THE NEW LIFE PROJECT

 

A Partnership Venture between The 70-Plus Year Old Non-Profit, Gospel Center Rescue Mission And The Young Local Recording Musicians Of The Village Recording Studio In Stockton, CA.

The Gospel Center Rescue Mission (GCRM) has sanctioned a first-of-its-kind Benefit CD Recording "The New Life Project: Songs Of Brokenness & Healing" & CD Release Concert featuring some of Stockton's most talented singers, songwriters, musicians and performers.

The 70-plus year old organization has recruited the founding members of two of Stockton's most exciting new recording groups to helm the project; Randy Sandoli of Tipping Point in the role of producer for the project, Joshua Washington and Dave Creel of Sugar Water Purple who are handling the co-production/arranging and managing of the promotion of the project respectively. Sandoli, Washington and Creel are accomplished musicians and products of the University Of The Pacific's Conservatory Of Music.

Tipping Point and Sugar Water Purple have both released their debut recordings in 2010 and both have a passion to make a positive impact in the lives of others through their music. It was Tipping Point's performance at GCRM's 70th Anniversary festivities in 2010 that eventually led to a partnership to help increase awareness and raise funds for their programs in the community. That partnership has culminated in the form of "The New Life Project" recorded at the same home studio where members of both groups record and live, appropriately called ‘The Village’ located near the Pacific campus. Sandoli, Washington and Creel are familiar faces to local music fans who frequent venues such as the Plea For Peace Center and The Blackwater Café.

Also contributing to "The New Life Project" are the group Village On Yarn, solo artists Rebecca Goldsmith (formerly of The Icarus Jones Collective), ‘Ill-List 2009’ Spoken Word Champion Lemuel "The Saint" Gonzalves, Tim Sandoli, Peter Gothold, Pacific Conservatory Of Music students and other local talent. This collective of artists, most in their early twenties are united by a common faith and conviction expressed in their art that speaks to the brokenness common to all, especially the homeless men, women & children who come through the doors of GCRM.

The contemporary songs on the "The New Life Project" also celebrate the hope and healing reflected in the countless stories of those who have graduated to 'new life' from the programs and services offered at the Gospel Center Rescue Mission. For more information, please visit www.gcrms.org, e-mail events@gcrms.org or call (209) 320-2329.