December
December 9 Young Messiah's Tour "Emmanuel" at the Mark of the Quad Cities, with a host of celebrities and a local 200 voice choir assembled by New Anthem Artists' Timm Dalman. The third-largest event New Anthem had worked to date.
December 10 Promotions Manager of the Mark of the Quad Cities asks New Anthem's Timm Dalman to serve on Christian Music Committee to help with choosing and promoting future Christian concerts at the Mark.
December 20,20 Visiting Artist Jennifer Sergeant returns; Calvary Reformed Church, Holland, MI musical theater production. Two performances with cast and 60 voice choir.
Dec 21 New Anthem's Timm Dalman records tracks for Emmanuel encore at River Cities Recording Studio; Billy Peiffer of Lynn Allen, engineer
December 22 Encore of the "Emmanuel" material with the Emmanuel Choir at South Park Mall for all of the Christmas shoppers.
January
Jan 5 Gospel Sounds Promotions first planning meeting for 1998 Quad Cities Gospel Music Festival. New Anthem's Timm Dalman to act as producer and stage manager of the two festival events.
Jan 16 Lunch with Fred Radunzel, Scott Schaefer, re: to plan Sports Spectrum Night II at the Mark of the Quad Cities in March
Jan 22 accompany singer Tracy Reynolds on her demo session at Barn Burner Studio
Jan 26 Edit Emmanuel video footage at EBI after cataloging and writing edit sheets
Jan 27 Wildwood Baptist Church Music Committee Meeting: booked Dave & Carrie Meumann for July; planned Exalt Concert for March 15; agreed to do an Easter program of Choral Readers: assemble group, assemble and direct program
Jan 31 go with DOXA to St. Louis area; road trip for gig; Timm joins on bass, brought Nick Palomo from Jubilant Jazz
on sound.
February
Feb 1 in St. Louis area with DOXA for gig.
Feb 16 Gospel Sounds Promotions meeting for QC Gospel Music Festival. New Anthem's Timm Dalman joins Gospel Sounds Promotions as a member or the Board of Directors and Executive Board.
Feb 21 Timm lunch with DeeDee Kearns re: New Anthem Artists; Incubator Artists Services
Feb 23 Timm lunch with Bill George, Facilities Manager, Mark of the Quad Cities; re: information for future work at the venue.
Feb 28 Psalm 149 Startup meeting, Eldridge; New Anthem sent talents.
March
March 2 Gospel Sounds Committee Meeting re: QC Gospel Music Festival
March 3 Meet with new attorney Terri Willits re: taking New Anthem Non-Profit, Tax Exempt
March 6 Vacation Day for Shawn Anderson and Kris' wedding
March 8 Lunch with Dave Meumann for his birthday
March 9 Interview with New Anthem and Timm Dalman by Debera Shaubroeck, Moline Dispatch/Rock Island Argus correspondent; re: Feature Story on New Anthem's ministry and work
March 10 Timm Dalman to visit John Deere Davenport Works Exhibition Hall with River Cities Sound to check out their largest concert lighting deployment
March 11 Meeting with Attorney Terri Willits re: New Anthem filing Non-Profit.
Jennifer Sergeant Band at the Mark on Public Access Cable; Wildwood Choral Readers practice for Easter program, directed by Timm
March 14 Photo shoot in DeWitt for Timm headshot
March 15 Exalt Concert at Wildwood Baptist Church, sponsored by New Anthem
March 16 New Anthem's Emmanuel video slated for Public Access Cable
March 17 Pick up Timm's headshot in DeWitt; Timm and Jennifer volunteer work for River Cities Sound loading out of the John Deere Davenport Works Exhibition Hall
March 18 Jennifer Sergeant Band at the Mark on Public Access Cable; Wildwood Choral Readers practice for Easter program, directed by Timm
March 19 1998 "Sounds of Love" concert walkdown at venue: Timm and Southern Grace; benefit concert sponsors
March 20 Timm meet Gospel Sounds Committee at the Capitol Theater for facility walkdown and planning
March 22 Timm: bring Heritage Wesleyan Praise Team into the Mark for 1998 Sports Spectrum Night
March 23 Emmanuel video on Public Access Cable; dinner with the Jennifer Sergeant Band
March 25 Wildwood Choral Readers practice for Easter program, directed by Timm
March 26 Meet new accountant for New Anthem as Non-Profit
March 27 See Tewanta Yerington perform with Manny Lopez Band at 11th St. Precinct
March 29 Jubilant Jazz at the River Center for Asbury Methodist Church
March 30 Emmanuel video on Public Access Cable
April
April 1 Wildwood Choral Readers practice for Easter program, directed by Timm
April 2 1998 "Sounds of Love" Benefit Concert preproduction
April 3 1998 "Sounds of Love" Benefit Concert; Jennifer Sergeant Band appearing, New Anthem helping to organize; Nick Palomo on sound; other artists
April 4 Wildwood Choral Readers practice for Easter program, directed by Timm
April 5 Jennifer Sergeant Band and Rich Roberts, Jr. in concert at First Baptist Church, Cambridge, Illinois
April 8 Wildwood Choral Readers practice for Easter program, directed by Timm
April 9 New Anthem's Timm Dalman accepted job to help fill 500 voice choir for the Brownsville Praise Team appearances at the Five Seasons arena July 20-21; organize Quad Cities participation
April 10 Timm lunch meet with Valerie Davis and Carolyn from Gospel Sounds Promotions re: QC Gospel Music Festival;
Wildwood Choral Readers Easter program, directed by Timm
April 11 Right for Life rally at proposed abortion clinic site; New Anthem provide PA; sponsored by Life & Family Coalition
April 15 Timm: meet with Accountant for redoing four years of New Anthem taxes
April 18 Shawn and Kris Anderson reception; Jennifer Sergeant sings a wedding: Sacred Heart Cathedral
April 20 Gospel Sounds Committee Meeting re: QC Gospel Music Festival
April 27Timm meet with Fred Harris re: QC Gospel Music Festival artists rosters
April 27 Gospel Sounds Committee Meeting re: QC Gospel Music Festival
April 28 Dinner with Jim Hubach of TV Channel 6 Advertising Department
May
May 1 DOXA at Trinity Lutheran Church, Davenport; Timm on bass. Two shows.
May 3 Timm and Jennifer at Wildwood Baptist Church AM Service
May 4 Gospel Sounds Committee Meeting re: QC Gospel Music Festival
May 8 Prep for QC Gospel Music Fest, load in at Capitol; QC Gospel Fest Workshops
May 9 New Anthem's Timm Dalman produces and stage manages 1998 Quad Cities Gospel Music Festival at Le CLaire Park Bandshell all day, and main show at the Capitor Theater at night; 26 separate Gospel artists cross the stages all day and night; Jack Carey emcees the regional artist show at LeClaire Park Bandshell; appearing in the festival include New Anthem and associate artists Dee Dee Kearns, Jennifer Sergeant, Tracy Reynolds; DOXA appears in Cedar Rapids for Jacquy Nehring
May 14 EBI Video, TV Channel 6 and TV Channel 8 follow up work for QC Gospel Music Festival - Timm
May 19 Jennifer Sergeant returns to sing for Trinity School of Nursing Graduation at the Mark
May 28 Follow up meeting for Gospel Sounds Promotions
June
June 2 Gospel Sounds Promotions banquet at the Black Hawk Hotel; Timm awarded plaques for service in 1998 QC Gospel Music Festival
June 5 DOXA headlines Waterloo Days, Waterloo, Iowa municipal festival; opening act Dreamer's Edge - huge stage and pa; Timm on bass.
June 9 Timm meets with Rodney Querry, new music director of Calvary Church, re: Brownsville Revival at the Five Seasons, Cedar Rapids in July
June 10 Timm meet with Valerie Davis of Gospel Sounds
June 14 Timm sings with Wildwood Men
June 16 Timm meets with Dee Dee Kearns at Bettendorf library; re: New Anthem Artists
June 17 Timm lunch with Valerie Davis and Carolyn Johnson of Gospel Sounds Promotions
June 28 Dave & Carrie Meumann concert at Wildwood Baptist Church sponsored by New Anthem Artists
June 29 Gospel Sounds Promotions meeting at Greater Antioch
July
July 1 Timm meet with KORB radio re: promotion campaign for Genesis concert
July 2 Timm to Cornerstone Christian rock festival
July 7 Wildwood Baptist Music Committee meeting; Timm books Tammy Edwards concert for October
July 9 Stavesacre and Slick Shoes at CCF, New Anthem promoted concert for the sponsor
July 12 DOXA in Cedar Rapids with wideawake; Timm on bass
July 14 Rehearse Awake America choir (for Brownsville Revival tour)
July 16 Rehearse Awake America choir (for Brownsville Revival tour)
July 18 Mass Rehearsal of Awake America choir (for Brownsville Revival tour) at First Assembly, Cedar Rapids
July 19 Tewanta Yerington at Asbury Methodist, her band The Bare Handed Wolfchokers
July 20 Awake America: The Brownsville Praise Team at the Five Seasons; 500 voice choir, partly by New Anthem
First night - the altar call filled the floor of the arena, standing room only; people responding for prayer lined up into the halls of the arena. Every seat of the arena was full; 1500 people were in an overflow watching us on CCTV; 3000 more people were turned away at the gates after waiting in 95+degree heat for hours to get in! Awesome!
July 21 Awake America: The Brownsville Praise Team at the Five Seasons; 500 voice choir, partly by New Anthem
A repeat of the night before with nearly the same level of turnout and response. An amazing display of the power of the Holy Spirit that surprised even the Brownsville Team!
July 24 Timm lunch with Dr. Bruce Jones of MVAE re: New Anthem presentation at MVAE
July 30 Timm meet with Westside Assembly to book Dee Dee Kearns concert
August
Aug 4 Timm lunch meeting with Chuck Landon, Churches United Quad Cities
Aug 9 DOXA with The Jennifer Sergeant Band, outdoor concert at Marengo, IA football stadium
Aug 11 meet with QC Times re: DOXA interview
Aug 12 Timm meet KORB radio, start radio promotion for DOXA at Le Claire Park Bandshell
Aug 13 The Jennifer Sergeant Band with Rich Roberts, Cambridge, IL outdoors in College Square Park
Aug 16 Fred Ricuarte at Wildwood, presented by New Anthem
Aug 17 lunch with Kathryn Bohn, Concert Chair, Life & Family Coalition; Wildwood Baptist Music Committee meeting: plan Tammy Edwards concert
Aug 20 meet Wildwood pianist at Griggs Music; check out Roland keys for P&W music, possible purchase for Wildwood
Aug 22 Rich Roberts at First UMC, Rock Island - booked by New Anthem
Aug 23 DOXA with wideawake at LeClaire Park Bandshell, produced by New Anthem. Also known as "Sweat Stock" by wideawake; this clear hot evening event for some 120 kids praised God in one of our favorite venues
Aug 29 Park View Iowa concert: Jubilant Jazz, Dave & Carrie Meumann, Rich Roberts - one small cloud in the sky for sound check; and then, the whole sky went black and all our stuff was rained on.... Undaunted, the artists got up during an intermission in the rain and gave the whole concert, wet gear and all....
September
Sept 6 Dee Dee Kearns at Westside Assembly, Davenport
Sept 19 "Praise for Life II" concert with artist Michael Card; LeClaire Park Bandshell; working for Concert Coordinator Kathryn Bohn, New Anthem assisted in promotion and acted as Production Manager for this event for 6000 - 8000 people sponsored by Life & Family Coalition
Sept 22 New Anthem Artists banquet at Jumers Castle Lodge, Bettendorf; guest speaker Dr. Bruce Jones of MVAE; with a performance by Tammy Edwards of Des Moines, and really great speechifying by Timm; New Anthem Vanguard Awards were conferred on Tewanta Yerington of Jubilant Jazz for 1997 and on Valerie Davis of Gospel Sounds Promotions for 1998.
Sept 27 JSB Band of 2 at Wildwood with friends Karyn Palos and Tom Evans
Sept 29 Lunch for new area church music pastors, and Scott Schaefer, sponsored by New Anthem
October
Oct 5 Regional artist Tammy Edwards joins New Anthem Artists fellowship
Oct 6 Wildwood Music Committee; plan Tammy Edwards concert, book JSB for March of '99
Oct 9 Dee Dee Kearns concert at St. Mark's Church, Silvis, fundraiser - booked by New Anthem
Oct 10 Hampton Gymnasium special program by Wildwood; New Anthem provides video screen, drums for P&W
Oct 15 Gospel Sounds meeting at KALA radio, Davenport
Oct 20 Dave Meumann concert at Elim Covenant Church, Moline - booked by New Anthem;
Timm and Kathryn Bohn check out MW Smith concert tour in Normal, IL
Oct 23 Tammy Edwards concert at First Baptist Church, Youth event
Oct 24 Tammy Edwards concert at Milan Foursquare Church
Oct 25 Tammy Edwards promotional appearance Wildwood AM services
Oct 25 Tammy Edwards at Wildwood, produced by New Anthem; with concert lighting and set, EBI video recording
Oct 29 New Anthem's Timm meets with representatives of regional prisons to start a Prison Music Ministry program; sponsored by MVAE
Oct 30 New Anthem's Timm and Kathryn Bohn meet with Steve Hyman, Director of the Mark, to discuss updated costs of bringing events to the venue in 1999
Oct 31 Timm meets with Valerie Davis of Gospel Sounds re: GSP entering artist management and booking with Word artist from Chicago; New Anthem support and training requested
November
Nov 1 Timm to check out Mallard's Church Night
Nov 7 Dee Dee Kearns at Wildwood for a woman's seminar
Nov 8 Dee Dee Kearns at prayer rally for Life & Family Coalition, booked by New Anthem
Nov 18 New Anthem provides Gospel Sounds Promotions with contracts, riders, business letter templates, new artist press kits, and training materials to start work as manager and booking agent of new Gospel artist Reed's Temple Choir, from Word Records. This was a major effort completed and delivered in record time by Timm to help Valerie Davis into her new role
Nov 21 Jennifer Sergeant and Karyn Palos see the Amy Grant Christmas tour
Nov 27 First Born at Milan Foursquare booked by New Anthem
December
Dec 1 New Anthem donates office to Gospel Sounds Promotions, complete with computer and printer; sets up GSP with training materials and correspondence to start work in artist management and booking. GSP starts off with Word Records artist Reed's Temple Choir, and local artists Darnell Williams and Quad City Metro Choir
Dec 8 New Anthem opens branch office in Souix City, Iowa region: New Anthem West to book artist Tammy Edwards on the other end of the state. Agent: Denise Heiman.
Dec 11 wideawake in Cedar Rapids, booked by New Anthem; Charis in Silvis, booked by New Anthem
Dec 16Jennifer Sergeant special appearance at Fortune Gardens restaurant for school Christmas program; booked by New Anthem
This year Timm played with three groups, including The Jennifer Sergeant Band, Jubilant Jazz, and joining DOXA as their new bass player, replacing departed member Chad Doran. In addition, Timm had his busiest year through his work with New Anthem Artists.
This year New Anthem produced, funded, or contributed work toward over 45 regional Christian and charity events. We did four arena shows at the Mark of the Quad Cities and at the Five Seasons Center in Cedar Rapids. Also, we did four major festival events in addition to the normal complement of concerts, fundraisers, outreaches and events.
New Anthem does booking/promotion/development for seven Christian Artists as well as provide equipment, advice and assistance to many of our friends in music ministry throughout the region. In addition, Timm clocked more hours with ComEd than any other year to gain funding for the 1998 season. "This year we've done more and lost more money than any other year! This was a great year! This was even better than last year! I love this job!" Timm says. "We've done literally as much as we could have."
In addition, we paid our JSB members for every appearance, regardless of expenses or losses. New Anthem also supplied event-specific posters for every event.
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SIGNIFICANT NEW ANTHEM CONNECTIONS:
He has given us this past year! He is so good to us!
This was by far our best year with New Anthem's ministry!