100 Words - The Welcome Wagon

The Welcome Wagon is a married couple, the Reverend Thomas Vito Aiuto and his wife Monique, who execute a genre of gospel music that is refreshingly plain. Their hymns are modest and melodic takes on a vast history of sacred song traditions, delivered with the simple desire to know their Maker—and to know each other—more intimately.

CHRISTIAN MUSIC

I tend to think by way of that well-worn trope, ‘there no such thing as “Christian music”, but I’m a Christian who makes music.’ OK.  But there are constraints. Desmos, even. Christians who make music are called to create art that, as David Foster Wallace put it, “locates and applies CPR to those elements of what’s human and magical that still live and glow despite the times’ darkness.”

I do not think religious or Biblical terminology is necessary to do that—although that’s generally what I have chosen to use—but a Christoform ethos, both in the music’s creation and content, is.