by Randal Birkey | Jan 11, 2022 | News, News & Events
The Sky Above These Clouds Cover Art January 11, 2022 Over the years I have done artwork and/ or design for musicians’ albums. This has been the case on several occasions with the Evanston-based singer-songwriter Jim Croegaert. I did art direction for Jim’s...
by Randal Birkey | Oct 4, 2021 | News, News & Events
The Sky Above These Clouds – A Review October 4, 2021 My best friend, Jim Croegaert, just released his eighth vocal album, The Sky Above These Clouds (2021)—his finest to date. You might think age would roughen his voice, (his company is Rough Stones Music,...
by Jim Croegaert | Aug 6, 2020 | News, News & Events
Hiroshima Words, music and performance by Jim Croegaert As I write this, it is seventy-five years since the Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima, unleashing a destructive power unlike anything seen before – or since, thankfully, but for its...
by Jim Croegaert | Jul 28, 2020 | News, News & Events
Why Do We Hunger For Beauty? Video recorded Sunday, July 26, 2020 “Why Do We Hunger For Beauty” is among my favorites in songs I have composed. I love entering into it and revisiting the imagery and the questions it poses. Friendship with Tim and Sherrie Lowly, and...
by Jim Croegaert | Apr 12, 2020 | News, News & Events
First Easter Easter Sunday, April 12, 2020 The very first Easter was not in a crowded worship space with singing and praising. On the very first Easter, the disciples were locked in their house. It was dangerous for them to come out. They were afraid. They were living...
by Jim Croegaert | Sep 27, 2019 | Events
Jim Croegaert & Friends in Concert November 2, 2019 @ 7:00 PM Reba Place Church Meetinghouse 620 W. Madison Street Evanston IL 60202(View Map) A freewill offering for Christ in the Wilderness Retreat Center, Stockton, Illinois (CITWRetreat.com) will be taken. ←...