On Sunday, December 19, 2021 the Scott Day Band will be doing something they’ve never done in it’s 18-1/2 year history. On that date they will appear at 10:00am at Walkersville Community Church (WCC) (207 Braeburn Drive, Walkersville, MD) for a Christmas concert. What’s interesting about this concert is how it all came about.
Just over a year ago WCC Pastor Tim Fisher mentioned to Scott that it would be really nice to have the band come and do a Christmas concert. Of course, at the time the COVID-19 pandemic was raging and WCC had only just recently started meeting indoors again but with far smaller weekly attendance than usual. So that idea was placed firmly on the back burner.
Fast forward to a couple of months ago. That’s when lead singer Jess McClain had a dream one night. In the dream the band was doing a Christmas concert at WCC and in that concert Jess was singing Aretha Franklin’s version of Joy To The World. As Jess tells it, when she was growing up, on Christmas morning, no one was allowed to come downstairs until Jess’s dad put that version of Joy To The World on the record player. So Franklin’s version of the song held great meaning for Jess.
After Jess shared the dream with Scott it was time for Scott to rekindle that conversation with Pastor Tim Fisher about that Christmas concert. The date was set and the work began.
And a lot of work it became. Like mentioned before, the band has never done a Christmas concert. They have a very extensive song catalog, filled mostly with original music, but that catalog had almost no music suitable for a Christmas concert. So the first step was building a concert from scratch. And God was faithful! A hint here, an idea there, whether from band members or from Scott’s wife and before you knew it a wonderfully diverse group of songs came together. Songs ranging from jazzy renditions of classic Christmas carols, to more traditional versions, some quiet ballads and some humorous takes on Christmas classics.
And then began the process of learning the music. And that first practice was more than a bit scary since it showed clearly just how much work would be involved in making this happen. But, practice after practice, the creative juices flowed and little by little it all came together. Now it’s time to see that dream fulfilled. How exciting it is when you see God at work putting something together. And He sure has been doing that here.
So we hope you can join us, Sunday morning, December 19 to discover what He had in mind when God set this dream in motion. And, just maybe, that very specific dream Jess had will come to reality.