Sons Emmett and Caleb contributed to another excellent project with singer Chelsea Moon around 2012. I believe they’re another family who play Bluegrass styles and Gospel. I’ve only recently explored their music and encourage others to look them up on YouTube. I’ve since found that their son Emmett (who plays dobro superbly with a hauntingly solid voice), joined another group The Petersons. I’m so glad for your post as a feature on your blog. She was extremely gifted, appeared full of faith joy and skill, as did her then husband Randy. The Franz’s mother and wife, Ruth Ann Frantz, was in some ways the bedrock of the family, and died several years ago. I know & love all of their diverse works. I’m not sure how I stumbled on The Franz Family & their works around 2018 or so, and was sad reading they no longer performed together. Here are three studio recordings of the Franz Family from December 2009 in Denver, Colorado: “Hold to God’s Unchanging Hand,” “Somewhere in Glory,” and “Getting Ready to Go.” (Related posts: “Don’t let the rocks cry out” “The Avett Brothers sing gospel”) Her death renders even truer the lyrics she sang again and again: They also proclaim the loving aid God provides through the storms of life, which the family experienced when Ruth Ann passed away from cancer in 2016. Most celebrate the personal redemption from sin wrought through Christ and eagerly anticipate heaven, inviting others onto that glory train. So many songs from the traditional bluegrass repertoire were written as Christian testimony. (*The second oldest son, Hadley, left the group in 2004 when he got married and moved to Kansas.) Click here to watch a short documentary on the Franz Family, produced in 2010.Įveryone in the group sings and plays multiple instruments, but here are the instruments you’ll most commonly see them on: Lately I’ve been enjoying some video-archived bluegrass performances by the Franz Family from Berryville, Arkansas, a family of seven-Mom, Dad, three sons,* and two daughters-who toured together as a bluegrass gospel band continuously from 1991 to 2011, performing at churches, camps, prisons, and parties. Its acoustic strings (strummed, picked, and bowed), its stacked vocal harmonies-this “mountain music” from the southern US sounds sweet to my ears. I grew up in North Carolina, so bluegrass music feels like home to me.
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