Behind the Music at Riverview Church

Indie rock. Acoustic sets. Heavy rock. Blues. 90’s rock. Jazz. Rootsy rock. Folk. These are just some of the styles of music you may experience during a weekend service at Riverview.

Riv believes that we as people can worship God through singing in diverse ways that cross style boundaries. If we can praise God with a banjo, well . . . why not do it? We choose our songs carefully, making sure the lyrics are theologically correct.

We believe that the charge in Psalms to “sing a new song” applies to us today as well as well as to the original audience. You can’t sing a new song unless you have someone writing new songs, so we encourage all our bands to spend some of their practice time writing songs together. We want the music at Riverview to be excellent, accessible, and artistic. Sometimes there will be tension between those three, but we're OK with that.

We know music can be an emotional thing, but we try not to be manipulative in the way we do music at Riv. We believe we as a congregation have a responsibility to respond to God’s initiation in our lives. Throughout the week we're spread out living our separate lives, and hopefully worshipping God with the way we live. Weekend services provide an opportunity to respond in thanks to God as a church — to be real and passionate and sing about the deepest truths we know, worshiping God because of who He is.

Riverview holds periodic auditions for musicians, so look for announcements regarding those if you are interested in being part of the music at Riv.

For more info, email Pastor Dan Price at Dan@RivChurch.com.

The Riv Bands (and links to listen to live recordings):

• DoJo (rock/jazz)
• Elephants and Evergreens (electric country)
  
• Ensemble (folksy)
  
• Ignotus (Hillsong United ish)
• Ish (rootsy rock)
  Purchase the Ish Album "Cry Out"
  on iTunes
  At The End Of The Age
  When Man Sinned
• The Bridge (Hillsong United ish)
• The Difficulty (indie weird hymn rock)
  Purchase the Difficulty Album
  "The Fire & The Knife" on iTunes
  The Fire and the Knife
  Set in Motion
  Where Are You
  Your Ways
• The Recycle (90’s rock)
  Infinite Divine
  How Deep the Father's Love
  
  

The Fire & The Knife Available Online

Posted on Sunday, Nov 1, 2009

The Riv band The Difficulty has released their first album, The Fire & The Knife. It's available on Amazon and iTunes, as well as at RivWarehouse in the lobby of the Holt Venue. Check out TheDifficulty.com to listen to a couple tracks.

The Fire & The Knife

Posted on Sunday, Aug 2, 2009

The Difficulty's first album, entitled The Fire & The Knife, will be available for purchase at RivWarehouse in the lobby at Riverview's Holt Venue starting Saturday, August 29. It will also be available on iTunes soon. Check out TheDifficulty.com for a preview of a couple of the songs featured.