Both videos were recorded at the same event, Hosanna Palooza, an outdoor Christian music and craft festival that apparently occurs the same day as the Telegraph Dream Cruise (we ate at a restaurant after the concert along the Cruise route & had awesome views of some of the Motor City’s great Classic Cars that evening…what a treat!)
image from this page: http://jobbiecrew.com/6th-annual-tele-car-cruise/
The day this concert happened temps got up over 100 degrees Fahrenheit and the guys were at the music festival for several hours before playing. It was truly by God’s grace that none of us suffered any heat exhaustion. This was a special day for our family for it was the first time All of our kids were able to see their dad’s band play with their new lead singer. This was such a God honoring event and a privilege to participate as a support to our family’s version of a “Motor City Mad Man”–my husband, Michael, the bass player.
He is an amazing man who has lived a life of sacrificial love before our family, friends, and colleagues. God has gifted him in so many ways yet he remains humble, joyful, and playful as he lives out his faith daily in the crucible that Special Needs Parenting (& Marriage) can be. Thank you, Lord, for blessing me with a Godly man to love, laugh with, and live this crazy, amazing life alongside! “A three-strand cord is not easily broken”– that would be a husband, wife, & the Lord in the center of their marriage!
(the above image comes from a Google Images search for “Ecclesiastes 9:9)
The info is from the given youtube pages–note the chorus for “Your Will” is taken directly from scripture, a personal favorite aspect of many Christian songs of impact!
Psalm 40:8
New International Version (NIV)
8 I desire to do your will, my God;
your law is within my heart.”
from BibleGateway.com
Our original song Your Will recorded at Hosanna Palooza on July 23, 2016 in Redford, Michigan.
Our original song Dose Of The Ghost recorded at Hosanna Palooza, July 23, 2016 in Redford, Michigan.
Finally, here is a link to their ReverbNation page with more band info, & audio for 6 songs.
Harken rocks Hosanna Palooza, July 23, 2016
this picture is from the band’s Facebook page here:
As an extra treat, here is the “tribute page” of his previous band, Binding Faith where their whole CD can be heard and there is video footage of another outdoor Michigan festival where this band was blessed to play, filmed by their drummer’s son…
“Chaoticness!”
Harken Bass Player, Michael Curren, at Rocktoberfest 2013
from the band’s Facebook page here:
Michael Curren & Valerie Stoddard engaged, Christmas 1991…What a Gift!
Photo from my husband’s Facebook page, our informal engagement pic from December 1991…“it’s not the years, it’s the mileage,” Indiana Jones. Here’s what Michael said there on Facebook about this picture, approaching our 20th Anniversary:
I love her twice as much as the day I met her, and I would do it all again. Bring on the next 20 years!
Curren family at Skyline Cafe, U of M Hospital, Ann Arbor, Michigan, November 2014 (left to right) Nathaniel, Brandon, Clarissa, Michael, Valerie, & Josiah
Our family 2 years ago at the University of Michigan Mott Children’s Hospital, “Skyline Cafe”, following a day of genetic testing to attempt to pinpoint diagnoses our special son, Josiah (foreground, right) might have…usually just J & I do the hospital runs…
Well, there’s lots of personal info in this posting so I’m going to be checking back here to review pictures & sounds whenever I might need just this kind of a pick-me-up.
Blessings to All,
Valerie
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Some of the pictures are not coming through, it might be my computer. Also, the yt vids say vid unavailable and its a private vid, which made me go to yt myself and pursue Harken vids. Found some, but don’t think its the same band, but they are Christian it appears. That sent me on a tangent and I found a Christian singer Ben Hester, who is not the same as Christian singer Benny Hester. I left a comment about how it would be awesome if they got together and did a duet, as well as pretty hilarious. lol Anyway, same here, will have to come back to listen to the tracks, as I’m still the only one awake here on the home front.
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Some of those pics don’t show for me either. I thought once you put it on your blog it becomes “media” in the blog so can remain regardless of what the source for the image does, guess not 😦
I put links to Michael’s other bands in a comment on that “Biker’s Rock” post. The videos on Reverb tend to feature other bassists from either before or after Michael’s tenure in the bands, unfortunately. Since I’m not on Facebook (FarceBorg) I can’t access any old videos that might be housed there, sorry.
I wonder if Ben Hester will respond to your impishness? LOL
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I don’t do “ForgetItBook” here’s a link to a short yt vid, can’t use the joke in writing, because it doesn’t translate into writing, or at least I don’t know how to, maybe there is a way.
I went ahead and subscribed to Ben Hester’s channel. We’ll see what happens. lol
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Let me know, if you remember, if you hear back from him 🙂
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