Category: Music
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Steve Goodman: A Dying Cubs Fan’s Last Request
Of course, I had nothing to do with this recording. I just spotted it on YouTube. But, with the winter wind blowing sub-zero across the Mid-West, it seemed like a good time to think of warmer days when pitchers and catchers will report in Arizona and the Cubs will launch into another season. Here’s to…
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Bus Rides and Music
Members of the IVAP team spend the day with 60 Iraqi refugee children on a bus ride up to a mountain retreat outside Beirut, Lebanon.
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Tamil Nadu Drummers
In the Southern Indian State of Tamil Nadu, drumming is popular. First, the animal hide instruments are warmed over an open fire. Then, let the music play… www.frakesproductions.com
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“Martha” Theater Organ
This is a video I produced back in 1986 for the now defunct WCFC-TV 38 in Chicago. It is a story about Paul Van Der Molen of Wheaton, Illinois, and his Robert Morton Theatre Pipe Organ affectionately named, Martha. www.frakesproductions.com
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Bill Buchholtz 2008 Spiritual Journey
This is a 2008 Spiritual Journey I produced on Native flute player Bill Buchholtz for the Chicago Sunday Evening Club‘s WTTW Channel 11 PBS Chicago program, 30 Good Minutes.
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Streetlights Music Video
In February 2007 I visited Ziway, Ethiopia with Food for the Hungry. We were shooting footage for a music video with the Christian band “Willet“. Here are the results.www.frakesproductions.com Tim Frakes Productions is a full service video production company specializing in single camera, documentary productions for corporate and non-profit clients. www.frakesproductions.com
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The Best Way to Rock and Roll
This is story from my archives. Back in 1998 my buddy Jim Parks and I did a story on Jim and Peter Mayer. The Mayer brothers are the sons of Lutheran missionaries. They grew up in Tamil Nadu, India. Today they play bass and lead guitar for Jimmy Buffett’s Coral Reefer Band. www.frakesproductions.com Tim Frakes…
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Nekemte, Ethiopia, Sunday Morning
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Jim Quattrocki and I recorded this footage in Nekemte, Ethiopia, a small market town west of Addis Ababa. The Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus is a Lutheran Church that began in Eritrea in 1899 when Swedish missionaries arrived. www.frakesproductions.com Tim Frakes Productions is a full service video production company specializing in single camera, documentary productions…
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A Noble Tradition Weston Noble Winter 1995 Mosaic
A Noble Tradition Weston Noble Winter 1995 Mosaic, the video magazine of the ELCA What is the role of choral music in Lutheran worship? Mosaic profiles Weston Noble, director of Luther College’s Nordic Choir and popular guest conductor. Generations of high school and college students and countless congregations and audiences have been affected by the…