“Martha” Theater Organ
Posted by timfrakes | Filed under Culture, Education, Faith Based Production, Music, Tim Frakes Productions
This is a video I produced back in 1986 for the now defunct WCFC-TV 38 in Chicago. It is a story about Paul Van Der Molen of Wheaton, Illinois, and his Robert Morton Theatre Pipe Organ affectionately named, Martha.
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Tags: Music, Robert Morton, Theater Pipe Organ
Streetlights Music Video
Posted by timfrakes | Filed under Africa, Faith Based Production, Interesting Places, Music, Tim Frakes Productions, Travel
In February 2007 I visited Ziway, Ethiopia with Food for the Hungry. We were shooting footage for a music video with the Christian band “Willet“. Here are the results.
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Tags: Ethiopia, Food for the Hungry, Music Video, Streetlights, Willet
The Best Way to Rock and Roll
Posted by timfrakes | Filed under Award winning video, Faith Based Production, Music
This is story from my archives. Back in the 90′s my buddy Jim Parks and I did a story on Jim and Peter Mayer. The Mayer brothers are the sons of Lutheran missionaries. They grew up in Tamil Nadu, India. Today they play bass and lead guitar for Jimmy Buffett’s Coral Reefer Band.
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Tags: Faith, Jim Mayer, Jimmy Buffett, Music, Peter Mayer
Nekemte, Ethiopia, Sunday Morning
Posted by timfrakes | Filed under Africa, Culture, Education, Faith Based Production, Interesting Places, Music, Travel, Uncategorized
Jim Quattrocki and I recorded this footage in Nekemte, Ethiopia, a small market town west of Addis Ababa. The Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus is a Lutheran Church that began in Eritrea in 1899 when Swedish missionaries arrived.
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Tags: Ethiopia, Nekemte, Worship
Shalom Singers: I Count on God
Posted by timfrakes | Filed under Carribean, Music, Non-Profit, Tim Frakes Productions
Valerie Mossman-Celestin Executive Director of Haitian Artisans for Peace Internatinal (HAPI) asked me to produce three music videos in Musac, Haiti with the Shalom Singers. HAPI is an UMCOR funded fair trade artisan co-op focused on spirituality and creativity. The Shalom Singers are a group of young adults associated with HAPI.
This video was recorded at a local hotel. We were running out of daylight and finished recording just as the sun set over the mountains!
Tags: Christianity, Church, Haiti, Music, Tim Frakes Productions, Video
Shalom Singers: He is Marvelous
Posted by timfrakes | Filed under Carribean, Music, Non-Profit, Tim Frakes Productions
Valerie Mossman-Celestin Executive Director of Haitian Artisans for Peace Internatinal (HAPI) asked me to produce three music videos in Musac, Haiti with the Shalom Singers. HAPI is an UMCOR funded fair trade artisan co-op focused on spirituality and creativity. The Shalom Singers are a group of young adults associated with HAPI.
This video was recorded at on the HAPI campus and was recorded in front of a mural painted by local artisans.