Party Vibe

not sure if I have to feel guilty with regard to “The Crew Upstairs” as they would wholly approve; I am not so keen on more modern era Christian music (the “christian Britpop” type stuff) – I just about tolerate it if its in Dutch as I can at least improve my language skills) but these (and other) tracks from Johannes and Roland (two Franciscan friars from Austria) quite often get played on Radio Maria Nederland and I quite like them.

I suspect they started doing this in the 1970s as it was only in the late 60s following Vatican Council II that the “modern pop music” was allowed to be used for religious purposes. The lyrics of many of their songs emphasise freedom, the outdoors, the importance of strong female leaders in European Catholicism (such as Clare of Assisi as well as of course the Virgin Mary) and being at one wtih nature which is not surprising given where they are based…