Spring 2025 Itinerary
Thursday, March 13 – Trinity Lutheran Church, Boone, Iowa – 7 p.m. hymn festival (with the Trinity School choir)
Friday, March 14 – St. Matthew Lutheran Church, Barrington, Illinois – 7 p.m. hymn festival
Sunday, March 16 – Trinity Lutheran Church, Davenport, Iowa – 10:45 a.m. worship service
Youth Music Tour (YMT) is St. John’s annual hymn festival tour involving 7th-12th grade musicians of our church and school. We pack up our voices and instruments, hop on a charter bus, and visit churches throughout the upper midwest each spring. Previous tours have taken us to Minneapolis (2011), Chicago (2012), St. Louis (2013), Denver (2014 and 2022), southeast Missouri (2015 and 2023), Dallas (2016), Black Hills (2016), Minnesota/Wisconsin (2017), Iowa/Illinois/Missouri (2018), Colorado/New Mexico (2019), Milwaukee (2021). Youth musicians from Heartland Lutheran High School (Grand Island) and Trinity Academy (Seward) have also participated along with the St. John students.
Excerpts from previous Sing Boldly Tour excerpts
Recordings from Zion Lutheran, Dallas, TX (tracks 1-11) and Immanuel Lutheran, Bremen, KS (tracks 12-17)
Recordings from St. Paul Lutheran, Jackson, MO and Trinity Lutheran, Freistatt, MO
2015 call out hymns from the Jackson, MO hymn fest – because once in awhile we turn over control
Other favorites:
Praise to the Lord, the Almighty (Longmont, CO – April 4, 2014)
Go Down, Moses (Longmont, CO – April 4, 2014)
Annunciation and Magnificat from Holden Evening Prayer, Marty Haugen
Whoever Would Be Great Among You, Ronald Nelson
By Faith, Keith and Kristyn Getty
O Love, How Deep
Love One Another, John Bell
Listen, God Is Calling