Top 5 Musical Memories of 2023 - Year in Review

Join Mr. Jim as he recaps the Top 5 Musical Memories of 2023 in a Year in Review segment in the video below:

Top 5 Musical Memories of 2023 - Year in Review

Here they are, in order of appearance in the video:

1. Releasing 2 Full-Length Albums this year: Anything is Possible on January 1st, and Infinite: Part 1 on December 19th. Also, we released 5 instrumental albums featuring the hang drum in the keys of D minor, G minor, as well as other non-traditional musical instruments.

Anything is Possible: https://jimgaven.bandcamp.com/album/anything-is-possible

Infinite: Part 1: https://jimgaven.bandcamp.com/album/infinite-part-1

2. Getting to 1,000 Subscribers on our YouTube channel and really making waves with our Long-Form Videos and YouTube shorts. This enabled us to monetize our channel with over 1000 subscribers and 4000 watch hours. Thank you 🙏 so much for your support!

3. Receiving the Kindred Choice Award on June 24th from the Kindred Awards organization. This is a regional organization who showcases and promotes singer/songwriters/artists/musicians/bands in the Christian genre. Covering NJ, PA, DE, NY, and MD, it is quite an honor to be noticed by them in this fashion, so thank you, thank you, thank you!

4. The Day of August 25th (My son spent the entire day with me--children's program at a library, group session at a day program for adults with developmental disabilities, finishing off with performing at Burlington County Institute of Technology (college) in the evening). It was an unofficial bring your child to work day as he wanted to spend it with me. Such a great memory!

5. Writing a dozen songs with Song on the Spot (songwriting workshop collaboration we have with SKIT (Special Kinds of Improvisational Theater) and the individuals we and they support who have developmental disabilities), and then recording them at Blue Light Digital Sound. We performed at an annual concert on June 3rd in Hopewell and recorded 5 of these original songs under the moniker, The Helping Hands.

Here is where you can listen to our 2nd EP, The Thursday Night Sessions: Volume 2: https://open.spotify.com/album/2d8XsZUybwl1ne9Zv1ZE6z?

Happy New Year!!! We hope it's a wonderful 2024 for you and yours :)