Join us for “Dolce e Triste” (Sweet and Melancholy) Saturday, May 13th, 2017, 7pm-8pm at Christ Community Church for a concert to benefit the Adult Learning Center of Charlottesville, VA. featuring the music of Bach, Schumann, Fauré, and Dutilleux. $20 suggested donation.

Cari Shipp Kramer, flute
Julie Bernstein, piano

Join us for a city-wide Night of Worship at The Jefferson Theater April 30th, 6pm! This event draws churches together from all over Central Virginia for the purpose of uniting the body of Christ in worship and adoration of Jesus. Join us as local worship leaders and teams come together to lead our city in worship! More info can be found on the event page. Hope to see you there!

As promised, here are more pictures from our Night of Hope and Reconciliation: For the City, Through the Arts. I was (and still am!) so encouraged at the humility in every heart poured out. Thank you, artists, for saying ‘YES’ to the vulnerability of this massive collaboration. We tasted unity, we tasted hope, and we tasted reconciliation which is the heart of God for our community. Be blessed as you look through these pictures of the many & multi-gifted folks involved in this event. Charlottesville, we are rich in humble hearts!

Julie



Community, hope, beauty, and reconciliation happening on stage in real time. So many beautiful moments we shared together! Photo by Maria Webb.


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Friends, it is with a full heart that I write to you today. I am overwhelmed with joy and gratitude at what took place at our Night of Hope and Reconciliation. Every artist and musician involved gave humbly and fully of themselves, the entire room was captivated in the awesome presence of God witnessing the many and exquisite gifts He has bestowed on His children to bring light, hope, and clarity to a hurting world. This night was literally my dream come true, a dream God planted in my heart more than 10 years ago: using the gifts and skill-set He has given me to strengthen and serve our community through artistic & worshipful expression. What He deposited in our hearts (and in the room) that night was nothing short of a massive visitation by His very Spirit and greater revelation of His heart for our community. He gave us HOPE for the future!

I was also blessed to bring you some of the deepest most heartfelt music I have ever written from the albums You Are My Joy and Fire In The Night. To see these songs come to life in the way I had always imagined was God’s personal gift to me that night. Who can ever forget the holy moments we all shared during “Seal,” which talks about the love of God that burns like a mighty flame, many waters cannot quench this Love! The prophetic gift of “Psalm45,” the wedding song that talks about the bride making herself ready and proclaiming with prophetic unction “GIRD YOUR SWORD UPON YOUR SIDE, O Mighty One!” And the gut-wrenching cry of “Help Me,” from Psalm 91, the emotion captured beautifully by the dancers. “The Cross,” featuring children’s choir Higher Voices and dancer Becca Lee, encapsulating the emotional depth of Philippians 2. And worshiping together to the song “My Desire,” joining together with the unified heartfelt desire to give to God all that we have and all that we are.

Thank you so much for your continued support in this ministry of writing and serving the community. The Charlottesville community tasted His goodness on Saturday night. And I am humbled to have been part of that process. I have many pictures from the night that I would like to share with you over the coming days. Here are a few to start!

- Julie



Cari Shipp Kramer (flute) and I open the night with the 1st movement of Dutilleux’s Sonatine. Photo by Maria Webb


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