About Saturday's concert

Leslie McClure (pictured above) and her accompanying musicians (including father John McClure, pictured below) have generously donated their time and Leslie has donated all sales from her CD to the Guatemala Partnership Fund. We thank them from the bottom of our hearts for their generosity. We also sincerely thank other folks for being at the concert and giving as you feel led to support our efforts to Guatemala. In appreciation, please join us in our Fellowship Fall between sets or after the concert to sample coffee and traditional desserts from Guatemala and the Dominican Republic.

Back Home to You includes the following songs:

“Meu Lindo” – words and music by Leslie McClure
“Useless Desires” – words and music by Patty Griffin
“Fell Out” – words and music by Joshua Wolak
“Greetings from Brazil” – words and music by Leslie McClure
“Sarah Taylor” – words and music by Leslie McClure
“La Hora” – words and music by Leslie McClure
Travellin’ Shoes” – traditional
“You Were There for Me” – words and music by Peter Rowan
“Christopher Columbus” – words and music by Leslie McClure
“It Don’t Matter Now” – words and music by Michael McDonald
”Fala” – words and music by Leslie McClure
“Many Waters” – words and music by Julie Lee


Leslie says her 2002 Crescent Hill church youth group mission trip to the Dominican Republic “played a huge role” in her interest in Spanish. As a result she majored in Spanish, studied abroad, and now speaks fluently in Spanish and Portuguese. Four songs on this new CD incorporate lyrics in those languages.

Leslie recently spent a semester studying abroad in the Galician city of Santiago de Compestela, Spain. Accompanying herself on a Martin backpacker guitar, she began to write her own songs and play them in various bars. When she returned to Nashville, she and her father collaborated to produce a recording of the songs she wrote in Spain. The result, The Santiago Set, also involves top-notch musicians. For more information, see: http://www.lesliemcclure.net/.

To see the goofy YouTube video of the first cut off of Back Home to You, click here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKWefoMW5Tc

-- Soni